PPAI’s mission is to be the voice and force to advance the promotional products industry, and the Association’s business services members play a critical role in that mission.

The promo industry’s business services providers support industry companies’ operations with a wide range of resources and capabilities. PPAI Media is spotlighting one of their most valuable: company stores. Company stores can be a vital part of an organization’s digital transformation and an important channel of long-term business for distributors with residual sales and lifetime value.

Many of these business services providers will be on hand at The PPAI Expo 2025, which takes place January 14-16 in Las Vegas.

SAGE

For more than a decade, the SAGE and PPAI partnership has connected everything distributors need to grow and manage their businesses effectively and efficiently. While PPAI leads the promotional products industry with comprehensive networking, education, legislative and business-saving benefits, SAGE provides its most popular product research and technology services.

Through this relationship, members receive a PPAI membership and a SAGE Total Access subscription; everything they need to succeed in growing their business. With Total Access, users can create client presentations, build virtual samples, manage projects and orders, send email campaigns, track their client information, and more.

SAGE Company Stores are a turn-key, user-friendly, low-cost solution for distributors to quickly meet their clients’ needs with e-commerce stores created especially for them. This time-saving solution allows distributors to offer their clients a seamless, 24/7 online ordering experience for their branded merchandise.

Company stores are ideal for businesses that want to provide branded products to their employees, large businesses with multiple branches under the same brand, or businesses that already have branded products in stock and need to move their inventory.

With SAGE Company Stores distributors can streamline their order management, increase their sales, and strengthen their client relationship. To lock in more business and launch an online store for your customers visit go.sageworld.com/companystores.

OrderMyGear

OrderMyGear’s technology for distributors, apparel decorators and team dealers empowers them to create custom-branded, retail-like online stores for customers. It offers online stores for companies, teams, fundraising, rewards and recognition and even limited-time-only special occasions.

Racking up various awards over the past 15 years, OrderMyGear powers online stores for more than 3,500 clients generating more than $2 billion in online sales.

commonsku

Specifically designed for the promotional products industry, commonsku is a CRM, order management and e-commerce platform all wrapped up into one. More than 750 distributors use the software to generate over $1.5 billion in network volume.

commonsku, which along with its industry offerings, hosts the annual skucon in conjunction with The PPAI Expo, was named this year to PPAI’s 2023 #Online18 listing of the best industry organizations on social media and to the 2023 Greatest Companies To Work For ranking.

Chipply

Chipply’s platform helps team dealers, custom apparel decorators and corporate suppliers to launch online stores. It focuses on faster site building, more accurate inventory management, consistent and automatic pricing and on-time and accurate fulfillment.

Commercio

Developed by Facilisgroup, Commercio is a cloud-based e-commerce platform that allows distributors to build company stores and pop-up stores in minutes. The recently introduced Commercio Orders is a free-to-use order management software streamlines the process of sourcing competitively priced products, managing quotes and issuing purchase orders.

ArtWork Services USA.com

ArtWork Services USA.com provides back-office and technology solutions including web, artwork and order processing services that help suppliers and distributors lower their cost, improve process efficiency and increase sales.

Brikl

Brikl’s e-commerce platform allows promotional products businesses to set up online stores and live catalogs. Its supplier integrations let users pull suppliers’ products straight into their stores with all images, pricing and descriptions, and keep an eye on stock levels and receive alerts when an item is back in stock or running low.

 

DistributorCentral, LLC

DistributorCentral provides PromoStandards compliant data from promotional products suppliers to industry service providers and websites, and hosts thousands of free distributor websites.

CompanyPromoStore.com

CompanyPromoStore is a technology solutions provider offering company store platform for the promotional products industry.

Speartek Inc.

Speartek is an e-commerce solution provider for distributors and suppliers, creating custom company stores its customers.

Webstores Simple

Webstores Simple is an online store platform built exclusively for apparel decorators and promotional products distributors.

Promo Hunt, Inc.

Promo Hunt provides promotional products distributors with technology that powers online stores, presentations and productivity tools.

Liftoff Ecommerce

Liftoff Ecommerce is an e-commerce, CRM, ERP and web-to-print platform designed for channel partners, resellers, marketing firms, development teams and distributors. 

RubikX

RubikX offers distributors an automated e-commerce platform that’s scalable and integrated with various suppliers and decorators using PromoStandards API.

Inktavo

Inktavo has software solutions – including online stores – for print shops, promotional products distributors and branded merchandise businesses.

 

Prodigy Commerce

 

Prodigy Commerce is an eCommerce platform that allows promotional products distributors to build modern, cost-effective, custom-branded Company Stores. Prodigy’s Shopify-like, B2C eCommerce platform was extended with custom features and integrations to serve this unique B2B industry.

Prodigy does not charge a subscription or license, transaction, per order, or API fees. The only cost is hosting through one of their high-quality partners at no more than $20 per month per store.

Artifi 

Built from a “there has to be a better way” mindset, Artifi Labs was developed from years of experience with a focus on scalability and flexibility. The visual product customization tool has flexible UI options, intuitive admin, and provides an interactive design experience. Artifi provides the tools to create an extraordinary customer experience, every time.