Building Your Successful B2B Store on Shopify: A Comprehensive Guide

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December 11 2019: Walmart and Flipkart today announced a joint investment in Ninjacart, the agri-tech startup with business-to-business (B2B) supply chain infrastructure and technology solutions.

‘Best Price’, the B2B e-commerce platform of Walmart India and ‘Supermart’, the online grocery business of Flipkart can now have access to Ninjacart's direct sourcing of fresh produce, while start-up plans to go for new cities.

Developing Flipkart Supermart over the past year, we have focused on creating the right infrastructure, supporting local farmers, producers and food processors, and building sustainability into the ecosystem, all while creating thousands of new jobs and bringing quality, convenience and value to consumers.

In Ninjacart, we see a company that shares our values, our pioneering mindset and our commitment to tech-driven innovation that improves life in India.”

Founded in 2015, Ninjacart moves over 1,400 tons of fresh produce every day through its paperless supply chain that connects 44,000 farmers and 60,000 kirana stores and restaurants in seven cities with more than 200 collection centres and 1,200 warehouses.

“Ninjacart provides 100% traceability along the supply chain and has slashed food wastage to less than 1%, compared to 35% in traditional supply chains.

In the last few ears, e-commerce has become one of the most preferred means of shopping. Be it B2C or B2B, customers have been spoilt for choice, price comparisons and delivery of products at their doorstep.

E-commerce has revolutionized the sales for small and medium enterprises. With geographical location not being an issue anymore, sales have seen an upward swing in the last couple of years, thanks to e-commerce.

Just like that, online shopping has now become more quick, convenient and more user-friendly.

If you are an SME and wondering if B2B e-commerce is the right way for you, there are a few things you need to consider:

Financial implications- Do you have what it takes to provide your customers with an end to end online shopping experience.

Skilled IT Personnel team- To run an online store, you need a team of IT personnel to keep it up and running.

Operation architecture- Decide on your operating model architecture. From where you would source, store and sell your products. The operational structure is the foundation for the success of your e-store.

Risk-taker- Even if your e-store has the right products, product content, and in enriched with SEO keywords, it will still take time for a complete turnaround. So don’t lose hope. You may have to wait it out.

Management/board support- Without the collaborative effort from each member of your team, no store or e-store can be successful. If even one member does not comply with your thought and ideas related to e-store investment, you may have a problem brewing there for the future.

Legal assistance- Make sure you hire a lawyer to draft your sales policies and partnership policies if any. You do not want future customers dragging you to court for a faulty product or service.

Technology research to stay updated- Make sure you have done enough research product-wise and technology-wise in the market. You do not want to be out-dated as soon as you launch. Being up-to-date is key in managing a successful e-store.

Physical Infrastructure-Make is sure you have the physical infrastructure needed to run an e-store. You will still need an office space for your small member teams to operate from or even a warehouse to store your products.

Government rules & policies- Every country has s different policy towards managing their internet access and online sales. Make sure you adhere to the rules and regulations put out by the government.

Choosing the right e-commerce solutions- Though this may sound like the most important of the 10 step checklist, this is the most taken-for-granted point by many start-ups.

• Make sure you have an inbuilt software algorithm to map customer behavior. This will help you understand consumer behavior better. Recording the purchase journey of every customer will give you unfiltered access to insights that can be used for making future strategic decisions.
• Categorization of products, creation of promotional email, targeted email campaigns, etc., should be carried out seasonally. Make sure the solution’s architecture supports this.
• Some products’ demands may peak during certain times of the year. The solution you opt for should be able to handle these sudden demands.
• The solution should be scalable enough to increase production numbers or be open to any upgrades in the years to come.
• Make sure your solution provides a seamless buying experience for your customers. Given that B2C is now taking precedence and making a benchmark in online shopping, make sure the B2B shopping experience you provide is close enough to a B2C seasoning and sophistication.

Yes, there are many benefits to choosing the B2B e-commerce way.

Such as,

Low operating budget- Running an e-commerce store is much more financially viable compared to running a brick and mortar store. Consider the expenditure you would be shedding for the physical store itself, along with the sales force and operating cost.

Having an e-store, you only need small office space, with the right technical people to run the show.

