How To Create a Corporate Storefront in 5 Easy Steps
As a business owner, it’s important to provide your employees with promotional items they can wear and use proudly, both inside and outside the workplace. This not only boosts team morale but also helps to promote your brand outside of your business. But how do you go about setting up an online store? In this blog post, we’ll go through the 5 steps you need to take to create a corporate storefront for your business without investing a lot of time.
Step 1: Choose Your Supplier
The first step in creating a custom online company apparel store is to find a reliable supplier. You’ll need to choose a printing company that offers a wide range of high-quality marketing materials such as brochures, folders, post cards, t-shirts, mugs, etc. Consider factors such as price, quality, and customer service when selecting a supplier.
PF Solutions has been offering corporate storefronts to major clients across South Florida for the past 20 years. From choosing products, to shipping, PF Solutions managers the process from beginning to end, cost-effectively. To learn how this can work for your brand, call us at 305.592.2895.
Step 2: Determine Your Product Line
Once you’ve chosen your supplier, the next step is to determine the product lines you want to offer to your employees. Some popular options include pens, backpacks, water bottles, polo shirts, T-shirts, hoodies, jackets, and hats. You’ll also want to consider the different sizes, colors, and styles available.
PF Solutions has thousands of products to choose from and finding the right fit for your business is quick and seamless via our easy-to-use interface.
Step 3: Set Up Your Online Store
With your product line and logo in place, it’s time to set up your online store or have a partner set this up for you. PF Solutions has developed a direct portal that gives you access to static and customized items to take the heavy lifting off your shoulders. Our automated platform can help you avoid unnecessary time drains from complicated orders. Here are a few ways we can help:
- Branded Storefront Access Control
- Multilevel Sign-On Controls
- Multilevel Automated Approval Levels
- Organized Custom dashboards
- Integrated Shipping Overview in Real Time
- Print Inventory Control in Real Time
- Item Editor for Custom Branded Materials
- Brand integrity of the entire marketing portfolio
- Static Item Inventory Control
- Local, National and International Delivery via established carriers
Step 4: Manage Products for Sale
You can update, manage, and control access across entire lines of campaigns. If you’re a large business with various departments, setting up corporate storefronts for each department is a breeze and employees can click to purchase within seconds.
The PF Solutions Management Center is your command center. You can assign access, manage inventory, designate pricing, and a host of key features that maximizes your bottom line while providing quality products for your teams.
Step 5: Launch Your Store
Once you have your online store set up, it’s time to launch it to your employees. Promote your store through company-wide emails, internal communication channels, and posters around the workplace. Encourage employees to place their orders as soon as possible to ensure they receive their custom apparel in a timely manner.
Creating a corporate storefront is a powerful way to boost team morale, promote your brand, and provide employees with branded products and apparel and accessories. Finding the right partner is just as important.
At PF Solutions, we believe you should be able to work with a web-to-print partner who cares about your online and offline success. From setting up shop, ordering branded apparel and items, and local, national, or international shipping, we have the system and resources to offer you a custom solution under one roof without draining valuable time or resources.
