What a working buyer connection costs
Three tiers, published in full. Most suppliers need the first one — your buyer told you PunchOut was required, and that is all Connect does.
Connect
PunchOut catalogue integration
A working PunchOut catalogue your buyer can shop from.
$2,388 a year · steps down to $129/mo in year two
What you get
- cXML or OCI PunchOut endpoint
- Cart return into the buyer’s system
- One buyer connection
- Buyer-side testing, coordinated by us
- Endpoint monitoring and error handling
Order Loop
PO, ASN and invoice automation
Everything in Connect, plus the documents that follow the order.
$4,188 a year · steps down to $219/mo in year two
What you get
- Everything in Connect
- Purchase order ingestion
- Advance shipping notices (ASN)
- cXML invoicing
- Document-level error alerting
Full Enablement
For suppliers with no catalogue site to punch out to yet.
steps down to from $349/mo in year two
What you get
- Everything in Order Loop
- Catalogue structuring from your product data
- Enterprise-ready catalogue site build
- Product data clean-up and mapping
- Ongoing catalogue maintenance
Which one do I need?
If a buyer has told you "PunchOut is required" and nothing else, you are almost certainly looking at Connect.
“Our buyer said PunchOut is required.”
Connect
A working PunchOut catalogue your buyer can shop from.
What punchout catalogue integration involves →“They also want POs and invoices sent electronically.”
Order Loop
Everything in Connect, plus the documents that follow the order.
What po, asn and invoice automation involves →“We don’t have an online catalogue at all.”
Full Enablement
For suppliers with no catalogue site to punch out to yet.
What custom catalogue build involves →Compared line by line
Every tier includes everything in the one before it.
| Connect | Order Loop | Full Enablement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| cXML or OCI PunchOut endpoint | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Buyer-specific contract pricing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cart return into the buyer’s system | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Buyer coordination and test cycles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Endpoint monitoring and alerting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Purchase order ingestion | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advance shipping notices (ASN) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| cXML invoicing | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Product data structuring and UNSPSC coding | Basic mapping | Basic mapping | Full clean-up |
| Catalogue site build | — | — | ✓ |
| Ongoing catalogue maintenance | — | — | ✓ |
| Additional buyer connections | $450 once | $450 once | $450 once |
| Year one | $199/mo | $349/mo | from $599/mo |
| Year two onward | $129/mo | $219/mo | from $349/mo |
Founding rates
We are taking on our first five suppliers. Those five get the year-two rate from day one, locked for 24 months, rather than stepping down after a year.
| Plan | Standard year one | Founding rate |
|---|---|---|
| Connect | $199/mo | $129/mo · locked for 24 months |
| Order Loop | $349/mo | $219/mo · locked for 24 months |
| Full Enablement | from $599/mo | quoted individually |
| Additional buyer | $450 once | $300 once |
In exchange we ask to write up the integration as a case study. Anonymised if you prefer — we will not name you without asking, and nothing is published without your sign-off.
How the price changes over time
Why year two is cheaper
Year one pays for work that only happens once: structuring your product data, mapping it to the buyer’s catalogue rules, and running the test cycles that get you approved. From year two, what remains is monitoring the endpoint and handling changes when the buyer revises something.
That costs less to deliver, so it costs less to buy. The step-down is automatic and written into the agreement — there is nothing to renegotiate and nothing to ask for.
What a second buyer costs
Additional buyer connections are $450 once, not a recurring fee. This is where per-buyer pricing models get expensive: under a per-connection model a supplier with four buyers pays four monthly fees. Here they pay one.
- 1 buyer — $199/mo, no connection fees
- 2 buyers — $199/mo, $450 once
- 4 buyers — $199/mo, $1,350 once
What we need from you
The unspoken fear is that this becomes an IT project you have to staff. It is not one, and it does not need a developer.
What we never bill for
- Buyer coordination and testing cycles, however many rounds it takes.
- Changes the buyer requires to their catalogue rules after go-live.
- Support tickets, error investigation, or explaining a rejected document.
- Adding products to an existing catalogue.
- Price updates and product supersessions.
Terms
How long it takes
These are working ranges, not promises — and the variable is almost never us.
What actually sets the date is the buyer’s test queue, not the build. Anyone quoting you a fixed go-live is quoting a date they do not control — we wrote up what really controls the clock.
Questions about pricing
What am I actually paying for each month?
A working connection and the operational responsibility for it: a monitored endpoint, the mapping between your product data and the buyer’s catalogue format, and someone who fixes it when the buyer changes something. Integration is not a one-off build — buyers revise their catalogue rules, and an endpoint nobody maintains eventually fails silently.
Why does the price drop in year two?
Year one carries the build: catalogue structuring, buyer coordination, and the test cycles that get you approved. From year two the work is monitoring and change handling, which costs less to deliver, so the price steps down automatically. You do not need to renegotiate or ask.
What happens if the buyer never approves the connection?
You owe nothing and the deposit is refunded in full. The monthly fee starts the day the connection is live in the buyer’s production system, so a connection that never goes live never gets billed.
Is the 12-month term from signature or from go-live?
From go-live. The term and the billing start on the same day, which is the day your buyer approves the connection in production. If you would rather not commit at all, month-to-month is available at a $900 setup fee plus $99 per month, with no step-down.
What does an additional buyer cost?
$450 once per additional buyer connection. It is a one-off charge, not a recurring per-buyer fee — once a buyer is connected, they do not add to your monthly cost.
Do I need a developer on my side?
No. We need product data in a spreadsheet and one commercial contact who can answer questions about it. If your website needs changes to support PunchOut, that work is ours.
Can we move up a tier later?
Yes, and it is the common path. Suppliers usually start with Connect because that is what the first buyer demanded, then add Order Loop when the same buyer — or the next one — asks for electronic invoicing. You pay the difference from the month the new work goes live.
Is there a setup fee?
Not on the annual tiers; the build is carried in the year-one monthly rate, which is why year one costs more than year two. The month-to-month option does carry a $900 setup fee, because there is no committed term to recover the build cost over.
Not sure which tier your buyer’s requirement maps to?
Forward us what they sent you. We will tell you which one covers it — and if the answer is “you don’t need us for this”, we will tell you that too.
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