Expand your sales channels by getting a punch out enabled web store. In order to sell to Fortune 500 companies, Government / public sector organizations, etc., you need to connect your to their procurement system (Ariba, SAP, Oracle, Proxserve, Proactis etc.) Our service does just that and allows you to promote your products directly to buyers within your customers.

• Turnkey Setups

Yes, that’s right, we will do it all for you. There is no need for you to have any technical knowledge.

• Fully Populated With Products

• Include Your Catalog File

We don’t just offer to punch out. Our system can produce a list for you to submit via the catalogue method. The file is updated daily with stock and price changes and is completely no maintenance.

• Customer Specific Pricing

Customer Specific Pricing allows you to create and charge personalised prices for different customers, including fixed and cost-plus.

• Product Description and UNSPSC codes

To assist your customers to spend management we include UNSPSC codes (V3.5), product categories and other product information.

• End To End Efficiency

With pre-built connectors to all of your suppliers to place orders and links to your back office – be it Sage, Xero, SAP, Navision or others, this system offers complete end to end efficiency. There is virtually zero admin.

• Market To Your Customers

By having a punch out the store you are more than just another row in their search results. Use a full range of internet marketing tools to communicate with your customer’s buyers. After a while, they simply come to your site to make lists of their IT requirements, rather than looking the products up via the marketplace itself.

• Fully Flexible on Magento

The store is built on the Magento e-commerce platform, along with over 300,000 other sites. Hence you have full control over your webstore design, the plugins to include – everything!

You may have many organisations for whom you manage their procurement frameworks. Our system supports :

• Set up individual client access with specific suppliers enabled;
• Within each client, users can be given access to views that contain a subset of products, brands, categories, suppliers and pricelists;
• Set up specific pricelists for specific customers;
• Centrally manage access to products or push this down to administrators within the client companies that you support.

Since 1999 we have been enabling supplier for participation in e-procurement marketplaces – making it as easy as possible:

• FTP of a CSV that updates daily or hourly – For those listing trade suppliers stock and reselling it, they can be re-enabled by our reseller to distributor solution.
• Real-time queries to resellers ERPs can be enabled.

A full and open API plus a protocol for file transfer allows you to link to our system. Pre-built connectors for the main ERP and CRM packages are offered. Plus deep links to the trade distributors and wholesalers are in place. Hence our system links to your systems via punchout or direct, to the resellers systems and to the actual end supplier be it a wholesaler or distributor. These facilities complete end to end efficiency for:

• Buying organisations
• Resellers
• Wholesalers / distributors

This can cut cycle times as your orders can be flipped by the resellers to orders to their suppliers to supply the goods – with zero delays and full feedback of order status and tracking.

For IT, Office and toner products we have sourced over 2m descriptions.

Our contract with Icecat, a leading provider of product data, allows us to give away all their content if you host with us. If you host yourself we provide iframes for full icecat content, but still include all the category and attribute data, as well as a thumbnail and main image. Icecat covers many categories including IT, office and toner, however, for office and Toner we have specific solutions into Icecat.

Bechlem for Ink and Toner, the most comprehensive database of toners and printers in the world. This includes compatible, re-manufactured and original brands. This is better than Icecat since it lists the relationship between printer and cartridge allowing you to search by a printer to find cartridges.

The store is built using Magento 1.9, the world’s most popular e-commerce software. It has thousands of pre-built designs, a huge community of developers and an app store with thousands of plugins. To make the most of your webstore, you can easily extend your site to sell on virtually any online channel such as Amazon and eBay. We also offer Magento 2 but we advise people against this until it becomes more stable, however, if you would like Magento 2 instead then we will use this instead.

• Upload a file containing your own product descriptions
• Edit the supplied product descriptions either one by one or via a bulk edit on the site
• Include other third party content providers or suppliers content. If this has to be imported in a way that is not possible with our data import tool there may be extra charges.

Prioritise the content suppliers according to your preference. So say Icecat first, then Midwich, then Cnet…

Our system gives you tools to improve the product descriptions in bulk – such as adding default images to products without images, adding descriptions to products without descriptions, automatically categorising products and more by creating data quality rules in our system.

