IdeaRoom collaborates or has formal partnerships with the following types of companies:
Payment providers (financing, rent-to-own, credit card)
Marketing and web development service providers
3rd party software service providers
Marketing channel partners
Shed and carport manufacturers
Component and part manufacturers
Partnership Types
Payment Providers: Financing, RTO, Credit Card
IdeaRoom provides a checkout process that allows consumers to select a payment method and related payment options like financing terms. For credit cards, IdeaRoom integrates with Stripe and Authorize.net payment gateways. These integrations allow a consumer to charge their credit card for the deposit amount and complete their online order.
For financing and RTO payment options, IdeaRoom works with providers to integrate with IdeaRoom’s checkout process. In the simplest form, an integration will expedite the creation of a financing contract by pushing customer and order information to the financing provider’s database. For more comprehensive integrations, a consumer can complete a financing or RTO contract online and finish checking out.
Partnerships with financing companies provide natural benefits for all stakeholders in the transaction:
Consumers benefit from the flexibility to choose a payment method or financing option that best fits their financial situation and increases their purchasing power.
Financing providers benefit from the greater visibility of their products in IdeaRoom and the improving efficiency. In the case of technical integration, providers benefit from the detailed data IdeaRoom can provide about the product and the increased process efficiency for completing the contract.
Manufacturers and dealers benefit by better serving their customers with flexible payment options. This typically results in an increase in the number of sales and the overall average sale price.
IdeaRoom benefits from producing better results for our clients, and many financing providers promote IdeaRoom to their
Marketing & Web Development
IdeaRoom focuses on producing more effective marketing and sales results for our clients: increase conversion rate, increase sales price, improve sales efficiency, and reduce selling costs. IdeaRoom works more effectively when marketing efforts drive more, higher-quality traffic to our customer's website. For this reason, many of our most successful customers make significant ongoing investments in internet marketing: content marketing, SEO, advertising, social media marketing, etc…
We appreciate working with a new customer that is already using a marketing or web development firm we’ve worked with in the past. These implementations typically go more smoothly as the partner firm is already familiar with our service and how to most effectively integrate it into the website.
Marketing and web development firms provide the following types of services for IdeaRoom’s clients:
Publish DNS records to deploy the production instance of IdeaRoom for release.
Update the website with calls-to-action that send prospective customers into IdeaRoom.
Run a marketing campaign around the release of IdeaRoom to generate renewed customer interest.
Re-design the website to most effectively incorporate IdeaRoom into the complete customer journey.
Incorporate IdeaRoom building design links into ad campaigns, landing pages, social media content, and other email or content marketing campaigns.
3rd Party Software Service Providers
Other Business Service Providers
While marketing and web development are the most common service providers we partner with, there are other business services IdeaRoom’s customers need to make them successful. Examples include:
IT services or custom software development firms that implement, integrate, or extend software for businesses (CRM, ERP, Point-of-Sale, Accounting, etc…). IdeaRoom has an API and devkit for integrating the software with other SaaS software services or custom software solutions.
Business consulting firms that help companies improve their sales, marketing, accounting, fulfillment, manufacturing, or other business functions and processes. For example, most companies change their marketing practices and sales process to make the most effective use of IdeaRoom. Some companies also use the output produced by IdeaRoom to improve their manufacturing and fulfillment processes.
Partnership Benefits
Due to current conditions in the marketplace, demand for IdeaRoom’s service is high, and most of our customers seek us out. More than acquiring new customers, our most productive partnerships help our customers use IdeaRoom more effectively to meet their business objectives.
Integrated Services
Mutual Customer Referral
IdeaRoom’s online checkout capability provides greater value when integrated with more of the payment options our customers support.
Financing providers benefit by closing more financing contracts
IdeaRoom helps your customers sell more buildings at higher price points.
IdeaRoom makes your financing products visible and integrated into the customer’s purchasing process.
Consumers have more purchasing power and payment options that best fit their needs.
their financing products more visible and available to consumers.
Referral Agreements
IdeaRoom has standardized referral agreements for sharing revenue with partners for customers referred to.
Partnership Costs
Software Integration
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