Trade Orders Into Linnworks, Without The Typing
Linnworks handles your marketplace channels; it doesn't read the trade orders your wholesale customers email over. We close that gap, turning PDF, CSV and email purchase orders into validated open orders in Linnworks through its API, alongside your Amazon, eBay and web store volume, with no rekeying and no storefront fee.
Beyond The Channels
Linnworks pulls in marketplace orders automatically. We add the missing piece: emailed and PDF trade purchase orders, read and created for you.
One Despatch Queue
Trade orders land in Linnworks as open orders with the right source, sub-source and location, so they flow into the same pick and pack process as everything else.
Your Part Numbers, Your SKUs
Each customer's product codes are mapped to your Linnworks SKUs, and every line is checked against their agreed price before it posts.
Drop The Shopify Loop
If trade orders currently detour through Shopify to reach Linnworks, creating them directly removes both the retyping and the per-order transaction fee.
Nothing Slips Through
Duplicate PO references, wrong prices, missing addresses and unmatched products are parked for review instead of shipping incorrectly.
Tuned To Your Customers
A bespoke build trained on your customers' real order formats, delivered by a UK team against the live Linnworks API under NDA.
Some of our direct clients
Marketplace Orders Are Handled. Now The Trade Ones Are Too.
Linnworks brings your channels together. This brings the emailed trade orders into the same place, read, validated and created automatically.
- 5+
- Trade order formats read (PDF, CSV, Excel, Word, email)
- 1
- Despatch queue for channel and trade orders
- 0
- Purchase orders retyped into Linnworks
- 2 days
- Typical quote turnaround
Linnworks Developers Who Know The Trade Gap
We build directly against the Linnworks API so emailed trade orders join your channel orders in one despatch queue, mapped to your SKUs and priced correctly.
- Open orders created via the Linnworks API
- Customer part number to SKU mapping
- Review queue for exceptions
- Removes the Shopify trade detour
Getting Trade Orders Flowing Into Linnworks
We map your trade flow
We look at how trade orders reach you, how they currently get into Linnworks, and where the retyping and errors happen. A few real purchase orders tell us most of what we need.
We scope and quote
Using your sample orders, SKU list and price terms, we define exactly what gets read, checked and created in Linnworks. You get a fixed-price proposal with a clear scope and timeline.
We build on the Linnworks API
We build the reading, validation and open-order creation against the live Linnworks API, and test on your messiest real orders, with every order held in review so nothing ships unchecked.
We go live and raise the automation
We launch with review on every trade order, then switch on automatic creation for orders that clear your confidence rules, so routine trade volume flows into Linnworks on its own.
Marketplace orders sorted, trade orders still manual?
Send us a few of the purchase orders you retype into Linnworks and we will show you what can be read, checked and created automatically, with a fixed quote usually within 2 working days. NDA first, no obligation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Automating Trade Orders Into Linnworks
Linnworks is built to unify sales channels, which it does well. Trade orders are the blind spot, because a wholesale purchase order never passes through a channel. Here is how we bring those orders into Linnworks automatically, and how it differs from the channel syncing you already have.
Where channel syncing stops and this begins
Linnworks connects to Amazon, eBay, OnBuy, Shopify, WooCommerce and the rest, and keeps stock and orders in step across them. Every one of those orders originates on a channel, which is exactly why Linnworks can see it.
A trade order does not. Your wholesale customer emails a purchase order, and until someone types it in, Linnworks has no idea it exists. That manual bridge, from inbox to Linnworks, is what we automate, so the trade side stops being the exception that jams up a person's morning.
Reading trade orders and mapping to your SKUs
We read PDF, CSV, Excel, Word and email-body orders, trained on the formats your specific customers use. From each we pull the account, the purchase order reference, the delivery address, and the products, quantities, prices and dates.
Because trade customers order by their own part numbers, we map those to your Linnworks SKUs and translate each line, flagging anything that cannot be matched with confidence. This is the tailored logic that generic tools miss, and it builds on the deeper platform work in our Linnworks API integrations.
Not sure your trade orders can be read reliably?
Send us your most awkward purchase orders. We will tell you honestly what can be created in Linnworks automatically and what needs a review step.
One queue, and dropping the Shopify detour
Orders are created in Linnworks as open orders with the right source, sub-source and location, so your despatch team works one queue rather than a marketplace queue plus a stack of emails. Prices are validated against each customer's terms and duplicate references are caught before they cause a second shipment.
If trade orders currently pass through a Shopify store just to reach Linnworks, creating them directly removes that step and the per-order fee attached to it. This is one focused part of our wider automated order processing service, and it pairs with broader API integrations when the rest of your stack needs joining up.
A safe rollout, built for Linnworks
Nothing about this is reckless. Trade orders go through a review queue while we tune the reading on your real formats, and only orders that clear the confidence rules you set post automatically. Every original document is retained and every extracted field logged, so any order traces back to its source.
It is a bespoke, developer-led build shaped around your accounts, SKUs and fulfilment setup, delivered by a UK team against the live Linnworks API under NDA. If you also run Unleashed on the wholesale side, the same approach applies through our Unleashed order automation.
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Tell what you're looking for and we'll see you how we can help. Quotes are typically provided within 2 working days of the initial call.