The Premium Vendor Program is open to inquires from any and all vendors in the jewelry industry who wish to get started. We try and make it as hassle-free as possible, and are willing to assist with any questions someone might have.
Requirements to Get Started
In order to get started, we first need to begin the discussions. If you have not already done so, please email assets@punchmark.com and mention your interest in the program. After that, we will need to decide which route to take in order to get your product data. Ultimately, we will need a CSV file with your product data that we can ingest. There are a few different approaches we can take.
FTP access
An API endpoint
Emails
No matter which way you choose to deliver this data to us, we will need the data to include the required columns discussed in the ‘Data Formatting’ article in order to properly import the data into our platform. If there are any errors in the data, we will reach out via email in order to attempt to resolve them.
Product data MUST include the required columns discussed in ‘Data Formatting’
Next Steps
After we receive your product data, or development team will begin to ingest this data into our platform. Your products will not be made available immediately, but instead will be hidden to anyone other than the Punchmark team until the vendor approves the style in which their products are represented. In order you to see your products and approve them, our development team will make a demo site specifically for your products. You are strongly encouraged to thoroughly review all facets of this demo site, as it will include the brand page and all of the products which will be displayed on our clients' live sites.
After approving the demo site, we will then allow clients to see your name in their ‘Find Brands’ list. This will allow them to request subscription to your product catalogue as well as subscribe to your brand page.
Retailer Requests
Each time a retailer requests to use one of your brands, you will be notified via email and given the option to either approve or deny their request. Upon approval, the retailer will then immediately be able to install your products onto their site and start offering them for sale. We keep a record of each subscription request as well as all currently approved retailers, and this data is available upon request via email.
Maintenance of Your Products
Now that we have made your products available to our clients, all that we need from you is to continue to respond to retailer requests and update your product data with us as soon as changes occur. Depending on the route you chose to deliver this data, you may or may not need to notify us of changes in your catalogue. If you set up an FTP which you regularly update or gave us access to your API, we should not need to notified; however, if you are sending us data via email, we will need you to email us each updated spreadsheet.
We will need to be notified if anything changes in the way you structure your data