A Development for Online Ordering in the Merchandising Industry

Posted on Wednesday, 10th November 2021

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A Development for Online Ordering in the Merchandising Industry

In this digital age, it is so common for most businesses to have an online presence, this is pretty easy to achieve, and so are e-commerce stores. Online ordering may seem like a given for consumer websites and stores; however, the B2B Sector is lacking especially when you’re a service-based provider.

How can one take your knowledge and expertise and wrap this into a cart and check out? Will you be purchasing real expertise and time? In the promotional merchandise industry, a lot of information and expertise is gathered by each company’s workflow, partnership and the knowledge & training offered to the staff fulfilling the client’s needs.

The UK merchandise industry has always been a quote-based business, like purchasing a carpet or having plastering done at your house, this is somewhat different from an online cards store or a T-shirt printers. For straightforward print projects you can upload artwork and have a cmyk print of business cards and flyers done, and yes you can find a clothing store and upload artwork and get screen printed T shirts delivered online.

The challenge is how do you do this with ceramics, bespoke clothing or uniforms, new technology and new materials, stationery and bespoke manufacturing. How do you factor in different print techniques based on different materials like pad printing, screen printing, transfer, cmyk, debossing, foil block, laser engrave, epoxy doming, and embroidery?

Let’s not forget different prices for each technique, price changes based on quantity, restricted printed areas, multiple suppliers from different locations globally, different costs and lead times from different locations and for each product. In the UK the offering of B2B online ordering of promotional merchandise encompassing all the different branding options and variety of products has never been done before. Before Bounce took on this challenge, our team could see all the hurdles ahead, but we persevered as we believed it was a worthwhile innovation.

We are pleased to say that after 14 months of development we have managed to achieve this and it’s just the beginning!

Our new website has just launched and will contain products from multiple suppliers and partners, accurate costs with all variables factored, and stock levels visible.

Costs for branded merchandise are provided on the spot with the ability to check out and order like any other online store. If you still need help, we have included the option to get a quote. What we love most is that we’ve given the buyer options for all the prices, quantity variables, branding methods and costs in one place.

Now that Bounce Creative Designs have taken this step we feel that we’ll only improve on our service and add to further development as we go along. We are excited about the challenges the next few years will bring.

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A Development for Online Ordering in the Merchandising Industry