Feature Focus – Uniform Management Platform Payment Options

The Smart Red Uniform Management Platform has grown exponentially this year. It has new clients worldwide and impressive in-built flexibility to give suppliers and your customers everything they need to order uniform, workwear & PPE seamlessly.

We’re starting a series on our blog called ‘Feature Focus’. This is a deep-dive into some of the core features of the platform, and how your business can benefit from them. Today we are focussing on the many payment options suppliers can offer when a clients’ staff are ordering uniform.

Purchase Order

If you have agreed contract pricing for your clients, the easiest way to take payment on the platform is by Purchase Order and linking the system up with your finance system to consolidate invoices. This is quickest for staff, who don’t need to enter payment information. And it’s easiest for you, as once you have finished the negotiation over contract pricing/discounts, a steady stream of income can flow without you having to get involved!

To ensure you’re never out of pocket, you can manage credit limits per customer effortlessly on Smart Red.

Credit Card

Smart Red integrates seamlessly with all payment gateways, to allow all users to pay-as-they go online. Authorised staff can use a company credit card to allow them to control their budgets. Or staff can continue to order and pay for items themselves through a standard ecommerce checkout.

Part Payment

Employers want flexibility. For example, if they have uniform allowances in place, and staff go over this allowance, they want to offer their staff the ability to pay for the excess amount themselves. With Smart Red you can authorise this, per client, to ensure that whatever their uniform policy, your uniform ordering platform satisfies all their needs.

Salary Sacrifice

A different approach to the flexibility outlined above is allowing employees to use a salary sacrifice scheme to pay for part, or all, of their uniform. Smart Red implements this, to give employees maximum choice, which keeps them – and your customers – happy!

PunchOut

An entirely separate feature available is to integrate your Smart Red platform with your clients’ own purchase management system through PunchOut. This means that their procurement team don’t need to change their usual method of raising PO numbers, and authorising budget, whilst still giving them the full functionality of installing allowances and approvals when required. For many companies this is the best of both worlds – and Smart Red is configured to offer this with ease!

Get Started

Smart Red offers you and your clients full flexibility, making the ordering process simple and quicker for you to get paid. What more can you ask for? If you’re ready to see this, and many of the other features of Smart Red in action for your business, contact us today to find out more.

Watch To Find Out More

To find out more about the different payment options on offer, and other features of the Smart Red platform, click on the YouTube link below.