Most merchants are familiar with the SaaS concept, but a new emerging model is proving to be even more vital to enterprise businesses; Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). [...]

Headless Shopify is becoming an increasingly popular technology solution for retailers as the ecommerce landscape evolves, which makes sense as we look at the culmination of new [...]

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a powerful program that lets businesses of all sizes easily build an ecommerce presence on the Amazon platform. However, as you grow [...]

With the rise of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, augmented reality, and blockchain, the ecommerce world has seen many advancements in recent years. [...]

The new Flxpoint API v2 makes it easier than ever to integrate into the Flxpoint platform. Users and integrating partners can now build better and faster integrations [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In this episode of the Modern Merchant Podcast, we are excited to welcome [...]

Did you know that 38% of online shoppers will abandon their order if they won't receive their item within a week? 24% of shoppers report abandoning a [...]

Read on to see all of the latest Flxpoint app updates and feature releases for the month of April. Listing Creation Process Improvement We have added the [...]

Each day, ecommerce retailers execute hundreds, if not thousands, of small-scale tasks that take between two and five minutes. Completing these tasks doesn't seem like a significant [...]

What do today's most successful ecommerce retailers have in common? They have clearly defined accurate and efficient ecommerce order fulfillment processes. It doesn't matter if you have [...]

Summary View our roundtable with Flxpoint CEO and CTO, Travis Mariea and Matt Myers, accompanied by SKULabs Head of Product, Brent McAhren, as we discuss the dilemma [...]

According to the National Retail Federations Security Survey, the retail industry lost over $61 billion to shrinkage in 2020. While theft is a significant contributor, many of [...]

Read on to see all of the latest Flxpoint app updates and feature releases for the month of March. Auto-Create Listings We have added a new feature [...]

As an ecommerce business owner, your goal is to scale your business—whether you're B2B, B2C, or D2C. However, as your operation grows, more processes are put into [...]

We are excited to introduce Flxpoint’s newest integration, WooCommerce as a Source! Now you can connect to a WooCommerce store and pull in products and inventory, push [...]

Read on to see all of the latest Flxpoint app updates and feature releases for the month of February. Source Wizard Set Up We enhanced source creation [...]

Product data management (PDM) is an extensive field with many branches. While there is a lot of misinformation about how hard PDM is to implement and who [...]

Today, three-in-ten U.S. adults report owning a gun. An additional 36% say that while they don’t own one now, they might consider purchasing a firearm in the [...]

Table of Contents Questions to Ask When Deciding Whether to Build vs. Buy The Build vs. Buy Dilemma Decision Framework What to Consider Before Building or Buying [...]

Flxpoint’s Source Wizard is a new in-app setup assistant making it easier for Flxpoint users to set up a new fulfillment or data source. Source Wizard streamlines [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In this episode of the Modern Merchant Podcast, we are excited to welcome [...]

Flxpoint is on a mission to build the fastest, most flexible retail operations platform available, period. And that mission continues with our latest product builder improvements. Flxpoint [...]

With our new Amazon (FBA) integration, our users will now be able to utilize their FBA warehouse(s) and inventory as a source in their Flxpoint account. Having [...]

On March 1, 2022, our pricing plans will be changing. This change will reflect better plan options for our Flxpoint users and their needs. The price increase [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In this episode of the Modern Merchant Podcast, we are excited to welcome [...]

In 2021, orders placed on multi-vendor marketplace platforms dominated over 25% of global online shopping orders. Soon, retailers that fail to take marketplaces seriously may find themselves [...]

Ecommerce sales account for 18% of all global retail sales; in 2023, analysts expect this figure to reach 22%. With more competition, retail companies are altering their selling [...]

We are excited to announce that we have added two new product listing fields to the Flxpoint app - Estimated Profit and Estimated Profit w/ Fees! Our [...]

In 2022, US ecommerce spendings are predicted to reach $1 trillion.  Yes, you read that right—$ 1 trillion. Ecommerce is booming, so business owners across the globe [...]

In today’s world, where consumers can get just about anything in a few clicks, it’s more important than ever for retailers to meet customer demands for faster [...]

Did you know that today's retailers lose nearly $460 billion annually due to out-of-stocks? This is a troubling issue, considering stockouts lead to loss of revenue and [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In this episode of the Modern Merchant Podcast, we are excited to welcome [...]

There’s a reason that Shopify has nearly 29% of the total ecommerce market share. It’s affordable, user-friendly, and comes with built-in marketing tools. It also has a [...]

Today, most ecommerce platforms offer built-in product import and export tools. However, these solutions are far from being omnipotent and may not jive with your current business [...]

The traditional purchase order process is rife with costly errors. Are you searching for a purchase order template, hoping it will help you streamline your process? The [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In this episode of the Modern Merchant Podcast, we are excited to welcome [...]

Each day, massive ships move thousands of tons of bulk cargo around the world. These huge ships can transport up to 400,000 metric tons of deadweight and [...]

For the first time ever, digital revenue is expected to surpass the $200-billion mark between November and December in 2021. That’s up from $192.19 billion during the [...]

