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How to Automate Manual Data Entry

Manual data entry remains one of the most time-consuming and error-prone tasks in modern business operations. Despite advancements in technology, many...

What is EDI?

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has a long history in B2B commerce. Over 50 years ago, it was created in an attempt to remove the inefficiencies of ...

How to Transform eCommerce in Supply Chain Managem...

Imagine running an online store where everything just works perfectly. No more headaches about tracking packages, running out of products, or dealing ...

Bridging ERP Gaps with OrderEase: Simplifying Comp...

Businesses rely on ERP systems to manage their operations, but many still face significant gaps that lead to inefficiencies and costly workarounds. Or...

How to Automate Your Supply Chain & Eliminate Manu...

Managing operations across the supply chain can feel like juggling chainsaws—especially when bottlenecks, manual order entry, and outdated tools get i...

10 Benefits of ERP Integration | OrderEase

At its core, ERP software manages a company’s database of information, automates routine tasks and simplifies business processes. It optimizes operati...

Why Growing Brands Are Selling on Walmart Canada

Whether you’re running a local company or looking to expand your product line into the Canadian market, the affluent population of 38 million people p...

How to Sell Wholesale Catalogs Online

When your customers go to order your products, what does their journey look like? Traditionally, wholesalers have used specifically tailored paper or ...

Unlocking Efficiency: Introducing the eCommerce Bu...

Managing eCommerce integrations is no small feat, especially when dealing with multiple products across platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce. At Ord...

What is Middleware-Enhanced Order Management?

Middleware-Enhanced Order Management is a modernized way to automate purchase-to-fulfillment with low-code, API-first connectivity. With the right sol...

The 3-Minute Guide to Selling on Walmart Canada

If you’ve been wondering how you can become a vendor for Walmart Canada’s Marketplace, we’ve created a quick guide to help you assess whether it’s rig...

OrderEase Winter Product Releases

We’re excited to share the latest updates from OrderEase, designed to make your experience even more efficient and user-friendly. These Winter Product...

What is ERP Integration

In today’s fast-paced business world, efficiency and seamless data flow are more important than ever. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have ...

Is MarketTime Still the Right Fit for Your Busines...

A few years ago, MarketTime acquired Brandwise, merging two well-established order management platforms in the wholesale B2B industry. While this acqu...

Optimizing EDI for the Modern Retail Landscape

EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange, is a standardized way to share business documents and data between organizations. It enables companies to transfe...

October 2024: What’s New at OrderEase

We’re excited to share the latest enhancements at OrderEase - whether you’re managing shipments, organizing products, or keeping track of inventory, t...

OrderEase September Product Updates

Managing shipments just became more streamlined with Shipment Statuses and Batch Actions. These enhancements are designed to improve order management,...

Warehouse Locations: Enhancing Trade with OrderEas...

At OrderEase, our goal has always been to facilitate seamless order operations across every touchpoint in the fulfillment ecosystem. As trading networ...

Sales App Update: Streamlining Your Sales Process ...

The 80/20 inventory principle suggests that 80% of your orders come from 20% of your products, making the ability to duplicate purchase orders (POs) c...

OrderEase Launches Online Exclusive Feature Level

By bringing online exclusive features into your sales strategy with OrderEase, you can expect to improve inventory management by streamlining product ...

The Guide to Endless Aisles

As consumers, we know the frustration of going to a retail store looking for a specific item, only to find out that it’s not available. Maybe you shop...

[Feature Release] OrderEase B2B Order Management T...

It’s halfway through the year (in release note time), and we’ve got another round of updates for you. There’s new options for your teams to play with,...

4 Ways to Improve Wholesale Order Fulfillment

There is some argument between professional wholesalers and how they prioritize order fulfillment. For some, it’s the largest operational priority in ...

[Feature Release] OrderEase B2B Order Management T...

It’s time for another set of updates, this time covering April and May. We can guarantee that there is no rain, and all flowers in these updates as we...

