Invoicing and Fulfillment Strategies
When a digital creates a article various decisions have to be made which define the invoicing and fulfillment strategy.
Using own articles
These article have been self-created and have not been imported from 3rd party digitals. In this case the local digital does warehousing, sales, fulfillment and invoicing of the goods. No 3rd party is involved.
Using articles of 3rd parties
When articles of a 3rd party are used, the local digital needs to define the intermediary business strategy, which can be:
If the local digital decides to eventually advertise the product with his catalogs but does not want to do the local stockpiling, he has these intermediary business strategies:
- Non-commercial - this is the default strategy of b-op which enables transparent markets. This enables the customer to directly contact the ultimate supplier and request the supplier of the good to purchase it there directly.
- Commercial strategy - this is a strategy which allows making money out of information / e.g. trade, commission fees, curation fees, ...
Commercial business strategy
When the marketplace business strategy is applied, the using party has to define the applicable invoicing and fulfillment strategy.
Available invoicing strategies
The user must pick one of those
- regular invoicing to customer [default] - the customer will receive a bill from the catalog providing digital
- comission invoicing to customer - the customer will receive a commission fee invoice from the catalog providing digital
- commission invoicing to article source - the supplier will receive a commission fee invoice from the catalog providing digital
Available fulfillment strategies
This user must pick one when creating a new product. This only impact of this option button is to create the default fulfillment flow.
- regular fulfillment by digital [default] - the customer will receive a goods defined by the fulfillment flow setting
- fulfillment by article provider - the supplier ships the product to the customer (ignores the
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