Greenwing Technology
Punchout Catalogs & B2B Ecommerce Solutions
For more than 15 years, Greenwing Technology has been helping companies of all sizes implement Punchout Catalogs and connect to eProcurement systems with its custom built punchout connectors. Our solutions enable suppliers to streamline purchase processes, ensuring seamless integration with buyer systems.
The Power Of Punchout Catalogs
Punchout catalogs have helped our clients get paid faster, maintain control over inventory, and retain more customers. By integrating punchout catalogs, businesses streamline order processing, ensuring users experience a seamless and efficient purchasing process. The flexibility of punchouts allows customers to connect directly with your e-commerce system, placing orders effortlessly while adhering to their procurement protocols. This not only improves user satisfaction but also reduces the likelihood of customers turning to competitors, as punchouts deliver a tailored, reliable, and convenient buying experience.
If you need to:
- Implement a Punchout catalog fast because a client is asking you to do so.
- Implement Punchout in the near future.
- Integrate one of your suppliers into your eProcurement system.
- Develop a new integration or connector for your unique case and platform.
Greenwing Technology is here to help.
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Greenwing’s Punchout Solutions
Whether you need to develop a new punchout catalog or a hosted solution or need help with electronic invoicing or any other buyer solution, our experienced team can help. Integrating punchout catalogs streamlines order processing, ensuring users enjoy a seamless purchasing process. Punchouts enable customers to connect directly to your e-commerce system, placing orders effortlessly while adhering to procurement protocols, enhancing user satisfaction, and reducing the likelihood of losing customers to competitors.
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Punchout Catalog Solutions for Every Type Of organization
Punchout connectors for all major eCommerce platforms
Keep your enterprise buyers happy and start selling today! Connect your eCommerce website to over 135+ ERP and eProcurement systems using one of our connectors. Our solutions integrate procurement platforms with your e-commerce website, supporting punchout catalogs for seamless buyer access. This streamlines purchasing, enhances user experience, and keeps your catalogs current, boosting loyalty and expanding your e-commerce reach.
Punchout Catalog API for custom eCommerce platforms
Greenwing Technology’s punchout API allows you to add punchout catalog capability to your custom ecommerce platform. Our API includes electronic PO and Invoice integration to allow full automation of the ordering process. Your e-commerce site connects seamlessly to 120+ ERP and procurement systems, allowing users to access catalogs effortlessly, streamlining procurement, and enhancing user satisfaction.
Greenwing Technology Managed Punchout Platform
If your organization does not sell online already but needs a punchout catalog quickly, the Greenwing Technology Managed Punchout platform is a perfect fit. This solution enables rapid deployment of punchout catalogs, allowing your business to offer punchouts that seamlessly integrate with buyer procurement systems. Our platform ensures that your catalogs are accessible and efficient, empowering you to support punchouts without the need for an existing ecommerce infrastructure, helping you meet client demands swiftly and effectively.
How Do Punchout Catalogs Work?
- It connects your products with your customer(s) e-Procurement system for a seamless experience.
- This connection is a direct link between your online store and your customer’s purchasing software. It means that whenever your customer wants to buy, they see your real-time product information, availability, and their specific pricing without ever leaving their own system. This integration creates a smooth, uninterrupted workflow, making the purchasing process a natural extension of their platform.
- Your customer(s) can easily order from your organization with the click of a button.
- This isn’t just a link to your homepage. That single click from their procurement system instantly and securely logs them into your e-commerce site. They don’t need to remember a separate username or password. They can immediately start shopping, add items to their cart, and then transfer that cart back to their system effortlessly to complete the buying process.
- It reduces human errors and cuts purchasing time significantly to make your and your customer’s lives easier.
- Because the shopping cart data is transferred electronically, the need for manual data entry is eliminated. This means no more mistakes from re-typing product numbers, descriptions, quantities, or prices, which ensures order accuracy. By automating these steps, the entire process—from shopping to creating a purchase order—is shortened from hours or days to just minutes, simplifying the whole workflow for both your team and your customer’s procurement department.
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A punchout catalog is an eCommerce website that allows an institutional buyer to buy from a supplier directly from their electronic procurement system.
Institutional buyers such as universities, corporations and hospitals purchase procurement software to control their financial spending.
Punchout Catalogs allow their buyers to connect to their procurement applications and because of that, the individual buyers (ex.: a facilities manager ordering soap for restrooms, a lab technician ordering beakers) can place requests for items and put the approval process with management.
Suppliers still deal directly with the same end user, but very often orders are faster and more accurate.
