Data Sharing and Product Synchronization
Most manufacturers are too busy manufacturing products and working with what they have. There is nothing wrong with this, but nothing lasts forever. If you fail to become an innovator your company, you will end up on the losing edge of your industry. Look at some of the big names that went bankrupt, Circuit City, GM, and Chrysler. Look at the struggling companies that were once prosperous, Blockbuster, Sirius Radio, Good Year and Palm. They all had their very profitable years, but their failure to innovate in time, resulted in their struggle today.
If you offering Drop Shipping here are the problems you are facing:
- Most of your online dealers who sign up with you never buy anything.
- Leads from Tradeshows hardly pay off.
- You waste money on advertising to get more online dealers that don't buy anything from you.
Product Data Sharing and Synchronization is a module that comes with Shopping Cart Elite. What it does is allows product data to be shared between different Shopping Cart Elite stores. However data sharing is not the only thing it does, it also has a synchronization engine which the data provider maintains and synchronizes to another store automatically.
Shopping Cart Elite Product Data Sharing and Synchronization module is unique in that you can still control the content after the data is shared. The synchronization can be set to synchronize the application data only and not the sales content. This gives you the ability for accepting the data while not modify your sales content. This means the sales content will be unique for the retail customers and the search engines.
You have your companies' product data, and most of your online sellers who drop ship require your data to sell your products online. Your drop shippers use all kinds of different software to operate their business, making your product data sharing and synchronization impossible.
Most manufacturers offer Excel sheet for their products, but to use these takes hundreds of hours for each dealer to convert and enter it on their websites.
This is the reason why 90% of your online dealers never do business with you. By telling your dealers, "Here is an excel sheet, go sell my products", you automatically lose many of your dealers. Dealers that end up entering your data never sell anything because their eCommerce technology was not good enough to generate traffic and convert the traffic into customers. The few online dealers that succeed with your products might find themselves earning less than expected and either quit or have to offer more products from your competitors. When all is said and done, you will be left with your regular old dealers and the big established companies.
Data Sharing and Synchronization SOLVES THIS PROBLEM.
- Switch your website and back office to Shopping Cart Elite.
- Start a new website for your dealers on Shopping Cart Elite.
- Contact Shopping Cart Elite and we may be able to refer you to a distributor who will partner with you to handle data sharing with their clients.
Finally a Shopping Cart for Wholesalers!
You may need a wholesale website, but you've probably never heard that you can have one that can provide you all the features you need for just $99 / month.
Retail / Wholesale
- Have you wanted a website that can offer retail prices to retail customers but would also allow you to accommodate wholesale customers with wholesale prices from the same website? Well now you can service both in one website. Shopping Cart Elite supports multiple level discounts, online dealer applications, tax IDs, tax exemptions, wholesale only mode, order quote system, support desk and much more. In addition, you won't need to rely on third party accounting software because Shopping Cart Elite has a very sophisticated accounting system that can manage your net accounts, COD, audits, subscriptions and other financial tasks.
Quoting System
Shopping Cart Elite has an excellent quoting system for your wholesale business, where you can submit quotes to your customers and the software can keep following up with those customers with additional incentives to finalize the sale. For example, let's say Michael is your wholesale customer and wants to buy an exhaust. You add the quote for an exhaust for Michael through your back office and it will be added to his account. Michael may tell you he will call you back to buy this, you will be able to tell him that the exhaust you just quoted him is in his Shopping Cart on your website because as soon as you add something to Michael's customer account in the back office he will see it on the website. If Michael doesn't check out during a certain period, you can set up a marketing campaign that will keep offering Michael the incentive to purchase the item at a special price. If Michael did not want to buy the item because it was out of stock, Shopping Cart Elite can automatically notify Michael as soon as the item is back in stock.
Intelligent Reporting
Shopping Cart Elite offers wholesale discount implementation that supports an automated adjustment to the wholesale discounts for your dealers', based on their performance. It can report marketplace pricing sale prices for the products you offer at wholesale, so you can automatically adjust your wholesale discounts to allow your dealer to compete better in the marketplace. Shopping Cart Elite allows you to initiate discounts based on past performance to your dealers; also, additional discounts, reward points and much more is available. Also, you can pull reports of marketplace pricing for the products you sell and automatically adjust your wholesale discounts for everyone, or for specific dealers, to allow them to be more competitive.
Intelligent Drop Shipping
You know that you need a system that can support drop shipping from multiple warehouses, but you've never heard of one that has an intelligent shipping system that can automatically consolidate and combine a shipment based on the box size and the item dimensions, assign the closest shipping warehouse, print the shipping label for the shipment and report all the activity online for your clients to see what is happening. Shopping Cart Elite supports multiple warehouses for one supplier. So, if you have one company, which operates from 10 different warehouses, not only are you able to give your customer a quote based on the closest shipping warehouse, but you can define what boxes a specific warehouse should use for packing. You can also establish whether to only allow a single shipment or to consolidate multiple items into a single box, which will provide a more accurate shipping quote. The system can even tell your packing manager how the items need to be packed into a particular box in order save time and increase productivity; it will then print the shipping label with the packing slip, (packing slip can be private-labeled with your dealer's company logo), and shipped from the desired warehouse. All the activity for the packing and shipping can be linked into your back office system so your employees know exactly where in the process the specific shipment is, as well as the ability to inform your customers on the website about their shipping status. As a result you will have fewer phone calls and increase the productivity of your company.
Intelligent Inventory Control
Shopping Cart Elite can help control your inventory, and predict future sales by using a series of algorithms from previous sales history and seasons. Using the Shopping Cart Elite intelligent inventory control system can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in overhead costs and overstocking products. The inventory system supports the scanning and creating of new bar codes, and it can show you what is arriving or in stock at multiple different warehouses. It can trigger alerts if your inventory is low and automatically re-order the desired inventory level. It can store pictures of in-stock items, so in case something is damaged, you can have a picture attached to that item and sell it at a lower price while displaying the picture automatically on the website. It can push excessive inventory on to eBay, and much more. However, the most impressive feature is that it can predict your sales based on a series of conditions that you set, conditions such as: season, economy status, desired stocking quantity, automated re-ordering, desired stock based on the amount of weeks, etc. This is a system that can save you both time and money.
Intelligent Return Merchandise System
Shopping Cart Elite can help you control your returns, and assist you in making improvements to the products that have been returned. The return merchandise module can do all the usual tasks such as accept, approve, reject, refund and exchange items that have been returned. The intelligent part of the module is that it can follow up with suppliers to receive credit memos, print return shipping labels for your customers, automatically refund your customer upon the arrival of the return, issue store credits to your customer account, and much more. In addition, the return merchandise module can ask customers of a reason for the return. The reasons for the return are saved in a database and a detailed report of the reasons can be generated, allowing you take appropriate actions against returned products to avoid future return claims.
Promote Shopping Cart Elite
Shopping Cart Elite has all the tools they need to succeed with their website. It also integrates with eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, Overstock.
Most importantly get your dealer to sign up with Shopping Cart Elite they can get your data loaded on their website immediately from you by clicking on ONE BUTTON, "DATA SHARE". Any new products, price updates, pictures, discontinued products will automatically be updated on their website by your distribution company. This is the beauty of the product data sharing and synchronization module. This means that you only have to keep your Shopping Cart Elite web site up to date, and all of your dealers can automatically receive your product data. You don't have to duplicate your efforts with each dealer. How much time, effort and money will this save you?
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