Increased ROI- With the absence of geographical limitations, the revenue you are bound to generate from an e-store is no comparison to a brick and mortar store.

You can capture new audiences every day with written feedback from your old and happy customers. With e-store functioning 24/7, you are open to different times zones and holidays all year long.

Social media Recommendation-With the boom of social media, customers happy with your product and service talk about their experience in social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Instagram and more.

This is an added advantage against the biggies in the industry, who usually do not have their customer recommendations working for them.

Learning consumer behavior- In a mom & pop shop, small businesses are forced to assume and speculate over the purchase journey of a customer. With no fixed data to support his findings, he hovers around pre-conceived notions usually from big players in the same industry.

Having an e-store, with the right software algorithm in-built, help you understand consumer behavior. How much time a specific consumer spends on a product, what he reads, which page he goes to, how much time he spends on a page, so on and so forth.

The insights are extensive and prove beneficial in making strategic choices for the future.

Larger marketing ROI- After saving so much cost, all that money can be diverted to marketing your e-store. Advertising worldwide, online or offline, you can drive customers to your e-store.

You can also create targeted marketing messages to specific customers, based on their behavioral data collected by your e-store whilst they were browsing through their purchase journey.

There are so many reasons pointing towards e-commerce being the next big idea you are going to work on for your SME’s lifecycle.

Make sure you hire a consultant who can help you lead the way.

For more queries and a free consult, Get in touch with us, Altius Technologies

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Chicago-based CloudCraze is a B2B digital commerce platform built on Salesforce’s Force.com platform.It aims to transform the way businesses buy and sell products and services to each other by making experiences digital, personalized, and consumer-like — anytime, anywhere, on any device, with or without a salesperson participating in the process.CloudCraze and Salesforce, Better Together?Technology analyst firm Gartner named CloudCraze a “visionary” in Digital Commerce in its Magic Quadrant report, April 2017.The report spotlights CloudCraze’s “depth of B2B functionality,” its “single view of a `customer via native Salesforce integration,” and the speed at which buyers can go from contract to a live site.In the same report, Salesforce’s Commerce Cloud was noted for its “limited B2B capability,” specifically in areas like supporting “complex product and organizational hierarchies, role-based purchasing, contract, and purchase-order-based purchasing and workflows.”Gartner recommended that “companies with robust B2B requirements should evaluate other (non-Salesforce) commerce platforms with broader functionality” and that “Salesforce customers evaluate the solutions available on Force.com.”Why CloudCraze?

Why Now?For years, Salesforce has been extending the boundaries of what CRM is.From its inception, the vendor has been talking about Salesforce automation; since then, it has expanded into customer service, marketing, analytics, and even e-commerce.But even with all of the organic and inorganic growth, there were still holes in this larger CRM canvas, namely B2B e-commerce.You’ll notice we added the caveat of B2B in front of e-commerce.That is because of the fundamentally different space than the B2C space, which Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware) occupies; to start, there are customer-specific catalogs and pricing, a wide array of relationships on the both buy and sell sides, and you’re operating across a multitude of complicated and sometimes conflicting channels.Benefits of the CloudCraze Acquisition:1) It’s a software category with a better future.

Global business-to-business e-commerce sales are anticipated to exceed $6.6 trillion by 2020, surpassing B2C, which will be valued at $3.2 trillion.This obtainment allows Salesforce to tap into this growing market.2) Now companies can purchase the full CRM portfolio from a single vendor.This move increases the strategic role of Salesforce within companies that rely on technology vendors to help shape their vision and offerings for different customer experiences.3) Salesforce lets you stay close to your customers.

By far, this is the most important part.

Salesforce brands itself as a “customer company.”With CloudCraze, Salesforce customers can start tracking all interactions and transactions with their B2B customers.This increases the knowledge and experience of individual customer buying behaviors, which can be used for better targeting and much more effective long-term personal engagement.On-target personal interactions that integrate value to the customer ultimately translate to customer retention, increased lifetime value, and advocacy — which all have an impact on top-line revenue.What CloudCraze brings to SalesforceCloudCraze caters to businesses with discount structures and complex prize books, from manufacturing in the industry to chemical distribution.How these businesses split their inventory, the order volume they handle, the way they give a price to specific customer contracts, or their support for subscription payments or different types of payments — all of this is beyond the scope of a retail commerce platform.Similarly, CloudCraze wasn’t engineered for the highly merchandized, highly promotional product sets that Demandware exceeds at.Bringing those consumer-world approaches into B2B e-commerce will help companies reduce their costs, find new customers, or bring new products to market.It’s early in the game, but these B2B companies are positioning B2C tactics where they make sense and are seeing big returns.Equally important is integration to the rest of the Salesforce portfolio.

