Swatchbox is a unique sample fulfillment platform that connects building professionals with building product manufacturers.
With proprietary software designed by insiders of the building design community, Swatchbox helps building product manufacturers distribute samples to architects, interior designers, contractors, and other members of the design community with speed, intelligence, and style.
How does Swatchbox work?
Your experience with Swatchbox will differ based on whether you are a designer ordering samples or a manufacturer shipping out samples.
Swatchbox for Architects and Designers
As a designer, Swatchbox is as simple as it gets. It all starts with a platform called Swatchbox Pro.
What is Swatchbox Pro?
Swatchbox Pro is a unified sample platform for architects, interior designers, and other building professionals to explore and request building product samples for free expedited shipping.
Swatchbox Pro brings together thousands of samples from the world's top building product manufacturers.
Architects and designers can browse material samples, view collections of curated products, add to their cart, and check out for free with lightning-fast shipping to arrive at their door the next day or second day, depending on their location.
Everything ordered by an architect or designer arrives in one recyclable box, eliminating up to 43% of carbon emissions that would otherwise be expelled from individual shipments from manufacturers around the world.
Then, once the designer is finished with their order, they can return any samples they don't want any longer. If the item is in good condition, it can be placed back into inventory and recirculated to other designers. Otherwise, the item can be recycled through the Swatchbox Sample Recycling program.
Swatchbox for Manufacturers
On the manufacturer side, Swatchbox is designed as a service for building product manufacturers to improve the sample fulfillment process for their customers without having to build out any additional infrastructure. Here’s how it works.
How Swatchbox works for Building Product Manufacturers:
- Ship us your samples. We place them in inventory and integrate them into our proprietary sample management platform.
- Install the Swatchbox web app. Swatchbox’s e-commerce plugins for samples allow you to embed our sample management engine onto any page on your website. This typically involves (a) embedding a Sample Storefront on a central Samples page on your website and (b) embedding an “Order Sample” button on product pages that launches the Swatchbox Engine for a specific product.
- Launch your products on Swatchbox Pro. In addition to your own site, watch as architects and designers discover your products on Swatchbox and place samples requests.
- Sit back and relax. As designers come to your site and order samples, the orders will be received by the Swatchbox system, picked and packed by the Swatchbox Team, and shipped for delivery within 1-2 business days of the order date.
- View and report on order information and key metrics from Swatchbox Analytics. Our proprietary Analytics platform is your portal to access and manage insights regarding your sample program. From leads to geographic analysis and product trends, Swatchbox shows you metrics that can help you understand where your focus is most needed.
- Replenish and add options as needed. Our inventory system will provide alerts and requests for sample replenishment when inventory levels for any product are low. At any time, you can add samples, collateral, or bonus treats to your Swatchbox inventory at no additional cost.
Built for Branding
Swatchbox doesn’t stop at smarter sample fulfillment.
Ask any designer: samples present an incredible opportunity to “wow” prospects with your brand. When samples arrive in unlabeled, impersonal, ragged boxes that are weeks or even months late, your brand is at serious risk.
Swatchbox’s team of designers works with manufacturing partners to make sure this never happens. From custom sample kit design to branded packaging and shipping materials, bonus perks, and custom white-glove treatment of key customers, Swatchbox helps manufacturers turn their sample program into an exceptional brand experience.
Your customers – and your sales – will thank you.
How do I get started with Swatchbox?
As an architect or designer, just head over to Swatchbox Pro and get started discovering material samples!
If you’re a manufacturer interested in using Swatchbox to replace or complement your sample ordering process, get in touch with us here.
Designers: Do you have a manufacturer that you’d like to see step up their sample game? Sometimes our favorite brands just need a little help. Submit a request for a manufacturer to join Swatchbox here.
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Swatchbox is a premier sample fulfillment service for building product manufacturers. With proprietary software designed by insiders of the design community, Swatchbox helps manufacturers improve product sales and brand affinity by delivering material samples to the design community with speed, intelligence, and style. Learn more and join Swatchbox at www.swatchbox.com.