Ecommerce is growing, and that’s a fact. In the first half of 2021, ecommerce sales hit $408.51 billion, up 21.9% from $335.15 billion in the first two [...]

US shoppers have shown a renewed interest in spending money on electronics, jewelry, and clothes in recent months. And because of this, retail analysts are expecting this [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In this episode of the Modern Merchant Podcast, we are excited to welcome [...]

When holiday shopping, 70% of online shoppers will actively seek coupons and promotions. 45% consider discounts as one of the most important factors when deciding where to [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher We are excited to welcome Rick Watson with RMW Commerce Consulting to the [...]

Consumers are expected to spend $800 billion this holiday season, and retailers everywhere seek opportunities to benefit from this splurging.  Expanding product lines is a critical part [...]

Summary Are you ready to execute on your biggest Black Friday and Cyber Monday ever? With online sales skyrocketing due to the global pandemic and digital retail [...]

The holidays are quickly approaching. Whether you’re ready or not, shoppers are curating their wish lists and preparing to uncover the best deals online. Black Friday and [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher Welcome Drew with PCR to the Modern Merchant Podcast! Whether you’re a legacy [...]

Black Friday online sales hit $9.03 billion last year—a 21.6% increase over 2019—making it the second-largest online spending day in U.S. history behind Cyber Monday 2020. The [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher We are happy to have Mike with Essendant, a distributor partner of ours, [...]

Each year, businesses lose $1.75 trillion due to mismanagement of inventory—and the risk of inventory mistakes increases as companies expand by adopting multichannel listings. There are endless [...]

The consequences of poor inventory management can be devastating, such as missed sales, increased costs, and annoyed customers who end up taking their business elsewhere. Using the [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher We are happy to have ShipEngine, a partner of ours, on the Modern [...]

Executing a successful supply chain management strategy complete with safety stock calculations is a complex endeavor. It requires combining processes, people, and technology to get the correct [...]

Supply chains and consumer demand are fluctuating more rapidly than ever before.  With the right sales and inventory data at your fingertips, you can create models that [...]

If you’re in this business, you know that optimizing and managing inventory is one of the most time-consuming and daunting tasks you have to face.  But you [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In today's episode of the Modern Merchant Podcast, we are joined by Jay [...]

Just-in-time inventory management is a technique that's not for the faint of heart. However, when implemented successfully, it can greatly improve your organization’s efficiency. We are going [...]

Mastering stock replenishment can be challenging, especially if you’re manually tracking products as they move along the supply chain via spreadsheets—or worse, paper trails!  Thanks to our [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In today’s episode, Travis and Austin chat with Kim Wren from SkuVault about [...]

Each year, retailers worldwide lose a monstrous $1.75 trillion due to the cost of out-of-stocks, overstocks, and excessive returns. Inventory management plays a vital role in the […]

Summary Every successful ecommerce journey begins with questions. Check out our recent "Ask Me Anything" webinar with Flxpoint's CEO Travis Mariea. During the previously live webinar, Travis [...]

With the global nature of ecommerce, there’s significant emphasis on inventory management at every phase of the supply chain process. Making the wrong decisions when it comes [...]

Only 18% of small- and medium-sized businesses utilize inventory management techniques and systems, yet these are the foundation of a well-functioning retail business. To succeed as a [...]

If you’re a mixed-model retailer who dropships in addition to maintaining internal inventory, you know that inventory management is one of the hardest things to accomplish. This [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In today's episode, we have on special guest Frank Trice from Educators Resource [...]

As a Certified BigCommerce Partner, we’ve thoroughly tested our app to ensure effortless integration with BigCommerce. Our QA and development team has been hard at work making [...]

Retailers often overpay as much as $120 to $150 per purchase order due to preventable issues, such as fixing inventory errors, tracking down missing paperwork, incorrect pricing, [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher Today, we are joined by our good friend Aaron Rubin, CEO of ShipHero, [...]

When selling online, it’s common to pursue a top channel (like Amazon), but as your business grows, it’s wise to diversity across multiple platforms and marketplaces. Diversifying [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In today's episode, we will be discussing why dropshipping can be viewed negatively [...]

You can’t truly automate your dropship fulfillment workflows without intelligent rule-based order routing. If you’re not routing orders through automation, you’re missing out on robust routing capabilities [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In today's episode we will be going over how the ecommerce world has [...]

It’s hard to imagine an efficient dropshipping order process or system that doesn’t rely on either EDI, API, or both. Based on today’s consumer expectations for fast [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher Is the distributor dead? In this episode we will be going over how [...]

If your store or marketplace account only contains a few products, it’s possible to keep up with your supplier’s inventory manually. However, when you have an expanded [...]

One of the things that makes dropshipping so attractive is that you don’t have to handle shipping once a customer places an order. However, you’re still responsible [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher A modern merchant is a retailer, distributor, or brand that believes in a [...]

