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Before startingUpdated 22 days ago

Welcome to selling with Amplife®.

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

People with disabilities 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, we let vendors sell on and off Amplife®. 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® to your chosen sales channel.

Customers find your listings from pages, unique URLs on Amplife® 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".

As a disabled-only marketplace, every listing serves the disabled community and helps a disability, empowering customers to find listings for their disability. 

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

After submitting your listing, it will be reviewed. Once approved, listings on the Standard Selling Plan will be live on Amplife®.

Vendors with Showcase Listings will be emailed a link to choose your Showcase Selling Plan and pay for your subscription.

Some listings and vendors are required to be on a Showcase Selling Plan, such as selling durable medical equipment via a prescription.

There are additional services and programs available to vendors, such as Amplife® Brand Experience, Amplife® Agency and Amplife® Love.

Get started for free and change your plan at any time.

Learn more about choosing your selling plan.

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, Description, and Disability Helped. 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.

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 submitting your listing and being approved, 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, manage 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, such as vendors on the Standard Selling Plan.

Creating listings

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

Individual upload

All vendors can create individual listings by copying listings from their website or manual creation from within the Vendor Portal.

Syncing with Shopify Collective

All vendors who use Shopify and meet the eligibility requirements can add listings with Shopify Collective, to access real-time continuous syncing, inventory tracking, receive orders, fulfill orders & send tracking numbers, edit prices & stock, and publish/unpublish listings from Amplife® within the Shopify admin.

Customer orders route seamlessly from Amplife® to the Orders page in your Shopify admin, ready to fulfill. When you ship, you get paid automatically by Shopify.

Listing review

After submitting your listing, it will be sent to the Pending & Rejected Listings page in your Vendor Dashboard within the Vendor Portal while Amplife® reviews it to ensure your listing serves the disabled community.

Note: Vendors syncing with Shopify Collective do not have their listings managed from the Vendor Dashboard. Listings are managed within their Shopify admin. 

  • If approved, it will move from the Pending & Rejected Listings page to the Live Listings page, and customers will be able to find it and purchase it on Amplife® (Standard Selling Plan) or purchase it from your chosen sales channel (Showcase Selling Plan).

  • If denied, it will stay in the Pending & Rejected Listings page with the status as Rejected 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 be approved and the live listing will be updated.

Fulfill orders

After a transaction is completed on Amplife® between you and a customer, the order details are emailed to you and are displayed in the following area:

Fulfill all of your Standard Listing orders from the corresponding orders page, where we provide you with the order information.

Vendors with Showcase Listings 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®.

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 order:

  • You receive a new order notification by email

  • The new order is displayed on the corresponding orders page

  • The customer receives an order confirmation email

  • Order fulfillment begins

Shipping method

All vendors can specify their shipping methods for Standard Listings at a flat rate based on price or weight for each market that a listing is shipped to:

  • Free

  • Standard 

  • International

Order status

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

  • Fulfilled - All listings have been fulfilled

  • Unfulfilled - No listings have been fulfilled

  • Partially fulfilled - Some listings have been fulfilled, but not all

  • Canceled - All listings 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 corresponding orders page contains your order total amount. Tax is properly split depending on the listings' 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®.

Manage all of your finances from the Orders & Finances page of the Vendor Dashboard within the Vendor Portal, where we provide you with the financial information for the order:

  • Order Number

  • Date

  • Order Total

  • Discount (if applicable)

  • Taxes

  • Amplife Love Donation (if applicable, amount Amplife® donates if a customer chooses a Cause, and amount you donate if you match our donation)

  • Payout (amount you receive from the total amount)

  • Listings Ordered

  • Quantity

  • Payout Status (Paid/Unpaid)

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.

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®. All expenses of the Amplife® Love Program are paid by Amplife®; 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.

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 selling with Amplife®.




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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