Social Media For Business – Where to start

Social Media For Business – Where to start

Finding time to promote your brand through your social media channels can be a challenge. Not to mention, it can be frivolous if you don’t have a strategy. Social media for business is not easy but it is very straight forward when you have a good strategy. We’re going to run through some basics to ...

Stop using spreadsheets to manage the nuclear launch codes

Posted by on May 3, 2013 in Team Insights | No Comments
Stop using spreadsheets to manage the nuclear launch codes

Really, you use a spreadsheet for that? Spreadsheets are ubiquitous, and I am the first to admit that they are useful for a great many tasks, but running your crucial business operations on them is going to end in tears. Please stop it. As the co-founder of a business SaaS (Software as a service) company I ...

Product Update: Voiding Orders

Posted by on May 1, 2013 in TradeGecko News | No Comments
Product Update: Voiding Orders

Today we’re rolling out a new update to handling of deleting and voiding orders. Previously, you could “void” any order as long as it was still in the draft or active states. This worked great 95% of the time, however, we were still getting a couple of calls a week asking us to help rollback ...

The Case for a Virtual ERP at the center of your business

Posted by on Apr 22, 2013 in Growing a wholesale business | No Comments
The Case for a Virtual ERP at the center of your business

At TradeGecko we’re developing our inventory and order management software on the basis that we will never need to build an accounting solution for our customers. Instead, we get to integrate with amazing world-class solutions like Xero accounting. This means that we can focus on building the best inventory software possible – and we get ...

Xero Inventory Management with TradeGecko

Posted by on Apr 18, 2013 in TradeGecko News | No Comments
Xero Inventory Management with TradeGecko

TradeGecko inventory management is proud to announce that its cloud-based inventory and order management application now integrates seamlessly with online  accounting system Xero. Owners of Small-to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) now have the tools they need to scale at their fingertips, secure in the knowledge that they can now see the big-picture financial impact of every ...

Meet Our Team: CMO Carl Thompson

Posted by on Apr 11, 2013 in Uncategorized | No Comments
Meet Our Team: CMO Carl Thompson

Introducing our lovely CMO Carl Thompson. Here’s what Carl had to say when he was placed under the TradeGecko spotlight… What did you do before TradeGecko? Back in New Zealand between 2007 – 2011 I ran my own clothing label, Crowded Elevator. I love fashion and creativity so at the time it really was the ...

Default tax rates and discount levels on a customer level

Posted by on Apr 4, 2013 in TradeGecko News | No Comments
Default tax rates and discount levels on a customer level

Easily manage custom Customer Price Levels and Tax rates. You can now set a default tax rate and default discount rates on any customer or supplier. To set customer defaults simply go to Relationships / {Select Customer} / Edit (top right) Default Tax Rates This great new feature will allow you to set different tax codes for ...

How to get more stockists

How to get more stockists

Selling into retail stores is like any business to business sales cycle. It can be a long and tedious process during which you’ll probably want to hit your head against a brick wall several times! Retail stockists are a key component to any wholesale business and if you’re not a sales person it can be ...

The 10 Reasons to Adopt SaaS in your business

The 10 Reasons to Adopt SaaS in your business

It’s been a long time coming,  but I think we can all agree that SaaS software / cloud computing is here to stay. Salesforce, the granddaddy (and with it’s core CRM product showing signs of this age) of the SaaS industry, coming on to the cloud scene in 1999, heralded the beginning of the SaaS era. We ...

Meet Our Team: CTO Bradley Priest

Posted by on Mar 27, 2013 in Team Insights | No Comments
Meet Our Team: CTO Bradley Priest

The second TradeGecko team member to be placed under the spotlight is our CTO Bradley Priest. Who is Bradley Priest? Expatriate Kiwi living in Singapore! I love all things outdoors but somehow I ended up drawn to working with technology, I like to think it as the modern day equivalent of working with your hands. ...