Boost your Education Sales!
Read below about the benefits for Vendors to use Edquip. For an in-depth explanation of how to transact on Edquip, see our Standard Operating Procedures.
Edquip partners with Vendors of education and training products. These can be pure software development companies, or manufacturers of hardware products and laboratory equipment.
1. Increased Reach
Get your products in front of thousands of decision makers on a monthly basis, who are looking for instructional technologies to improve learning outcomes. With Edquip you will reach Customers from all continents.
Typical Customers profiles are from technical high schools, colleges, polytechnics, universities, research institutions, and large industrial companies who all setup training centers and learning environments for technical skills.
Customers are in all different stages of the procurement process, from the initial research and information gathering (1-2 years before procurement), to full procurement execution mode (placing orders this week).
2. Guaranteed Payment*
Edquip has partnered with a government regulated payment service provider which offers Escrow services for transactions managed through Edquip.
This allows the Customer to feel safe with their money and simultanesouly we exclude the risk of non-payment for the Vendors, much simpler than through a letter of credit.
Customer funds are paid out to Vendors as they achieve different Milestones, such as onboarding Customers (software products), or manufacturing, shipping, installation, commissioning and training (hardware products).
*Guaranteed payment only applies to transactions which are managed through the designated payment service provider.
3. Collaborative Approach
We recognize that you might have dealers or distributors in a local market, and that their input might be necessary for closing deals and execute after sales support, which is why Edquip takes a collaborative approach.
There is room for specialization in the distribution value-chain, and Edquip is focusing on the marketing of your products, so that you can focus on the product innovation, and your distributors can focus on implementation.
4. Improved Reputation
Online reputation matters for new Customers. Edquip will help you collect verified customer reviews so that you can increase trust with prospective Customers.
Manage your company image, show of your operational metrics, get recommended Vendor badges etc.
5. Practical Tools
Our Vendor portal acts like a simple interface for managing your activities on the marketplace.
From the Vendor portal you can manage your full product portfolio, list new products, manage existing product listings, including product decriptions, photos, videos, responses to product reviews etc.
Receive quotation requests from verified customers. Manage customer questions or customization discussions. Submit any number of quotations necessary (versioning system), execute on sales process for successful bids.
Manage and analyse patterns across your sales pipeline, including status on any potential deal, at any given point. All details right at your fingertips.
Invite and assign team members with different user rights, such as managing your sales pipeline on a country basis, or to manage your product portfolio, online reputation, administrational data etc.
6. Risk-free Pricing
Edquip charges no fixed fees to list your products, only a success fee which applies for any deals initated through our marketplace.
Access the most efficient route to market, your time involvement is necessary, but otherwise guaranteed ROI when you close a deal.