Why Your Business Needs To Commit To Online Orderi...

[Feature Release] OrderEase B2B Order Management T...

Another month, another set of updates. We’ve got some core functionality improvements that should make browsing OrderEase a lot faster. We also have a...

Handshake Wholesale B2B eCommerce Alternative - Sh...

The Handshake wholesale B2B order management platform, founded in 2010, provided a mobile app for sales reps and B2B eCommerce solutions to brands.

Is QuickBooks EDI compliant?

If you’re reading this you’re likely using or looking to use QuickBooks. It’s either helped your company grow, or you’re ready to take the next step i...

The top 4 challenges Ontario alcoholic beverage se...

Being in the Ontario alcohol industry right now is difficult. With the explosion of competition, every company needs to find new ways to put themselve...

Calculating the True Cost of Receiving a Wholesale...

Have you ever found yourself asking what the cost of receiving and processing a single order is? The whole process from start to finish has some hidde...

[Feature Release] OrderEase B2B Order Management T...

Another 2 months, another feature release update. But there’s a catch. This one has some BIG NEWS for all OrderEase customers. We’ve implemented signi...

5 Main Steps to Prepare for ERP Integration

Upgrading your ERP with software integrations can be a daunting task for any company. There are technical pitfalls to be avoided, change management to...

Understanding The Modern B2B Procurement Process

The way business transactions have taken place has changed over the past fifteen years, and there’s no going back. The days of cheque books and fax ma...

Enhance QuickBooks for Digital B2B Ordering and In...

As a wholesaler, you’ve had to make a lot of technology decisions to help your business scale. If you’re reading this, you’ve likely chosen a version ...

Traditional sales and order management processes a...

One of the biggest challenges that any company faces is the weight of inertia. It’s easy to do the same thing you’ve always done because it works for ...

[Feature Release] OrderEase B2B Order Management T...

It’s a new month, and you know what that means — a bevy of fresh features for you to enjoy. We have some exciting new stuff this month so hold on to y...

Frustrated with EDI as a wholesaler? There’s a bet...

If you’re a wholesale vendor, it’s more than likely you’ve had issues with the electronic data interchange (EDI) systems your large purchasers are for...

[Feature Release] OrderEase B2B Order Management T...

2022 continues with more technology development and refinements that we, at OrderEase, are excited to share with you. In this post, we have put togeth...

[Feature Release] OrderEase B2B Order Management T...

2022 got off to a great start for OrderEase with significant technology improvements and new features. As an existing user, you may have noticed a few...

5 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your POS System

Independent retailers first investing or upgrading a Point of Sale (POS) system often configure a solution to fit their immediate needs. They often ov...

[Feature Release] OrderEase B2B Order Management T...

2021 was a BIG year for OrderEase technology development. There were significant advancements and technology releases in both the B2B order management...

[Feature Release] OrderEase Trade Show Technology ...

2021 was a BIG year for OrderEase technology development. There were significant advancements and technology releases in both the Trade Show platform ...

Trade Show Digital Order Management- Increase Sale...

OrderEase has been the platform of choice for virtual as well as in-person booking shows. Now, we have successfully completed our first hybrid trade s...

Top 4 Supply Chain Technologies for Better Floral ...

There is something magical when a bouquet of long stem roses lasts two weeks on the dining room table. That “magic” is thanks to a well managed cold s...

Building Material Distribution Industry:  Increasi...

As globalization continues to shape business practices, the lumber and building material industry is feeling the effects, as well. National building m...

[Feature Releases] September 2020 OrderEase Releas...

September marked a big month for OrderEase with the launch of the Virtual Trade Show Platform.

Is Your Buying Group Responding to New Industry De...

A buying groups function is to meet the business needs of their members and vendors. But, when those needs aren’t met, the buying group and its member...

Covid: Surviving the Second Wave as a Wholesale Su...

As the return to school is underway, so is the anxiety and anticipation of the second wave of COVID. While we can’t predict the effects or severity of...

