Enable every commerce entrepreneur to build the business of their dreams Partnership Manager of TradeGecko talking about cloud inventory management tools and operations as a marketing tool.

1. Enable every commerce entrepreneur to
build the business of their dreams
Akul Dewan
Partnerships Manager

2. The problem we solve

3. The problem we solve
Carl Thompson, co-founder and former CMO of
TradeGecko, founded Crowded Elevator fashion
label in 2009.
• Connections in fashion and retail industry
• Strong retail traction
• Stockists and wholesale deals
Two years later... he went bankrupt.

4. The problem we solve
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
● Debt collector

5. We now help businesses around the world
15,000
Users
90
Countries

6. The tool that helps
businesses grow

7. TradeGecko is cloud based inventory
and order management software.
● Manage all your business
operations in one place.
● Manage your growing business’
inventory and order handling
complexity.
● Integrate your online and offline
sales.
● Better backend warehousing and
purchasing tools.
TradeGecko

8. 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.

9. We enable growing merchants
Sell in batches with
support for expiry dates
Keep track of customer
assigned prices and tax
Integrate your B2B and
sell wholesale online

10. How can I make the move from
selling just offline to online?

11. Marketing LogisticsOperations
From selling offline to online

12. Marketing LogisticsOperations
From selling offline to online

13. Step 1: Move all your operations into
an online platform

14. Auditing is done end of year
and painfully difficult
Overselling / underselling
Stuck on old systems with no
paper trail
Communication between
teams and systems is difficult
The challenges of not using a dedicated system

15. Step 2: Work out how to ship at scale

16. Shipping B2C is very, very different
from B2B*
*order volume, order value, customer delivery time expectations

17. Handle shipping in
house or outsource*?
*or a combination of both.

18. tradegecko.com
✔ Scales easily
✖ Expensive
✖ Difficult to control quality
✔ Low investment to start
✖ Difficult to scale
✖ CAPEX vs OPEX
✔ 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
What stage of business are you?

19. Wholesalers either contract a 3PL or manage their own warehouse
Option 1: 3PL
● TradeGecko pushes orders to 3PL.
● 3PL returns tracking information and shipping costs once generated

20. Wholesalers either contract a 3PL or manage their own warehouse
Option 2: Own warehouse
● Integrate with Shipstation / StarShipIt / EasyShip (all ISVs) to generate shipping labels
● Shipping integration returns tracking information
● Generate pick slips and packing slips on TradeGecko to pack shipments

21. Step 3: Plug your eCommerce and
Marketplaces of choice into your
platform.

22. Step 4: ...Profit.

23. Your operations can be your
marketing tool?
Example: Amazon Prime

24. Thank you