See our sample files to find out exactly what we offer – it includes

Part numbers Product Names EAN codes Category of products Stock level Your lowest priced supplier UNSPSC code

Multiple Images per product Related products Detailed product description Full product specifications Product attributes (e.g. color) Expert product reviews

With this offer, you get your own version of our site. The current biggest version currently supports over 48,000 reselllers, each who has access to his own product portfolio, tailored product descriptions and categorizations, pricing, sourcing options from their own suppliers and much more. Hence if your organisation manages procurement for a number of different organisations, companies or departments our system can accommodate it.

Implicit in our processes orders approval, but this mainly applies to customer not using e-procurement marketplaces, as the approval processes are handled there. There are also facilities to export product content from our system to stand alone websites built on the Magento e-commerce platform, for which additionally we have created plugins for purchase approval and customer specific pricing.

Our system already connects electronically to all the UK’s IT, office and toner distributors and wholesalers. This is currently used by resellers to automate the supply of products. In this model these connections would:

• Give full visibility of the order process to end-user customers, including status and tracking of the order.
• Allow resellers to load in products without any effort. The resellers source the products from distribution, our system is already connected to distribution so the reseller can simply add his distributors products via our system

Our Purchase Approval plugin enables your customers to have full control over their staff purchases on your site while also giving you the option to manage the internal spend of your own employees.

For enterprises, we understand that purchase approval for a large number of customers/employees can be an unnecessary chaos. With this plugin, you can easily designate multiple line managers to approve purchases under a certain amount so you only have to approve the larger purchases yourself. For someone with 50+ employees or customers, this is an excellent way to manage spend. Not only does this give you full control over total spend, but allows all users to be in control of their budgets and orders in an easy and organised manner.

Customer Specific Pricing allows you to create and charge personalised prices for different customers, including fixed and cost-plus. While other plugins offer similar pricing capabilities, our tool is the only plugin perfect for large product databases and cost-plus pricing. With large product databases, we understand how important it is to create tailored prices per customer as soon as they’re requested and we’ve designed this tool specifically for you to do just that! Including fixed and cost-plus pricing depending on your unique pricing needs, this plugin guarantees a more efficient way to do your customer pricing.

We built this tool for a toner finder, with 26.000 categories and subcategories. It makes it much faster to load and is the best way to browse such an extensive category tree.
The widget can be placed pretty much anywhere on the site and can be styled etc. It can work with a specified root category out of the multiple root category trees you create.
We built this tool so we could sell our Ink and toner web store solution, however in the spirit of open source we are giving it away to anyone that wants it.

Populate your Magento site with virtual stock and drop ship the products to your customers – for IT, Telecoms, Ink, office and consumer electronics products.

1. Punch out from your procurement system to our site and search for products, by category, brand, attribute and more. Numerous filters including by supplier are offered. Results group the same product from different products together.
2. NB Different users can see different ranges of products at different prices from different ranges of suppliers.
3. Add items to baskets, and then convert baskets to quotes or orders. Our system works out the best way to fulfil the order including delivery charges and other sourcing logic you have set (although this can be overridden).
4. The order can then be approved by your team on our site or can feed through to your e-procurement marketplace. If sent through to your e-procurement system normal protocols are followed for order approval.
5. Real orders are received by our system and passed through to the reseller. The reseller can then fulfil the orders from stock or can get the products to drop shipped directly to you. Another key advantage of our system is the pre-existing links to the reseller’s systems. Hence the reseller can simply flip your orders to create his own purchase orders to his suppliers, with order status and tracking feeding back to you – and importantly the reseller having complete efficiency in fulfilling the orders – with no manual entry on the reseller side either.

Stock In The Channel’s preferred commercial engagement is to minimise upfront costs and provide a simple, single monthly charge for our services. We are so confident you’ll get great value from our services, we offer a simple 30-day rolling contract, with no long ties, upfront costs or hidden server ownership charges.

Subscription costs are easily scalable each month, up or down, and include support and upgrades.

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