3 Key Factors To Scale A Business

Business Scaling Principals: Sail and Scale with Bruce Croxon During a discussion with Bruce Croxon of Round 13 Capital, Warren Patterson and Bruce re...

[Feature Release] July 2020 OrderEase Release Upda...

There has been a lot of exciting development work at OrderEase over the past few months. This release contains some powerful features that you don’t w...

GardenWorks and OrderEase Plant the Seeds of a Str...

We are very excited to announce that we have partnered with GardenWorks! They recently signed on to simplify and streamline their ordering system and ...

3 Efficiencies B2B Manufacturing Companies Can Use...

The current COVID-19 crisis is like nothing we’ve ever seen before. Businesses in every single sector are facing a “pivot or perish” situation. They’r...

Why are So Many Industries Still Sending Faxes?

Despite the public perception that fax machines are ancient artifacts, there are still a lot of industries that keep the fax machine going.

The Benefits of Using a Central Wholesale Ordering...

The wholesale ordering process has yet to move to computers, while every other industry is racing into the cloud. Why is that?

How Old Fax & Phone Ordering Systems Cost You Mone...

If you work in wholesale ordering, you’re probably well aware of the fact that other people find it very strange that you’re still doing business over...

How Buying Groups are Losing a Fortune to Paper an...

Buying groups need data to remain relevant. And too many buying groups can’t access their data because it’s “trapped in” paper trails and faxes.

The Ultimate Wholesale Marketing Toolkit

It's easy to have your marketing budget slip through your fingers in wholesale from printing costs to tradeshow booths it's easy to spend a lot with l...

Why Wholesalers Should Invest in Direct to Consume...

What makes a product a must have for retailers? The consumer is at the core of all business decisions, why is a consumer more likely to purchase one s...

Buying vs. Building a B2B E-commerce Solution

Once you have determined a need for a technology solution the first question you are confronted with is, should we build or buy? Fifteen years ago its...

4 Reasons To Invest in B2B E-commerce

When an organization or company is shopping around for technology solutions, there is usually a few key things on their mind. How can technology incre...

Quick Guide For Suppliers - Email Marketing Builde...

OrderEase’s Email Marketing Builder has been developed to make creating B2B specific emails easy. All emails are created using sections. These section...

Is Data a Buying Groups Greatest Opportunity?

Pooled resources, warehousing, rebates and the allure of item exclusivity have all made buying groups what they are today but will that be enough to c...

Quick Guide - How To Write Compelling B2B Sales Em...

Have you ever caught yourself spending hours writing the perfect email to an important lead? Or have you danced around the keyboard trying to ask an e...

5 Tips for Starting A Blog for Your Wholesale Busi...

Why blog? This is a question that is bounced around offices around the world and yet most businesses have a blog on their websites in 2019. Blogging d...

B2B Email Marketing Best Practices

Email is one of the best tools in B2B marketing specialists toolbelt, and yet many wholesale businesses are overlooking it when building out their sal...

Understanding OrderEase's Product Information Mana...

Product information management is a crucial part of every wholesale business, without good management and propagation of accurate product information,...

Creating a B2B Digital Marketing Strategy

Effective B2B marketing is no longer as simple as an attractive tradeshow booth at the industry show and some magazine and newsletter ads. In order to...

Living up to B2B Customer Expectations in 2019

The new year brings in new perspectives, opportunities, and insights to consider when creating your annual business strategy. The average B2C transact...

Making the Greenhouse Supply Chain More Profitable...

Have you ever sold more than you could supply? For most industries, overselling would result in a lot of unhappy customers and a lot of damage control...

4 Ways To Improve Your Wholesale Marketing Emails

Email marketing is a crucial part of communicating with your wholesale customers. Whether you are promoting a new product or simply sending an order c...

A Complete Guide to the LinkGreen Supplier Dashboa...

Running a business is a complicated endeavour. When it comes to keeping your finger on the pulse of your company’s health, what metrics do you take in...

