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 [...]

Company Overview In 2018 several Inventory Source team members set out to build a product that our customers at Inventory Source had been asking for, for years.  [...]

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 [...]

If you’re struggling to optimize your company’s fulfillment and simply don’t have the tools to do it efficiently, you may be considering utilizing distributed order management (DOM). [...]

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 […]