commonsku takes the repetitive parts of a merch order off your team's plate. The Automation Engine watches for work that has stopped moving, like a sales order sitting in Client Approved or an approval nobody chased, and creates the follow-up task for the rep. Electronic purchase orders go straight to Connected+ suppliers, and inventory, order status and tracking flow back without a phone call or email. Supplier invoices are matched against your POs automatically. Zapier connects commonsku to thousands of other apps, so a new order can trigger a Slack alert or a CRM update on its own. AI tools inside the platform search products, generate logo mockups across a product list and rewrite supplier descriptions into client-friendly copy.

Through PromoStandards. commonsku's Connected+ suppliers share live inventory, accept electronic POs and push order status and shipment tracking back into your account automatically. Your reps see where every order stands without sending a "just checking in" email, and your client can see the same in their portal.

Yes. Electronic POs to Connected+ suppliers are built in, and the Automation Engine's follow-up tasks are already in your account, with no setup beyond turning them on. For anything outside commonsku, Zapier connects to 7,000+ apps without code. You do not need a developer or an IT team to run any of it.

No. The Automation Engine ships with follow-up automations that run on their own once enabled. Packaged automations, starting with invoice due-date reminders, are in beta and opening more broadly, and the ability for teams to build their own automations is on the roadmap. If you would rather see exactly what is live in your plan today, book a demo and we will show you inside a real account.

Yes. AI Product Search, the AI Mockup Generator and the Description Rewriter sit inside the commonsku workflow rather than in a separate tool, and they work from your own client and order data. commonsku's AI features are SOC 2 compliant and your data stays within commonsku.

SAGE and ESP help you find and source products, but they do not run sales, manage production, send POs or handle invoicing. A generic CRM tracks client relationships but does not understand promo workflows like supplier POs, ePOs or decoration matrices. commonsku is built for distributors and brings sales, presentations, orders, production, supplier POs and billing into one system, with SAGE, ESP and DistributorCentral product search embedded inside it.

Yes. commonsku connects to QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online and Xero for accounting, Avalara for tax, Stripe and Fiserv for payments, HubSpot and Mailchimp for marketing, Shopify for eCommerce, ShipStation for shipping, and Zapier for everything else. Product data comes from ESP, SAGE, DistributorCentral and PromoStandards.

Most distributors are using the platform effectively within four to eight weeks, depending on the size of the team. A customer success team runs your onboarding, and you get live training sessions, commonsku University for self-paced learning and a knowledge base for reference.

It depends on what you want in place. Follow-up task automation takes about ten minutes to turn on once your account is live, and Connected+ ePOs work from the first order you send. A full migration takes four to eight weeks, so distributors who start now are set up for January and the start of the year rather than December. Either way, the first conversation is a demo, and it costs you 30 minutes.

AI Product Search is available on all plans. The Automation Engine, AI Mockup Generator and Description Rewriter are available on Advanced and Enterprise. Our team can walk you through which plan fits your workflow on the demo.