Overview

To highlight what is different about Axiom from an e-commerce store, it is easiest to take a quick look at what a traditional e-commerce store and marketplace are:

Axiom is essentially a marketplace of marketplaces. Our clients are able to create marketplaces on the platform and within each marketplace, they are able to invite suppliers. Suppliers are also able to request to join a marketplace. Suppliers only have to upload data to the Axiom platform once, after this, joining any new marketplace is as easy as clicking a button and specifying any additional pricing or product access rules that are desired.

There are three user groups available in the Axiom platform:

Suppliers are users who represent an organisation that supplies/sells products or services.

Suppliers can join any number of marketplaces and can offer any number of products or services when they do so. Suppliers host a Master Catalog of product data, they can choose to share parts or the entirety of this Master Catalog with different Marketplaces. Different pricing, availability and lead times can be specified for different marketplaces.

Operators are users who represent an organisation that purchases products or services. Operators are able to create any number of marketplaces and can onboard any number of suppliers to each marketplace. Each marketplace created can support multiple currencies and multiple regions.

Buyers are users who belong to an operator, buyers can purchase products from any marketplace that they have been granted access to by their operator.

Axiom has several different APIs that let you manage your product data, pricing, stock and availability, make client-side queries for product information, and more...

Please visit our Supplier Quick Start or Customer Quick Start to get started.