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What is Flight Commerce?
Flight is a world-class global operations and compensation management platform in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Flight provides a complete suite of features necessary for operating a direct selling or multichannel e-commerce enterprise. These features include advanced management for consultants, customers, inventory, shipping, compensation processing, reporting, salesforce, orders, subscriptions, promotions, and more.
Who Uses Flight Commerce?
Direct selling industry, including party plan, network marketing, affiliate marketing, brand ambassador, influencers, and social selling companies.
Where can Flight Commerce be deployed?
About the vendor
- IDSTC
- Located in Tampa, US
- Founded in 2001
Flight Commerce support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
Flight Commerce pricing
Starting Price:
- No free trial
- No free version
Flight Commerce does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial. Flight Commerce paid version starts at US$1,500.00/month.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- IDSTC
- Located in Tampa, US
- Founded in 2001
Flight Commerce support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
Flight Commerce videos and images
Features of Flight Commerce
Reviews of Flight Commerce
Impressed with the functionality and service we receive from all departments.
Pros:
IDSTC software is built with the party plan model in mind. We are improving our business systems and processes because of the forward-thinking the IDSTC team has done in creating the functionality. The sales team which includes and everyone she brought in to answer questions and our support team - - are both very professional and great at setting expectations. We wanted to start very quickly and they were great about slowing us down, making sure the i's were dotted and the t's crossed before we rushed into som thing. support team is very thorough, knowledgeable, patient :) and fun!
Cons:
The lack of integration with shipping services and accounting services causes extra manual work arounds.
IDSTC Response
6 years ago
Thank you for your review, Angela. We are honored you have chosen us for your software provider and we love that you are a satisfied customer of IDSTC. We are very pleased to hear that you received great support along the way! Thank you for the feedback regarding the integrations. We have several completed for tax and merchant processing and are looking forward to expanding the list for shipping and accounting in the near future. Please let us know what we can do to help in the future.
Complete Solution for MLM & Beyond. Great people to work with!
Comments:
Refreshing and encouraging. The frustrating patterns that enterprise companies typically must go through when introducing new solutions were not present.
Flight and Flight Team created Product we were able to regularly showcase as opportunity over another burden to implement so typical for our organization in the past.
Pros:
On the company level: They are not just a software company. They understand Direct Selling and they own their solution end-to-end. This means during conversations you don’t focus on explaining but on concluding. They were open, involved and super-fast in any Proof-of-concepts we challenged them with. On the solution level: Its completeness, flexibility and configuration level. 80-90% of what Business Teams asked for was manageable by configurations or APIs. Flight gave us options to migrate entire business to out of the box (from CRM, through back office, order management ending on User Experience) or blend it with a 3rd party / in-house solution of your choice. We picked it for several cases where it fit more than well either as a solution for the majority or minority of required capabilities. On the implementation: The “Pilot” approach. In two weeks time we received a fully operational solution branded to our needs. This allows us to introduce/demo the product to internal customers (Markets, Functional or Technical Teams) without customization. With this approach we were able to collect super-specific requirements in relation to what users see over typical the typical requirements stage.
Cons:
Number of Micro-services in their core solution. To be fair it didn't limit us from headless models or targeted features usage. Flight Team was capable and open to build & manage those depending on the use case.
Affordable but Finicky
Comments: This program got our direct sales company off the ground, once we grow a little bigger we will be investing in a better program
Pros:
This program has a adequate front end for direct sales and does the basics for direct sales companies.
Cons:
Finicky program with an outdated look. Minimal options for reporting and gathering data. This program can handle direct sales genealogy and discounting, yet basic functions - like returns, are set up poorly (returns are an action, not generating a credit memo - to replace or exchange item for the customer, you must enter a no charge order which then throws off discounting data - one example of how this program is exceptionally difficult to work with).
IDSTC Response
6 years ago
Hello Anonymous, your successful operations are our utmost concern. It appears you are using our legacy platform the ES 100. Sales began in 2002, so it¿s technology and design are indeed older. Clients with revenues greater than $300,000,000/year have run on the ES 100 and it still supports clients with revenue approaching $100,000,000/year. We discontinued sales of the platform in 2016. We are in various stages of assisting our clients with upgrading to our new platform. In 2017 we began beta sales of our new platform named Flight. We built it from the ground up using the most modern technologies and design. Our infrastructure is managed by Microsoft in the Azure cloud. Flight has a BI and analytics reporting package embedded in the platform with virtually all data available in real time. I hope I can address your concerns directly. There are modules with our legacy platform that may directly address the areas of concern. Please call Ian 813-277-0625 x114
Sabika Jewelry
Comments: Sabika has worked with IDSTC for many years. They are very knowledgeable working with MLM companies. There customer support team works well with clients and they take the time to understand any issues that come about!
Pros:
Flexibility, ability to program quickly and make changes quickly with import/export functions. High end reporting!
Cons:
Sometime with system upgrades it would causes unexpected issues with our field.
Great MLM platform built for the future
Pros:
Built for the cloud with a rock-solid software architecture that is easy to configure and NEVER goes down because it's natively hosted in Microsoft's Azure cloud. This system has configurable business rules so that no code needs to be written to customize the software.
Cons:
Would like to have webhooks as part of the API to add to the integration options.
Alternatives Considered: Exigo
Reasons for Switching to Flight Commerce: Better cloud-based architecture and no software customization or software deployment needed like other platforms.
IDSTC Response
3 years ago
Scott, thank you very much for the review. It is our commitment to provide the best-in-class platform for direct selling companies. We implemented webhooks shortly after your feedback and hope you are leveraging that powerful tool. We appreciate your business and we look forward to supporting your success!