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FreeFlow

A Flex marketplace

Tap into additional revenue streams and accelerate sustainability with our inventory management platform

As a business-to-business marketplace for inventory management, FreeFlow helps you efficiently streamline your remarketing efforts and profit from your retail, returned, obsolete, or excess stock. We designed FreeFlow to deliver real return on inventory and provide a scalable solution with the rigorous controls and transparency that our customers expect.

FreeFlow enables you to remarket inventory to different tiers of buyers while satisfying your channel partner needs and preserving channel and brand integrity. Our customers have the option to access alternative channels to maximize recovery, all while maintaining control over participating buyers and pricing. Bringing 20+ years in expertise, we help you save valuable time by providing more effective remarketing solutions than your existing systems can deliver.

FreeFlow can help you:

  • Gain greater value recovery from excess inventory along with returned, refurbished, and end-of-life products from a single source
  • Move your excess inventory faster through both existing and alternative channels with easy-to-use tools
  • Enjoy complete control over routes to market and protect existing channel strategies through our platform

How FreeFlow works for brands

With FreeFlow, customers access a broad array of integrated systems for maximizing the value of second life products and accelerating their sustainability journey. FreeFlow provides automated processes and specialized inventory disposition services through our unique online private marketplace that functions as a secure, managed environment where selected buyers can bid on your inventory. Customers have complete control over the market, pricing, and timing, as well as full transparency into the auction process at every stage, helping drive the fastest results without compromising brand integrity, pricing strategy, or existing channel relationships.

FreeFlow serves as a single point of contact between you and a global network of registered buyers, who you can sell to under your brand or anonymously. Along with the online marketplace, you have access to our skilled and experienced teams to help you develop a custom go-to-market strategy for your business and provide insights into every area of the market.

With more than 20 years of experience, partnering with Flex means you can feel confident knowing you always have full transparency and complete control to maximize value recovery.

FreeFlow for buyers

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Using FreeFlow, buyers can:

  • Access inventory from the world’s leading brands
  • Filter through inventory by brand, region, category, or budget
  • Bid securely through our private online marketplace

The needed tools to realize your excess inventory’s value and move sustainability forward

FreeFlow helps deliver improved profitability through the strategic and effective use of existing and alternative channels. We design our capabilities to streamline, simplify, and quantify the resale of our customers’ excess, returned, and refurbished inventory, enabling the automation and scalability of inventory disposition and products and parts resale process.

Custom go-to-market strategies

Whatever the nature, size, and needs of your business, we create the smartest possible solution based on your defined criteria. We also establish safeguards to maintain the integrity of your brand and existing channels.

Along with FreeFlow capabilities, you have a partner to help develop the go-to-market strategy right for your business and environmental objectives.

Key aspects we consider when developing your custom go-to-market strategy:

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  • Where your is inventory stored
  • Whether your inventory is bonded
  • If your inventory is localized for certain markets, territories, or countries
  • The regions or markets where you want to sell your inventory
  • Your inventory’s warranty
  • Whether you want to sell your inventory on a delivery duty unpaid or ex-works basis
  • How your inventory is stored in the warehouse (single pallets of the same SKU or mixed)

Private marketplace technology tailored to your business needs

FreeFlow marketplace design

Using advanced patented technology, FreeFlow is an established, secure private marketplace that can be tailored to your precise demands. Since we host the marketplace, we take care of all essential IT support.

Your private instance can be branded or unbranded, enabling you to sell inventory at auction, fixed price, or minimum price. Your personalized instance will address your excess inventory challenges irrespective of region or country.

All customer marketplaces benefit from powerful global performance metrics, helping you optimize your inventory disposition process and maximize your recovery gains.

Specialized services and support to manage your excess inventory

We offer specialized services and support that are tailored to your company’s specific criteria and objectives. Our services include excess inventory profiling and cataloging, product positioning, and site merchandising. We also provide new buyers and channels to supplement your buyer base through market outreach and e-Marketing. We conduct post-sale auction analysis and handle buyer queries in real-time to ensure sales closure.

Code of Conduct

Channel control, trade, and compliance

For channel control, trade, and compliance, we manage control of ‘do-not-sell-to’ lists to protect brand equity and avoid primary channel conflict. Our services include buyer registration and agreement with your terms and conditions, on-request anonymous purchasing to investigate channel leakage, and compliance with import and export regulations.

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Finance and credit control

Our finance and credit control services include the setup and maintenance of approved vendors, including credit checks. We handle all financial transactions and settlements, providing single seller payment of consolidated sales. We ensure compliance with VAT and sales tax regulations, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Additionally, we manage cash collection and shipment disputes and provide reporting for full visibility into sales, finance, and the supply chain.

Order management

Logistics

Our logistics services include order consolidation, freight management, and dispute management. We also offer comprehensive warehouse services, including optional material handling, inventory manifesting and order fulfillment, consignment model and storage, and product differentiation, de-branding, and re-packaging.

Trade and reporting tools for data-driven decision making

In today’s market, transparency is crucial. Every FreeFlow solution is crafted to ensure that you retain control at every step of the process.

FreeFlow reporting and analytics

Our reporting helps answer questions like:

  • Who is seeing the product?
  • Can buyers see the prices being charged?
  • Can buyers be partitioned to protect mainstream markets?
  • What prices are being submitted on inventory?
  • Who is buying the inventory?
  • Can buyers be segmented, and can certain buyers be excluded from viewing what is available?

FreeFlow offers online access and up-to-the-minute activity reports with a full suite of recovery metrics, empowering you to optimize the process with insights to make data-driven decisions.

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Secure, easy access to the brands you want

The FreeFlow online marketplace provides buyers with easy access to inventory from some of the biggest electronics brands in the world.

We work with our customers to bring excess inventory to market quickly and cost-effectively, so buyers like you have the earliest possible visibility into what’s available and can make fast decisions about whether it fits your needs and budget.

As a FreeFlow buyer, our marketplace allows you to:

  • Access multiple brands across our marketplaces
  • Purchase at a fixed price or bid on our customers' auctions — once or multiple times — giving you complete control over your spend
  • Set a ‘proxy bid’ which allows the systems to automatically raise your bids to the maximum you determine if your initial bid is beaten
  • Receive email notifications of all auction activity until the sale closes
  • Receive proactive communications from us about new offers that match you preferences
  • Utilize our fast, efficient post sale support services

The process to get started is simple

Visit FreeFlowAuctions.com to view our current auctions taking place and easily sign up. Following approval, you can immediately participate in live auctions.