VARStreet announced its new partnership with Essendant Inc which allows integration between VARSTreet’s distributor feed and the Essendant product catalogue.
VARStreet Inc, the widely popular business management application in the IT reseller industry announced that the national wholesale distributor Essendant is now part of its distributor catalogue.
Essendant Inc, formerly known as United Stationers, headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, is a national wholesale distributor of office supplies, with consolidated net sales of $5.3 billion (€4.4 billion). The company was started in the 1920s and became United Stationers in the 80s, acquired various stationery and office supplies wholesalers like Azerty, Lagasse, etc., along the way to become Essendant in 2015.
The Essendant distributor catalogue includes over 160,000 items including traditional office products, office furniture, janitorial and break room supplies, technology products, industrial supplies and automotive aftermarket tools and equipment.
VARStreet’s software modules include a sales quotation tool, an eCommerce platform, a FREE CRM and an aggregated distributor catalogue with seven million SKUs from over 45 IT and office supply distributors.
VARs using VARStreet as their go-to business management software can now expand their product offerings to include the product catalogue from Essendant. All they require is a reseller account with the distributor and the entire product feed will be auto-synced with their VARStreet sales quotation, CRM and eCommerce modules.
“With Essendant being a part of VARStreet, the national wholesale distributor adds value to our aggregated catalogue,” said Shiv Agarwal, Director of Sales and Marketing, VARStreet Inc. “We also look forward to partnering with current Essendant distributors to build efficient processes for their VAR businesses”.
