Barter 21

BCL Soft is the emerging leader in barter and trade software. With the development of its online barter/trade exchange platform, Barter21, BCL Soft is filling the gap in the barter and trade industry.

Start a Barter Exchange

In the United States barter is a $6 billion industry. The majority of this business is done through local area barter exchanges scattered throughout the country.

Barter allows businesses to buy the goods and services they need - without spending cash. In a barter exchange the business members buy what they need and pay for it with what they have. The barter exchange is the third-party record keeper. The exchange helps the transactions to happen and creates a currency system so that trades do not have to be direct or one-to-one.

Bartering allows a business to make purchases it would otherwise not have been able to make if the business had to spend cash. If your company has excess inventory, extra time, space or services, barter is an excellent way to move those goods or services. Barter brings new customers and additional income that can be spent with other barter members to conserve cash.

A Barter Exchange serves as third-party record keeper - like a bank. Barter exchanges use a currency called barter or trade dollars. Businesses buy and sell in the network using barter or trade dollars.

In today’s economic climate, owning a barter exchange is a business that thrives because businesses still need goods and services - they just don’t have the cash available to purchase them.

By owning a barter exchange, you can build an excellent business while helping others survive and even thrive during these tough times.

BCL Soft, creators of Barter21 Exchange Software have created a system to help you get started as a barter exchange. We have features that allow you to pick and choose how much training you want.

As a new exchange, your set-up fee includes a new member manual for your exchange members and a training manual for you and your brokers. In addition you will have access to:

• Marketing materials
• Teleconference training
• One-to-one coaching
• Monthly conference calls
• Phone support for basic questions

Your training will include -

• Details about how the barter economy works
• Get more trading between your members
• Follow-up and follow through
• Learn how to sign up new members
• Instruction on how to operate and manage a barter exchange.

Barter21 - Online Software to Run Your Barter Exchange

BCL Soft developed its Barter21 exchange platform from the ground up with input from those in the barter industry. BCL Soft put together an advisory panel of some of the most seasoned and respected names in the barter and trade industry. Our goal was to discover what barter and trade professionals liked and what they disliked in the applications they were using. We wanted to know what was missing in the software and what wasn’t needed. BCL Soft listened and then created Barter21, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform to run your barter exchange.

As a user of Barter21 SaaS, you and your members will find the web-based software easy to navigate. Your members can easily find other companies to barter or trade with, post transactions, and make purchases from the Trading Floor. All in real time. All with less training.

 By subscribing to and being accepted in the entire Barter21 network, your members can enjoy seamless trading with the members of other exchanges within the network. This is done while also protecting the privacy of your members. From stand-alone use to full integration with other exchanges and every level in between, Barter21 has an application to suit the needs of your exchange.

 Using the latest Web 2.0 technologies and the highest levels of security, Barter21 makes running your exchange easier and more efficient than ever. Its intuitive interface for both brokers and members keeps the learning curve to a minimum. When your members can easily navigate your website, they trade more. And that means more money for you.

 BCL Soft delivers a ready-to-deploy barter and trade application - prebuilt, integrated, and on demand. Barter21, BCL Soft’s flagship product, is the cutting-edge trading platform that will allow you to run your exchange and increase transactions both within and outside your exchange members.

 Barter21 is a complete enterprise-class barter exchange Software as a Service (SaaS), that features on-demand bartering with an online trading floor as well as real-time directory and search information. Created to be the most technologically advanced barter platform, it is all you'll ever need to run and manage your exchange.

 If your barter exchange has been in business for years, or if you are creating a new exchange in your marketplace, you can count on BCL Soft to create the applications to run your business.