A great opportunity to sell more
Amazon UK is growing fast and has become a one-stop shopping centre for many customers. It is driving significant levels of revenue to small and large retailers. If you are a retailer and not selling on Amazon Marketplace, you are missing a great opportunity to increase your sales.
1 Amazon is the UK’s 2nd largest shopping site with tens of millions of people who shop there.
2 Amazon is convenient and trusted.
3 You can open a shop in this hugely successful shopping centre for a small monthly fee.
4 Amazon rewards retailers for delivering a high quality service and value for money, which are the same values held by most specialist independent retailers.
5 Tap into huge growth. Amazon has higher growth rates than eCommerce overall.
6 Amazon has a mobile platform that your products will be available on as well.
7 Build brand awareness. For small retailers Amazon is a great place to build your brand and increase customer visibility for your products. Amazon invests heavily in Google advertising meaning that customers searching on Google will be to find sellers products listed on Amazon easily. Often sellers start with their best selling and flagship products to build awareness and then add more products from there.
The challenge!
Sounds great… but it’s just too hard to do. Adding and managing all your items is too fiddly and time-consuming. Managing stock is almost impossible across the different channels. This means reduction in customer service, Amazon feedback ratings go down, so does your reputation and this results in fewer sales. What is needed is an easy way to list products, a central way to fulfill orders and a centralised stock control.
Imagine for a moment…
You sell your last item on Amazon. Your system then tells your website that the item is no longer in stock. Image a system that sends Amazon orders to sit alongside orders from your website and telephone. Effectively Amazon would just become part of your business, allowing you to deliver a first class service for your customers and boost your profits.
Introducing Amazon Connect, premium integration!
Intelligent Retail is the first company (that we know of) to allows retailers to simply Drag and Drop products to Amazon. There may be some extra tweaks depending on the products you sell but this is about as simple as it gets, and then you have the huge power of Amazon at your fingertips!
Connect offers a full end to end Amazon integration. This is not just a feed that other suppliers offer.
Sell more because you can easily send your products to Amazon.
Stock control will work alongside your other channels. Keeps it simple and manageable.
Orders from Amazon will come back to your Connect system.
This is a complete integration where there will usually not be a need to go to Amazon. Do it from Connect!
Why Amazon Connect is great for retailers…
Here are the many benefits of this exciting innovation
1 Connect manages your stock control for you, centrally. When your last item sells on your website, or in your shop, a message is sent to Amazon to let it know you are out of stock.
2 Send single or bulk products to Amazon direct from Connect. Generally there will be no need to log on into Amazon.
3 Connect will guide you through the most important product attributes depending on what you are listing.
4 Create templates to set default values when bulk listing new products.
5 Mass change product attributes.
6 Central image hosting across all channels, giving you lower costs and high consistency as well as ease of maintenance.
7 Central fulfillment. The Multichannel Fulfillment Centre brings together all of your orders for centralised Pick, Pack and Dispatch. Means you have an ultra efficient system for fulfilling your orders no matter where they come from. When you dispatch an item, Connect automatically updates Amazon for you.
8 Central reporting. See where your profits are coming from as well as trends, fast and slow movers. You can report centrally across all channels or individually on Amazon.
9 Add in enhanced product information to help increase visibility. Includes advanced options like ‘Search Terms’, ‘Bullet Points’ and ‘Platinum Terms’.
10 From within Connect, central discount schemes can be applied across all channels for speed and simplicity, or across individual channels and individual products.
11 Central reordering. Combines sales analysis from what you sell on Amazon alongside other channels. Connect presents recommended items in your orders based on what you have sold. Or create a new order using the product catalogue in Connect.
12 Central finances. All your VAT information in one place can save a lot of money on bookkeeping and accounting. Optional integration with Sage if required. So, with Amazon Connect you can deliver higher levels of customer service because you have central stock control. This means that customers will give you great feedback and your business will become even more attractive to new customers. Amazon Connect is massively time saving as you will be efficiently running multiple sales channels, reducing time spent on day to day tasks. This allows you to concentrate more time on growing your business.
What you will need to get started
1. A Connect Multichannel System enabled with the Amazon Tab. Please contact us for details.
2. An Amazon account that you can set up.
Note: A barcode is usually used to tell Amazon which product you are sending them. Amazon does not allow certain categories (Books and Media at time of writing) to be sold via this type of partner connection. Please refer to your Amazon agreement for more details.
Product Code: 124
Price: £270+VAT + A monthly fee of £39+ VAT