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Playbooks and ideas for running commerce across your network.
Practical guides, product demos, and news for the operators of associations, buying groups, franchises, distributors, and cooperatives.
Guides & Playbooks
Ecommerce for Buying Groups & Associations: A Guide
Give every member a branded storefront from one shared catalog — suppliers ship direct, and the operator keeps control of the catalog and participation.
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Guides & Playbooks
B2B Ecommerce Platforms for Member Networks: What to Look For
The six capabilities that matter when one platform has to run a hundred member storefronts — and how that differs from Shopify or Adobe Commerce.
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Guides & Playbooks
What Is a Multi-Vendor Marketplace (and Does Your Network Need One)?
One storefront, many suppliers, each shipping its own orders. How the model works, and when a network needs one.
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Grow Your Business
How Distributors Can Turn Retailers Into Branded Storefronts
Hand every retailer you supply a store that works on day one, powered by your catalog and your fulfillment , so your catalog reaches the whole network at once.
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