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Join 69 premium brands that have sold $3,500,000+ in wholesale via Shop Local

The Best Solution to Receive Wholesale Orders

69 premium brands use the service to receive wholesale orders from 1,502+ of America's leading stores.

  • 2x faster for a merchant to make a wholesale purchase.
  • Merchants buy more from brands via our platform.
  • More accurate for retailers and brands.
  • Get product to market quicker.
  • Set different price points for retailers and interior designers.
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Why Choose Our Wholesale Service?

Shop Local offers businesses an innovative solution to shop thousands of products. Our Wholesale service combines the best features from wholesale marketplaces and buying on a brand’s site into a new service.

2x Faster
Shop Local Wholesale reduces the number of steps required to place an order by 50%. Shop Local Wholesale takes just 3 clicks to place an order, while traditional orders take more than 7 clicks.
Businesses Hate to Log In
Since many retailers deal with more than 50 brands, they often are asked to deal with more than 50 logins and passwords to access brands’ websites. When they attempt to log in, they can’t remember the login. Shop Local Wholesale removes this hurdle. Since retailers log in to their own Shop Local account daily, they are already logged in and authenticated. They can simply click a link and start the wholesale ordering process.
Easier to Use and More Accurate
Wholesale marketplaces are often filled with thousands of products and require lots of searching. This creates opportunities for finding the wrong item. Fewer clicks mean fewer mistakes. Shop Local Wholesale helps a retailer purchase exactly what it wants.
More Convenient
Retailers can view past orders from many different brands on their own Shop Local account. For example, instead of visiting 10 brand sites to view past orders, the retailer can simply stay on its own account and view all 10 brands' orders.
Speed Products to Market
A retailer can purchase a product on a brand's Shop Local account and have it in its Shop Local Store instantly. This greatly shrinks the time it takes to get the product from the wholesaler's site (backdoor) to the retailer's site (front door). Shop Local refers to this door-to-door distribution space as ‘D2D.’ In the era of e-commerce, the goal is to shrink the D2D window.
Reduce Abandoned Shopping Carts
Most shoppers do not complete their purchase the first time they add an item to their cart. Shop Local Wholesale shows open shopping bags at the top of the retailer's own Shop Local account—thereby reminding it to checkout. Due to this, Shop Local Wholesale has a higher conversion rate for completing purchases.
Sell to Interior Designers
Many brands sell to interior designers at a price that is different than wholesale to retailers. Good news: Your Shop Local store allows your business to set wholesale pricing that is unique for interior designers. You can use one online store to service both retailers and interior designers for wholesale orders. Many other providers do not allow different wholesale prices or make doing so very cumbersome.
Quality Control: A Brand Matters
At a trade show, competitors aren’t showing their products in each other’s showrooms—why accept that compromise online? Other wholesale marketplaces often promote a competitor's products alongside a brand’s products. This is not ideal for the brand. The competitor's product may be cheaper or made in an inferior manner. Marketplace sites reduce a product to a commodity. Shop Local helps brands avoid these issues. With Shop Local, a brand receives a store in which retailers and clients see just their products. This is the equivalent of a retailer being in a brand’s showroom at a trade show. They can easily see, appreciate, understand, and shop from the brand’s line.
Save Money
There is no charge to retailers or reps to use the Wholesale Service. Brands pay for the wholesale service. Shop Local charges brands far less than other service providers. (Please see table below.)
Protect Our Industry
With over 10 years of experience in serving the retail industry, Bridge, the company that manages the Shop Local platform, is dedicated to helping retailers, brands, and reps 'bridge' the analog and digital worlds. We empower the members of our industry instead of cutting them out.

How Does Wholesale Work For a Brand?

1

We give your business a free account:

yourbrand.myshoplocal.com

View Live Example:
costanova.myshoplocal.com

2

You add your products to your account. If you're using Shop Local's Syncing service, your products are already ready for wholesale.

3

Start accepting wholesale orders: your authorized buyers (i.e. retailers) can start placing wholesale orders. Buyers that are not authorized can request it or you can invite them.

Great Brands Use Shop Local Wholesale

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Shop for Casafina by Costa Nova products
Shop for Mario Luca Giusti products

69 brands use the Shop Local Wholesale service:

Helping Brands & Stores Work More Efficiently

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A retailer is often stuck between its wholesale and retail software. Bridge connects these two software sides, thereby saving the retailer time and speeding product to market.

