1. What is Ollie?
Ollie is a connected sales marketplace, specific to the liquor industry, which brings licensees, manufacturers, agents, and distributors onto a powerful direct selling technology platform. Ollie has a long list of amazing features (with many more in the immediate future), here are just a few:
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Integrated payment processing
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Pre-orders and back orders
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Unlimited digital warehouses to manage inventory and orders at your locations
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Mobile friendly ordering
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Quickbooks & Sage50 integration
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Multi-brand management (single login)
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Real-time reporting
2. Who is Ollie for?
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If you work in the beer, wine, spirits, or cider industries, then Ollie is for you!
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If you run a restaurant or liquor store and order beer, wine, spirits, or cider, then Ollie is for you too!
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If you run a bar or pub, then Ollie is for you too!
3. We Love Ollie! Do You Have a Referral Program?
Info about our referral program:
- For every brewery that an Ollie customer refers to us that comes onboard with Ollie, we'll compensate the referring brewery with a $500 gift card of their choice.
- Referrals are submitted by the brewery via our Ollie referral submission site.
- Please note that this offer is only applicable to new business referrals and returning businesses to Ollie (60+ days churned, referred by an active Ollie customer) are eligible.
4. How Does Ollie Save Me Money?
Ollie will save you more than just money. It will save you time, energy, and heartache too. Managing regulation, reporting, and compliance is a costly endeavor. Managing the administration of orders and suppliers is costly too.
But, in reality, when you’re not on Ollie, you’re leaving money on the table.
Consider this British Columbian example: Order management, BCLDB batch reporting, inventory management, and payment processing take approximately 10 hours a week for a small to a mid-sized brewery. If you’re paying someone minimum wage of $18/hour, the cost of compliance and administration of your fledgling liquor business equates to $180 per week or $780/month.
$18/hour x 10hours administration = $180/week or $780/month.
But, for less than the cost of 3 cappuccinos a week, you could be up and running on Ollie.
That’s not even including the money you could earn through Ollie’s Buyer Platform.
We don’t present those rough calculations as a basis for a business case to launch into a headcount reduction program. Rather, we encourage you to imagine all the things you and your employees could do to build your business rather than being bogged down by red tape and administrative tasks! Increase your efficiency with the only order management platform that has been designed for BC liquor businesses and book a demo now.
5. Do You Only Work With BC Liquor Companies?
While we were born in beautiful British Columbia, we have grown south of the border! If you are based within the United States we can work with you right now, or we'll make it happen very soon - drop us a line!
6. What Aspects of My Business Can Ollie Improve?
Ollie directly improves your order and inventory management, payment processing + invoicing as well as reporting. However, in liberating you of the time you’d have otherwise spent on these tasks, Ollie can improve all aspects of your business.
7. I Do the Majority of Sales Through the BC Liquor Distribution, how can Ollie Help Me?
We work with Direct Tap, ContainerWorld, and Fremont Distribution, and can work with your private distribution. However, Ollie doesn’t integrate with the BC Liquor Distribution Branch so if you distribute a lot of packaged products through their facilities, we might not be the best fit for your business operations right now. Why? BC Liquor Distribution Branch doesn’t integrate with Ollie. We hope this will change one day.
8. The Operations of My Business are Complex, what Level of Customization can Ollie do?
Ollie is truly unique as the only technology solution already customized specifically to meet the needs of alcohol makers and sellers. However, our Customer Success team can work with you to create processes to suit your needs.
9. The Ollie Team
Who is Ollie? We're a team of passionate people working on the complex problem of organizing the chaos of alcohol. Ollie is made up of a small, dedicated team including customer support staff, software engineers, business development and design.
Please don't hesitate to contact our support team if you have any questions, we'd love to hear from you! 🙂
Contact info:
✉️Email: support@ollieorder.com