Ormita

Information Pack

Why Join Ormita for Free? 3

More than a Business Network 4

Summary of Benefits 5

Is My Business Right for Ormita? 6

How Transactions Work 7

Registering Online 8

Searching Our Member Directory 9

Membership Fees 10

Contacting Ormita Worldwide 11

Everything you need to know Everything you need to know

Bringing you guaranteed new

business

The Ormita Commerce Network

provides businesses with the

opportunity to increase their customer

numbers, open new markets, access

alternative (interest-free) finance and

generate client referrals.

Ormita is a closed network of

businesses that prefer to buy from one

another. Income earned from sales

made to other businesses must be

spent within the group.

Free marketing & promotion

• Your own dedicated broker to

help promote your business

• New customer referrals (online

and brokered)

• Website listings (with your own

logo, video, brochures and

unlimited product listings)

• Member deals via weekly e-blast

• Annual community resource guide

listing

• Entry to annual events

• Opportunity to put your marketing

collateral in new member

welcome packs

• Invitations to Business-After-Hours

mixers and other networking

opportunities

• Business counselling with experts

• Access to business seminars,

workshops, and other classes

• Facebook, twitter & social media

promotion

• You may invite other businesses to

join the network free of charge

Free international export

assistance

• Foreign market research

• Marketing advice

• Translation assistance

• Free use of meeting and

conference facilities in 10

countries

Export assistance available on

barter

• Accounting advice

• Advertising

• Client entertainment

• Graphic design

• Hotel accommodation

• Legal advice

• Printing & packaging

• Trade shows

• Trademark registration

* Free international export assistance is available subject

to certain criteria. You should be a trading member with

Ormita and your account must be in good standing. We

reserve the right to refuse certain companies based on

our own internal evaluation criteria.

Why Join Ormita for Free?

• Businesses should aim to

increase sales by 10-15%

• Purchases are funded out of

new sales to businesses within

the Ormita network

• You do not need to buy directly

from someone that you sold to

• You do not have to sell to every

member - or sell all year round

Mutual support

When you spend with your current

suppliers there is often no guarantee

that they, or others they do business

with, will ever buy something back

from you. These are “one-way”

transactions because every cent you

spend is money that you may never

receive back.

When you make purchases from others

within the Ormita network, your trading

relationships are based on reciprocity

and mutual support.

As a member of Ormita you are

working with others to build a better,

and fairer, business environment.

Ormita has more than 220,000 business

members.

You can also invite new traders to the

network free of charge.

If your business is not at 100% capacity

all of the time then you have an

opportunity to increase your revenue

and reduce your current cash costs.

The Ormita network can help you

supplement your cash income and

offset some existing costs against new

sales.

More than a Business Network

Brings new customers

Ormita brings new customers to a

business, without affecting the existing

cash sales already being generated

by the company. This may result in

more “word-of-mouth” referrals, an

increased work-portfolio, more

recommendations, improved

organizational skills, higher visibility and

more cash sales.

Provides repeat business

Participants will patronize other

members businesses over the

competition because the credits they

have earned are spent within the

“community” of members.

Pays for purchases out of new

sales

Businesses acquire what they need, or

want, and pay for it with additional

sales of their products or services.

Improves cash-flow

There are two ways to increase cash

flow – reduce costs and create

additional sales. Ormita does both!

Ormita provides business owners the

opportunity to acquire what they

need from businesses within our

network and to fund these purchases

out of new sales that they generate

within our network. This means that our

members preserve their cash for other

needs.

Increases profits

When you sell via Ormita you earn

credits that you can spend within our

network of members. When you spend

this credit you offset your existing by

paying out of those new sales, not

existing cash reserves.

The net result is more income and cash

in your pocket.

Creates wholesale buying

power

When members purchase using Ormita

they are buying out of the profit

margin created from new sales – not

their existing cash income.

Provides a test market

Ormita offers a risk-free method of

trialling new products "off-market",

creating a "buzz", soliciting feedback,

generating referrals and testing

consumer acceptance before a full

product launch.

Gives your business a

competitive edge

Businesses can attract customers away

from their competitors, fund prizes and

gifts for existing customers, create new

promotions and expand their

customer base.

Summary of Benefits

Trading ideas

In deciding whether or not to join

Ormita, the first question a business

owner must ask is: “Do I have

something to trade and can I do it

without impacting my current business

cash-flow?”

• Mid-to-high margin products or

services

• Depreciating inventory

• Empty seats

• Excess capacity

• Idle production time

• Overstocked inventory

• Seasonal products

• Slow-moving merchandise

• Time-sensitive products or services

• Unfilled appointment time

• Unsold space

If you have one or more of the above

then you can use it to offset your

existing cash expenses by selling it to

other members of the Ormita network.

Ensuring repeat business

A business is always in demand

because there is only one (or a few) of

them competing in the Ormita

marketplace.

1. Value is created through selling

your products and/or services to

other members.

2. As a member you agree to spend

this new revenue with other

members of the Ormita network.

3. Whatever it is that you need, be it

advertising, distribution,

equipment, office supplies, repairs

and maintenance, professional

services, training, entertainment, a

holiday, or anything else; as long

as someone else has it, chances

are you can get access to it!

