Supplier Benefits

1. Bgate saves you time and money
Bgate improves efficiency and the cost of doing business by eliminating double and triple entry of order data.

2. Security
Bgate offers its clients the reassurance of having security levels in excess of Industry standards, incorporating fully validated, 128bit SSL certificate, 99.95% availability with full redundancy, hourly backups and 24/7 server support.

3. Neutrality
Bgate is a truly independant E-Procurement business service provider. We are neither buyer or supplier-led and have no affiliation to any specific buyer or supplier groups. This ensures that our clients have total confidentiality at all times.

4. 24/7 availability
Bgate’s online service delivers 24/7 availability, 365 days a year, this allows your customers to place orders with you any time, day or night.

5. Non-disruptive logistics integration
Export/Import orders and invoices straight to your existing in-house logistics system in just a few clicks. Bgate does not interfere with your existing business systems or processes and can accomodate any legacy file format or communications method.

6. Pay-per-use
Bgate requires little or no up-front development costs and operates on a pay-per-use business model based around a nominal transaction fee.

7. Eliminate lost staff time following errors and disputes
Errors and disputes waste considerable staff time and are extremely costly to large buying organisations. Bgate elimates errors caused by verbal mis-communication over the phone, mis-read hand-written faxes and data input errors.

8. Improved business performance
Bgate frees-up valuable staff members to spend more time on genuinely productive tasks ie, improving customer service and winning new business.

9. On-line invoicing
Customers are invoiced at the touch of a button.

10. Credit control
Bgate can link to your credit control systems and help reduce bad debt exposer with our customer access control.

11. Customized reporting
Design your own reports and view sales activity across all your customers in real time.

12. Bgate messaging
Communicate product announcements and information directly to individual buyers and buyer groups through our Bgate Message Board.

13. No IT capabilities needed
As a completely outsourced service, all management and maintenance is carried out by Bgate.

14. No new hardware or software
Bgate is accessed via the web, all you need is a browser and an internet connection.

15. Customer support
Live phone support 12 hours a day, 7 days a week

16. Training
Little or no training required