DEC for Channel Partners - Frequently Asked Questions

Of course! There are always going to be instances where you may need to build out a product or products that are specific to your business and not available through DEC Brand Libraries.

Every Yodify Admin Portal comes with complete product creation, categorization, filtration, and presentation functionality. 

Products from DEC brand libraries can only be used in Yodify-powered catalogs or websites.

Yodify sites offer a high degree of flexibility in their use and deployment. While a complete Yodify solution is optimal, many Yodify clients link between their non-Yodify website and their Yodify catalog/e-commerce site to leverage DEC products and Yodify's powerful quoting and sales functionality.

DEC Brand library products can be used in your catalog to serve as lead generators, make use of the CPQ functionality, serve as an invaluable internal and external reference, and serve as the foundation of your website to boost customer confidence in your business.

Add ecommerce when and if you want, completely at your pace. Many Yodify clients start with a digital catalog with ecommerce on some consumable commodity products they always keep in stock and scale from there.

A catalog with 700 configurable products can take 2,800 hours or 70 weeks for one person to build¹. That’s $56,000 at $20/hour. This cost doesn't include keeping products updated as brands evolve them.

Catalogs often have 2,000+ products, taking the minimum build cost to $160,000 and 8,000 hours (over 4 years).

Calculate your exact savings with our DEC Channel Partner Calculator.

The immense resources required are why most give up building their catalogs; it’s too time-consuming and expensive, and the ROI simply isn’t there.

Yodify gives you access to unlimited pre-built products. All for a highly reasonable monthly subscription and it takes as little as 3 hours to go from nothing to a fully populated catalog site.

It saves you almost everything.

¹Assumptions for building one configurable product:

• 4 hours.
• Hourly wage of $20/hour.
• Assumed standard 40-hour workweek (unrealistic as it is).
• The product includes a product name, description, images, features and benefits, specifications, configurator, applications, and documentation (brochures, certifications, data sheets, manuals, etc.).
• All the information is readily available.
• US dollars.
• Excludes office space, equipment, and administration.

Contact your brand and have them grant you authorized access to their brand library for your use in your Yodify Catalog.

You can also request access from your Admin Portal by clicking "Request Brand Access" on individual products, or the brand itself. 

Visit your Admin Portal and click add by product or add by brand.

There you will find options to add products from Brand Libraries that you have been granted authorized access by the brand to us

With Yodify DEC, each channel partner simply adds the brands product catalog to their site.

Channel partners skip the entire process of building and maintaining products; instead, they simply link or add web-ready brand catalogs to their website.

Channel partners often represent multiple brands, with each brand having dozens or hundreds of products. It’s common for channel partners to represent thousands of products.

Realistically, channel partners don’t have the time nor the resources to efficiently create all the products they sell for each brand, nor are they able to keep the products up to date as they evolve.

Yodify DEC enables channel partners to add entire brand catalogs to their websites with a single click, saving significant time and cash. With Yodify DEC, channel partners go from zero to 100 in minutes, leaving the competition behind.