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Why Layer One? Because we help distributors build eCommerce that performs reliably, drives stronger sales, and requires less effort to manage.

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Our U.S. team brings deep expertise in distributor eCommerce, combining strategic consulting, hands-on development, and proprietary tools that keep your digital ecosystem stable and performing. We help buyers find products faster, convert more often, and stay confident in your site, while giving your internal teams a cleaner, easier operation to run. The result is a faster, more reliable experience that drives stronger sales and greater efficiency.

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Trusted by the Leading Platforms in B2B eCommerce and PIM
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Strategic Expertise & Technical Execution Under One Roof

  • User Journey Mapping
  • ERP Integration
  • Platform Customizations
  • Technical Architecture
  • eCommerce B2B Portals
  • Data Aggregation & Dashboarding
  • Data Integration
  • Search Performance Optimization
  • Marketing automation and promotions
  • CRM & Customer Data Integration
  • Marketplace integration
  • Client Data Platforms (CDPs)
  • Experience Architecture
  • Personalization Strategies
  • eCommerce B2B Portals
  • Training
  • Website Visitor Analysis
  • 2nd & 3rd Party Data Services
  • API / Middleware Integration

14 Focus Points
Most distributors are buried in digital projects but can’t see real progress.
Layer One’s 14 Focus Points combine software development and consulting to create a scalable, prioritized plan that meets you where you are, driving steady digital growth with every improvement building on the last.

As distributors face constant digital demands, the 14 Focus Points provide a clear path through every stage of digital maturity. They help you target the work that delivers the greatest impact, maximizing revenue and efficiency without exhausting your team or resources.
Digital Maturity

1. Site Performance / Stability

An e-commerce site must be fast, available, and error-free before adding enhancements or features to drive conversions.

2. Iterative Thinking

Change behavior to deliver small, short-term wins that rapidly improve the site to increase functionality and customer satisfaction. This allows constant alignment between reality and large strategic initiatives.

3. Product Data Quality

Beyond completeness and accuracy, provide the right data in the best way so customers buy what they need and come back again. 

4. Empower Search

Know the various ways customers look for a product and then ensure the search engine is configured in a way that returns relevant results. 

5. User Experience

From entering a site, the fewer, more obvious clicks it takes to buy a product, the better. Efficient and quick ordering is a top priority for B2B buyers. 

6. Growth KPIs

Measuring the right things is critical to addressing issues or discovering opportunities. This goes beyond the site to include OSRs, contractors, and other metrics. 

7. E-comm Onboarding

Once someone has decided to become a customer, the process to obtain an account to begin buying must be quick, clean, and establish their pricing or other customizations. 

8. Customer Facing Rep Strategy

Having a synergistic digital strategy plan that encourages site adoption from reps and their accounts is critical to growing e-commerce. This includes incentive plans, training, and sales enablement tools. 

9. Data Jobs Automation / Integrations

Ensuring that product data, orders, and customer data automatically flow within an e-commerce site and to other systems increases efficiency and reduces costs. 

10. Mobile Approach & App

People now expect to be able to shop and buy from B2B the same way they buy from B2C. This means not providing a great mobile experience results in lost sales. 

11. Promotions

Leverage all the various and complex promotional opportunities to incentivize customers to purchase online. 

12. Cross-sell / Up-sell

To stimulate additional revenue, a site must be empowered to present related and bundled products along with more expensive or premium substitutes. 

13. Tech-enabled Communication

Customers want and expect to talk to live reps through chat, text, or social platforms rather than waiting at the counter or on hold. 

14. AI & Personalization

Once a site has been optimized and maximized, AI or advanced personalization will create a better experience for new customers and build loyalty.

Proven Solutions That Strengthen Distributor eCommerce

Bad search makes even good products invisible.

Search Fitness Program

Search Fitness

The Search Fitness Program combines expert guidance, hands-on configuration, and targeted fixes to improve your site’s search performance. Buyers find what they need faster, and your team gains the clarity to keep search improving over time.

 

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  • Better Search in 90 days
  • Smart Search Bar
  • Configured synonyms, facet filters, and categories
  • Daily on-track reporting
  • Master Search Intent/Guided Selling

Scattered product data and manual updates slow your team and hurt accuracy.

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Product Commander

Product Commander

Product Commander gives distributors a clearer, faster way to manage product data by unifying all sources into one interactive workspace. Your team gains real visibility and control over every field, making it easier to enrich, correct, and publish accurate product information without the manual grind.

 

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  • Web app to see all product data sources
  • Get out of spreadsheets
  • Enrichment opportunity flagging per product field
  • Publish directly to PIM or eComm site
  • Does not store your data

Hidden system errors quietly kill sales and trust.

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Log Sentinel

Log Sentinel

Log Sentinel gives distributors full visibility into their eCommerce ecosystem by unifying logs and monitoring into one real-time dashboard. It alerts your team to issues before buyers notice, creating a more reliable, predictable operation that protects revenue and customer confidence.

 

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  • Single pane view of all eCommerce system errors
  • Proactive alerts and notifications
  • Searchable and filterable logs
  • AI-powered anomaly detection
  • Faster identification of root causes across ERP, PIM, and platform systems

Disconnected systems create errors, delays, and frustrated customers and coworkers.

Systems Integration

Systems Integrations

Our Systems Integration services connect the ERPs, PIMs, CRMs, pricing engines, and fulfillment tools that distributors rely on into one unified digital ecosystem. The result is cleaner data, fewer failures, and faster, more dependable eCommerce performance.

 

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  • Seamless data flow between platforms
  • Real-time product, pricing, and order sync
  • Stable, maintainable API connections
  • Integration for legacy and third-party systems
  • Fewer errors and less manual rework

Version upgrades, outages, and vendor issues drain your time and focus.

Platform Management & Support

Platform Support

Platform Management & Support keeps your eCommerce environment stable, current, and performing at its best. We handle updates, fixes, monitoring, and vendor coordination so your team can stay focused on serving customers and driving growth.

 

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  • Version and patch management
  • Performance and uptime monitoring
  • Break-fix support and rapid resolution
  • Platform vendor coordination and ticketing
  • Roadmap alignment and improvement planning

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Real results from real distributors

With our previous provider, we felt like we were just one company in a pool of other clients. We weren’t getting any attention or progress at the level that we wanted. That isn’t the case with Layer One, though. They’re always available and giving us the same amount of focus and attention that they give to all of their clients.
Staci Otradovec
eCommerce Manager, First Supply
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“We were looking for a Partner, not just a vendor.”

“We were looking for a partner; we weren't just looking for a vendor. We weren’t looking for someone to tell what to do. We were looking for someone to work with us and improve this product, improve our processes internally, improve Optimizely, and improve everything with our customers.”

 

GTS Case Study

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PVF Distributor eCommerce Success

Recognized nationally as a leader in the industry, First Supply was originally incorporated in 1897 and has evolved into the single source supplier that most Midwestern contractors rely on for plumbing, HVAC, municipal, waterworks, well & septic, builder PVF, and industrial supplies. They understood that their eCommerce and digital strategy would be paramount to continuing their legacy.

 

First Supply Case Study

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Sitecore Content & Commerce

Ranked as one of the top 40 Plumbing, Heating and PVF Wholesale Distributors in the United States, The Granite Group looked to Layer One to create a world-class content and commerce experience for their clients.

 

The Granite Group Case Study

 

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DWS is a leading distributor of weighing and measuring equipment and is regarded as one of North America’s highest-certified service and repair companies. For over a decade, Layer One has built and maintained the marketing technology that has resulted in DWS's continued growth.

 

DWS Case Study

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