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What is threadvine for?
Threadvine is designed for brand managers, reps, designers and customer service to quickly send suggested assortments to their buyers and receive back confirmed orders.
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Why is threadvine for apparel & footwear?
Threadvine is designed for seasonal multi-dimensional merchandise. Most online systems are designed for 'discrete' inventory, meaning each product is a unique item. Apparel and footwear are sold by season, style and color with size matrices, packs, multiple ship windows and cancel dates. Threadvine excels at this. Most discrete systems either can't handle it or need complicated customization.
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How will threadvine help me close more business?
Threadvine puts your product images instantly in front of a buyer with pricing, availability and even suggested order quantities. All your buyer does to approve an order is a mouse click. When you're in the right place at the right time you close more business.
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Is threadvine like an online trade show?
No, this is not a 'virtual trade show'. Your site is private and only buyers you specifically invite and grant access to can see your line, and only the styles you publish for them. You will never be 'shopped' on price or compared side by side with competing products on threadvine. Your buyers will only see your brand - that's it.
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Is threadvine a B2B system?
Threadvine is a B2B system but also much more. B2B on its own is just too passive to gain much adoption. Buyers don't automatically go to a B2B site and place an order. Buyers are looking for assistance on what to order. They work with sales reps to create merchandise plans and assortments that meet their market niche and open to buy. Threadvine fully supports this by enabling you to use regular email to send your buyers suggested orders, hot styles, assortment plans, close-outs and more they can review online and click to order.
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Are my images, pricing and other information secure on threadvine?
Yes, in two ways:
First, only buyers you invite and specifically provide with access are allowed into your site.
Second, when a buyer accesses your site the first time a unique security token is passed to that buyer's computer which is then validated on every login. If a buyer attempts to access their account from a different computer (without the token) they are denied access unless they re-establish authenticity by confirming receipt of an email. In this manner a buyer can not pass their username and password to another person unless they also give that person access to their email too (which is very unlikely). This is the same method used by salesforce.com and many other secure online services.Rating: +1
What happens to threadvine if the power goes out?
Threadvine servers are located in mirrored hosting facilities in Newark, NJ and Fremont, CA. Our servers run Intel Xeon processors, have battery-backup, redundant power supplies, RAID array drives and connect to the internet via multiple gigabit networks. Threadvine is fast, secure and won't go down in a power outage.
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What's the pricing for threadvine?
Exact pricing is not yet determined but we are planning on a price range of $50/mo to $250/mo depending on features, users and number of styles & seasons. There will be no fees based on transactions or buyers. Our goal is to make threadvine very compelling to use and affordable for everyone.
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How can you offer threadvine at such a low price?
Creating web applications today is a lot less expensive than it was a few years ago. Until recently most systems had to be built from scratch. By using cloud computing, tools like jQuery & Rails, extensive Open Systems resources and AWS S3 image hosting we're able to build a powerful and secure product for far less than you might think. Plus, we're scrappy - we've built a few of these systems before so know how to keep costs to a bare minimum.
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When can I sign up to use threadvine?
Our development time line is for the first public release to be 2nd Qtr. 2010. We will be testing the system in a beta release with private clients prior to that. If you would like to be notified when your beta program is open for enrollment please provide your name and email here.
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How many buyers do you have in your system vs. sellers?
Currently we're developing this solution so we haven't any buyers or sellers - yet. The concept is brands (sellers) register for for a site within threadvine using a URL like "brand.threadvine.com" or a subdomain or cname from their existing consumer site like "dealers.brand.com". Each brand will have their own unique site and will upload their styles and their own list of approved buyers.
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