Online orders If you’re working with fast moving consumer goods, pricing-in the cost of delivery in the overall cost of the sale is crucial. In fact it is one of the most significant factors in whether you will make a profit on…

Just this morning I was in a friend’s store and I was chatting to him about ordering from suppliers. His suppliers currently send him pricelists as pdfs. He needs to browse through the pdfs to find the items he wants to order…

EDI is an fantastic method for orders Retailers often use EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) to make recurring orders to wholesalers. It’s a brilliant method, because both wholesaler and retailer have a record of the order on their own system. It doesn’t matter…

Author’s Note: I’m writing this article as a software developer. That said, I’m aiming it at anyone involved in making a decision around wholesale eCommerce. If you have asked the question ‘How will this wholesale eCommerce work with our existing systems?’, this…

Hope you are all well! Thanks for being part of our journey to make iStockist the best wholesale eCommerce software for producers and brands of all kinds. We have been having fun developing innovative features for iStockist. As a result, we’re please…

Part Two in a helpful series of blog posts to make your wholesale eCommerce a success. Previous: 1. Planning and deploying successful wholesale eCommerce Next: 3. How to integrate wholesale eCommerce with your ERP In an upcoming article we will look at…

Part One in a helpful series of blog posts to make your wholesale eCommerce a success Why does my business need wholesale eCommerce? eCommerce has evolved to become the first place consumers looks for new ideas, new products and price checks. In…

We’ve developed a simple wholesale framework for the situation facing many producers and retailers of everyday essentials like groceries, health & beauty, baby, laundry and cleaning products etc. Our aim with the wholesale framework for everyday essentials is to clarify and simplify…

How wholesale eCommerce helps producers and brands of everyday essentials. Brands can grow their digital sales and empower their stockists. In our work, we noticed that lot of companies making everyday essentials like groceries, household item, health & beauty products, DIY, Baby,…

2016, the year for online ordering Year online ordering In 2016, people are still using phone and email to place orders. Why? Online banking is the easy way to manage money. Similarly online orders is the way to manage product orders. Phone…