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The Best Solution to Place Wholesale Orders

1,425 retailers use our service to place wholesale orders from 82 of America's leading brands.

2x faster for your business to buy.
More accurate.
Get your product to market quicker. Speed up sell through and reorders.
Make tracking orders easier.
Make placing reorders easier.
Interior designers can also use the service to place orders.
$3,500,000+ sold for brands.

Helping Brands & Stores Work More Efficiently

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

Industry Problem

Many retailers struggle to connect their digital wholesale buying and their store’s website.
A store may order at wholesale from a variety of providers, including that from MarketTime, Faire, etc. The store needs to get that product into its front-facing, retail software, which may be powered by Shop Local, 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 often not possible.

Industry Solution

Shop Local connects the wholesale and retail sides.
We allow a store to start a wholesale reorder on its own website and complete it with the brand.

Example

Susan, 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.
The plates will appear instantly in Susan's consumer-facing Shop Local Store. Susan doesn’t need to ask the brand for pictures or data to manually load it to her website. This helps Susan sell the plates she bought more quickly, and helps Susan's customers see more products more quickly.
When Susan 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 Susan than other services.

82 Great Brands Use Shop Local Wholesale

82 brands use Shop Local's Wholesale service:

8 Reasons Your Business Benefits

A merchant's Shop Local Store displaying a Costa Nova item. When the merchant is logged in, it sees a "Place Wholesale Order" button for the product.

Curated Shopping
While other marketplaces overwhelm you with too many brands and products, Shop Local just shows you the products you want.

When you visit a brand's Shop Local Store, you just see the brand's products.

A merchant's Shop Local Store displaying an item. When the merchant is logged in, it sees a "Place Wholesale Order" button on the page and can start a wholesale order.

70% Faster Ordering
When you're logged in to your Shop Local Online Store, each of the products displays a "Start Wholesale Order" button. This gives you one-click order access to the brand.

This reduces your time required to place an order by 70%. Other services may take 10 minutes to place an order, while ours takes just 3 minutes.

Fewer clicks = Faster for you.

A merchant's Shop Local Online Store. When a merchant starts a wholesale order, their Store will display a wholesale shopping bag for that pending purchase at the top of their Store.

Pick Up Where You Left Off
When you start a wholesale checkout but don't complete it, we show your shopping bag with your products at the top of your Shop Local account. This makes it easy to complete the purchase when you want.

A merchant's Costa Nova retail order in their Online Store. The merchant's receipt displays a wholesale ordering button that can initiate a Costa Nova wholesale order. This ensures the retailer orders exactly what it needs.

More Accurate
You can more easily purchase exactly what you want.

A merchant's product details page. The merchant can see their past wholesale orders, and has one-click access to place a reorder.

Easy Reorders
When you're logged in to your Shop Local Store, you'll see your past orders with the brand for the item you're viewing. There's a reorder button next to the existing orders to start a new order.

An interior designer logged in to a brand's Shop Local store and approved to make wholesale purchases. The interior designer sees interior designer wholesale pricing.

Are You an Interior Designer?
You can view interior designer wholesale pricing and place wholesale orders.

Skip Logging In
Once you're in your account, you can simply click a purchase button and start the wholesale ordering process on a brand's Store.

Speed Products to Market
You can purchase a product on Shop Local and have it in your Shop Local Store instantly.

How Can My Store Join?

Your business opens an account. You'll access your account via your custom URL, which may resembles this:

yourstore.myshoplocal.com

View Live Example:
royalgifts.myshoplocal.com

You find the brand you wish to shop for and request wholesale access.

You place your wholesale order.

Retailer Experiences

"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

“Shop Local Wholesale is by far the easiest way to order from our suppliers. It cuts down on mistakes. 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.” ~ Tonya Parrish / Owner / Royal Gifts & Fine China

A Retailer Saves 7 Minutes Per Order & Reduces Labor Costs by 70%

Not Using Shop Local vs. Using Shop Local

Faire, MarketTime, and other wholesale services

10 minutes
to place order

7 Steps: Not Using Shop Local

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

Retailer is on its website. On its store, retailer sees what it wishes to buy at wholesale.
Retailer leaves its website: it opens another browser tab. It Googles the brand's website and searches for it.
Once it finds the brand's website, it finds the wholesale area of the website.
The retailer logs in in order to see wholesale pricing.
The retailer searches for the item it wants to buy.
On the search results page, it clicks the item.
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%

Shop Local

Requires
70% Less
Labor

3 minutes
to place order

3 Steps: Using Shop Local

A Retailer's Process with Shop Local:

Retailer is on its Shop Local website. On its Shop Local Store, it sees what it wishes to buy at wholesale.
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.
Retailer adds item quantity it wants and proceeds to checkout.

Steps needed:
Time needed:
Accuracy:

3
3 minutes
100%