PunchOut Rocket: Your Plug & Play, Ready-to-Go B2B PunchOut Solution
Integrating your e-commerce store with your B2B clients’ complex e-procurement systems can seem like a monumental task—expensive, time-consuming, and fraught with technical hurdles. It typically requires months of custom development, dedicated teams, and a significant budget. But what if you could activate a professional, secure, and customized PunchOut connection in just a few minutes, without writing a single line of code?
Welcome to the Plug & Play philosophy of PunchOut Rocket. We have transformed a notoriously complex process into a simple, guided experience, allowing you to focus on what truly matters: selling your products and strengthening relationships with your strategic clients. Our solution acts as an intelligent bridge between your online store (WooCommerce, NopCommerce, Magento, and many more coming soon) and any procurement system using standard cXML or OCI protocols, such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Jaggaer, and Oracle.
Let’s walk through just how easy it is to get started.
Activate Your PunchOut Channel in Three Simple Steps
Our approach is built on an intuitive logic: install, connect, and configure. That’s it.
Step 1: Install the Plugin in Your Familiar Environment
The first step takes place directly on your e-commerce platform. Whether you use WooCommerce, Magento, or NopCommerce, we’ve created a dedicated plugin that installs just like any other extension. There’s no need to learn new, complex systems or grant access to your source code. Simply install our plugin from the official marketplace or our website, and your store will be instantly ready to communicate with our cloud platform.
Step 2: Sign Up on PunchOut Rocket and Connect Your Store
Once the plugin is installed, the next step is to create your account on the PunchOut Rocket platform. The registration process is instantaneous. After your first login, the dashboard will guide you through setting up your first e-commerce site. All you need to do is enter a descriptive name and your store’s URL. In just a few clicks, your e-commerce store will be registered in our system, ready to be activated.
Step 3: Activate a Flexible, Limitless Subscription
To unlock the full power of PunchOut Rocket, you need to activate a subscription for your site. Our pricing model is designed to be transparent, predictable, and scalable. The subscription is tied to the individual e-commerce site you want to enable, but its real strength lies in what we don’t limit:
- No Limit on Client Companies: You can connect 1, 10, or 1,000 end customers without any additional fees. Our platform is built to scale with your business.
- No Limit on Users or Orders: We will never charge you based on the number of your clients’ users who use the PunchOut or the volume of orders they generate. Your success is our success.
Once you activate the subscription through our secure payment portal, your site will be active and ready for you to configure your customers.
The Core of Customization: A Unique Experience for Every Corporate Client
The real challenge in B2B sales isn’t just getting connected; it’s offering each client the exact shopping experience they expect based on established commercial agreements. PunchOut Rocket excels at this, thanks to a powerful and granular “End Customer” configuration system.
Perfectly Replicate Pricing and Catalogs with User Cloning
How can you ensure that “Company A” sees only its dedicated catalog and negotiated prices, while “Company B” has access to a completely different price list?
The concept is both simple and ingenious:
- Create a Reference User in Your E-commerce Store: Inside your WooCommerce or Magento admin, create a standard user account (e.g., client_A@yourstore.com). Assign this user the correct price list, discount rules, visible product categories, and any other conditions stipulated in your framework agreement.
- Specify it in PunchOut Rocket: In the End Customer configuration on the PunchOut Rocket platform, you simply enter the email or username of this reference user.
- The Magic Happens: When a user from “Company A” initiates a PunchOut session from their e-procurement system, PunchOut Rocket will instantly generate a new session based on your reference user. The result? The customer will browse your site seeing exactly the products, prices, and conditions you’ve prepared for them. No duplicate catalogs, no complex configurations. Just total, centralized control, managed directly from your e-commerce platform.
Detailed Configuration for Protocols, Logistics, and Units of Measure
Beyond catalog and price visibility, every client has its own technical and operational requirements. With PunchOut Rocket, you can customize every detail:
- Native cXML and OCI Support: For each client, you can select the correct protocol (cXML or OCI) and enter the specific credentials they provide (such as FormIdentity, SenderIdentity, SharedSecret, etc.). Our system will handle the communication transparently.
- Lead Time Management: Do you have different delivery times for different clients? Set a default “Lead Time” for each End Customer, which is crucial information that will be transmitted with the shopping cart back to their procurement system.
- Unit of Measure (UoM) Customization: Some e-procurement systems are rigid and require specific codes for units of measure (e.g., ‘PCE’ instead of ‘EA’ for “each”). With PunchOut Rocket, you can easily override your standard UoMs to match what the client’s system requires, ensuring perfect compatibility and preventing order errors.
With PunchOut Rocket, “Plug & Play” doesn’t mean a one-size-fits-all solution. It means a powerful solution that adapts, molds, and conforms to the unique needs of each of your business relationships—all through a simple and intuitive interface.
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