DEC for Brands - Frequently Asked Questions

Modernize your business, scale your operations, and drive revenue with a centralized, brand-fed digital catalog and e-commerce solution. Yodify lets you instantly deploy products from your top brands, automate updates, streamline quoting and sales, and serve your customers with unprecedented speed and accuracy.

Key Value Propositions by Stakeholder

CEO / General Manager

Scalability & Competitive Edge
Be first-to-quote and first-to-close with a centralized platform that keeps your product data up-to-date across all categories and brands.

Future-Proofing
Compete in a digital-first marketplace with a fully integrated online catalog and e-commerce engine that evolves with your business.

Brand-Partner Alignment
Yodify DEC aligns your company more closely with your most strategic brands by using their authorized, accurate product data.

Chief Operating Officer

Operational Efficiency
Drastically reduce time and resources spent on product management, pricing errors, and catalog maintenance.

Error Elimination
Automated updates from brands eliminate costly mistakes and minimize return rates and rework.

Chief Financial Officer

Cost Savings & ROI
Save thousands of hours and dollars in product creation, reduce overhead, and shorten sales cycles. The platform pays for itself in operational efficiency and accelerated sales.

Risk Reduction
Fewer misquotes, fewer wrong parts, fewer manual uploads means tighter controls and improved profitability.

Sales Manager & Sales Personnel

Faster Quotes, More Sales
Prebuilt product data = faster quote turnaround. Easy-to-use configurators and accurate brand-supplied data help sales close faster and more confidently.

Lead Generation
Your online catalog becomes an inbound funnel—quote requests and RFQs come to you.

Search-to-Quote
Turn complex product searches into instant opportunities using guided tools and brand-approved SKUs.

After-Sales Support / Tech Services

Product Accuracy
Reduce troubleshooting caused by incorrect specs or outdated information.

Documentation Access
Always have the latest manuals, datasheets, and installation guides at your fingertips—brand-supplied and automatically updated.

Why Both Yodify Pro/Premium + DEC?

• Pro or Premium gives you the front-end store and catalog infrastructure to attract leads, quote, and sell online or offline.
• DEC powers your store with real-time, brand-controlled product data—removing the burden of building it yourself.
• Together, they eliminate the biggest blockers to scaling a modern industrial distribution business.

Common Objections & Counter-Responses

1. “We already have a website/catalog.”
Response:
Most distributors have websites—but not live, searchable, brand-fed catalogs that auto-update, serve documents, handle quoting, and attract new customers.
Yodify replaces manual catalogs with dynamic, scalable, revenue-driving tools. You’re not replacing your brochure—you’re upgrading your sales infrastructure.

2. “We don’t have the time to migrate.”
Response:
You don’t have time not to. Manual product entry eats hundreds of hours. Yodify Pro + DEC eliminates that step—brands supply the data; you just add it to your catalog.
Within days, you can launch with thousands of SKUs prebuilt by your brands.

3. “Our reps don’t sell online.”
Response:
This isn’t about replacing reps—it’s about empowering them. With Yodify, reps quote faster, win more often, and have fewer errors. Plus, your catalog becomes a sales tool they can use in the field or on the phone.
Online access is table stakes for a modern customer.

4. “It’s too expensive.”
Response:
Compared to the cost of a full-time catalog manager or the hours lost to manual quoting, Yodify is a fraction of the cost.
You’ll realize ROI quickly through faster quotes, fewer errors, increased lead capture, and operational savings.

5. “What if our brands don’t support it?”
Response:
Hundreds already do, and the list is growing. Many brands are pushing toward centralized digital distribution—and if yours aren’t yet, we’ll help engage them.
Even if a few aren’t on DEC yet, you can still build your catalog using Pro/Premium tools.

If you represent 5 to 100+ brands, Yodify is the only platform that allows you to launch a feature-rich digital catalog or store in days, not months—without the burden of product creation. Your brands do the heavy lifting, and you get the operational control, sales growth, and digital credibility your business needs.

You can update your products whenever you like. There are no limitations or associated charges with updating your products yourself.

Yodify's data staff is also available to perform manual product updates for you upon request. You can view our data rates here.

Yodify takes privacy and security very seriously. If you would like to have an NDA in place before starting a relationship with Yodify, we are happy to review yours or provide you ours.

Products, categories, filter criteria, and other brand content are housed in the DEC Brand Library, which is only accessible to particular Channel Partners at the brand's sole discretion.

Channel Partners can browse available DEC brands and request access to their products to use in their catalogs, which can be assessed and acted upon on an individual basis.

Manufacturers always retain complete ownership of their product data.

The use of their product data is beholden to the terms they establish for their channel partners.

There are complete change logs that track every change made to your products, categories, & MPNs on the Yodify platform.

Changes made through integrations will also be visible, but they will not have an associated user ID linked to those changes.

Brands determine who can access, view, and use products from their Brand Library. Only with express consent can channel partners add products from your DEC Brand Library to their Yodify-powered sites.

Syndication ensures the opposite — your partners get a centralized, always up-to-date source of truth for your product data. Rather than each partner maintaining their own version (which risks errors or inconsistencies), you retain control over the core content, branding, and updates, while still allowing room for approved customization.

Yodify DEC allows you to implement pricing tiers, region-specific strategies, or restricted access to certain SKUs depending on your specific partner relationships. This eliminates price conflicts, and creates further efficiencies in the management of your channel network.

You maintain full control over what gets syndicated. Sensitive technical details or documents can be permission-gated, redacted, or excluded. Yodify can help your enforce access rules, usage limitations, and more.

Yodify is cost-effective and easy to adopt, even for partners with limited digital resources. With options like pre-built templates, co-branded microsites, and zero-code product syndication, partners can quickly get up and running without heavy investment or technical expertise.

DEC delivers consistent core data, not cookie-cutter storefronts. Your channel partners can localize the messaging, showcase relevant applications, add their branding, and emphasize region-specific content — all while keeping product specs, images, and documents accurate and aligned with your brand.