Marketplace

The Unimarket Marketplace makes your searching, shopping and purchasing experience easier than ever. We’ve streamlined the shopping process with features, such as: Guided Buying and pop-up community messaging.

Marketplace Menu Overview

Marketplace: Functions as a home button and takes users back to their dashboard.
Purchasing: Easy access to Create Non-catalog item, Create Blanket Order, Request Quote and Request Supplier (if enabled by the community and the user has the appropriate role).
Lists: Directs users to their existing shopping lists.
Orders: Directs users to the View Orders screen.
Transactions: Offers the option to select View Requisitions, Receiving, View Requests for Quotes and additional options depending upon the user's role.

The Marketplace interface consists of many convenient features for users, such as:

The Search Products or Suppliers field at the top of the screen.
Supplier tiles are condensed slightly. So more suppliers are visible on the Marketplace Home screen.
The Find Supplier field, is a quick search tool that can be utilized to locate desired suppliers.
If enabled, the Favorites Only toggle allows users to see those suppliers marked as their favorite (once the heart icon, is selected).
Suppliers with catalogs can be accessed, by selecting the desired supplier tile as a a shortcut.
The Sort By menu gives users the ability to filter the Marketplace suppliers panel by Supplier Tags.
Filters offers a more customized search by providing the Select Tags field, once selected. The Select Tags drop down will display a list of existing supplier tags, users can choose from.

Guided Buying

Guided buying is a Marketplace shopping feature that categorizes suppliers.

Guided buying fosters compliant spending by directing buyers toward preferred suppliers while incorporating configurable product tags, such as: Eco-friendly, Local Vendors, Office Supplies, and Vendor Diversity, just to name a few.

Should your organization elect to utilize this functionality, your buyers will discover the guided buying section within the Marketplace. In the absence of defined and assigned collections lists, this section will not be visible in the Marketplace.

Note: For additional information on how to customize your community's Guided Buying, refer to help articles: Community Management and Tags.

Community Messaging Pop-up

The Community Message Pop-up provides allows Communities to customize messages seen by users when landing in the Marketplace and Learning Center.

Users can acknowledge and close the pop-up by selecting "Mark as read". However, if a Community Administrators makes any changes to the information contained in this message, it will trigger a new pop-up message for all users to ensure they view the updated information.

Note: If a user needs to review the Community Message or Quicklinks, they can click on the Learning Center icon at the bottom left corner to access the information at any time.

For additional information on customizing your community's Community message, refer to help article: Community Profile.

Learning Center

When logged into Unimarket profile, users can access our community alerts/reminders, help articles, product news, tutorials, additional information and Unimarket Support team.

To access community alerts/reminders, help articles, tutorials and additional information about the Unimarket software, select Learning Center on the bottom left corner.

Users can view information within the following tabs:

Community: View the current Alert/Reminder set by your community. As well as, any Quicklinks added by the community.
Help: Access Unimarket online help articles.
Product News: View all recent Product News updates of future enhancements, etc.

Create Shortcut

The Create shortcut icon allows users to begin creating a Non-Catalog order, Blanket Order, Request Supplier or Request Quote by clicking the dropdown arrow. The options provided to the user is dependent upon their assigned role.

View Supplier Profile

When hovering over Supplier tile on the Marketplace Home screen, the View Supplier icon will appear.

Once View Supplier is selected, the supplier's profile will populate displaying the Company Details, Company Address, Contact Details.

View Supplier Hosted Catalog

When hovering over Supplier tile on the Marketplace Home screen, the View Supplier and Catalogs icon will appear.

Once View Supplier is selected, the supplier's catalog will populate.

The supplier's hosted catalog screen offers easy product browsing, using the below features:

Sort By field: Customize the sorting by Relevance, Name A-Z, Name Z-A, Lowest and Highest Price, Code A-Z, Code Z-A.
Grid View: Catalog items will appear in a grid format
List View: Catalog items will appear in a list format
Add to List: Add items to user's new or existing Shopping List

View Supplier Details/View Transactions

When hovering over Supplier tile on the Marketplace Home screen, the View Supplier icon will appear.

Once View Supplier is selected, the supplier detail screen will populate to view:

Company Details
Company Address
Contact Details

Dependent upon the user's assigned role, additional options, such as: Supplier Profile, View Transactions and Create icons, may appear.

If the supplier has a hosted catalog, users will see the Shop tab (to view the suppliers catalog/product listing), and the About tab (to view the supplier detail screen).

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