bikeZaar is ready to ‘reinvent’ the online expertise for purchasers with its new online marketplace – which it says will turn into the ‘largest’ single supply of biking merchandise within the UK.
The website options merchandise from a community of marketplace sellers, affiliate networks and premium model retailers. Utilising a singular expertise platform, bikeZaar connects provide and demand ‘extra exactly, speedily, and simply than ever earlier than’.
bikeZaar provides manufacturers and retailers options for becoming a member of the community with no hidden prices and no contracts. Options to add merchandise manually, or utilizing CSV, or API, plus fulfilment options and alternatives to purchase pre-qualified gross sales leads, means there’s a vary of strategies for sellers to get fast and simple gross sales on their phrases.
CEO Kevin Griffiths launched the corporate in 2017 as a marketplace to help impartial bike retailers. The website provides retailers the prospect to get their merchandise seen by a large viewers and compete alongside specialist online companies.
“bikeZaar helps manufacturers and retailers reply to this quickly altering setting utilizing its distinctive expertise capabilities and enterprise mannequin, to assist to fulfil client calls for and to ship a subsequent era retail service,” stated Griffths. “In impact, we make it simpler for shoppers to do what they might in any other case do by trawling search engines like google and ringing round sellers. Our goal is to join, allow and facilitate.”
Alistair Brownlee MBE, bikeZaar director and investor, added: “bikeZaar helps us to mix two issues that we consider strongly about and need to help: guaranteeing the continuing sustainability of excessive road bike retailers, which in flip helps to promote lively existence by making gear and servicing accessible domestically, encouraging extra individuals to train, socialise or commute on dependable, comfy, working bikes!”
The Bike Finder is a function that ‘flips the sale on its head’, serving to the shopper unearth hidden inventory with out trawling the web. The buyer tells bikeZaar what they’re on the lookout for, model/mannequin (if recognized), or bike sort, measurement, color and funds, and the community will get the chance to quote the shopper straight if they’ve the proper product.
The clubZone is a free service offered to biking golf equipment that gives a devoted membership microsite with e-commerce capabilities that makes it easy for members to place their orders and pay straight for his or her membership package in addition to their membership membership charge. bikeZaar may present golf equipment with a fulfilment service.
For golf equipment, charity groups or corporates on the lookout for ‘off-the-shelf’ branded package, bikeZaar’s semi-custom package vary provides a number of choices with out the trouble of a {custom} package order. Customers can select from a spread of ‘template’ gadgets, and add their logos with a couple of clicks.
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