Enterprise buyers do not visit supplier websites. Their procurement system reaches into yours.
A large buyer’s policy is that spend goes through their procurement system. If your catalogue cannot be reached from inside Ariba or Coupa, you are not a supplier they can transact with easily — however good the products are. PunchOut is the connection that makes you reachable.
Each buying organisation gets its own shared secret, generated server-side, shown once, and stored only as a hash that nobody — including us — can read back. Failed authentication is deliberately indistinguishable between a wrong secret and an unknown identity, because the difference only helps someone probing.
Most catalogues assume one product, one price. Industrial distribution does not work that way, and neither does this one.
Read moreControls that live in the database, so they apply whether the order came from the app, an integration, or someone in a hurry.
Read moreMost audit logs record what happened. This one can also demonstrate that the record has not been edited since.
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