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Take a look at our helpful library of ecommerce articles: giving you the information you need to work smarter, not harder. You’ll find articles on everything from B2B and B2C to product data, supply chain integration, order fulfillment and more.

7 December 2022

Amazon Marketplace to Launch in South Africa

Amazon Marketplace is coming to SA. Find out why syncing your products with Amazon Marketplace will help you harness the selling power of the world’s largest online retailer.

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11 November 2022

Prepare Your Business for Black Friday

Retailers who go into Black Friday without a plan to leverage ecommerce will miss a golden opportunity to cash in. So what can you do?

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8 November 2022

ERP Integration for Efficient Ecommerce

Use the information that already exists in your ERP (or accounting system) for a more efficient, profitable business.

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11 February 2022

Omni Channel Selling Made Easy

Stock2Shop is an efficient way to selling on more than one channel, thereby exposing your products to multiple markets for increased revenue.

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4 June 2021

B2B Ordering for Franchises

Give your franchisees a central portal where they can login and easily order supplies from head office.

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10 May 2021

Integration – What to Expect

If you are thinking about getting your systems synced up, here is some insight on what to expect and on how to get tremendous value from your integration.

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29 April 2021

Selling From Multiple Brick N’ Mortar Branches on One Ecommerce Store

When selling from multiple branches on one retail ecommerce website, don’t burden your customers with your logistical challenges.

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17 December 2020

What to Consider When Choosing Your ERP

Here are a few highlevel pointers to consider when making the deep financial dive into a new accounting system.

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15 December 2020

Products and Variants - When and How to Use Them

When is it a good idea to configure multiple variants to reflect as a single product on your website? Click here to find out.

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9 November 2020

Black Friday 2020: No Time to Buy

A worldwide disease has made it really difficult for people to get to the shops. They need a hero to help them fulfil their consumer needs. You can be that hero (licence to kill not included).

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9 November 2020

Integration Workflow - Keep It Simple

When it comes to systems integrations, all too often a vital ingredient of a successful implementation is overlooked – a simple, consistent workflow.

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9 November 2020

Why Sell on Takealot Marketplace?

If you are already running a retail business, whether it’s a bricks-and-mortar store or exclusively online, the real question is, Why not?

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18 September 2020

Attracting Ecommerce Traffic

If you think a well-designed website is good enough to succeed in ecommerce, you’re in for a shock.

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18 September 2020

When to Consider Integration

A sharp rise in turnover is one sign that integration may be your next smart business decision. In this article we discuss a few other scenarios that should prompt you to consider it.

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18 September 2020

WooCommerce vs Shopify

WooCommerce and Shopify differ in a few fundamental ways. We briefly look at factors that may sway you in one direction or the other.

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30 March 2020

Product Attribute Templates

Create attribute sets that can be applied to a specific group of products. This is an efficient way of enriching your data without having to clutter your ERP with additional fields.

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27 March 2020

B2B Trade Store Bulk Ordering

If one of your customers wishes to order a large number of products, they can do so easily by uploading a spreadsheet to the Stock2Shop B2B Trade Store.

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22 October 2019

B2b Trade Store Promotions Feature

Create promotions and generate coupons that your customers can redeem at checkout on your B2B Trade Store.

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4 October 2019

Retailers - Are You Ready for Black Friday

With Black Friday nearly upon us, retailers have a great opportunity to boost revenue. Sales such as these can be used to move old stock, grow your customer base or increase brand awareness, but you have to be ready.

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1 August 2019

Stock2Shop B2B Trade Store: Accept Upfront Payment

It’s one thing to have a long list of debtors, it’s quite another to get the money in the bank. That’s why when a customer shows a willingness to pay upfront, it’s wise to take their money.

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1 August 2019

Track Recent Product Changes With the Stock2Shop Audit Feature

It is a dark and stormy night. You log on to your website and notice that the title of one of your products has changed! How did this happen, and when? Who was the perpetrator?

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6 June 2019

Automatically Mark Your Shopify Orders as Fulfilled Once Completed in Parcelninja

Stock2Shop has brought the Parcelninja integration full circle by automatically updating order statuses to “Fulfilled” in Shopify.

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4 June 2019

Wholesalers - Send Product Feeds Directly to Your Resellers' Channels

You’ve sourced your products, you’ve developed relationships with online resellers and you’re ready to do business. Now what?

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30 March 2019

Guest Article the 5 Shortcomings of Dropshipping in SA

When reading international websites it seems that the drop shipping business model is the best and easiest way to start a business these days. But why then are there so few successful drop shippers in South Africa?

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7 February 2019

Names for Sage Accounting System

The main purpose behind the rebranding of the various Sage accounting products is to consolidate them into suites. This will make it much easier to identify the software best suited to your needs.

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23 October 2018

Sell on the Takealot Marketplace With Ease

Automatically update your important product information on the Takealot marketplace with Stock2Shop. No more sending manual csv files with with updated pricing and stock levels.

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19 October 2018

Spreadsheets, a Useful Tool for Managing Your Product Data

Running a successful online store is not as simple as ‘build it and they’ll come’. View our six steps to building a spreadsheet with meaningful data.

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24 August 2018

Understanding Online Order Fulfillment

Seamless order fulfillment will make your business – and your life – much easier. Here’s what you need to know, and how to think through order fulfillment.

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13 August 2018

Building a B2B B2C Ecommerce Platform for Your Wholesale Business

Everyone knows that a website is as essential as a business card – if not more so. But what does your website do for you? It could be an e-commerce solution for wholesale.

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2 August 2018

Should Wholesalers Sell Direct to Consumer? Pros and Cons

If you’re a wholesaler, one of the most difficult decisions you’ll have to make in the future is whether to sell directly to the consumer or not. We outline the Pros and Cons.

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26 July 2018

Online Supply Chain Integration 101

If you have an ERP and you have a ecommerce website, they should be talking to each other. Online supply chain integration makes your business work more efficiently, with fewer errors.

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18 July 2018

How to Categorise Products: Layered Navigation

Categorising products correctly is a major pain point for many ecommerce websites. Layered navigation is the solution: find out how – and why – to implement it

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5 July 2018

Product Data: What You Need to Know

Understanding product data is essential for a successful ecommerce business. Here’s an overview of the most important elements of product data you need to understand.

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