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Before startingUpdated 25 days ago

Welcome to selling with Amplife®.

*Disability is everybody’s business, and affects everybody. Our mission is to help & empower the disabled community*. 

Even though people have had disabilities since the beginning of time, they often have difficulty finding the products, services, events, information and community they need to thrive in their Amplife®. Experiencing this ourselves, we founded Amplife® to connect the community with listings that are disabled-owned, disabled-designed, or disabled-solutions.

Our curated disabled-only marketplace connects you with the largest (1 billion+ people) and only minority group that anybody can join, at any time, along with their friends and family, who have a spending power of $13 trillion [1].

Is Amplife® right for my business?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: The worldwide disability prevalence is at 15% / 1 billion+ people [2]. They all need products, services, and events. No matter your business or size, disability is everybody’s business.

How it works

Whether it’s selling directly to the customer or via a prescription, to free consultations then billing insurance companies, Amplife® understands the various business models within industries.

Unlike most marketplaces, Amplife® lets vendors sell on and off amplife.co. Because of this, you can choose a selling plan that fits your needs.

All vendors can create an unlimited amount of listings for free.

With Standard Selling Plans, you only pay when the listing is sold.

With Showcase Selling Plans, you pay a monthly subscription for the listings to lead off amplife.co to your chosen sales channel.

Customers find your listings from pages, unique URLs on amplife.co such as the home page, listing detail pages, the page where a customer makes a purchase decision such as adding to cart, and collection pages, the page displaying multiple listings together based on similar attributes such as "Your Brand's Collection".

All vendors can be on both Standard and Showcase Selling Plans to sell some listings on amplife.co (Standard Listings) and some on a different sales channel or different process, such as a free consultation (Showcase Listings).

Some listings and vendors are required to be on a Showcase Selling Plan, such as selling durable medical equipment via a prescription. After submitting your application, your selling plan will be determined based on your provided information. 

There are additional services and programs available to vendors, such as Amplife® Stores & Amplife® Premium Content, and Amplife® Love.

Signing up is free and you can change your plan at any time.

Standard

Unlimited free listings. Pay fee when the listing is sold.
Transaction completes on amplife.co.

  • Vendors that can sell directly to customers.

Enterprise Standard 

Unlimited free listings. Pay set agreed upon fee when the listing is sold.
Transaction completes on amplife.co.

  • Vendors that cannot sell directly to customers, need a distributor/dealer to sell the listing, or need the listing delivered with service options.

Showcase 

Unlimited free listings. $24.95/month to lead off amplife.co to your chosen sales channel.
Transaction completes off amplife.co.

  • Vendors with few or no dealers/distributors.

Enterprise Showcase

Unlimited free listings. $99.95/month to lead off amplife.co to your chosen sales channel.
Transaction completes off amplife.co.

  • Vendors with dealers/distributors or that are conglomerates.

Standard Order Process

Showcase Order Process

  • A customer finds your listing on amplife.co which leads to your chosen sales channel.
  • They order your listing off amplife.co.
  • You fulfill the order on the sales channel.
  • You pay Amplife® a monthly subscription to have your listings lead off amplife.co to your chosen sales channel.

Learn more about choosing your selling plan.

Support the Community with Amplife® Love

Supporting Causes that help & empower the disabled community is imperative for Amplife®.

Amplife® Love is a simple way for customers to choose and support their favorite Cause every time they shop, at no extra cost to them or the Cause. Amplife® Love is available at amplife.co.

When customers shop with Amplife® Love, Amplife® will donate 1.43% of their eligible purchase price to the customer’s chosen Cause.

All donation amounts generated by the Amplife® Love Program are remitted to the Amplife® Foundation. In turn, the Amplife® Foundation donates those amounts to the Causes chosen by customers on amplife.co. Amplife® pays all expenses of the Amplife® Love Program; they are not deducted from the donation amounts generated by purchases on Amplife® Love.

You can contribute and match our donation for a possible total of 2.86% donated to the Cause. If you choose to match, the 1.43% is deducted from your payout on each order where a customer chooses a Cause (Standard Selling Plan) or your subscription is increased by 1.43% (Showcase Selling Plan) where you can choose which Cause receives your donation. 

Vendors that participate receive the Amplife® Love Badge, “[Your vendor name] matches our donation of 1.43%” on all of their Standard Listings, and “[Your vendor name] donates to Causes” on all of their Showcase Listings, letting customers know that you support the community.

The amount that Amplife® donates as a result of your participation in Amplife® Love is not tax deductible by you. If you have any questions about your tax situation, you should contact your advisor.

Participating in Amplife® Love as a vendor is optional, does not affect your ability to sell with Amplife®, and you can join or leave the Amplife® Love Program at any time.

What can be listed

Products, services, and events are allowed to be listed.

A listing is anything offered through Amplife®. It’s made up of details such as the Title, Price, and Description. All listings must comply with all laws and regulations, as well as Program Policies.

Only the original manufacturer/producer/service provider can be vendors and create listings. Resellers, used listings, and third-party sellers are not allowed at this time.

Some categories require additional approval to list, such as ensuring that you are licensed to sell and deliver durable medical equipment.

General listings are not allowed. All listings must serve the disabled community:

Disabled-Owned

Founded, owned, operated or controlled by people with disabilities.

Disabled-Designed

Created, developed or produced by people with disabilities.

Disabled-Solution

Solves a problem for people with disabilities.

