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The open marketplace model

BRINGING ON The model we're building

Sell across a network of decorators.

Distributors build a catalog — a mix of decorator products and their own — and sell. The distributor raises the PO for blanks; the decorator decorates and ships. Brandfora is the layer in between.

Building — this page shows the model, not a live product. Rail A, the Fulfillment PaaS, is shipping today.

Rail B · Open Marketplace

Distributors sell. Decorators decorate and ship. We route between them.

STEP 01

Build a mixed catalog

Combine decorator products with your own — sourced via network and inventory providers — into one catalog.

app.brandfora.com/catalogue/curated
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IMPORT FROM DECORATORS + OWN
STEP 02

Sell print-ready

Curate into stores and quotes; every line resolves to a print-ready outcome.

app.brandfora.com/rfq
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QUOTE → STORE · PRINT-READY
STEP 03

Raise the PO

The distributor raises a PO on its inventory-provider account; blanks ship to the decorator.

app.brandfora.com/orders/po
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DISTRIBUTOR PO · SANMAR / S&S
STEP 04

Decorator decorates & ships

The decorator decorates the delivered blanks and ships to the buyer (Leg 2).

decorator.brandfora.com/orders
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DECORATOR · DECORATE → SHIP

The two-leg model

The distributor buys. The decorator ships.

The distributor raises the PO on its own inventory-provider account; the blank ships to the decorator, who decorates only once it arrives and ships to the buyer. The buyer sees one order — never the routing.

Raise the PO

The distributor raises a PO on its own inventory-provider account.

DISTRIBUTOR PO
Blank delivered

Leg 1 — the blank ships to the decorator’s warehouse. Freight absorbed as COGS.

SUPPLIER → DECORATOR
Decorate & pack

The decorator decorates only once the blanks arrive, then packs.

DECORATOR
Leg 2 to buyer

The decorator ships to the customer. One order, one outbound rate.

DECORATOR SHIPS

Leg-1 blank freight is absorbed as COGS — never shown to the buyer. Decorator : distributor is many-to-many. Source is pinned at import time.

What it routes across

Providers and networks the system works with.

These are sources and fulfillment routes, not commercial partners. Each carries the status the code actually supports — the full list lives on integrations.

Inventory
SanMarROLLING OUT

Catalog ingest and cost sync run today; the PO flow is verified against SanMar’s Test environment.

S&S ActivewearBRINGING ON

Catalogued in the Integration Hub. Next after SanMar.

alphabroderBRINGING ON

Catalogued in the Integration Hub.

Decoration & fulfillment
FulfillEngineRUNNING
TaylorOnDemandRUNNING
ShipStationROLLING OUT

Live carrier rates verified 2026-08-06; label purchase and the tracking webhook are unverified.

HelloPrintBRINGING ON

EU fulfillment. Being brought on.

Who runs on this rail

Two sides, one clearing spine.

Distributor / sales networkSell across many decorators.

Import products from a decorator's Master into your own, curate into stores and quotes, and sell under your brand. Orders route to the owning decorator to fulfill.

Fulfillment partner / decoratorTake orders from the network.

Source, decorate, and fulfill for distributors selling under their own brand — network (one leg) or PO + self-fulfillment (two legs).

Need this running today? Running your own platform, not selling across a network?

Rail A, the Fulfillment PaaS, is shipping today — white-label, and it's yours to brand.

See the Fulfillment PaaS →

Be first when the marketplace opens.

We'll bring you in as decorators and inventory providers come online.