About supplierlive

The promotional products industry solved its data problem years ago and then mostly ignored the solution. PromoStandards gives every supplier a common way to publish catalog data, pricing, inventory, purchase orders, shipment notifications, and invoices. Most of the big suppliers implement it. Very few distributors ever touch it.

So the work still gets done by hand. Someone quotes from a PDF that was current last quarter. Someone promises stock that sold out this morning. Someone retypes a purchase order into a supplier portal, gets a digit wrong, and finds out three weeks later when the wrong goods arrive at a customer.

supplierlive connects to those same services and puts them behind one screen. Search every catalog at once. See the price your account actually gets, including the sale you did not know was running. Check real inventory at real warehouses. Send the purchase order electronically and watch the acknowledgement, the shipment, and the tracking come back on their own.

This is the part that matters most and it is worth being blunt about. You connect your own supplier credentials. Your suppliers bill you directly, on the terms you negotiated, at the pricing you earned. We are not a middleman on your goods and we do not take a cut of them.

Your pricing, your margins, and your customer list are yours. They are never shown to a decorating partner, never shown to another distributor, and never used to build a competing catalog.

Buying blanks is only half a job. The other half is decoration, and it is where most of the phone calls, email threads, and reprints live. So decoration is built into the order rather than bolted onto the side: placements on the garment, artwork saved against the customer, a real mockup, and print-ready files produced from that artwork.

The work itself routes to a network of vetted decorators and art services providers at published rates, so you know what a job costs before you quote it. Goods ship blind under your branding, because your customer relationship is yours to keep.

Distributors who sell decorated apparel and promotional products, from one person working alone to a team of sales reps who each need their own book of business kept separate.

If you are a decorator or an art services provider rather than a distributor, there is a different door for you. We are building the network out now.