Merchants looking to scale sales operations and seeking wholesale as a growth channel have a new ally to help them outperform. Introducing ShipEarly B2B Commerce for Shopify. The only solution available that has permission based access for dealers and sales reps to look up account specific pricing, real-time inventory, and obtain actionable insights to develop closer relationships and close more business with high volume merchants.
Why Consider a Wholesale Platform?
B2B commerce is already a $7.7 Trillion market, and online purchases are just a fraction of that market, meaning there is plenty of room for growth. With 9 out of every 10 retail transactions still occurring at physical retail in the North America wholesale is too big of a sales channel to be ignored. With evolving buyer digital purchasing habits in which dealers are placing orders more on demand, sales associates taking orders by phone, email, or dare I say fax with manual entry prone to error will cost you time and prevent your business from scaling. Large pre-book orders are a thing of the past as retailers embrace showrooming more often and buy more frequently with special orders in smaller quantities.
The Core ShipEarly B2B Platform
Instead of relying on spreadsheets, manual draft orders, expansion stores, or expensive Shopify Plus pricing. ShipEarly’s B2B commerce lets you expand your market, sell to customers who want to buy in bulk, and increase lifetime customer value by:
- Creating a turnkey, password-protected storefront in minutes
- Listing wholesale-specific products or collections
- Offering fixed, percentage off, or volume-based pricing
- Setting dedicated B2B shipping rates
- Granting access to sales reps to view orders and interact with their accounts
- Syncing inventory, orders, and customers in one admin
- Connecting your 3PL, OMS, ERP, and CRM
- Allow orders to be fulfilled from multiple warehouses with inventory look-up
- Receiving online payments immediately through credit cards or extending credit
- Allowing customers to quickly purchase, track shipments, and reorder through their account dashboard
- Review orders and inventory levels, adjust shipping costs, and upsell or negotiate terms prior to processing.
The ShipEarly B2B Commerce Difference
The transactional nature of a B2B Commerce platform is the minimum, where ShipEarly shines is in digitally transforming the way your entire sales team sells with data and insights. With ShipEarly we quickly and efficiently disseminate information to account managers and sales reps to identify additional and top sales opportunities to close business quicker. As well, we provide and analytics to inform your team which products to up sell B2B accounts based on what they considered buying giving you closer access to understanding your buyers and in turn developing closer relationships.
Getting Started with Wholesale
Wholesale customers are often some of the best a merchant can have; they generally buy in bulk, by default have higher average order values compared to your B2C customers, and promise repeat purchases you can rely on to generate recurring revenue to scale your business.
The custom price lists merchants can now create offer customers an intuitive buying process they’ve likely already become used to while shopping from home as a B2C consumer. Or give your best customers the ability to buy in line view for them to quickly and efficiently buy from you.
Even better, your turnkey wholesale storefront uses your existing product data from Shopify meaning your wholesale store front, integrations, and admin you use for B2C are leveraged to automatically update your B2B as well.
With this announcement, ShipEarly is modernizing wholesale ecommerce and positioning merchants of all types to scale into a new market by offering the same compelling customer experiences they offer B2C customers but with deeper insights to cultivate stronger relationships with your best accounts.
Request a demo or start creating a better Wholesale experience for you and your buyers today.