Many procurement applications also use catalog interchange format (CIF) catalogs, which are less flexible than full punchout catalogs.
The core of Punchout catalog communication is a universal standard called Commerce Extensible Markup Language or cXML. cXML and the Punchout mechanism was developed by the cxml.org industry group. cXML is a standardized language that allows electronic transactions to be completed in a quick and efficient standard.
When a user enters your Punchout catalog credentials are sent to authenticate the user. These credentials uniquely identify the buyer and individual logged into the catalog. After reaching your punchout catalog the buyer can shop and add items to their shopping cart. When they are ready to check out, they simply click the checkout button and their shopping cart is transferred back to the procurement application.
A Punchout Catalog can help your business.
Implementing a punchout catalog is not merely a feature enhancement; By directly integrating your internal platform with your customers’ e-procurement systems, you unlock significant cost savings, drive profound efficiency gains, and enable superior spend management for your clients, solidifying your position as a preferred supplier.
From High-Cost Manual Effort to Automated Efficiency
Maintaining individual customer catalogs is a significant operational drain, requiring constant manual updates for price, product, and inventory changes. This time-consuming process is prone to errors and incurs substantial hidden costs.
A punchout catalog offers a streamlined alternative by creating a single, centralized system. This eliminates redundant data entry, drastically cutting labor costs and freeing up your team to focus on revenue-generating activities like sales and product development. With a “single source of truth,” all buyers have immediate access to the latest information, eliminating communication delays and boosting overall efficiency.
Mitigating the High Cost of Order Errors
Inaccurate orders from static catalogs are a hidden drain on profitability, leading to costly cancellations, returns, and customer frustration. When customers order with outdated pricing or product information, it creates a cascade of expenses.
A punchout catalog minimizes these issues by providing real-time pricing and availability, drastically reducing costly order errors and protecting your profit margins. For buyers, this ensures they order at the correct, pre-negotiated price, improving their budget control. This accuracy saves significant time for both your and your customer’s accounting teams by eliminating the need to reconcile incorrect orders.
ELECTRONIC PURCHASE ORDERS AND INVOICES: Accelerating Your Order-to-Cash Cycle
Manual processing of purchase orders and invoices significantly delays payments. By switching to an electronic system, you can automate this workflow and dramatically improve your company’s financial health. This automation directly reduces Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), giving you faster access to working capital for reinvestment.
It eliminates manual tasks like printing, mailing, and data entry, while frictionless three-way matching of POs, invoices, and receipts ensures quicker approvals and payments. For buyers, electronic invoicing provides clear visibility into their spending and enables them to capitalize on early payment discounts, making your system more valuable.
ENHANCED USER SHOPPING EXPERIENCE: Driving Adoption and Compliance
A clunky procurement interface discourages use and leads to “maverick spending” from unapproved sources. By providing a familiar, user-friendly punchout catalog that mirrors your public website, you can significantly increase user adoption.
This drives spending through approved channels, maximizing contract compliance for your customers. A positive and intuitive experience also reduces the need for extensive user training, lowering support costs for both you and your buyer’s organization.
INCREASE CUSTOMER RETENTION: From Supplier to Strategic Partner
In today’s market, customer retention is key. Punchout integration embeds you into a customer’s daily operations, elevating the relationship to a strategic partnership and creating high switching costs for them. This “stickiness” forms a strong barrier for competitors and significantly boosts customer lifetime value.
By simplifying the buying process, you help your customers enforce procurement policies and consolidate their spending. This strategic alignment fosters deep loyalty, ensuring a more predictable revenue stream and strengthening your market position.
If a punchout catalog and its associated ROI seem right for your organization, contact us at 1-877-415-3237 or use the form below to discover how we can help you achieve these results.
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Testimonials
The Greenwing team helped us quickly create a professional punchout catalog.
The process was much faster and easier than we anticipated, and they did a great job answering all of our questions and helping us from start to finish.
After reviewing eight other punchout suppliers, we decided to partner with Greenwing Technology, because they took the time to fully understand our multitude of requirements. They were able to clearly explain, and even recommend, the solutions needed to address each of our challenges, end-to-end. Jeremy Friedman and his team have been responsive since day one, and Greenwing continues to be our trusted partner for all our punchout needs. Their developers are US-based, and have met all of our requirements on time and within budget. We are privileged to work with the outstanding team at Greenwing!
As a small company with limited back-end e-procurement knowledge, it was a blessing to have Jeremy and the team at Greenwing represent Fidelity as we integrated our portal with a major corporation. Working with Greenwing, our project was completed in a professional and timely manner and we came off looking like a pro.