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Is Your Business Ready for eCommerce Integration?
A recent eMarketer report forecasts global retail eCommerce sales to reach $4 trillion by 2020, making up 14.6% of total retail spending that year. That’s a staggering number. As consumers continue to shop online more frequently, retailers are looking to cash in on eCommerce sales.
However, as your eCommerce sales grow, it becomes harder to manage the volume. Growing merchants probably use other systems along with their eCommerce platform to manage their processes.
Are your current systems integrated? If they’re not, check out why your business may be ready for integration and how to do it. (more…)
What is Multichannel ERP Integration?
(This post was originally published on May 16th, 2012. We’ve updated it for accuracy and completeness.)
To sell through multichannel channels, merchants use a number of different systems to manage their business. On the frontend, you might sell through an eCommerce store or marketplaces. On the backend, sellers often use an ERP, CRM, or POS system to manage different aspects of their selling operations.
For most sellers though, their ERP system becomes the heart of their business. It’s the central location where you manage all selling processes. However, not all sellers integrate their ERP to their other systems. Find out what multichannel ERP integration is and how it can help your business. (more…)
Avoiding Common eCommerce Inventory Management Mistakes
Running an eCommerce business is tough. A common pain point for eCommerce sellers is tracking and managing their inventory. If you sell across multiple online channels, it gets even harder. During your busy selling season, tracking inventory is just downright frustrating.
How you manage your inventory can determine the success of your business. You want to avoid overselling and upsetting customers, but keeping too much stock ties up your cash.
To help you build a more profitable business, this post considers some key inventory challenges that eCommerce sellers face and how to avoid them. (more…)
Why Retailers Should Integrate Their Accounting System
(This post was originally published on October 23rd, 2013. We’ve updated it for accuracy and completeness.)
All merchants deal with the challenge of managing the data that their operations generate. You must pull orders, update item information, update inventory counts, create invoices, and enter payments into your accounting systems.
If you’re quickly growing or sell across multiple channels, then tracking down data takes most of your time and many hands to do. If not managed correctly, manually moving data between systems can be costly and counterproductive. That’s why many merchants turn to integrating their accounting system.
In this article, we’ll talk about the benefits of accounting integration and the best way to approach it.
eCommerce POS Integration: Why Integrate Your Systems
(This post was originally published on June 11th, 2012. We’ve updated it for accuracy and completeness.)
Running a successful multichannel business takes many hours of hard work and a dedicated team of employees. There are a variety of factors that go into maintaining brick and mortar and eCommerce operations. When it’s going well, it’s hard to change things up.
But even for successful businesses, there are ways to improve operations, increase sales, and improve customer satisfaction. Through integration of your eCommerce and point-of-sale (POS) systems in store, your business can reach higher goals with ease. (more…)