Gifting & Stationery Software

Gifting & stationery software that runs your whole range

Gifting and stationery software copes with a deep, seasonal range. Orders from trade shows, reps, the portal and D2C land on one catalogue, then run through pricing, the warehouse and the ledger.

  • Trade-led ranging, plan to display
  • Standing-order replenishment, automatic
  • Planogram audits in store
Field-sales rep restocking a gifting and stationery spinner stand at an independent retailer.
Our customers

Trusted by trade-led distributors across categories.

Gift, stationery, FMCG, food and animal-health, on the same platform.

Industry challenges

Where gifting & stationery distribution gets hard.

The same problems show up across card publishers, giftware wholesalers and stationery distributors.

Extreme seasonality

Christmas alone can be 35–55% of annual sales, with Mother’s Day, Valentine’s, Halloween and Easter dominating the rest. Forecasting has to be right months ahead, or the season is lost.

SKU sprawl, low units per line

Publishers carry 1,000–3,000 designs across format variants, with low pick volumes per SKU. Catalogue depth is the differentiator, but warehouse and field-rep app must keep it discoverable.

Range cycle & planogram drift

Every independent gift shop runs a per-season range refresh, with extensions every 6–12 weeks and a planogram to hold. Without a structured audit on every call, ranges drift and the spinner stops selling.

Trade-show spikes & cash-flow whiplash

Spring Fair, Autumn Fair, Top Drawer, PG Live: opening orders land in waves, then ship months later. Standing orders, minimum order values, customer pricing and tight credit control keep cash moving year-round. That’s why most gifting wholesalers run it all on one piece of wholesale distribution software, not a stitched-together accounts package, order tool and spreadsheet.

How RouteMagic helps

A deep range, a few brutal peaks, and cash that swings, held on one platform.

Range, variants and planogram carried from trade-show order to the spinner.

Capture scene

Trade-show, rep, portal & D2C capture

Shows, reps, portal and D2C write to one order backbone, while Standing Orders pre-commit the 6–12-week range top-up so the office touches only the exceptions.

  • 4+ order channels
  • Auto range top-up
  • Source-flag TS / TX / CP
Key outcomes

What trade-led distributors measure after switching.

Sector-typical results from RouteMagic customers running range-driven, multi-channel distribution.

1,000+ SKUs on one catalogue
30-day Forecast horizon per product
4+ Order channels, one pipeline
30% Lower product wastage
Customer stories

Bits ‘N’ Bobs eliminated 14% stock shrinkage on van-sales-to-spinner rounds.

Bits ‘N’ Bobs supplies household essentials, stationery, vaping products and mobile-phone accessories to convenience stores across the North West, with reps restocking and merchandising spinner stands on every call. Before RouteMagic, stock control on the vans was largely trust-based and shrinkage stood at 14%. With Van Sales Management, live van stock and Route Monitor in place, the team now sees every transaction in real time, reps reconcile cleanly at end of day, and the office has a single source of truth across every territory.

FMCG wholesale · Manchester, UK

14% Stock shrinkage eliminated
2–3 hrs Saved daily on paperwork
100% Real-time stock visibility
FAQ

Gifting-specific questions.

The questions card publishers, giftware wholesalers and stationery distributors ask us most often during evaluation.

What software do gift, card and stationery wholesalers use?

Most run a single piece of gifting software: a wholesaler software platform that combines a deep product catalogue, multi-channel order management, warehouse picking, dispatch and accounting in one place. RouteMagic is built for exactly this: card publishers, giftware wholesalers and stationery distributors capture trade-show, rep, portal and D2C orders on one backbone, then run the range, the round and the ledger from the same system instead of stitching several tools together.

How do we take orders on the stand at a trade show?

Reps work the stand on a tablet with the full range, the buyer’s own trade prices and their credit position on screen, and the order is written against the real customer record rather than a pad. Orders taken on the stand land in the same pipeline as telesales and the portal, so nobody re-keys a week of Spring Fair afterwards.

