Trading electronically means that time and money is saved in postage costs and administration responding to requests for quotes and sending invoices. It also means that there is a much greater likelihood of being paid on time.

• Reduce time and labour receiving orders (Orders can even go straight to back-office systems e.g. Sage line 50)
• Less time generating quotes Issue automatically generated invoices
• Eliminate postage costs and delays
• Eliminate / reduce costs involved in printing catalogues

• On time payment of invoices
• More accurate payment of invoices
• More accurate ordering / less costs from “returns”
• Take card payment for smaller orders eliminating bad debt and helping cash flow

Once a supplier has an @UK website set up, a list of all the buying organisations on the @UK marketplace can be viewed within the back end of their website. These include around 100 schools, councils and hospitals. This provides a great opportunity for suppliers to create new business by introducing their business and offerings to these buying organisations.

Suppliers can then set up accounts for new customers within the back end of their @UK SiteGenerator website, with the option of setting up individual pricelists for each different customer.

In addition to gaining access to thousands of potential new public sector customers via the @UK marketplace, @UK websites also provides you with a real presence on the world wide web (or Internet). This provides opportunities to grow your business by selling to other companies and consumers and provides access to a worldwide market.

Search Engine Rankings Getting up the search engine rankings such as Google™ and Yahoo® is an important aspect to marketing your business and attracting new customers. Part of the criteria which the search engines use to index your website involves assessing the amount of links to it from other websites.

When a website is set up with @UK, it automatically becomes part of the huge and ever growing @UK marketplace. This vast network of sites interlinks which helps your search engine rankings and drives even more traffic to your website.