What is Trade?

Tradesource facilitates a Capacity Exchange or B2B Marketplace that uses "Trade Dollars" (or "Trade Credits"), a digital currency operating within a closed-loop system. These credits act as IOUs, backed by the participating businesses themselves, similar to the Swiss WIR Bank.

Essentially, it's a peer-to-peer network where businesses trade goods and services directly using Trade Dollars. This system provides a flexible way for businesses to exchange value within the capacity exchange.

TRADE Is Simple!

Use what you have, to get what you need,
through complementary transactions.

Trade Benefits

Tradesource has over 1,000 businesses that have joined the trade network and have enjoyed trade benefits associated with membership.

These businesses understand that by paying for expenses with trade income instead of cash, it allows them to have more cash available for other things.

This “new” money goes straight to their bottom line. Take a look below at the many trade benefits created by participating in the trade network.

Trade Increases Sales

Tradesource markets its members to hundreds of local businesses and thousands of businesses nationally that are potential customers over and above your daily cash-paying customers. Member businesses will make incremental sales because of the demand of buyers looking for trade opportunities from within the trade network.

Trade
Improves Cashflow

With the capacity exchange businesses use the Trade Dollar as the medium of exchange.

There are two main ways to increase cash flow – more sales and reduced costs. Using trade does both! Trade allows you to pay for what you need with what you have, allowing you to preserve working capital for other needs.

When you use trade instead of cash to purchase needed products and services, you reduce your cash costs by paying for them with revenue generated by new trade sales. When you purchase something using trade credits, it will be paid for with new sales that probably would not have happened without a membership in the trade exchange.

Trade Means Wholesale Buying Power

The real cost of the products you purchase on trade is actually the wholesale cost of your trade credits earned. Making sales with built-in profits makes the cost of your purchases more economical on trade. When you join Tradesource, you open the door to a new, cash-free way of handling everyday business and personal expenses.

Leverage Trade

A business can leverage trade to its fullest capacity by engaging in a variety of trade strategies. These strategies range from using trade to collect receivables to creating strategic partnerships in the trade network.

Trade Moves Excess Stock

and Fills Idle Production Time

Every business owner struggles with the dilemma of what to do with extra inventory or idle production time. Trade provides a tool to put that excess to use in profitable ways. Tradesource matches your product or service with businesses looking to purchase them on trade. It’s a win-win situation.

Trade Provides a Competitive Edge

Tradesource participants patronize your establishment over the competition, because your Tradesource affiliation is an incentive to do business with you. Tradesource attracts new customers to your business without affecting the existing cash sales already being generated by your company.

Trade Means No Bad Debts

Trading takes the hassle out of collections. When you make a trade sale to a Tradesource member, you can call the corporate office in advance for authorization to verify that the member has the trade credits to pay for their purchase from you. Then, upon order completion or delivery, a simple signed transaction slip submitted to Tradesource will confirm the transfer of funds. It’s that simple.

Tradesource Makes Record-Keeping Easy

Tradesource works like a bank, providing record keeping and administrative services for your trade activities.

Direct trading often becomes cumbersome at record-keeping time.

With Tradesource’s convenient clearinghouse concept, there’s no need to keep track of the credits traded.

We use state-of-the-art technology to track sales and purchases and provide an easy-to-read, itemized monthly statement. Plus, the Member Website is available for transaction processing anytime that you want

Trade Strategies

Pay with Trade Credits

When a vendor outside the exchange tries to sell you something you want, offer to pay for it in trade credits. Feel free to negotiate full or partial trade payments with anyone pursuing your business. Your broker will expedite all the necessary paperwork to set up an exclusive vendor account.

Collect Receivables with Trade Credits

If a business does not have trade credits with which to pay you, we may be willing to accept their products & services so that you can be collect the amount due you.

Sell for Trade Credits

When a prospective client outside the exchange will not buy your product or service, and you really want the business, offer to sell it for trade credits. If your prospective client does not have an account, we’ll set it up so you can make your sale.

Pay Creditors with Trade Credits

When you are short on cash, Tradesource will be happy to open an account with one of your creditors so you can settle all or a portion of your debt with trade credits.

Pay Trade Credits Bonuses to Employees

Many of our clients use trade credits to reduce payroll or to flesh out a bonus program. Our web site offers countless ways for your employees to spend their trade credits.

Travel on Trade Credits

Use the travel department for business travel and personal vacations. Tradesource has a large selection of hotels, resorts, cruises, and other travel opportunities available from around the world. Be sure you get acquainted with our availabilities

Use Sub-Account Contracts

Set up sub-accounts for family, employees, and vendors who do not want to join the exchange. Paying trade to sub-accounts is as easy as writing a check. The only difference is you don’t spend any cash. Sub-account contracts are available from your broker.

Advertise with Trade Credits

Use the media department to convert your trade credits into cash customers. One of the best ways to spend your trade is in advertising that can help your business grow.

Donate Trade Credits to Charity

Donate trade credits to your favourite charity. Simply tell your broker to whom you would like to donate credits, and we will see that it is done. We’ll also help the charity spend those trade credits on things it needs.

Use the Client Referral Program

Give your broker referrals to those businesses that could benefit you and the exchange. The reason Tradesource has been able to build the country’s largest independent retail barter company is that it has developed a highly successful client referral program. Ask your broker for details on our current award program.