Table of Contents Automating "Wholesale Dropshipping" How Not to Dropship The TL;DR The 7 Stages of True Dropship Automation Explained Semi-Automated Email Order Routing Inventory Syncing API/EDI [...]

We update Flxpoint almost weekly with new feature releases and performance improvements.  — What We’ve Been Up To Let’s go over what we have completed so far [...]

A modern merchant is a retailer, distributor, or brand that believes in a flexible and agile supply chain paired with a diversified multi-channel sales strategy.  A modern [...]

Flxpoint has partnered with ShipEngine to offer new in-app features, including integrated shipping label generation and the ability to download and send or print shipping labels directly [...]

As your ecommerce business grows and evolves, your inventory tracking methods need to grow and evolve, as well. Logistical tasks that were initially the responsibility of a [...]

Flxpoint users can now integrate with SKULabs, a powerful warehouse management system. SKULabs is a solution for merchants who track inventory across multiple warehouses or need to [...]

Flxpoint has added new features and improved existing ones. Keep scrolling to learn more! Vendor Portal Improvements Upload inventory/products, upload shipments, upload invoices Why is this important? [...]

Summary Flxpoint CEO, Travis Mariea, joins ShipHero's We're Just Human series to discuss different topics on dropshipping and how the Flxpoint software can help ecommerce businesses connect [...]

Flxpoint users can now integrate with Miva, a flexible, adaptable, and completely customizable ecommerce platform and shopping cart software. Unlike many other ecommerce platforms, Miva is not [...]

According to a recent GfK study, 54% of consumers say they shop around to find the best value versus remaining loyal to one brand.  Now more than [...]

As your business grows, so does your tech stack. That’s why it’s essential to implement software that seamlessly integrates with your existing solutions. Flxpoint’s latest integration is [...]

Summary In this webinar, Austin Rose, Head of Business Development, will guide you into our Wholesaler Guide where you will learn how you can begin, grow and [...]

Tomorrow, we’re excited to roll out a new Flxpoint user interface that features a modern look with updated icons, fonts, and colors. However, the changes we're implementing [...]

Flxpoint now integrates with ShippingEasy, a leading shipping software solution for ecommerce retailers, to help you ship as effortlessly as you list. Resellers utilizing the ShippingEasy integration [...]

Flxpoint's latest offering is a payment processor integration with Square Payments, which lets our users automatically process payments inside our app. Customers utilizing Flxpoint's dealer portal and other [...]

Summary Travis Mariea, CEO of Flxpoint, takes you on a deep dive into the world of ecommerce product data feeds, with a special focus on dropship, and [...]

We have added two new especially useful reports in Flxpoint - the Product Performance Report and the Supplier Fulfillment Report. The Product Performance Report allows you to [...]

One of our latest feature additions to the Flxpoint platform is Transfer Orders. Transfer Orders allow our users the ability to consolidate multiple dropship orders and place [...]

We have recently released a couple of new features within the Flxpoint tool with one being Committed Stock. Committed Stock is the closest you can get to [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher EP 4: In this episode of the Modern Merchant Podcast, Sex Toy Club [...]

Table of Contents Distributed Order Management Overview Distributed Order Management vs. Traditional Order Management Challenges of Implementing Distributed Order Management Components & Benefits of Distributed Order Management [...]

Since about 80% of Americans do online shopping regularly, ecommerce businesses have a lot of opportunities to make sales. No matter who your target audience is, reaching [...]

Summary Travis Mariea, CEO of Flxpoint, and Nicholas Daniel-Richards, founder of Shiphero, joins us for this webinar, which will is a live demo and tactical guide to [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher EP 3: Travis Mariea and Matt Myers, CEO and CTO of Flxpoint respectively, [...]

Summary Retail has changed and your supply chain and fulfillment strategy has likely gone from “working” to inefficient, costly, or maybe even broken. However, executing on a [...]

Summary For years, retail has been on a path of digital disruption which is being accelerated in the wake of the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic. Brands, distributors, and [...]

Summary Retailers and Suppliers face a dizzying amount of software choices when it comes to managing their ecommerce business. It becomes even more complex when trying to [...]

One of our latest feature releases we have added to Flxpoint is Kitting & Bundling! With our latest addition of Kitting & Bundling, you can now combine [...]

We are excited to announce the addition of our first accounting integration for Flxpoint - Quickbooks Online! With Flxpoint, you can integrate your sales channels and send [...]

We have recently released one of the latest Flxpoint features, Rate Shopping. With this tool, you will be able to retrieve estimated shipping rates via an external [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher EP 2: Gil Bar-Lev joins us from Homeroots on this episode of The [...]

You can also listen to this episode on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher EP 1: Eric Jensen from 2nd Amendment Wholesale joins us for the first [...]

We have recently released more new features on the Flxpoint platform. Check them out below! Category Manager Ability to merge, organize, rename and add new categories for [...]

Ideally, none of your dropshipping customers will ever want to make returns. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world. If you run a dropshipping business, over […]

If you're an online merchant, you know the challenges that come with ecommerce order management related to capturing, tracking, and fulfilling orders. Not only do you have [...]