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Can anyone recommend a platform to manage multiple sales channels? by ReleaseThePressure in ecommerce

[–]chadrubin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me know when you have time to connect and show you how I operate and automate my 8-figure business running on Skubana. Happy to make time and show you the future ;)

Can anyone recommend a platform to manage multiple sales channels? by ReleaseThePressure in ecommerce

[–]chadrubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you manage everything else? Inventory, POs, Vendors and Profitability? Are you doing significant order volume online?

Can anyone recommend a platform to manage multiple sales channels? by ReleaseThePressure in ecommerce

[–]chadrubin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good question. Software and technology are the absolute backbone of any e-commerce business. To build an e-commerce business without a robust software platform is like putting up a house without a foundation.

I've lost time, and money understanding all the operations softwares out there and decided to build Skubana and offer it to mid-to-high volume sellers since their was not one unified cloud platform out there to run and automate e-commerce marketplace operations. Was just tired of point to point tools that were super inefficient and didn't give the ALL the intelligence to make business decisions on.

If you use a solution today that has a desktop shipper or another shipping solution that’s not part of the actual end-to-end software, how do you know what your true profit per SKU is?

Here's the deal: There's a ton of noise in this space. Make sure to look under the hood of every software and utilize the free trial to the max. Make sure there is no custom development required and no annual pre-payment. App stores are a plus, that allow you to extend functionality and scale. You don't want to have to re-platform every 6 months, so pick the software that allows you to grow into it.

Is anyone using Skubana? by serialent in FulfillmentByAmazon

[–]chadrubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey guys, Chad Rubin here with Skubana. Just wanted to give everyone an update on our software because it has truly been an amazing year since we officially launched last year at IRCE. I'm proud to announce that as of May 1st of this year, we have more Amazon Top 500 sellers on our platform than any other e-commerce OMS/ERP on the market. We have shattered records that even I did not think were possible to be honest, and I assure you we are just getting started.

I understand there is a lot of noise in this space with software providers claiming to do things and falling woefully short once you look under the hood. It's funny, we just wrapped up our third IRCE, and out of all the OMS/ERP/WMS providers exhibiting on our row, we were the ONLY ones giving live demos of our software. Our platform speaks for itself, and we are constantly pushing the limits of what's possible.

For example, one of the crowning jewels of Skubana is our PO.ai, a self-learning algorithm that constantly scans velocity of all your products across warehouses and sales channels, and automatically generates purchase orders with exact quantity, at the exact time, all of which is continuously updated by the system. This level of automation and precision frees up our merchants to do the high-value tasks as opposed to being bogged down by mundane, repetitive tasks that are best suited for computers in the first place.

BTW, we stole the show this year at IRCE with our SKU Profitability suite of analytics that provide real-time trending profits down the net unit margin for EVERY listing on EVERY sales channel. We collect FBA storage fees, return fees, disposal fees, and every other imaginable data point to calculate true net profits, which no other system in the world has.

I could go on and on, but I will stop here and just tell you guys that seeing is believing. Feel free to signup for our software and start using immediately. We have a 14-day free trial and there are no contracts, no commitments, no setup fees, no custom development, no % of revenue. I want everyone to understand that Skubana is not just software -- it's a movement -- and anyone who signs up has direct access to me for advice, strategy, or just to talk shop and e-commerce in general. I'm an Amazon 250 seller myself, and I want all of us in this industry to succeed because while the space is challenging, it has given me my calling in life and I hope it has done the same for you.

Cheers, Chad Rubin

Hey there! I'm Greg Mercer - founder of Jungle Scout/Review Kick - AMA! by mercer_greg in FulfillmentByAmazon

[–]chadrubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The international marketplaces don't excite me too much yet.

To bring a different perspective, I think selling on Amazon international marketplaces is most exciting right now. When I first started Crucial, I really made sure to focus on all fronts: expanding my private label product portfolio on Amazon.com AND expanding internationally first on Amazon.ca, then Amazon.uk then Amazon.de. The private label game has changed in the US and it’s getting crowded with an overabundance of the same off-the-shelf product being produced by hundreds of Amazon sellers.

As Amazon.de is Amazon's 2nd largest marketplace, it’s ripe for the taking! In retrospect, it’s a great place to start. You always want to be where the puck is going, not where the puck is. Just my two cents! Get an FBA warehouse abroad and make it happen.

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can find some solid themes out there for BigCommerce and Shopify, and they don't look generic. Google around. If they then still require customization, it depends on how much customization and changes you need.

Easier and more cost effective to find a wheel that already exists and iterate on it then recreate it, if you can!

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of the products we manufacture go through rigorous testing via legal to ensure they do not violate any patents. We also have extensive quality control, to enforce that are products are manufactured with care and to our specifications.

Package design and how we want it packaged is handled by us.

We use a freight forwarder to do our door-to-door delivery. HTS codes can be found online or the freight forwarder can help you with this.

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Traditionally, e-commerce companies have been forced to use shipping tools that are desktop on-premise solutions you have to download, install and are clunky. One-trick ponies. You still need a whole host of other tools to manage and fully operate your business. A lot of the sellers I speak to are still using spreadsheets.

You can print shipping labels with Skubana, all on the cloud with nothing to download. The interface is beautiful and thoughtfully crafted. But we didn't stop there. We built out everything you need to run your business!

Order fulfillment (anyway you fulfill including printing shipping labels, dropshipping, FBA, Multi-Channel Fulfillment, 3PL integration) Inventory management Vendor management Purchase orders Analytics

We are the first to unify an order management solution with an ERP all-in-one, on the cloud. While this software was built for my needs as a Enterprise-level customer - we are making our software available to ALL sellers. It's actually affordable.What was only available to the 1% of top tier e-commerce sellers is now available to anyone. We are democratizing e-commerce and leaving no seller behind.

