App Aware: OrderEase B2B2C Order Management

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I realize it is "Warehouse Wednesday," but when we restarted this feature, I told you we would cover solutions that dealt with inventory, order management, ecommerce, EDI, and more, not just warehousing. This week, I'm making your app aware1 of a relative newbie in the QuickBooks Online App Store, a multi-channel order management solution called OrderEase2. 

I recently mentioned this app in my feature, "Here's 8 More Apps from the QuickBooks App Store". I thought I should do more than simply give you their name and a one sentence description, so here's my product summary. Be on the lookout for more "App Aware" or "First Look" features covering the apps in that story.

OrderEase is a centralized solution to create operational efficiency among all your selling channels. With OrderEase, you will simplify order management workflows by integrating, aggregating, and delivering wholesale buying and selling transactions. 

As a seller, OrderEase will aggregate your sales channels and feed their data into your system through a single connection. This makes it simple to deliver the right products, pricing and inventory to your customers.

From Order to Invoice, OrderEase can build and implement workflows connecting multiple sales channels to communicate with your fulfillment systems.

  • A single integration software to connect all your endpoints
  • Create automated triggers based on your workflow rules
  • Easy business scalability by leveraging a single integration platform
  • Integrate workflows for EDI, API, Drop-ship, ecommerce and marketplaces
  • User interface available for functionality not supported by your internal solutions

As a buyer, OrderEase provides you with access to all your suppliers, and allows you to place orders from a single source of truth that integrates with your ecommerce, POS and ERP or accounting systems3.

This results in your ability to source and order products from multiple suppliers that can offer you the best deals, in the best time and delivered to the best places, without struggling to get up-to-date data via email or phone. You get:

  • All your product information, pricing, inventory and images from every source, at the touch of a button
  • End-to-end order and inventory management technology
  • Integrate OrderEase with your POS system and Web platforms
  • Order from your wholesalers digital catalogs that are pushed directly into your POS or accounting systems
  • Push products into your POS or web-stores at the click of your mouse, no more manual product entry

As a buying group, the return on investment associated with OrderEase will benefit you, its members and vendors. No other solution is as well suited to provide the information you need when it is time to negotiate better costs for your members or improve ordering relationships with your vendors.

And because OrderEase fully integrates with QuickBooks, all your digital connectivity with your EDI solution, eCommerce marketplaces, fulfillment networks, point-of-sale systems and direct channel sales can take place through this one solution providing a centralized source of truth for all your data.

  • OrderEase makes your wholesale operations more efficient using web and mobile apps to do paperless ordering
  • Means you can increase direct member orders and become less reliant on current distribution center(s)
  • Products and transactions between members and vendors become connected within the OrderEase centralized hub, which allows ordering data to flow through your portal and gives your buying group the window into data you need to negotiate vendor pricing, manage credit, rebates, and more
  • Remain competitive and maintain loyal membership by providing greater cost efficiency in your management using OrderEase

OrderEase becomes your central hub hosting your product information, pricing, inventory and orders. All this information is synchronized across your wholesale and retail systems using digital connection with each system, allowing you to determine which systems need access to which information, and how all your information from those systems should be merged into meaningful representations within OrderEase.

  • API connections to popular accounting systems3, like QuickBooks; plus, connectivity with ERP systems, marketplaces and logistics providers. For a complete list of OrderEase integrations, see this webpage.
  • CSV/XLS/FTP data exchange through flat files for orders, inventory and pricing.
  • EDI compliance with your trading partners who require EDI transactions to do business with them.
  • PDF functionality includes digitization of information for orders received via PDF or preparation of PDF information for outbound transmission.
  • Rest API functionality provides full access to all OrderEase features allowing for customized solutions to be easily built.
  • Web-hook capability means notifications are triggered for all key OrderEase activities.

OrderEase works with QuickBooks and makes it easy to configure your QuickBooks integration. You control the synchronization rules within your integration dashboard in OrderEase, including the flow of data regarding customers, sales reps, vendors, and more.

OrderEase pushes customer specific pricing with each order into QuickBooks for easy and accurate invoice generation.

  • Businesses can connect and sell via marketplaces or direct to customers via your own eCommerce store
  • Customers get a self-managed portal for viewing and ordering products
  • Drop shipping is simplified using OrderEase
  • Receive EDI orders through OrderEase straight into your QuickBooks account making it easier to do business with large retailers
  • Sales reps have an app with barcode scanning to use at customer locations or at trade shows
  • With OrderEase and QuickBooks integrating you have almost endless possibilities for business growth

To learn more about OrderEase, visit their website. To get more details about integrating OrderEase with QuickBooks, visit the OrderEase App Webpage at the Intuit QuickBooks App Center.

Footnotes and Disclosures:

1 - App Aware features are intended to make you aware of relatively new apps appearing in the Intuit QuickBooks App Center. App Aware features are significantly less detailed, researched or tested than a formal First Look feature. In a few cases, we write App Aware features for apps with limited or no user reviews. Our goal is always to make you aware of an app so you can decide if it is worth further investigation.

2 - OrderEase is the registered trade name for a B2B wholesale order management ecosystem held by OrderEase Inc., a privately-held corporation located in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

3 - Accounting Systems: In addition to QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop, OrderEase integrates with Acumatica, Blue Link, Infor CSD, Microsoft Dynamics GP, NetSuite, Sage 50 (Canada), Sage 300, Spire, Xero and Zoho Books.

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