What you’ll need to get started

To maintain a high-quality curated marketplace, there are minimum requirements and information needed from all vendors before being accepted and paid out if applicable:

After registering

After completing the application and being accepted, you’ll have access to the Vendor Portal, the home to all the information about your business on Amplife®. You can access account settings, add & update listings, fulfill orders, manage payments, and find helpful resources.

Some vendors may use the Vendor Portal more or less depending on how they create listings and if they get paid out (Standard Selling Plan).

Creating listings

Amplife® offers numerous ways to create, manage, and sync your listings with your business. 

Individual and bulk upload

All vendors can create individual listings or bulk upload via CSV within the Vendor Portal.

Syncing with e-commerce platforms

All vendors who use Shopify can install our partner app, Garnet, to access real-time integrations, receive orders, fulfill orders & send tracking numbers, edit prices & stock, and publish/unpublish listings from Amplife® within the Shopify admin.

All vendors who use Etsy, WooCommerce, Nuvemshop, PrestaShop, BigCommerce, or Magento can sync with Amplife® to access real-time integrations, edit prices & stock, and publish/unpublish listings from Amplife® within the e-commerce platform.

All vendors who use Google Sheets can sync their listings with Amplife® to access real-time integrations, validate your spreadsheet, and import new listings within Google Sheets.

Amplife® API

Vendors who would like to have API integrations are upgraded to the Enterprise Standard Selling Plan or Enterprise Showcase Selling Plan if selling off amplife.co. 

The Amplife® API offers the following capabilities:

  • Create/Read/Update/Delete listing submission
  • Read/Delete Live Listings on Amplife®
  • Read/Fulfill orders
  • Read finance lines (including earned amounts and payments)
  • Webhook notifications to receive notifications in real time

API integration is useful when you have development capabilities and can build an integration between your website and Amplife®.

Alternatively, we can provide such integration by working with developers who are well-versed with our API.

Listing review

After sending your listing for approval, it will be sent to Pending on the Vendor Portal while Amplife® reviews it to ensure your listing serves the disabled community.

  • If approved, it will moved from Pending to Live, and customers will be able to find it and purchase it on amplife.co (Standard Selling Plan) or purchase it from your chosen sales channel (Showcase Selling Plan).
  • If denied, it will stay in Pending, and we will explain in detail why it was not approved, including any specific Listing Guidelines or Program Policies that your submission didn’t follow. You can contact us to resolve the issues before resubmitting the listing.

Price and stock updates are essential. Any price or stock update submitted will automatically be approved and update the live listing.

Fulfill orders

After a transaction is completed on amplife.co between you and a customer, the order displays in the Orders page of the Vendor Portal, and e-commerce admin panel, such as Shopify, if you’ve synced your listings.

You manage all of your Standard Listing orders from the Orders page in your Vendor Portal, where we provide you with the order information

If you are not on the Showcase Listing, then you will fulfill your orders on the chosen sales channel of that listing. You do not receive any order information from Amplife® as the transaction is not completed on amplife.co.

All order information is confidential and can only be used to complete orders or to respond to customer service questions. You cannot share the information with third parties or market to customers.

The process of preparing and delivering listings from an order is referred to as order fulfillment:

  • picking and packaging products in an envelope or box
  • labeling the order for shipment
  • shipping the package with a mail carrier

Receiving orders

When you receive an online order:

  • You receive a new order notification by email
  • The Orders page of the Vendor Portal shows the new order
  • The customer receives an order confirmation email
  • Order fulfillment begins

Shipping method

All vendors can specify their shipping methods for Standard Listings at their cost:

  • Free
  • One-Day 
  • Two-Day 
  • Standard 
  • Value 
  • International

You can also integrate with custom or in-house logistic software.

Order status

The status of the order reflects the stage the order is in the process:

  • Fulfilled - All line items have been fulfilled
  • Unfulfilled - No line items have been fulfilled
  • Partially fulfilled - Some line items have been fulfilled, but not all
  • Canceled - All line items have been refunded or canceled

Order amount

Vendors have access to their order total, and not the total order value if your order is part of a larger order. 

The Orders page contains your order total amount. The Finance page is split by line item. Tax is properly split depending on the line items' taxation details.

How will I know when someone was referred from my Showcase Listing?

Amplife® does not receive any information when a customer completes a transaction from your sales channel with your listing leading to it. If your sales channel tracks the conversion details, such as “Converted after a visit from amplife.co”, then you will be able to know when they were referred from your listing.

Get paid

After an order is fulfilled, you can receive your payout for the order.

If you are not on the Standard Selling Plan, then you will not receive a payout from Amplife® as the transaction did not complete on amplife.co.

You manage all of your finances from the Finance page in your Vendor Portal, where we provide you with the financial information for the order:

  • Payment status (paid/unpaid)
  • Order number
  • Date
  • Listing name
  • Unit price
  • Quantity
  • Discount (if applied)
  • Taxes
  • Commision (amount Amplife® receives from the total amount)
  • Payout (amount you receive from the total amount)

Vendors are paid 30 days after the order is fulfilled. Amplife® provides your net sales payment through an electronic funds transfer to your Stripe account’s designated payout method.

Grow

Amplife® offers programs to help drive discoverability and build brand experiences, such as Amplife® Stores & Amplife® Premium Content. Use these to showcase your brand’s badass offerings.

Get started

Learn how to get started by creating your Amplife® Vendor Account.


Sources

[1] “Driving Disability Inclusion Is More than a Moral Imperative – It’s a Business One.” World Economic Forum. Link

[2] World Report on Disability - World Health Organization. Link

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