Finance, Tax & ERP Tools

Tax Management

• Flexible and customizable tax rules
• State, county and city based tax rates configurations
• Country-based tax rates available
• Tax rates can be set at the product level or globally
• Tax reports by zip code
• Tax reports by county
• Tax reports by state
• Tax reports by jurisdiction
• Flat tax option
• Simple bulk upload of quarterly tax updates from zip2tax

Financial Reports

• Profit Report
• Reconciliation Report
• Export and/or integration with numerous accounting systems

Professional Services

We realize no two businesses are alike. Unlike so many other ecommerce solutions, we do not require organizations to adapt how they do business to use the Upshot Commerce Platform or extensions. Quite the opposite. While the Upshot Commerce platform and extensions are ready to take on the world upon on-demand, our nimble, flexible environment is easily adaptable to solve your business needs.

The Upshot Commerce team of ecommerce strategists and engineers has been envisioning and creating custom ecommerce solutions for over eighteen years. Whether your ecommerce site must integrate with an ERP, account or legacy system, we can help.

The Tax Man Cometh

Despite how many years Upshot Commerce has been in the business of online retail, it is still a relatively new economy.  As such, the rules that govern and define it have been fluctuating and changing since we very first began this business in 1994.  We’ve had the pleasure of witnessing many of these changes, including technological advances, expanding definitions of intellectual property, and increasingly novel ways of marketing products and services in an online environment.

One particular shift that we’ve been following for at least the past 10 years is the growing concern over the taxation of online goods.  The online environment has long enjoyed the unique position of advancing technologies ahead of the progress of regulatio... Read more

Black Friday Breakdown: The New Enterprise Revolution

I am writing this on Black Friday, right in the middle of the busiest day in retail.  It’s around midday, so we’re coming down from perhaps the peak of the insanity, and pundits and polesters are already starting to comment on and speculate over what this shopping weekend has meant and will mean for retail stores and ecommerce retailers in the future.

One trend that we are seeing is a growing realization of the limits of big box ecommerce solutions.  Already, retailers such as Best Buy have experienced extended site delays due to errors and unexpected levels of site traffic. Issues similar to this continue to occur and ... Read more

BlueCherry Tackles Complexity of Apparel Ecommerce

Few customers are likely aware of the full scope of complexity that goes into the manufacture and distribution of a simple t-shirt.

Regardless of the size or scope of your company, when it comes right down to it, apparel is a global and complex industry.  In a recent series of podcasts, National Public Radio’s Planet Money looked into all the steps that go into the making a t-shirt, from growing the cotton, all the way to selling and distributing it. Retailers in the apparel industry will not be surprised to learn, it was more complicated than they thought. To view the NPR Planet Money series, check out Stealing Our Way to a T-Shirt.

Unique Challenges of the Apparel Supply Chain

Managing a product supply chain can be a sourcing and logistical challenge. Take childre... Read more

Managing Sales: the Hands Off Approach

In economically uncertain times, many businesses are turning to their sales departments to increase revenue by capturing new clients and increasing market share.  However, being able to effectively manage and direct a successful sales team can sometimes be difficult.

As Katherine Graham-Leviss points out in her article, “Tips to Manage a Successful Sales Team,” many of the qualities that make for a successful salesperson do not necessarily make for someone who is easy to manage. Successful salespeople often have strong personalities; they tend to be big picture people, who are persuasive and charismatic.  The flip side of those characteristics is that salespeople can often also be impulsive, disorganized and lack attention to detail.

The result in many sales departments is a great deal of conflict between sales agents and managers.  The question is, how can one effectively encourage ... Read more