B2B E-commerce & Graphic Fulfillment Website 

BrandHub Solutions is The Howard Company's branded online ordering storefront program for franchise and multi location businesses. Each brand gets a dedicated, custom branded site where its locations order approved signage, menus, drive-thru equipment, and branded materials directly from The Howard Company, with user permissions, approval workflows, and editable templates configured around how the brand operates.

A branded ordering site, often called a brand portal, is a private ecommerce site, built around one brand, where its locations and franchisees order approved products and graphics from a single vendor. Instead of each location buying signage and print from whoever is closest, the site shows only current, approved items, routes orders through any required approvals, and keeps ordering history in one place. BrandHub Solutions is The Howard Company's branded ordering site program.

As much as you want. Some brands approve every order before it reaches us, some only review orders over a dollar threshold or on specific products, and some let locations order freely from the approved catalog. Product visibility, user permissions, and approval rules are all configured per site, and the approved catalog itself protects the brand even with no approvals at all.

Pricing structure depends on your build and your partnership with The Howard Company. Your sales representative scopes it with you in a discovery meeting, and everything is confirmed in a written Scope of Work before any work begins, so there are no surprises mid build.

Most BrandHub builds take 8 to 14 weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on complexity and how quickly your team provides inputs. Sites with customizable templates take longer, and simpler sites are faster. The build is milestone based, and your Scope of Work includes a target go live date specific to your build. 

Yes, within the limits you set. We build master templates for materials that change per location, starting from a standard design your locations share, and users edit only the elements you allow, from a single price field up to approved image swaps, color choices, and multiple layout variants. Designs and print specifications stay locked by The Howard Company, and materials that vary too much for a template can use upload fields instead, where our team reviews the file and sends a proof before anything moves ahead.

You decide which orders need review before they reach us: specific products, orders above a dollar threshold, certain categories, or everything. Approvers on your team review those orders inside the site, can edit them if needed, and can place orders on behalf of locations that need assistance. Brands that want no approvals can run fully open ordering instead.

Self signup, which we recommend for most brands, lets users create their own accounts, with or without an approval step, and manage their own passwords and profiles going forward. During the initial build, we can also provide a spreadsheet your team fills out for a one time mass upload of users. For brands with three or more user groups, we can manage the user list for you on an ongoing basis, scoped per project.

Four things: confirmation of the product list we prepopulate from your order history, artwork where it applies (native design files preferred over flattened PDFs; logos and brand colors are optional), user and location information on our standard template if your build uses them, and decision makers who stay available for milestone approvals.

Two options, and many sites use both by user role: quoted orders, where the order comes to our team and we follow up for final payment (the default for most franchise networks with central billing), or credit card checkout on the site. We configure the combination that fits how your brand purchases.

Printed graphic orders produce and ship in 5 to 10 business days after approval, rush within 3 days for an extra fee. Every launch includes training for your team, written instructions, and a how to order video. Most brands roll out with a pilot location for a week or two before opening the site to all locations, and we check in about two weeks after launch to handle adjustments. After that, locations order on their own schedule, and our team handles site level changes like product updates and new templates as your brand evolves.

BrandHub sites run on Pressero, a commercial ecommerce storefront platform, with eDocuBuilder powering the editable templates, both by Aleyant. The Howard Company builds, configures, and manages your site end to end, so your team never touches the underlying platform.