Can we take an order in January for September despatch?

Yes. Set the requested despatch date on the order and it sits in the forward book until its window opens, so the Christmas range is committed early and picked in season. The forward book also feeds forecasting, so production and buying see committed demand rather than guessing at it.

How do we handle spinner stands and sale-or-return?

Set a par level per stand and the rep or driver counts what has sold on each visit, tops it back up to par, and the customer is invoiced for what actually went through the till rather than for the stand. The stock stays on your books until it sells, and you can see which stands are earning their floor space.

Can RouteMagic handle a 1,000+ SKU range across multiple brands?

Yes. The catalogue is organised by Brand, Class and Variant, with Product Groups giving you a many-to-many tagging layer (“Christmas 2026”, “Premium Handmade”) and Product Lists curating “New In” or customer-specific selections. Field reps and indie buyers browse the same hierarchy on the mobile app and in the Client Portal, with custom-field filters and Favourites for fast reorder.

How do we run planogram audits and merchandising checks on every call?

On-App Surveys are designed in the back office and assigned to delivery points, customer groups or routes. The rep sees a Surveys tab on the Service Customer screen; question types include single- and multi-choice, numeric, free text, date, photo capture and signature; conditional questions appear or hide based on previous answers; and required surveys can be enforced before the visit can be completed. Photos and responses sync to the ERP and appear in the Survey Report.

Can we show new-season ranges to indies on the field-rep tablet?

Yes. Presentations are image slideshows attached to a catalogue (new-product launches, seasonal collections, brand storytelling, merchandising standards) pushed straight to the rep’s tablet for use during the customer visit. Resources can sit alongside the presentation for backing documents (line sheets, trade-show specs, MSRP cards).

How do we manage extreme seasonality and Christmas peaks?

AI demand forecasting reads 90+ days of sales history per product to predict the next 30 days, with min/max recommendations feeding suggested purchase orders and a shortfall report. Standing Orders pre-commit the base reorder cadence so the warehouse doesn’t run out of Christmas designs at the wrong moment, and Product Groups make it trivial to see “everything Christmas” across the catalogue at a glance.

How do trade-show opening orders flow into the system?

Reps capture opening orders against the buyer’s contracted price list and MOV directly in RouteMagic at the show; telesales agents close the long tail with the same order workflow back in the office; and the Client Portal lets indies place repeat orders themselves between trade shows, all landing in the same sale-order pipeline with a Source flag (TS, TX, CP) for clean reporting.

Can we take orders across trade shows, reps, the portal and D2C on one platform?

Yes. Order Management captures opening orders at the show, field-rep and telesales orders, Client Portal orders placed by indies themselves, and D2C web orders, all writing to one customer master and one sale-order pipeline with a Source flag (TS, TX, CP) for clean reporting. Pricing, MOVs, promotions and credit apply the same way whatever the channel, and the same pipeline feeds both the trade van round and the D2C last mile.

Does RouteMagic replace our accounting system, or sync to it?

Either. RouteMagic has a built-in accounting layer: sales and purchase ledger, nominal ledger, cashbook and bank reconciliation, MTD VAT, multi-company and multi-currency. If you prefer to keep your package, a configurable connector syncs invoices, credit notes, payments and customers to Xero, QuickBooks, Sage 50, Sage 200, Tally, Zoho Books and Microsoft Dynamics 365, with field and tax mapping and its own sync log for audit.

Which accounting packages does it sync with?

A configurable accounts-package connector syncs invoices, credit notes, payments and customers to Xero, QuickBooks, Sage 50, Sage 200, Tally, Zoho Books and Microsoft Dynamics 365, with field and tax mapping and its own sync log for audit.

See it on your own range

Ready to run gifting on one platform?

  • Walk-through on your own catalogue
  • 30 minutes
  • We’ll ask about your range, MOVs & planogram first

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