How HAQM Business works for you

Hundreds of thousands of businesses have moved purchasing to HAQM Business to achieve cost savings goals, reduce procurement complexity and access unmatched selection. HAQM Business empowers business customers by providing transparency of price, delivery options, product ratings, and seller ratings. It creates a level playing field of sellers, and gives buyers access to hundreds of millions of products, from hundreds of thousands of sellers, with price competition that lets customers know they’re getting the right product at the right price.

How does HAQM Business work?
 

HAQM Business gives customers the option to purchase items directly from HAQM, or from third-party sellers. For items purchased directly from HAQM, HAQM is the seller of record, owns the items, and fulfills all orders. For items purchased directly from third-party sellers, they are always the seller of record and own the items. Third-party sellers can fulfill all orders themselves, or choose to utilize fulfillment services offered by HAQM. More than half of total units sold on the marketplace are sold by third parties.

Product offerings from third-party sellers are shown alongside HAQM’s product offerings on a product detail page. By viewing HAQM product offerings alongside third-party offerings, customers are able to select and order goods based on the best price, shipping and seller preferences. HAQM eliminates the need to visit multiple stores or websites for competitive bids. One search on HAQM provides access to a multitude of sellers competing for your business, reducing cost and procurement complexity.

HAQM provides advertising and payment processing for third-party sellers. As part of this, third-party sellers can highlight their seller certifications as part of their listing on the marketplace detail page. Proof of the third-party seller’s claimed certification is also visible to buyers. At present, Seller Certifications are only available to third-party sellers open on HAQM Business.

How does HAQM Business differ from HAQM?
 

HAQM Business provides buyers with access to millions of additional business-only products and features. Some sellers restrict access to certain products because of competitive, regulatory or other concerns. HAQM Business gives those sellers the confidence that such products will only be sold to qualified businesses, and they're only visible to HAQM Business account holders.

HAQM Business provides one-stop shopping across a vast selection for business buyers. This selection can be accessed directly, or via a business’s existing eProcurement solution. HAQM Business also provides administrators with controls to monitor that spending. That includes multi-user accounts, approval workflows and spend analytics.

Meeting business needs: how HAQM Business differs from HAQM.
 

Features include:

• Multi-user accounts and approval workflows
  
  
• Business-pricing and quantity discounts on eligible items
  
  
• Purchase orders and customizable analytics reporting
  
  
• Free two-day shipping on eligible orders of $49 or more
  
  
• Tax-exempt purchasing for qualifying organizations
   

HAQM Business makes it easy for businesses to compare multiple offers on products, and is certified for integration with leading purchasing systems.
 

After a business registers, configures an account, and invites users to join the account, buyers can start their shopping experience on the HAQM Business home page. Buyers search for items their businesses need, view the HAQM and third-party offers for those items, and view the various product details. They can see whether there are offerings from small business or otherwise-certified sellers. After making a purchase decision, buyers choose shipping addresses and payment methods before finalizing a purchase.
 

HAQM Business adds a layer of oversight to the purchasing process. Account administrators can add purchasing approvals to their accounts.
 

Buyers and administrators can track orders through the entire fulfillment process. Purchase orders and analytics allow administrators to reconcile spending within their organizations.
 

HAQM Business helps businesses reduce procurement costs, enables transparency across multiple sellers, and gives businesses access to greater selection and dynamic pricing. In addition, the enterprise-friendly features available on HAQM Business provide companies control over purchasing authority and insightful information about their organization’s purchasing trends.