Industry Problem

Many retailers are stuck trying to connect their digital wholesale buying and their store’s website. A store may use wholesale software, including that from MarketTime, Juniper, Faire, Shop Local, etc., and the store needs to get that product into its front-facing, retail software, which may be powered by Bridge, Shopify, BigCommerce, etc. A retailer should be able to make a wholesale purchase and have it appear easily on the store's website, but that is not possible. Likewise, a retailer should be able to start on its website and initiate a wholesale purchase with a brand, but this is also not possible.

Industry Solution

Shop Local connects these wholesale and retail sides. Our software allows a store to place a wholesale order and display the items in its retail website. We also allow a store to start a wholesale re-order on its own website and complete it with the brand.

Example

For example, Laura, who owns a gift shop in Dallas, TX, can use Shop Local to buy dinnerware plates from Costa Nova, a Portuguese tableware brand, at wholesale on Costa Nova's Shop Local Store. The plates will appear instantly in Laura's consumer-facing Shop Local Store. Laura doesn’t need to ask the brand for pictures or data to manually load it to her website. This helps Laura sell the plates she bought more quickly, and helps Laura's customers see more products more quickly. When Laura wants to reorder the plates from Costa Nova, she can start on her Shop Local Store. She can see real-time stock from the brand, and click one button to start the reorder process. Shop Local’s Wholesale service requires 50% fewer steps by Laura than other services.

How the Service Helps Different Business Types

Your Brand

  • Low cost: pay a flat fee of $49/month per brand or a 2.9% commission.
  • Present your products for sale to retailers and interior designers.
  • Receive orders from your retailers and interior designers.
  • Discover new buyers for your products.
  • If you wish, use a unique domain name (for example: yourbrandshowroom.com).
  • Speed products to your retailer’s front-facing e-commerce site.
  • Better promote your products. Other wholesale services such as marketplaces promote your competitors' products alongside your products. This encourages your customers to purchase from competitors.
  • Use your product data in Shop Local Wholesale to grow your business in other areas. For example, a product in the wholesale service area can also power a gift registry and the Syncing service. Learn more about the services Shop Local offers brands.

Your Retailers

  • Cost: Free.
  • Shop for brands and products that they wish to buy.
  • Order from the brands.
  • Easily reorder items. Save and bookmark products.
  • Skip logging in. Shop Local allows them to seamlessly move from brand site to brand site without having to log in.
  • See all of their Shop Local orders on their account instead of having to visit many brands' sites or third-party marketplaces.
  • Instantly display products purchased at wholesale in their Store.

Your Sales Reps

  • Cost: Free.
  • Present products for sale to retailers.
  • Receive orders from retailers.
  • Discover new buyers for products.

Brand Experiences

Matt Hullfish
“Shop Local's Wholesale service is such a time saver for my stores. It’s easy.”

Matt Hullfish / Costa Nova / National Sales Manager

Retailer Experiences

"I absolutely love being able to order online with Shop Local Wholesale. The online process allows me the convenience of placing orders at any time of the day. Thanks to Shop Local's system, I make fewer mistakes entering SKUs. By reducing my phone call and email transmissions, Shop Local frees up valuable time." ~ Laura May / Owner / The Ivy House / Dallas, TX
“I have been using the Shop Local Wholesale ordering service for a couple of months. It is by far the easiest way to order from our suppliers. It cuts down on mistakes. I like that the images and item codes are right there to view. You know you are getting what was ordered. Time is money. Shop Local Wholesale ordering service saves you time.” ~ Martin Garding / Owner / Lawren's / Huntsville, AL
“I have a lot of bridal registries and need to place many wholesale orders from my brands. Shop Local makes it easier and quicker for me. Other services aren’t as easy. For example, when using my sales rep’s wholesale ordering website, their service makes it hard to locate the products I need to buy and checking out is very time consuming. Plus, my wholesale orders placed via Shop Local seem to be processed more quickly than orders placed via other services. I sell a tremendous amount and it is all because they are a part of the Shop Local platform.” ~ Tonya Parrish / Owner / Royal Gifts & Fine China

A Retailer Saves 7 Minutes Per Order & Reduces Steps by 50%

Not Using Shop Local vs. Using Shop Local

7 Steps: Not Using Shop Local
A Retailer’s Process with Bridge

A Retailer's Traditional Wholesale Ordering Process Without Shop Local:

