Specialty Retailer: Sparrow Lane Farms

 

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Sparrow Lane Farms
Client Since: 5/2005

Industry: Specialty Retailer
Submerce System: Submerce Enterprise eCommerce and Content Management


 

THE CHALLENGE: 
A simple, yet customizable solution that would facilitate in managing both retail and wholesale sales channels through a single web-based application.

THE SOLUTION:
Sparrow Lane Farms came to Submerce seeking a cost-effective and easy-to-use  sales order management solution that would allow a mobile sales force to place and manage orders 24/7. The challenge was easy to overcome with the standard, out-of-the-box solution from Submerce and Sparrow Lane's new website and solution was up and running in a just a couple of days. This included properly configuring the base platform, customer backoffice training and importing of hundreds of products. In fact,  within a couple of hours of launch, Sparrow Lane accepted it's first order from a new customer nearly 1500 miles away that found their products through an online search.

"Sparrow Lane is a good example of how a website can be so simple in both design and function, yet provides the level of both product and customer's data that allows their administrative staff offer unparalleled customer service", says Nicole Wilson, one of the many Submerce Specialists at Submerce. "The benefit of both retail and wholesale customers being able to purchase online 24/7 is priceless as Submerce allows Sparrow Lane to offer the correct pricing to each customer based on their own account, continues Wilson. "By using Submerce, Sparrow Lane has managed to cost-effectively showcase a locally-made line of products on an international scale, while spending a tenth of the budget on the advertising and marketing."

Even though Sparrow Lane has been on the Submerce platform for over four years, the relationship between the two companies continues to grow. This comes from a consistent approach of Submerce staying in close contact with their clients and bying growing the Submrce platform by releasing new features that provide new tools and functionality that help customers manage their data, new sales tool and more. Submerce also continues the relationship with online marketing strategies, SEO management, website design and customer communications.

You can visit the Sparrow Lane Farms website by going to www.sparrowlane.com