About eBlox
Booted up in 1999 by co-founders Andrew Barton and Brent Buford, eBlox provides e-commerce solutions for companies in the wearables, promotional and incentive businesses. After 25 years, our focus remains on building flexible, customizable web solutions that integrate easily with ERP, accounting, SSO and fulfillment operations.
We are an employee-owned company based in Texas and Arizona.
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Our core values:
- Transparent pricing with no transaction fees
- High-touch customer service, from single web stores to large enterprise customers
- Products built, hosted, serviced and supported entirely in the USA
- Software designed with customization and integration as core principles
A brief history in logos:
Experience and Independence
While consolidation accelerates in the promotional and wearables industry – with all the players, including suppliers, distributors and technology companies – eBlox has remained an independent, employee-owned company with all operations based in the USA.
We started with the idea of building a CMS (content management system) for promotional products websites, and shook up the industry in our first year of business with “myNorwood” for Norwood Promotional Products, which had over 15,000 free distributor websites within a few months of launch.
A few years later, we acquired another industry company, PromoOrder, taking over their company store business and rebuilding their technology stack.
Since then, we have specialized in all things company store-related, which turns out to be a lot more variety than we ever could have imagined when we first started building the platform that would become storeBlox CS. That platform now handles tens of millions of dollars in transactions every year for distributors both large and small.
We will continue to remain a fiercely independent technology provider in the years to come. We hope you’ll join us!
No Transaction Fees
You’re used to seeing other parties take their own share of your profits – credit card issuers, processors, bill payment systems, and so on – and the numbers add up. We’re determined not to add to the gradual erosion of your profits with transaction fees.
While transaction fee-based stores can be very appealing for low volume programs, once you start doing any real volume, they actually become more expensive than the flat-rate hosting that we charge. And really, who wants to run nothing but low-volume company store programs? When you graduate to higher volumes, you’ll quickly realize that the low-cost, “unlimited” store program you’re on is actually more expensive than our regular rates and licensing programs.
Now, you may say “well, I’m already paying three percent to the credit card people, what difference will another few points make?” At low volumes, maybe not much. But most transaction fee-based stores not only charge percentage based fees, but also small flat fees per transaction. You may not even notice them at first.
Finally, many transaction fee-based stores actively penalize you for success, with higher and higher rates as your order volume increases. With eBlox, you’ll pay the same rate whether you’re getting 100 or 1,000 orders per month.
Volume Licensing
Once you have a few company stories under your belt, you may find that it becomes much easier to add even more of them. When that happens, many of our customers choose to move to a license model, where they pay a monthly flat fee along with a small fee to activate stores.
Licensing can accommodate all sorts of situations, from a half-dozen stores to 500. Once you get past five stores, it makes sense to talk to us about licensing and how it can make scaling your company store operation much more affordable.
Interested? Fill out our contact form or drop us a line and we’ll start the conversation!