Here's What's New In Mobile Ordering On OrderEase

OrderEase is happy to announce that we’ve updated both the Mobile Ordering App and Sales Rep App to better meet your needs.These updates represent ano...

How does the cost of production affect the cost of...

As a business owner, would you invest in plants that you knew would cost more to produce than the return? Without a compelling return on investment, t...

The Joys of Multiple Online Catalogs

From managing multiple catalogs to coordinating special pricing and seasonal pre-bookings, there is a lot to keep track of when running a wholesale bu...

The most important question that you don’t want to...

What do your customers hate about doing business with your company? Have you ever asked them? I know it sounds bold but it’s an incredibly important q...

How does a Consumer Value a Plant

When a customer walks through your garden centre, how do they decide on a fair price for a hanging basket? Do they value it more because it's bright a...

Increasing ROI at Your Next Trade Show

“See you at the next trade show” is a common sentiment exchanged throughout wholesale industries, even in the most modern business. Most wholesale bus...

8 Reasons Why It's Time To Retire Paper Order Form...

Paper is a familiar fixture for the ordering process of sales reps and customers, but familiarity doesn’t mean it's the best method for placing wholes...

How to Reduce The High Costs of Order Errors

Are you aware of how much order errors cost your business right now? Figuring out the exact cost of a missed or incomplete order can be a nebulous tas...

Understanding OrderEase’s Supplier Standards in Cu...

At OrderEase, providing an exceptional customer experience is priority one. Afterall, if retailers find ordering online frustrating or inconvenient, w...

Three Ways Sales Reps Define Your Company's Brand

A brand doesn't exist within the confines of your company, it existing within the minds of your customers.That understanding makes all customer intera...

Why Product Images Matter to Your Customers (and Y...

Imagine you’re looking for a coffee maker and find one on Amazon. The price seems reasonable and it sounds pretty decent but there’s a problem: there’...

Four Questions Your Business Website Should Answer

Your website is a communication tool and a direct reflection of your company to the world. What brings people to your website? In one way or another, ...

Supplier's Guide to Product Images: Taking Great N...

People shop with their eyes and images help to reaffirm the customer about the product they are looking to order. This is thoroughly understood in ret...

Modernizing Your Wholesale Print Catalog with Barc...

Paper catalogs are still considered a staple marketing and sales tool for many wholesale businesses, but there is a transition happening in the b2b pr...

Buyers Guide to Online Ordering - Accessing Order ...

Placing your first order online is a big step in the right direction, so congratulations on trying out the future of wholesale ordering. By placing yo...

Determining the Price of a Plant

What is a fair price for a particular plant? How would you approach that question? Is it determined by supply and demand principles, customer research...

Buyers Guide To Online Ordering - Navigating The O...

There are some amazing features available at your fingertips with OrderEase's online ordering. Your supplier’s online catalog provides you with the fr...

The Technology Behind Local Food Production

Buy local, eat local. Food safety, nutrition, and local economies are all on the mind to the 2018 consumer. The everyday consumer is growing increasin...

Buyers Guide to Online Ordering: Understanding the...

Now that you have access to your wholesale supplier’s online catalog with your pricing, you can browse the catalog and order at your convenience. This...

The Arrival of the Amazon Plant Store

Some said it was impossible, others cautiously awaited its arrival, but the day has come and Amazon now sells live plants online. Unveiled earlier thi...

Four Ways to Improve Your Wholesale Website

Your website is an extension and representation of your wholesale business to the world. Needless to say, it’s worth spending a bit of time on it. If ...

Overcoming Supply and Demand Pressures in the Hort...

Every year, the horticulture and landscaping industries are faced with an all too familiar issue, finding labor. From the businesses who grow the plan...

EDI Decoded: Breaking Down the Big Business Barrie...

Electronic Data Interchange(EDI) has a long history in B2B commerce - a very long history. Over 50 years ago, it was created in an attempt to remove t...

The Garden Center’s Guide to Mobile Payment Proces...

