How to sell items you don't own (Add to My Equipment)
A customer wants a networked item you don't own? Add it to My Equipment for read-only access, then quote and sell it for a commission - it works both ways across resellers.
Step-by-step
- My Equipment shows owned or shared items; the network has thousands more.
- Find the networked item in the shop.
- As a reseller, click add to my equipment (read-only access).
- It appears in My Equipment - add it to a quote and sell it.
- It works both ways: others can sell your items for commission too.
Full transcript
Here's a powerful one - selling items you don't own. If a customer wants a networked item, you can add it to My Equipment and sell it for a commission.
Your My Equipment shows only items your company owns, or items shared with you - but the network has thousands more, published by other owners. Your instinct as a reseller is to make money on those too - to sell something you don't own and earn the commission. Take a partner store - by default LabTrader shows its own ninety-three products, but a buyer can click the reseller filter and see the whole network's inventory. So a customer finds an item on your site that you don't own, and asks you to sell it. Go to the shop and find that item - here, one owned by another company. Besides add to cart, because you're logged in as a reseller you have add to my equipment. Click it and you get read-only access to the item. Now it's in your My Equipment - you can see its profile and add it to a quote, exactly as before, and sell it for a commission. And it works both ways: other resellers can add your items and sell them to their customers too. The whole network helps everyone sell.