The primary operating unit in Patisco is Trading Unit (TU). TU is on behalf of a Buyer and a Seller at the same time. TU can invite its related business partners to be its Buyer or Seller. After the invitation process is completed, TU will be able to view the products posted by its Seller partners and place orders to them. On the other hand, TU can also post its products for the related Buyer partners to view and for them to place orders. When the Buyer or Seller is getting familiar with this service, they can also up grade themselves to become a TU. This behavior can be influential and create a Patisco Network.
In the Trade Unit(TU) account, users can assign Assistant and Manager accounts to the company personnel for better jobs and responsibilities distinctions.
TU Account has the following features:
You can invite your customers and suppliers to enjoy Patisco services.
You can selectively transferthe products offered by Sellers to your own marketplace and your Buyers will be able to see and place orders.
When buyers are browsing the Available Product offered by sellers, buyers can initiate Customization process.. By doing so, buyers can specify the required product specification, packing, or ideal price based on the orinal product. The seller can later discuss these requirements and their capability through this function. All the discussion history will be recorder for future reference.
Customers can easily preview the products offered by the suppliers, comparing these published products, and drag the products into the shopping cart. Patisco system will automatically categorize products into the shopping carts which share the similar attributes and issuing the corresponding Order Inquiry to the Seller. When an Official Order is established, its related negotiation and communication material will be contained for future reference. The orders can also be printed out or downloaded in other formats for required operation purposes.
Communication function is a blog type of communication platform with built-in authentication restriction. It is capable to combine product info, order info, and other communications under one topic. This design will not only make it easy for users to define, categorize, and search for the required information, but also make it very clear to track and understand each incident by its consequence. Users can name their tags and tag on each or several messages. With these tags, messages can be grouped by different combinations. Therefore, all the messages can be arranged according to users’ desire.