About OrdoMark
What we’re building
OrdoMark separates the catalog from the storefront.
For most of the last decade, anyone selling physical products online had to be three businesses at once: a brand, a retailer, and a logistics operator. You wrote the listings, you took the orders, and you packed the boxes. If you wanted to scale, you took on inventory risk. If you wanted to drop the inventory risk, you took on a sourcing problem.
We think those should be separate jobs. Manufacturers should be free to focus on what they make. Sellers should be free to focus on the customer. The connective tissue between them — orders, payments, payouts, tracking — should be a piece of software, not a second business you have to run.
That’s the product. A multi-tenant platform where manufacturers publish a wholesale catalog, sellers list those products on Etsy and Shopify under their own brand, and OrdoMark routes every order, charges every seller, pays every manufacturer, and pushes tracking back to the marketplace.
Why it exists
Talk to an Etsy seller doing a few thousand a month and you’ll hear the same complaint twice: I’m spending more time packing than selling. Talk to a small manufacturer and you’ll hear the mirror: We can make twice as much as we ship, but we can’t find sellers.
The connection between them is broken in obvious ways. Sellers can’t find reliable manufacturers without a trade show or a personal contact. Manufacturers can’t reach sellers without building their own marketplace presence and learning the ins and outs of every platform. And once a relationship exists, the operational glue — order forwarding, payment splits, tracking handoffs — is usually a spreadsheet, an email thread, and a lot of trust.
OrdoMark replaces the spreadsheet. We give manufacturers a place to publish prices and products. We give sellers a place to pull those products into their existing marketplace shops. And we run the money in between with Stripe Connect so nobody has to wire each other every Friday.
How we make money
We make money the same way you do: only when there’s a sale.
There’s no subscription. When an order is placed, OrdoMark charges a small platform fee on top of the wholesale price (3 to 4 percent depending on the chain), and the manufacturer’s payout is reduced by another small fee (2 to 3 percent). Stripe’s processing fees are passed through at cost. That’s the entire revenue model.
This alignment is intentional. We don’t get paid until you sell, the manufacturer ships, and the buyer is happy. If any of those things break, we don’t earn.
Where we are
OrdoMark is early. The platform is in beta with a small group of sellers and manufacturers, mostly in the US. The Etsy integration is the most mature surface today, with Shopify and Amazon connectors being built out next.
The team is US-based. The application is hosted on Google Cloud in the us-central1 region (Iowa, USA). Payments run on Stripe Connect. We ship what we say we ship, and when something doesn’t work yet, we say so.
If you’re an early adopter — a seller looking for a better way to grow without sourcing your own inventory, or a manufacturer who’d rather make than market — that’s exactly who we’re building for right now.
Contact
General questions: support@ordomark.com
Privacy questions: privacy@ordomark.com