Suppliers are people who are willing to provide international delivery services and can send products from their home country to requesters looking for foreign products but facing difficulties in the buying and/or delivery process. For these delivery services suppliers can request a fee from the requester.
Suppliers have two options to find requesters who need their help:
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Suppliers can identify themselves in Kwoodle as supplier so they can be found by requesters that use the Kwoodle “Find Supplier” function.
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Actively use the Kwoodle “Find Requests” function to browse through pending product delivery requests created by requesters and initiate the contact to requesters for requests where the supplier thinks delivery services can be provided.
1. Identify me as a supplier
When you want to be found by requesters looking for a supplier you can identify yourself as a supplier at “Create Supplier Contact”. The following information needs to be specified:
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Create request fields
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Usage
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Title
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A one-line introduction of you being a supplier. Clearly visible in the “Find Supplier” supplier listing.
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Country
Matching field
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Specify the country from where you can provide delivery services.
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Product category
Matching field
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Select the relevant product categories for which you can provide delivery services.
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Supplier text
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Free text to promote yourself as a supplier and add information on for instance average delivery time, shops in your neighbourhood, certain specific products from your country that requesters might be interested in.
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Shipping info
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Free text to add information on the shipping options you use for your delivery services.
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Fee info
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Free text to add information on what fee your request for your delivery services.
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Payment details
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Free text to add details on how you would like to be paid for your delivery services.
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2. Find requests
The “Find Requests” option allows suppliers to find requests for which a supplier is being searched. In this screen suppliers specify:
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the country suppliers can provide delivery services from
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the relevant product category the supplier can provide delivery services for.
and Kwoodle will present open foreign product requests for which a supplier is being searched.
To narrow the search suppliers can add product keywords in the search criteria.
For found requests suppliers can view additional request details by clicking the “detail“ link. When suppliers want to contact a selected requester they click the “contact” link and via the Kwoodle messaging system suppliers will be able to initiate a message to the selected requester.