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What is Bartercard?
Bartercard is unlike any other credit or debit card because you fund our card with your own goods and services...NOT CASH. Bartercard currently helps over 55,000 smart businesses in 12 countries around the world (over 4,000 in the UK) to increase sales, customer base, cash-flow and profit. Bartercard enables member businesses to exchange goods and services with other Member businesses, saving valuable cash, without having to engage in a direct swap of goods.
How Bartercard works:
A Bartercard transaction is similar to a credit/debit card transaction. Members receive a plastic transaction card and an interest-free line of credit. Trade Pounds are credited to the member’s Bartercard account upon the sale of goods and services through the exchange. Members use their Bartercard transaction card to spend their credit balance or draw on their interest-free line of credit, on goods and services from any other Bartercard member.
BENEFITS OF BARTERCARD
Bartercard facilitates improved business performance to member businesses via increased sales; from having access to Bartercard’s global member database of over 55,000 businesses. This is in addition to improved cashflow, reduced business expenses, and reduced idle or excess stock or personnel time, and many other opportunities.
BOOST SALES
Bartercard members prefer to purchase goods and services using Bartercard Trade Pounds within the Bartercard trade exchange system, as opposed to non-member suppliers who only deal in cash. This results in increased sales opportunities for members and new customers outside the normal geographic market, as Bartercard members go out of their way to buy from another Bartercard member.
BOOST YOUR CUSTOMER BASE
Bartercard introduces new member businesses to over 55,000 member trading customers who may otherwise never be exposed to this member’s goods or services.
BOOST CASHFLOW
Members can pay for business expenses with their Bartercard Trade Pounds, thereby conserving cash for unscheduled expenditures and investment into the growth of their business.
GEOGRAPHICALLY EXPAND YOUR CUSTOMER BASE
Bartercard members can cost-effectively expand their business market reach by using Bartercard’s nation-wide and global directory service, plus the global e-Commerce and Online Auction portals. All global member businesses, including over 4,000 UK member businesses, can access these directories and portals for trading purposes.
REDUCE ACQUISITION COSTS AND BOOST PROFIT
Members gain cash discounts equivalent to their gross margins when purchasing goods and services through the Bartercard network. An example of a 70% discount can be demonstrated by a member who sells within the Bartercard network a £100 good or service that has cost their business £30 to deliver. They receive T£100 credited to their Bartercard account for this transaction. The sale could consist of excess stock or a service delivered in idle time and may not have taken place if the member were not part of the Bartercard network. The Trade Pound credit derived from this transaction enables the member to purchase goods and services to the value of £100, but has a real cost of only £30.
REDUCE DEBT INTEREST EXPENSE
Purchasing goods and services using Bartercard Trade Pounds frees up cash that many Bartercard members then use to pay down interest bearing debt burdens. In addition, Bartercard provides an interest-free line of credit.
REDUCE EXCESS STOCK/PERSONNEL TIME
By trading through Bartercard, member businesses can sell idle or excess inventory or personnel time to the expanded customer base of member businesses that are looking for opportunities to trade, rather than spend cash.
BARTERCARD HOLDS THE MEMBER'S HAND TO TRADE
A Trade Coordinator is assigned to manage relationships between members and to assist them in selling and finding deals through the Bartercard exchange.
THE POWER OF THE BARTERCARD TRADE POUND
The cost to generate the Bartercard Trade Pound is an important underlying benefit experienced by businesses worldwide.
Many fixed costs of producing goods or services are covered through cash sales, meaning that the cost of generating and fulfilling a Bartercard sale is your cost of good or service sold.
Therefore, when you purchase goods or services using Bartercard, although you pay the ticket or market price, you are actually paying for your purchase with your own inventory - which costs you wholesale. In effect, each time you spend a Trade Pound, you save whatever your mark-up profit margin is! This is the power of the Bartercard Trade Pound.
ONLINE SERVICES
Bartercard offer a range of online services to facilitate easy trading. These include:
• 24 hour Online Auction site
• eMARKETplace
• Online directory
