Short Answer:
A way of conducting business with your Client through a secured, Internet based platform that helps create an environment for:

• Efficiency with product purchasing, order procurement, and client relations.
• Distribution Exclusivity! Or in other words, the number one way for a Promotional Products Distributor to, "Lock In Business."

Long Answer:
An Online Company Store is an extremely effective marketing tool that can be molded to satisfy multiple needs of businesses, corporations, and institutions alike. Epromo’s Online Company Store Program is built around our leading E-commerce platform designed to streamline the procurement of merchandise for incentives, promotions, and other individual client needs. Epromo’s platform smoothly guides buyers through the entire purchasing process from choosing items, adding them to their cart, viewing final products, and approving total costs. Epromo’s Online Company Store Program also comes standard with our state-of-the-art Management System giving those who run the Company Store real-time visibility, control of order activity, order approvals, management reports, inventory tracking, fulfillment, and much more. Click here for a more detailed list of capabilities and costs.

If the answers to questions #1 weren’t enough reasons for you, then try this:

Today, having a strong Internet presence is crucial to a company’s survival. These days a company’s Internet presence can be the difference between leading the pack and being eaten by the pack. With E-commerce growing exponentially every year, companies cannot afford to be left behind in the technological advances of the Web. Not only does a Company Store Program offer the convenience of automated purchasing, management, and efficient fulfillment, but it also offers the flexibility to increase a company’s market place to include all Internet users throughout the world if they want it to. This increase in your market place ultimately means more people will have access to your merchandise, resulting in a noticeable increase of brand recognition within your community and beyond. Or, if your particular Company Store Program would just be for an elite group of people or employees, that can be easily accomplished as well. Either way, the efficiency and automation of Epromo’s Company Store Program is worth trying out.

In the past our clients have told us that the best way to explain and present a Company Store Program to their clients is by physically showing them one online. With several hundred Company Store Programs being maintained and hosted on Epromo’s technology, we can provide you with a variety of links and stores to use in your presentations.

In addition, Epromo has multiple other resources we can provide for assisting you with the education and presentation of a Company Store Program to your client. These include a PowerPoint Presentation, MS Word document with Questions & Answers, 14-Day Free Trial Company Store Accounts, and links to actual Company Stores that were developed by Epromo and that are currently online.

The answer to this question really depends on what your client wants. However, there are really only two ways to deal with the products of a Company Store Program:

Purchase Inventory Upfront and Warehouse them.

This option is preferred because orders can be fulfilled much faster and customers are much happier, however, it requires upfront money and warehousing overhead.

Batch and Produce Products every couple of weeks.

This option requires 4-6 weeks for fulfillment of orders because you are producing them as they are ordered. Customers who have placed orders do not like the 4-6 week delay time, but there is the benefit for you of no upfront inventory costs or warehousing overhead.

All of Epromo’s Company Store Packages come standard with complete shopping cart and checkout capabilities. The only additional thing you will need to accept and process credit cards or EFTs in the checkout process is a Merchant Account & Gateway. Many of you may already have a Merchant Account and/or Gateway. Our software is compatible with any type of Merchant Account you may already have, however, one of the four following gateways must be used with our software: iTransact, Authorize.net, PsiGate, ECHO. These Gateways are inexpensive to purchase if you do not already have one – Only $95.

Keep in mind that accepting and processing credit cards and/or EFTs in the checkout process is not required with Epromo’s Company Stores. It is just available as a convenience for those who would like their Company Stores to be setup that way.

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