The internet is a big place—and it keeps getting bigger. Apps, platforms, marketplaces, and digital solutions are launched on a daily basis. Consumer habits and expectations evolve. For ecommerce businesses, these changes pose enormous opportunity in the form of new sales channels, new audiences, and new ways to stand out from the competition.
But all this "new" can be a lot to keep up with. How do you ensure you have the best integrated marketplaces, tools, and services for your unique business needs?
Whether you're getting your own new startup off the ground, or have run an ecommerce business for a while and need that secret ingredient to bring your sales and customer experience to the next level, finding the right integrations can be a daunting task. To help you along your way, we've put together a handy list of the best ecommerce integrations you need.
Since its founding in 2000, Newegg has grown into a top online retail destination for tech lovers around the world. That's due in part to the third-party merchants who use the site to reach savvy computer hardware and consumer electronics shoppers. The company opened up its consumer marketplace to sellers several years ago, and just recently launched its business-to-business seller marketplace, NeweggBusiness, which offers bulk discounts and other pricing options to companies and public institutions.
Walmart is the world's largest retail company, and yet it only owns around 3% of ecommerce market share. To catch up with its rival, Amazon, the company is dedicating vast resources to its third-party marketplace—which, while still relatively small, saw a 60% increase in sales last year. An unsaturated marketplace backed by a retail giant with an aggressive growth strategy? Shrewd sellers recognize the potential here, and are expanding their ecommerce reach by integrating with Walmart.
Like parent company Walmart, Jet.com is a relative newcomer to the ecommerce industry with a lot to offer to merchants. Sure, the marketplace is currently about 2% the size of Amazon's, but it's growing much faster due to its deep discounts for members and marketplace-first approach. And while many sellers have shied away from Jet due to its lack of a sales interface, a multichannel partner like SellerActive can take care of API integration for you.
Every ecommerce business needs an accounting solution, and for our money, there's no better product on the market than QuickBooks. The venerated accounting software remains popular for its flexibility, scalability, affordability, and ease of use: regardless of the size of your business or the level of your accounting expertise, QuickBooks is almost always a top choice. Whether you prefer QuickBooks' Online or Desktop product, you can easily connect accounts and efficiently synchronize sales.
Affordable inventory management software is another must-have for ecommerce companies. SkuVault goes above and beyond with a bevy of sophisticated options and controls designed to save time and frustration when locating items, keeping an accurate count of inventory, organizing purchase orders, performing quality control, and more. Features include real-time multichannel synchronization, interactive wave picking, product kitting, and advanced inventory reporting.
No list of essential ecommerce integrations would be complete without a shipping solution, of course. One of our favorites is Desktop Shipper. This sophisticated—and affordable—cloud-based inventory management software offers gives you the ability to comparison shop between real-time carrier rates for a variety of shipping companies, including FedEx, USPS, UPS, DHL, and many more. You can instantly choose the cheapest option from all carriers, batch-print shipping labels, and automate time-consuming shipping activities right from inside the app. (By the way, every one of our customers gets a basic Desktop Shipper subscription when they sign on with SellerActive.)
SellerActive currently offers more than 25 ecommerce integrations with services across the retail lifecycle—from order management to fulfillment to accounting—and we're continually working on adding more to meet users' changing needs.
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