Update adds auto ship, subscription, and collection plans for recurring revenue and multiple payment plans to entice big ticket sales
April 21, 2009--Beanbasket, a leading provider of B2C and B2B eCommerce Web Store Services, announces the release of enhanced continuity, collection, and payment plans to its integration with OMX, OrderMotion’s newest order management system. This update allows shoppers to select from merchant-defined recurring order patterns and pricing options for consumable products in the web store and have the subsequent orders automatically spawned for billing and fulfillment in OMX at the consumer selected interval. And with OMX’s new lifetime value and forecasted sales widgets merchants can plan for the recurring revenue and inventory requirements.
According to James Martell, owner of Colorado Health and Beauty Supplies (www.spatown.com), “Using Beanbasket’s Auto Ship is a simple, convenient way for our customers to automatically receive their favorite products every month. Offering this service not only creates a convenience benefit for our customers, it gives us a recurring revenue stream and with OMX’s reporting we have the predictability of knowing we are starting each month with so many orders lined up.”
Subscription sales and “Collection” programs are also supported with this update to allow consumers the ability to purchase “item-of-themonth” type products either as a part of a club membership or as individual sales or gifting options. Subsequent orders for the next item in the series are automatically spawned at the correct interval until the program comes to an end.
And merchants that need to set up payment plans for higher ticket items can use Beanbasket’s payment plan tool to set up allowable options and parameters and pass those into OMX for billing. Merchants can set up any number of plans with the percentages of price and shipping/handling being independently set. This gives the flexibility to easily match DRTV or print campaigns. For example, split the sale into three equal payments with s/h split on the first two payments or create a plan with an initial 50 percent then 30 percent in 30 days and 20 percent in 60 days.
“Beanbasket`s high-performance web store management system is a perfect complement to Ordermotion`s OMX,” said Marty Fahey, CEO of OrderMotion. “Beanbasket takes full advantage of OMX`s extensive array of continuity and payment plan options which enables Ecommerce merchants to utilize new merchandising techniques to increase revenue.”
Recurring orders have been very common in the nutraceutical market, but that “never-run-out” service is rapidly expanding into health and beauty, infant and elder care products as well as the more traditionally B2B services like coffee, break room and cleaning supplies, paper, ink and toner items. Collection programs have been particularly successful in the food and gifting markets with roots back to the album of the month programs. With the high cost of acquiring new customers, using continuity, subscription, and collection programs with attractive pricing options can be a very cost effective way to maintain customer loyalty.
About Beanbasket.com
Beanbasket.com, a leading provider of hosted B2C and B2B eCommerce Services, builds and maintains high performance scalable web store management systems for leading retail and business customers.
Beanbasket’s Approach is keyed on the 4 areas critical to your success – Increasing Traffic to your site both organically and integrating with marketing efforts, Increasing Conversions once people get there by using the best of best practices, Increasing Average Order Size through proven merchandizing technology, and Increasing Return Shopping because the experience was so positive.
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