Our recent article on mobile barcode scanning generated quite a stir among garden center owners and operators. In particular, we were pleased to hear ...

How Mobile Barcode Scanning Will Revolutionize The...

OrderEase is pleased to announce the release of one of our most exciting feature releases to date. Changing how retailers and sales reps place orders,...

Mobile Barcode Scanning Now Allowing Retailers to ...

OrderEase is pleased to announce the release of one of our most exciting feature releases to date. Changing how retailers and sales reps place orders,...

How Retail-Ready Packaging Helps Lawn & Garden Pro...

What your products look like on customer shelves is essential, no matter what you are selling. Whether it’s a bag of soil or a bird feeder, packaging ...

How Online Ordering Keeps Your Customers Up To Dat...

Online ordering is no longer just for business to consumer transactions, every year more business to business transactions are taking place online. Or...

Building Customer Trust as a Lumber and Building M...

Providing your customers with average service is costing your business more than you might expect. Why does good service matter to a retailer? Well, i...

Three Greenhouse Technologies that Increase Produc...

If you are a business owner in the greenhouse industry, production technology is something you are likely very familiar with. The greenhouse industry ...

Responding to Labor Shortages in the Horticultural...

Widespread labor shortages in the horticultural industry aren’t new, but actually represent a steadily increasing trend year over year. In fact, accor...

2018 Home Decor Trends (And How Wholesalers Can Ca...

Wholesale home decor revolves around keeping up with the latest consumer trends and providing your retailers with the best products possible. By natur...

How Inventory Integration Will Simplify Your Order...

Whether you run a wholesale nursery or a lawn and garden distribution business, every business should have a well-managed inventory control system tha...

4 Apps Every Landscaper Should Have

As a landscaper, how do you manage your business? Do you work from the office or onsite? Do you manage your books, inventory, clients, and projects on...

Great Sales Practices Your Sales Reps Don't Have T...

How much time do your sales reps spend taking customer orders? Retailers are under more and more pressure to provide their customers with better servi...

What the Cannabis Industry can Learn From Floricul...

With recent regulatory changes already taking place, there is a great deal of excitement across North America in the emerging cannabis industry. Witho...

The Evolution of Technology in Horticulture

Technology is everywhere ! From the shovel you use to plant a seed to the process in which that seed’s genetics have been altering to resist drought, ...

3 Criteria Nurseries Should Look for in an Invento...

Manual inventory management on a single excel sheet likely costs you more than you think. Paired with a manual order process, it’s a recipe for charge...

Modernizing Lawn & Garden Hardgoods Distribution

The effects of consumer market trends ripple all the way from the retailer to the manufacturer and, by nature, the distributor is directly impacted as...

Keeping Your Shelves Fresh- 3 Ways Independent Ret...

The retail industry has never been more competitive. With pressure from big box stores with low margins and online retailers with low overhead, indepe...

Wholesale Online Ordering 101 - An Introduction fo...

There are many features available to retailers through their OrderEase Connect account. To get you acquainted with online ordering let’s start with th...

Cultivating a Better Greenhouse and Nursery Produc...

As the owner or manager of a wholesale greenhouse or nursery, you have extensive knowledge about horticulture. There is no questioning that from seed ...

3 Ways to Prepare your Nursery for The Next Genera...

The wholesale nursery industry is going to see a transition in the next decade as an entire generation of growers and owners retire from the business....

How Nurseries and Greenhouses can Improve Inventor...

Do your wholesale customers have access to current and accurate inventory availability? No matter whether you are talking to wholesale greenhouses, nu...

How Minimum Wage + Greenhouse Industry Can Still =...

An increase in minimum wage leaves no business or industry untouched. From retailers to wholesale vendors, higher labor costs reverberate throughout t...

Can Technology Keep Floral Distributors Thriving?

Nothing says time is of the essence like fresh cut flowers. The floral industry has been a leader in supply chain innovations out of necessity due to ...