Digital commerce can extend the self-service functionality of a Service Cloud, for example.There’s also a natural fit with the configure-price-quote (CPQ) capabilities of the Salesforce Quote-to-Cash product, which CloudCraze started using even before its acquisition by Salesforce in late 2015.This will continue to be a big focus now that CloudCraze is part of Salesforce, Grady confirms.If you look at the bigger product conversations happening in Salesforce today, we’re probably spending as much time talking about CPQ and commerce B2B, as about B2B and B2C commerce together.Reasons Why We Use and Recommend SalesforceIt’s a CRM.

In this system, an online platform is set up where buyers & sellers come together to trade goods and services.

Google Shopping and Amazon Supply are contributing significantly in this marketplace.Increasing communication facilities worldwide are the key driving forces behind the B2B e-commerce market growth.

These options can be customized as per client’s requirements pertaining to the budget, size of the firm, and specific requirement.Increasing cases of online frauds and lack of security are the biggest threats to the industry.

Electronic data interchange, Enterprise resource planning, Customer Relationship Management are the further instigating market growth.Request Sample Copy of This Market Research @https://www.millioninsights.com/industry-reports/business-to-business-b2b-e-commerce-market/request-sampleDeployment Model Insights:The B2B e-commerce market can be classified by using deployment model in to three types, buyer-oriented, supplier-oriented and intermediary-oriented e-commerce.

For instance Covisint is an automotive trade intermediary formed by Daimler-Chrysler group, General Motors, and Ford.Enterprise Insights:B2B e-commerce is rapidly changing the business pattern worldwide and helping many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as large firms in their businesses.

Increasing technological advancements is incessantly helping in cost reduction and speeder transaction, owing to which the B2B e-commerce market is expected to grow over the forecast period.In addition, SMEs has reduced resources as well as time through the online & offline transaction.

Our B2B E-commerce Software  includes AN in-build discussion type, therefore it helps individuals will act simply through everywhere the world and additionally they will communicate with marketplace trend, trade show, and different vital info for B2B markets .This B2B Marketplace script support unlimited classes and unlimited product.The options of our get and Sell PHP Script includes Product management, Order management, success story, trade show, Newsletter, CMS management, feedback management, Member management, Enquires, company management, shopping for and commerce lead management , cart possibility, browse and list product by all the class and additional on.

Our script is developed in PHP and MySQL .This B2B Marketplace Script are often custom in step with the client’s necessities and business goals.We offer the various style of revenue models like Google advertising, Premium Posting, Banner advertising, Affiliate ads and additional on .This B2B E-commerce code is easy and SEO friendly and our script have flexibility to manage SEO information like title, keyword, description etc, for every product and class.

uct and class.In our Alibaba Clone Script  Consists of the many classes like Mobile, Automobile repair service, Business & audit services, Books & stationary, improvement services, Education & coaching, Transportation & supply, Technical product and additional on.

So  Buy and Sell PHP Script  that sellers will select the class and that they will post their product with image, price, description, and options with the individual manner.

so sellers will get leads simply, facilitate organization can improve their practicality and growth .

Admin will simply handle and manage the class detail, membership arrange detail, enquiry detail, featured product detail, general setting and additional on.

The B2B is infarct twice as large and while both are built on top of the same set of technologies, require entirely different strategies to master.

What we are trying to focus here are the key areas of those changes and how you can use them to your advantage:

The B2B space has traditionally been dominated by middle-aged men with established businesses.

To accommodate this new legion of diversified client B2B eCommerce platforms need to make some changes to their core structure.

They don’t really work from office desks and thus need all the information while on the move- on notebooks, tables, or mobiles.

Now if we combine the above two factors we draw a clear picture of the current landscape.