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This Lab 50 is from a photofinisher who is also a supplier to other dealers. The highlighted order and the two above it are from other dealers who offer her catalog and the rest of the orders are from her own customers using her website.
For Suppliers: Invoicing
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Invoice terms and what wholesale and shipping costs are owed, are between you and the dealer, but if you need a record of what dealers' customers have ordered, use the myLab > Report > Online – Catalog Subscriber Line Item Detail which can be run for a settable timeframe and exported in a variety of formats.
For Suppliers: Best Practices
We will share that catalog out and the other dealer will import it… so whatever you put in is what they will get, and in those groups with all the details along with it. These are changes usually made:
- Pricing—MSRP and wholesale
- Product names, descriptions, images
- Category images, descriptions
Other notes:
- If there is a turnaround stated, for example, you may want to remove that from a description since it will be different for the other dealer. Or, anything that may detail your dealer name (except for the one top level category, that is the only spot you need your name/logo and it’s not used on the dealer’s site.
- A supplier catalog cannot have any disabled products or categories. If you have groups or products you do not want to offer for wholesale, or aren’t ready yet, please delete. If you have a linked photo cover category which would normally be disabled in a dealer catalog must be enabled in the supplier catalog.
- If you decide to discontinue or need to temporarily remove a product (due to inventory, for example) we have a way to do that across all dealers you supply, we just need the product info (product name, ID, and database ID).
- SHIPPING. This is always a tough one to sort out. The shipping settings that are in the dealer catalog are what gets applied. So you need to make sure to communicate to the dealer how you want to do shipping so that they can set it up to appropriately cover costs. Shipping for their customer may be different that what you actually charge the dealer, so just as long as you are clear on terms and fees and that your shipping settings in the supplier catalog do not carry through. For this reason, some dealers include shipping in the product msrp and wholesale.
View an excel Sample Supplier Report
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