3 Ways to Integrate Magento and NetSuite

(This post was last updated on October 11, 2017. We’ve updated it for accuracy and completeness.)

Sellers operating Magento and NetSuite separately aren’t getting the most value out of their platforms. Instead, sellers spend most of their time manually moving critical data like online orders and fulfillment between these platforms, which easily leads to data errors. Teams then aren’t confident in the accuracy of their data and spend too much time fixing their own mistakes for customers.

To overcome these challenges, sellers need to integrate their Magento webstore with their NetSuite ERP. Integration automates your business processes so you can get back to growing your business and stop wasting time policing your data.

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How to Run Smooth Online Flash Sales

Online flash sales are a popular strategy to drive revenue. Successful sales can increase a merchant’s sales from 50/day to over 10,000 in a single 24-hour period. This is great for your revenue, but can undoubtedly put major stress on your operations during and after the sale.

When not handled properly, flash sales can quickly turn into disasters for merchants. Your website can crash or stall. Orders can take forever to process. Inventory can oversell. Once disaster hits, it’s hard to see why you wanted to run a flash sale in the first place. When poorly executed, sales can lead to upset customers, lost sales, and erode your brand image.

While the risks of failed online flash sales are real, they can be avoided!

See how theBalm Cosmetics upgraded their technology stack and worked out important backend processes so they can run smooth flash sales multiple times a year.  

What is a Cloud ERP System?

(This post was originally published on April 20, 2016. It has been updated for accuracy and completeness).

A growing retail business often needs to upgrade their technology to keep up with operations. One of the bigger technology investments you’ll make is in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. This technology often becomes the lifeline of your business. It’s where you handle your financials, order processing, product information, reporting, and more. It’s been a technology that retailers and wholesalers have turned to for many years to manage all different aspects of their business.

Just like other technology systems, ERPs are also making the move to cloud services allowing them to be more affordable and flexible. This article will define what an ERP is, the benefits of cloud-based ERP systems, and list out today’s top ERP systems. We hope this helps you decide whether you’re ready for an ERP and how to evaluate the best one for your business.

3 Ways To Integrate Shopify and NetSuite

(This post was last published on on October 27th, 2017. We’ve updated it for accuracy and completeness.)

Many Shopify merchants don’t realize that operating with siloed software systems is holding their online business back. While having an ERP like NetSuite is an important investment in your operations, so is integrating it with Shopify and Shopify Plus. Without integration, your NetSuite implementation is likely costing you more than you realize.

Ask yourself these questions:

• Are you operating as efficiently as you can?
• Are you able to focus on your customer and selling instead of bookkeeping?
• How much data do you manually enter between Shopify/Shopify Plus and NetSuite?

If you don’t have a satisfactory answer to all three of those questions, it’s time to look at integrating Shopify and NetSuite.

This post discusses why you need to integrate Shopify and NetSuite and how to pick an integration approach that’s best for you. (more…)

BigCommerce to NetSuite Integration: Questions to Ask When Choosing a Solution

Integrating BigCommerce to NetSuite is a big (but necessary) step for growing merchants. When looking for integration solutions, it can be overwhelming to find and vet numerous providers. Since integration projects take consider time (and money) to implement, you want to make sure you’re choosing the best solution the first time around.

To help you find the best BigCommerce to NetSuite integration solution, we’ve put together a list of some of the most important questions you should be asking solution providers. Answers to these questions will help you understand what you’re getting for your money and will help set solutions apart from each other. (more…)