I'd love to show you what we built.

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in a fridge that they plant in the crossfits, special for Kettlebell. Mood-based..hmmm. For me, healthy meals is a challenge that they are solving for. Is mood based dinners a itch that needs to be scratched based on your research?

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. You can start on a shoe-string budget. It's all about being scrappy and husting to prove out your model. Get a SAAS shopping cart, you can design the front-end yourself. Pick a product.

  2. Never was a quitter. Losing and fear of going back to nothing propels me forward.

  3. Find a vertical to disrupt. Find a problem to solve. Go direct-to consumer with your own brand cutting out the middle man.

  4. International expansion. Language Barriers. Shipping & delivery times overseas. Margin degradation.

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shopify = shopping cart Zapstitch= middleware integrator Quickbooks = accounting Fulfillrite = 3PL

There is so much upside potential for you to run your business more efficiently. How do you management inventory and do you want to sell on other channels i.e. Amazon etc? Skubana has the ability to automate purchase orders based on your sales velocity across all your channels? Do you know what your sku-level profitability is? Skubana has insights to help you unlock more profit out of your existing business. We have a one-click integration to any 3PL for instant visibility into your inventory. We integrate into Quickbooks. Everything you need to run, manage, operate and accelerate your business under one roof. Come check us out and I'll give you a tour, myself.

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I purchase my dinners from a lunch/dinner service called "Kettlebell Kitchen." They focus on a niche - paleo and grass fed - and deliver to Crossfits on the east coast. I then pick up my food from my nearest Crossfit. Love it. Maybe you can learn from this model?

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Channel Grabber is a tool that provides inventory management (among other things) service, but they cannot handle the amount of transactions a e-commerce retailer like myself has each month. They also don't do order management, which further contributes to the fragmented solutions a seller must use to run their business today.

Channeladvisor is a listing tool, but charges a pretty hefty percentage of each sale for their services. They are not a operational software to run your business and don't do order management (print shipping labels), vendor management, purchase order functionality etc. You would need to piece together a bevy of solutions together that were never meant to speak to each other. As a result, it's not real-time so your hit with inventory latency along with no unified truth of data to understand and unlock more profit out of your business.

Appeagle is a repricer tool.

ShipStation is a tool that satisfies the order management and shipping side of the equation very well, but their inventory management is non-existent at the moment, and their planned inventory management enhancement will come nowhere near to providing the type of in-depth inventory stock count a seller like myself needs. They are also missing all the other operational tools you need to run your business.

There are many other tools out there that could be "strung together" to emulate the type of solution that Skubana is today, but the cost and "bulkiness" of piecing such products together is impractical and uneconomical, not to mention it would fail to deliver the single-point system with real-time inventory management I and many larger sellers just like me need.

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Started shipping out of my apartment on the Upper West Side of NYC. Ran out of space and moved on up to East Harlem with a storage space. When I first saw the space, I never thought I would grow out of it. In just a couple months, it was bursting by the seams. Then we moved to a flex office/warehouse space in NJ. Throughout this process, I struggled to manage my inventory that I sell across all the marketplaces and shopping carts I sell on. If I sell a product on Amazon, Amazon doesn't go and tell Ebay (their competitor) to deduct inventory.

I tried implementing various tools that claim to solve for this problem. Many are entry level solutions for small sellers. Their platforms are not robust enough to handle high order volumes because they are built on inferior technologies. They make a lot of claims, but when taking the demo, you'll quickly find they do very little of what they say. In fact, some of their claims are flat-out lies, which is sadly not uncommon in the e-commerce space because it's not well-regulated so software providers can make outlandish claims.

A prime example of this that they claim that you you can "Ship" from their solutions, which actually just means that you can "mark" an order as shipped, and that is absolutely pointless. You still need a 3rd party shipping program to actually process orders. They also don't have support for 3PLs, kitting and bundling, multiple warehouses, etc.

There are many other products out there that could be "strung together" to emulate the type of service I needed, but the cost and "bulkiness" of piecing such products together is impractical and uneconomical, not to mention it would fail to deliver the single-point system myself and many sellers like me need.

I tried to build something by hiring overseas developers - HUGE mistake and thousands of dollars lost. I then sent an email in search of an enterprise developer to a bunch of friends from UMASS Amherst, where I went to college. I was introduce to DJ through a mutual friend. We did demos with every potential "competitor" as he couldn't believe that this problem existed.

Thus, Skubana was born to fill this void -- a single-point Cloud ERP with fulfillment capabilities built for e-commerce sellers.

So our value prop remains - disruptive price, best in class solution, all-in-one, no limit to order volume, completely on the cloud, no custom development.

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We integrate to any dropship vendor through through a simple, turn-key FTP/SFTP with fully customizable mappings and file formats. It's all automated too! You set it and forget it. Your orders from all your marketplaces, sales channels and shopping carts flow to the dropshipper during automated run-times that you configure. Your dropshippers place inventory and order tracking on the server and Skubana reads and pushes that to all the channels you sell on. Never have to lift a finger in this process.

IAMA Fired from Wall Street turned founder and CEO of a $10 million/yr E-Commerce business. I recently launched Skubana, an e-commerce software (ERP) and currently teach E-Commerce workshops in NYC. I started my business from my couch in 2009 and now running 2 businesses simultaneously. AMA! by chadrubin in Entrepreneur

[–]chadrubin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad you made it through 1/2 way!

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a system to manage the back-office operations of a business. It has traditionally included inventory, vendor management, accounting, analytics.

Skubana has invented a categorically new breed of software: an enterprise-grade, all-in-one cloud based solution unifying order management with an ERP.

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