How Complacency Towards Technology Killed Sears Ca...

This past fall Sears Canada was on the front page of every newspaper as the retail giant closed its doors for good. To most people, Sears was consider...

3 Garden Centre Retail Business Strategies to Impl...

As businesses reflect on their 2017 season, it is essential to review what the retail landscape is going to look like in 2018. There is no question a ...

Offering an Even Better Ordering Process

Here at OrderEase, we have been busy refining our service to better meet the needs of our users. We started by surveying hundreds of OrderEase users a...

3 Strategies to Achieve a Better Partnership with ...

Relationships are the invisible foundation of business. As a retailer, you spend a lot of time and resources on bettering your relationships with your...

Wholesale Ordering App for Mobile Purchasing

OrderEase Mobile offers wholesale buyers the freedom to view and order wholesale products at their convenience. This free mobile ordering app provides...

One Solution to Simplify your Ordering Process

OrderEase was created to provide wholesale buyers with a single solution and order process, eliminating multiple time-consuming order processes for ea...

4 Ways Retailers Can Get the Most Out of the Off-S...

As winter slowly arrives, so does off-season for many businesses in the lawn & garden industry. At this time you should be selling the last of you...

4 Tips to Optimize your Annual Inventory Managemen...

The annual count is crucial for inventory management throughout the year. An annual inventory count allows you clean up your records and provides your...

6 Ways Independent Garden Centers can Compete with...

Big Box stores are here to stay. Yes, I said it and we all know it's true. Gone are the days of competing against the few local markets and garden cen...

OrderEase - Embedded Login & Website Integration

Website integration provides your customers direct access to your catalog on the OrderEase Marketplace. Our development team has create an embedded lo...

OrderEase - Online Ordering for Wholesale Buyers

OrderEase has been created to save you time on your ordering process. The OrderEase marketplace provides with you a single place to connect, interact ...

OrderEase - New Category Catalog View

Featuring The New Category Catalog View So as many of you have noticed our development team has been working tirelessly to improve the OrderEase user ...

OrderEase - Your Online Ordering Solution

OrderEase is a revenue generating cost effective online ordering solution for wholesale buyers. OrderEase was created to make it easier for you to int...

Going Mobile for Greenskeepers – Keeping You Out o...

Here we are in April it is this time that Greenskeeper dreads most. Assessing the condition of the course and prepping for the upcoming season. It’s a...

Woo! You Got a New Connection – Now What?…

OrderEase is aptly named, as first and foremost it is a network marketplace that allows suppliers and buyers to make connections. But that is only the...

Quick Guide - Searching/Inviting New Customers

Before you do anything else. Accept your pendings! it’s a great feeling when new customers are coming to you and the OrderEase platform loves to promo...

The Inbox Abyss - Optimizing Your E-mail Communica...

Water, water everywhere and no one wants to drink Ugh… We get flooded with e-mail. According to a survey done in 2015 by Radicati Group, it is project...

Quick Guide - Updating Availability - ERP Automati...

Contact OrderEase at 888-476-6527 to configure your inbound email and set up our automation within your ERP system. Configure your current ERP system ...

Quick Guide - Updating Availability - Importing Yo...

Visit www.orderease.com and log in to your account (top of the page). From the navigation bar, select “My Products” and then “Upload Inventory Quantit...

Quick Guide - Updating Inventory Availability - Ma...

Visit OrderEase and log in to your account (top of the page). From the navigation bar, select “My Products” and then “Edit Inventory Quantity”. Manual...

Inventory Management – The Taming of the SKU

So why do I need an Inventory Management System (SKU)? You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that managing a large inventory can be very dif...

Implementing change in your landscape company

Why is it so hard to introduce change? And what steps can you take to better implement change in your company? In this article, I’ll outline the strat...

Garden centres driving up income with restaurants ...

Hodges' Graeme Jones says projects such as this are typical now, with the restaurant at Garsons in Esher, Surrey, a prime example of how a centre can ...