About the Corporate Rewards Exchange

• A Transactional Exchange
• Benefits
• What Makes the Exchange Unique
• How to Get Started
• Concierge Service
• Pricing, Shipping, Sales Taxes, Payments
• Member Qualification
• Terms and Conditions
• Governance
• Customer Service

A transactional exchange offering the incentive trade direct access
to leading brands and travel suppliers for:

• Business gifts
• Company stores
• Affinity programs
• Redemption centers

The Corporate Rewards Exchange makes it possible for incentive representatives, incentive companies, and promotional products distributors and marketing companies to get highly automated, cost-effective access to leading merchandise and travel brands for purchases of gifts or for use in company store or affinity programs—directly from leading brands and wholesalers.

You pay less and get better service by working directly with the incentive specialists representing the world’s best known brands, while benefiting from a highly automated order, fulfillment, payment, and tracking system.

The Corporate Rewards Exchange: Benefits

• Makes it easy to purchase leading gifts and rewards for your clients directly from leading brands and wholesalers and drop-ship to recipients with customized packaging if desired. 
• Maximizes cost benefits by providing direct access to wholesale sources with transparent costs. 
• Enables you to profit from world-class personalized messaging and customized product packaging to enhance program impact.
• Provides real-time inventory and delivery information.
• Maximizes participant satisfaction by providing rapid awards delivery.
• Provides a simple way to set up a high value company store or affinity programs.
• Provides the comfort of toll-free customer service for your participants.

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What Makes the Exchange Unique

Most of the leading brands have divisions or authorized wholesale distributors specializing in the corporate market for incentive, recognition, and loyalty programs.The CRE is not a wholesaler or retailer.

These specialists provide wholesale pricing, package personalization and other services specifically designed for the needs of the business marketplace. The Corporate Rewards Exchange is an exchange that provides incentive representatives, incentive companies, and promotional products distributors with a direct connection to these leading brands or their authorized wholesalers. The CRE is not a wholesaler or retailer; it’s an exchange tha provides:

• A highly automated system that enables you to select the brands and vendors best suited to your audience and program and receive centralized and reconciled billing in a single monthly statement (along with access to real-time status reports).
• The advantages of buying directly from the source while benefiting from a consolidated billing process that minimizes billing issues.

For points-based incentive, reward and recognition programs, ask about the Universal Rewards Exchange.

How to Get Started

Incentive representatives, incentive companies, and promotional products and marketing companies can sign up for a free charter membership giving them access to wholesale pricing and inventory information.

Schedule a webinar demonstration by contacting Jim Kilmetis at 914-591-7600, ext. 229, or at info@EngagementBusinessXchange.com.

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Concierge Service

Can’t find it online? The Corporate Rewards Exchange probably will know where to find it. Click here to make your request. There is no obligation.

Pricing, Shipping, Sales Taxes, Payments

After becoming approved members, incentive, marketing, and promotional companies will receive a user name and password that enables them to see the discounts for bulk purchases, based on quantity and delivery requirements. If you require particularly large quantities, or expect to become a regular customer of a particular vendor, you will be able to submit a Request for Volume Pricing to potentially gain enhanced pricing on a specific order or on future orders.

An estimate of freight is provided with each order. If you are ready to place your order, you may click where indicated to request a final shipping quote before submitting your final order.

Sales tax will be applied to all shipments made within the state of New York, and to other states based on your location and the authorized distributors from which you buy. Sales taxes will be clearly shown at the bottom of each Order Confirmation.

You can pay via credit card, e-check, or via purchase order by applying for credit when you apply for membership or make your first order.

Resellers may apply for sales tax exemption by submitting a re-sale certificate. Corporations can request an exemption for sales taxes if they certify that they are responsible for use taxes levied in their own states.

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Member Qualifications

The Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service is for incentive-related businesses only, including:

• Incentive sales representatives
• Incentive companies
• Promotional products distributors
• Marketing services companies

Corporate end-users can access the system only if approved by a CRE incentive trade member.

Prospective members fill out an electronic Membership Application form in order to qualify to purchase through the system and will generally receive a response within one business day or less if their application is approved or denied.

Terms and Conditions

By joining the Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service, you agree that your organization will only use the branded products for re-sale as corporate gifts, rewards, premiums or related programs, company stores, or redemption centers, subject to the terms and conditions of each participating company clearly spelled out on their terms and conditions page. Resellers may not offer these products and services to companies for anything other than rewards, gifts, incentives, premiums, company stores or redemption centers unless explicitly permitted by a participating brand.

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Governance

The Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service is owned by Engagement Technology LLC, Tarrytown, N.Y., a provider of Web-based technologies that support customer, distribution partner, sales, and other employee engagement strategies. To maximize the integrity of the system, the business practices and terms and conditions of the Corporate Rewards Exchange are overseen by a Board of Governors who help ensure that the rules and procedures are transparent and precisely as presented in the business practices of the Web site. These policies are embodied in a Business Process Manual maintained by the Board of Governors.

Customer Service

You may call the Corporate Rewards Exchange customer service line at 1-866-488-5449, 9-5 on business days, with the exception of national holidays.  You may also email us at info@corporaterewardsxchange.com with any questions you may have.

Click here for a PDF overview of the CRE.

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