  1. Retailer is on its website. On its store, retailer sees what it wishes to buy at wholesale.
  2. Retailer leaves its website: it opens another browser tab. It Googles the brand's website and searches for it.
  3. Once it finds the brand's website, it finds the wholesale area of the website.
  4. The retailer logs in in order to see wholesale pricing.
  5. The retailer searches for the item it wants to buy.
  6. On the search results page, it clicks the item.
  7. On the product details page, it adds the item quantity it wants. It proceeds to checkout.
Steps needed:
Time needed:
Accuracy:
7
10 minutes
Less than 100%
3 Steps: Using Shop Local
A Retailer’s Process with Bridge

A Retailer's Process with Shop Local:

  1. Retailer is on its Shop Local website. On its Shop Local Store, it sees what it wishes to buy at wholesale.
  2. Next to the product, the retailer clicks a “Buy at Wholesale” button. The retailer is taken to the item's purchasing page on the brand's Shop Local Store. The platform automatically logs the retailer in on the brand's Store.
  3. Retailer adds item quantity it wants and proceeds to checkout.
Steps needed:
Time needed:
Accuracy:
3
3 minutes
100%
7 Steps: Not Using Shop Local
3 Steps: Using Shop Local
A Retailer’s Process with Bridge
A Retailer’s Process with Bridge

A Retailer's Traditional Wholesale Ordering Process Without Shop Local:

A Retailer's Process with Shop Local:

  1. Retailer is on its website. On its store, retailer sees what it wishes to buy at wholesale.
  2. Retailer leaves its website: it opens another browser tab. It Googles the brand's website and searches for it.
  3. Once it finds the brand's website, it finds the wholesale area of the website.
  4. The retailer logs in in order to see wholesale pricing.
  5. The retailer searches for the item it wants to buy.
  6. On the search results page, it clicks the item.
  7. On the product details page, it adds the item quantity it wants. It proceeds to checkout.
  1. Retailer is on its Shop Local website. On its Shop Local Store, it sees what it wishes to buy at wholesale.
  2. Next to the product, the retailer clicks a “Buy at Wholesale” button. The retailer is taken to the item's purchasing page on the brand's Shop Local Store. The platform automatically logs the retailer in on the brand's Store.
  3. Retailer adds item quantity it wants and proceeds to checkout.
Steps needed:
Time needed:
Accuracy:
7
10 minutes
Less than 100%
Steps needed:
Time needed:
Accuracy:
3
3 minutes
100%

Save Money: Reduce Your Fees By 99% With A Flat Fee

For brands, Shop Local Wholesale costs less than other wholesale services. You can receive unlimited wholesale orders for: $49/month per brand. There is no charge for the service to retailers or other businesses that are buying.

Let’s compare a brand’s fees when using different wholesale software services:

Wholesale Service $2,000 in Orders $10,000 in Orders $30,000 in Orders
Shop Local Wholesale
Fee: $49/mo. for unlimited orders 		$49/mo. $49/mo. $49/mo.
Faire
Fee: 15% or more 		$300 in fees
Shop Local’s $49 flat fee saves you $251 (84%) per month
$1,500 in fees
Shop Local’s $49 flat fee saves you $1,451 (97%) per month
$4,500 in fees
Shop Local’s $49 flat fee saves you $4,451 (99%) per month

Please note: the above fees for third-party software are estimates and do not include promotional offers.

Custom Wholesale Websites

Rosenthal Showroom website
In addition to our Shop Local's Wholesale service, Shop Local also offers custom wholesale services for brands and distributors.

Featured Client:
Rosenthal USA, which distributes Rosenthal, Versace, Raynaud, and other fine brands, chose Shop Local to design and manage its U.S. wholesale site. The site is built on the Shop Local framework with custom features and design elements.

The site communicates with Rosenthal’s warehouse to receive real-time stock data, then shares this with logged-in users such as sales reps and retailers.

All the product data that Rosenthal manages on the site is displayed on authorized retailers’ accounts via the Syncing service. This helps Rosenthal save time and money in the management of data. It can change an item once, and that change will appear on its wholesale site as well as on hundreds of retailers’ Shop Local Stores.

You are invited to visit:
https://www.rosenthalshowroom.com

FAQ About Wholesale Service

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