Frequently Asked Questions

Product creation is the most costly component of building an e-commerce or catalog website.

Entering suppliers product data into your website can easily take hours per product, and more if there are configurators. Product titles, descriptions, features, specifications, images, configurators, and documentation are all important details to source, enter, and format.

A multi-brand catalog can easily have 2000+ product series. One well-presented product series can take 4+ hours for a merchant or channel partner to create. The cost to manually build a catalog can balloon quickly.

For example:
2000 product series at 4 hours per product, multiplied by $25/hour, equals an initial build cost of $200,000.
The time-to-build is 8000 hours, or two-hundred 40-hour work weeks, for one data entry person, equating to 3.84 years. That's not including breaks, meetings, etc.

Once refreshment & meal breaks (60-minutes/day) are factored in, the above time-to-market increases by 1000 hours or 6-1/4 months, bringing the time-to-build to 4.6 years and the cost to $225,000. for one individual. Additionally, vacation days need to be accounted for.

Dividing this data entry project between three team members can reduce this time-to-build to 1.53 years, however the labor cost does not decrease. There is also the opportunity cost - products not yet built cannot be promoted or sold on the site.

When you compare this to the ultra-efficient process of adding 20 Yodify DEC brands with a combined 2000 products to your catalog in a single day, it's clear why brands and channel partners use Yodify DEC. Countless catalog-ready products can be added to websites in minutes.

With Yodify DEC, the vast majority of the site expense is eliminated, enabling DEC channel partners to effortlessly display thousands of products.

Channel partners' one-off manual builds of their suppliers catalogs simply don't have the ROI to justify the time and financial investment, much less the ongoing maintenance of keeping up with manufacturers' evolving product specifications, etc. This is proven time and again with businesses starting their sites with great intentions but soon realizing building one-off product catalogs is a herculean and cost-prohibitive task. Most website platforms don't tell you this, they entice you with a low monthly fee, loads of do-it-yourself features, then lock you in before you find out the hard truth of building your catalog from scratch.

Yodify DEC solves this problem. For every industry.

Yes. You’ll have full access to an intuitive content and catalog management system, allowing your team to update products, content, and assets without technical expertise.

There are no setup fees on any of our plans.

There is a small processing  fee to allow you to accept major credit cards, such as Visa and Mastercard, as payment in your store when ecommerce is enabled. These fees vary depending on the plan that you choose.

Yes. If Yodify no longer fits your business, you can cancel your account. If you are on a 1-year plan, cancellation takes effect at the end of your committed term.