Ormita is a closed network of

businesses trading with one another,

thereby ensuring repeat business. The

network can also help to generate

new cash referrals for your business.

Save cash while networking

• General new sales of slow moving

inventory, unsold time or space.

Become more efficient

• Take overstocked, last season or

end-of-line items off-market while

earning full retail value.

• Substitute imports with higher

quality, locally provided goods or

services at wholesale prices.

• Decrease wastage and develop

new consumer habits.

Build your brand

• Build a community network

around your brand.

• Expand distribution channels and

market reach.

• Gain repeat business and take

customers away from the

competition.

Is My Business Right for Ormita?

The Ormita exchange platform

Ormita acts as a clearinghouse for the

trade of excess capacities, goods and

services - much like an alternative

commodity exchange.

Participants buy and sell their excess

capacity and/or stock in return for

already budgeted for products and

services or new investments.

Rather than needing to engage in

direct barter between participants

Ormita brokers transactions through its

own marketplace.

Transactions are detailed in a

computerised ledger which records

the value of the items purchased

(debit) and sold (credit) - much like a

clearinghouse does for stocks, or a

commercial bank does for checks.

Recording transactions

The Ormita ledger system utilises a

“credit” as a method of accounting

for sales and purchases.

• 1 Ormita Credit = $1 Cash in your

local currency.

• When a business buys its account

is debited.

• When a business sells its account is

credited.

Just like any brokerage firm, Ormita

receives a cash commission on each

transaction each time you make a

purchase.

Sellers pay no transaction fees to

Ormita.

Buyers pay a fee of 7% in cash.

How Transactions Work

Who can register with Ormita

• Registered companies, sole

traders & partnerships

• New start-ups

• Charities / non-profits

• government enterprises

Creating your online account

Enter the following information to

complete your online registration:

• Select your country and language

• Enter your email address

• Enter your username and

password

• Complete the other details

together with the verification code

The fields will be verified. If there is any

problem/missing information, an error

message will display in red, indicating

what is required. Correct the fields as

indicated.

Registering Online https://www.ormitatrading.com/createAccount/createAccount.php

The search bar

A search bar is conveniently located

at the top of every page of the

website.

Search results

Results are not limited to 'whole world'

matches,. i.e. the word "plumb" will

return matches with Plumber and

Plumbing as well as Plumb.

Narrowing down searches

The more search criteria entered the

narrower your search results become.

For example, searching for "Luxury

Hotel" will find only the listings with the

exact phrase Luxury Hotel in either

their account name, description,

keyword(s) or product listing.

Viewing search results

Search results appear with newest

members showing at the top of the

page followed by older accounts.

‘Hidden’ results

Some company names may appear

as “Hidden”. In other situations the

contact details of the company may

be hidden. To view these details simply

invite the company to Connect to you.

Searching the Member

Directory

An affordable system Ormita makes its money by charging a

cash commission every time you buy

something from another member of

the network.

We strive to make this fee as low as

possible and charge no other fees of

any kind, including when you make a

sale to another Ormita member.

Joining Fee 0

Fee when Selling 0

Monthly Fee 0

Annual Fee 0

Fee when Buying 7%

Membership Fees

No Joining Fees

No Annual Fees

No Monthly Fees

If you have any questions or need

information you can’t find on our

Web site, please give us a call –

our experienced Customer Service

Representatives are available to

answer your questions.

Australia +61 7 3106 3811

Austria +43 1 311 7296

Belgium +32 2 808 9128

Brazil +55 21 3958 0819

Canada +1 647 931 6841

China +86 27 85412366

Croatia +385 1 300 0874

Cyprus +357 25 025092

Czech Republic +420 22 888 1634

Denmark +45 89 88 11 29

Estonia +372 668 2549

Finland +358 9 3158 2401

France +33 1 8288 3929

Germany +49 931 3069 99281

Greece +30 211 790 2320

Hong Kong +852 5808 2722

India +91 44 23710135

Israel +972 3 720 8938

Italy +39 015 952 6193

Latvia +371 6 616 3598

Luxembourg +352 2033 2510

Malta +356 2778 1011

Mexico +52 55 4170 7577

* In countries where Ormita does not have local

representation calls will be answered by our head office

Customer Service Team.

Contacting Ormita Worldwide

Morocco +212 522 995 252

Netherlands +31 20 808 2007

New Zealand +64 9 974 9159

Nigeria +234 1255 8901

Norway +47 21 98 89 79

Poland +48 22 307 3022

Portugal +351 30 880 1735

Romania +40 3 1630 0662

Russia +7 498 619 5663

Singapore +65 3158 1477

Slovakia +421 2 3305 7871

Slovenia +386 1 600 1417

South Africa +27 12 004 2339

South Korea +82 70 7705 3525

Spain +34 91 119 6149

Sweden +46 8 4083 9907

Switzerland +41 43 508 1008

Turkey +90 850 377 8101

Ukraine +380 44 392 0736

U.K. +44 203 519 6833

USA +1 646 843 6214

Zambia +260 97 789 5034

Contacting Ormita Worldwide

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