Introducing Cactus on Demand
By Solid Cactus on Sun (5/11/08) in Featured Stories | 0 Comments
For the past decade I have seen more and more e-merchants reach the sad conclusion that their business—runs them. They have become slaves to the technology which should advance their company. They have learned that being a grandmaster at spreadsheets has nothing to do with their skill at choosing, marketing and selling the products which inspired their business. Well, we have put e-commerce operators back in the data driver’s seat.
Solid Cactus is delighted to introduce Cactus On Demand™ Order Management. This application was built with Yahoo! Stores in mind and integrates with them better than any other application on the market.
We have simplified the process of importing your Yahoo! Store(s) into the click of a button. You can add hundreds of products to your store and keep your focus on building sales. You can have your store products updated automatically on a nightly basis. As soon as you import for the first time, you’ll be ready to receive orders from Yahoo! and even take phone orders. This makes maintaining your Yahoo! Store independent of your fulfillment system.
A store owner’s goal is to sell merchandise and whatever distracts from that is essentially a hindrance. So our goal was to minimize integration times and maintenance issues. We started from one basic idea: Why not separate the data you need to sell an item from what you need to fulfill it?
Why should you have to populate information about every product you have when the top 20% of your products make up 80% of your sales? The answer is you shouldn’t. Why should you have to add every product to your store and order management system before you have even sold one? Again, you shouldn’t.
Cactus On Demand Order Management will need information about how to fill the order, which you can provide in two ways which are both on a “need to know” basis. The easiest way is to supply the fulfillment info once an order has been placed. The order will be held and you will be notified that information is needed for processing.
You can also choose to populate the fulfillment information in bulk at any time. Our data maintenance queue breaks out what items have missing information for you at all times. You will be able to see what information is needed to update the system.
In addition, we have made integration and maintenance the same process, with all the tools built into the interface. If you have 50,000 products and are doing 10 orders a day, you may want to populate the system as items are ordered. If you do a high volume, you may want to populate all your items first. You decide.
With the data maintenance queue you will never lose track of what items need to be set up for e-commerce fulfillment in Cactus On Demand Order Management. You can freely add products to Yahoo!, import them into Cactus on Demand and update as you go.
Cactus On Demand Order Management will also automate your order processing to get orders to the right fulfillment agency. The system will automatically charge credit cards and create output for each fulfillment agent, splitting an order into the appropriate parts for each agent. You can also maintain your inventory and purchase and handle customer notifications.
The system puts you back in control. You can change your pick tickets in simple HTML. If you want one employee to be the return address for backorder notices, you can. Review rules that can stop orders before processing are easy to set store by store.
You can choose to process orders immediately and receive the pick ticket as soon as the order is processed, or have them queue up until a scheduled time. You can also choose to batch your orders at any time. You have total control of when to fulfill your orders.
Cactus On Demand Order Management was built with e-merchants in mind. Our goal was to put you back in the driver’s seat and make order management easier. Isn’t it time your business stopped running you?
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