Profishop - a solution for receiving orders from wholesale customers

    I greet you, dear Khabravchians! In this post I would like to talk about my project Profishop.us- This is a turnkey solution for receiving orders from wholesale customers. First of all, I would like to draw attention to the usefulness and relevance of the idea of ​​this project. If you are a distributor and sell any goods in bulk, then this service is created for you. Now most wholesalers accept orders the old fashioned way in regular Excel files, by phone or, at most, through the standard online store on Bitrix or another popular engine, which entails a lot of inconvenience. We have created a convenient interface that integrates with the seller’s 1C base, i.e. those orders that customers will make in their personal account instantly appear in the seller’s 1C database. The personal account is optimized specifically for bulk purchases and is devoid of the drawbacks that wholesalers encounter when working on traditional store engines or manually. I would like to note

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    Features and benefits of the service

    • A multifunctional API, with the help of it the distributor integrates his 1C base with Profishop.
    • A personal account for the buyer, in which he selects goods through a convenient interface and makes orders with his distributor.
    • Ability to work with the buyer through the API. Having an online store and purchasing for it through Profishop, you can automate the order process. Thus, when the customer places an order in your online store, he will be immediately reserved for you by the distributor in his main 1C base.
    • Different prices for different types of customers.
    • Separate subdomain for your account.
    • Affiliate program: everyone who signs up for your referral link will bring you 20% of the purchased services.

    The store is connected within a few hours. If required, we provide full support for any of the convenient forms of communication. Much attention was paid to the simplicity and convenience of the product, it is really easy and pleasant to work with Profishop. We have high-quality documentation with videos and examples of ready-made solutions.

    From the very beginning, the main thing for us was the simplicity of the product and its convenience for users. This Profishop differs from competitors, which, incidentally, are very few. Now the service is completely ready for work, but only half the battle has been done, its promotion is ahead, which is quite difficult in such a narrow and specialized niche. To do this, we hired a marketer for the full time, we are preparing the launch of contextual advertising and are preparing for large-scale calls to potential customers to inform them that we have opened and can greatly simplify the life of a wholesaler. By the way, among those distributors to whom we already talked about the service, and who were not too lazy to try, a large percentage became our customers.

    The idea of ​​the project arose several years ago, when I helped my partner organize the work of two online stores, wholesale and retail. There were no special problems with retail, but with wholesale it was hard. I didn’t want to do as was done with most distributors, when ordinary prices are sent to customers, without pictures, with irrelevant balances and, often, different formats. The client wanted to automate everything as much as possible, to provide relevant information in a convenient form. First, a simple script was written in PHP + MySQL with 1C integration using the ODBC connector, but then the code was completely rewritten and the API was added via GET, POST with data output through the JSON format. When other customers became interested in our solution, I firmly decided to make a service.
    By the wayabout prices . There is a free tariff with a restriction on the maximum number of users simultaneously online: 5. The “Medium Business” tariff for 2000 rubles, in which the entire number of active sessions and other parameters are significantly expanded, there are features such as downloading images and your own domain name.

    We have a lot of interesting plans for the future: adding new features to increase convenience, creating ready-made solutions for all versions of 1C (now there are only UT11), changes in the design of your personal account, but our main goal is to popularize the automation of wholesale trade, etc. to. in fact, it is very different from the retail one, and it seems that they do not pay attention to it.


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