Welcome to the last Shopify Meetup in Singapore for 2017 where we were joined by guest speakers from TradeGecko, iCommerce, StarShipIT, Xero, Vyne and Zahara.

1. Welcome to the
#ShopifyMeetup in Singapore

2. 17%
community
around Shopify
77%
use Shopify

3. Because this is a ‘meetup’...
● Look at the person beside you and say HI!
● Do they sell on Shopify?
● What industry are they in?

4. Agenda
7:10 pm - Namra Deka - Partner Manager, Shopify
7:15 pm - Tanaya Sharma - APAC Sales, TradeGecko
7:25 pm - Hazrul A. Jamari - Founder, iCommerce
7:35 pm - Hawk Steele - Partnerships, StarShipIT
7:40 pm - Shaun Burke - Head of Small Business Asia, Xero
7:45 pm - Ricky Jack - CEO, VYNE Digital

5. Agenda
7:50 pm - Fireside Q&A with Amira Geneid from Zahara
8:05 pm - Questions for our speakers
8:15 pm - More networking and drinks

8. Thank you to our sponsors

9. Tweet your questions to
#ShopifyMeetup

10. Tweet your questions to #ShopifyMeetup
TRIVIA TIME!

11. In which year was Shopify founded?
Tweet your questions to #ShopifyMeetup

12. Enable every commerce entrepreneur to
build the business of their dreams
Tanaya Sharma
Regional Sales Manager, APAC

13. How many of you have heard of
TradeGecko?

14. Cloud based inventory and order management software
for brands and distributors

15. Background on TradeGecko
15,000
Users
90
Countries
Preferred inventory
and order management
software by Shopify Plus

16. Here’s what we’ll cover today
A modern merchant’s
growth story
Challenges of a growing
business
Some Recommendations

17. A modern merchant’s
growth story

18. A modern merchant’s growth story
This is Carl. Founder of Crowded Elevator apparel
brand in NZ.
● Connections in fashion and retail industry
● Strong retail traction
● Consignment deals
● Stockists and wholesale deals

19. A modern merchant’s growth story
What Carl loved
● Designing t-shirts
● Building a brand
● Building customer and wholesale
relationships
What Carl ended up doing
● Master of 100s of spreadsheets
● Operations manager
● Real Estate costs
● Debt collector

20. What did he do after
going bankrupt?

21. Background on TradeGecko
Founded by Carl and brothers Cameron
and Bradley from New Zealand
Established in Singapore via the JFDI tech
incubator
Secured over USD $12M funding

22. Challenges of a growing business

23. Hundreds of brands told us
1. Growing your sales
2. Managing your cashflow

24. Hundreds of brands told us
1. Growing your sales
2. Managing your cashflow
Here’s what I’ll focus on today:

25. Why is managing cashflow such a huge problem
Created a sale Payment comes into
bank account
Purchase Order Comes into
warehouse
75
DAY
60
DAY
1
DAY
45
DAY

26. Why is managing cashflow such a huge problem
Created a sale Payment comes into
bank account
Purchase Order Comes into
warehouse
75
DAY
60
DAY
1
DAY
45
DAY
3+ months out of cash!

27. Inventory Warehouses Business Customers
Breaking down the CashFlow problem

28. How can you manage
Cash Flow better?

29. Manage your Inventory

30. Inventory Management
● Stock Forecasting
● Backordering arrangement
● Stocking right products
- Cut down non moving stock
- Understand why it’s not selling so you can fix it with right promotions, price correction,
quality management
- Stock best sellers
- Push high profitable products more
- Include holding costs into your calculations

31. Warehouse space

32. tradegecko.com
✔ Scales easily
✖ Expensive
✖ Difficult to control quality
✔ Low investment to start
✖ Difficult to scale
✔ Reduce time to ship
internationally
✖ Routing shipments is a
technological challenge
Outsourced to regional
3rd Party Logistics
providers
Pick, pack and ship items
in-house
Outsourced to a 3rd Party
Logistics provider
The way you ship needs to evolve as you grow

33. Warehouse Space
● Warehouse Rents
● 3PL Providers
○ Small - iCommerce, James & James
○ Mid Market - acommerce, SP ecommerce
● Dropshipping

34. Getting paid on time

35. Getting paid on time
● Manage credit terms
● Invoice financing programs
● Choose providers who get cash faster to your bank

36. How can TradeGecko help

37. TradeGecko is cloud based inventory
and order management software.
● All your business operations in one
place.
● Keep right amount of inventory
across locations
● Better backend Warehousing tools
and 3PL integrations
● Business Intelligence & Reporting
TradeGecko
That’s not all….

38. How TradeGecko complements Shopify
Keep track of stock
across different
locations, including
Shopify POS.
Create purchase orders,
stock takes, track costs
and view complete
finances.
Integrate and manage
multiple stores in
different currencies and
languages.

39. Your B2B Payment Gateway
● Say goodbye to lengthy bank transfers
● Get paid faster
Introducing TradeGecko Payments
With TradeGecko Payments,
half of the invoices are
paid in 1 business day.

40. Thank you

41. #ShopifyMeetup Singapore

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75. Ricky Jack, CEO, VYNE Digital

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81. Thank you for supporting
#ShopifyMeetup Singapore!