Sequoia Retail Systems and Verba Software have partnered to bring best-of-breed integration to the Sequoia client community. Available immediately, Sequoia customers can enjoy seamless data exchange between Sequoia and Verba systems. Learn more below...
The Products
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Verba CompeteMaximize your profit and competitiveness. Verba Compete knows how your pricing stacks up to the online marketplace for every book in your inventory. With a few clicks, you can optimize your store's pricing for success in the online world. |
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Verba CompareTake back your market share. Verba Compare offers students the best book-buying experience on the Web. With price comparison shopping on your store's site, they won't want to shop anywhere else. |
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Verba CollectGet adoptions on your schedule. Verba Collect makes it easy for faculty to get you the data you need, and get out. Historical adoptions for each course, search-and-select for books, and automated email communications between users – Verba Collect has it all. |
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The Integration
The Sequoia-Verba Partnership makes it easier than ever to compete with the online marketplace. Read on below to learn what we've done.
Data Transfer Into Verba Compare
With the flip of a switch, your store's course, title, and pricing data flows into your white-labled Verba Compare application. Here students can see how your offers stack up to the competition, add items from multiple retailers to a unified shopping cart, and enjoy Verba's unique multi-vendor checkout experience.
The Sequoia-Verba Partnership also brings down course and item note information directly from ePOS. No more data imports - just seamless data transfer to a great book-buying experience.
Data Transfer Into Verba Compete
Things get even better on the Verba Compete side. With the release of the Sequoia-Verba Partnership, Sequoia now passes top-quality cost and estimated sales figures (along with everything passed for Compare) to Verba for every book you sell. Since Verba Compete's algorithms work best with good cost and sales data, we can now provide even more accurate pricing recommendations across your entire catalog.
If you like a Verba recommendation, just click the "Accept Recommendation" button and we'll remember that you want to make a change. The next step is getting those price changes back into Textbook Partner.
Data Transfer Into Sequoia Textbook Partner
Applying price changes from Verba to Textbook Partner happens in just a few clicks. Export prices from Compete, jump over to your Sequoia system to review the changes, click "Accept", and just like that – your pricing just got a whole lot more competitive.
Moving adoptions from Verba Collect to Textbook Partner is just an export away. At your request, Collect creates an export file specially formatted for Textbook Partner. Either import the file yourself, or allow a scheduled process take care of it for you, and your new adoptions are in. We'll even keep track of which courses get exported, or change since your last export, to ensure that you're always up to date.
Here's what stores both within and outside the Sequoia community are saying about Verba Software.
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Richard Young, University of Maine, Orono Bookstore"The University of Maine Bookstore is extremely pleased with the recent Verba-Sequoia integration. We're now able to monitor and make data-driven pricing decisions on our course materials in real time. This is accomplished in a seamless and timely fashion, all from one convenient screen. The functionality has improved the efficiency of our textbook department, while simultaneously providing our students with a one-stop solution to compare and purchase affordable course materials." |
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Kristen Connely, Bellevue College Bookstore"I’m excited to hear that Sequoia and Verba have worked together to give students both affordable course material options and transparency all bundled into a convenient format. This is what will truly help students plan for the costs of higher education and fully captures the intent behind the HEOA revisions. We are finally able to deliver both affordable content to our students and cost transparency all with one click of the mouse." |
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Jeff Nelson, BGSU Bookstores"Working with Verba Software has been an amazing, game changing experience! Although we initiated the process relatively late in the business cycle, they had us up and running quickly and with very little effort on our part. When we have ideas, questions or concerns, they are always very responsive to our needs. And the results have exceeded our expectations. Not only did our online orders and in-store sales increase, but the customer perception of the Bookstore improved significantly because of our willingness to increase transparency with Verba Compare price comparison software. And on top of that, the Bookstore increased market share and gener- ated a valuable new source of income through affiliate commissions. I highly recommend Verba Software to any store who wants to improve public perception on textbook pricing and become more competitive with Internet competition." |
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Ueli Stadler, Reed College Bookstore"Last fall was our third go-around [with Verba]...and our market share was up to 76%. This is not scientific proof, but I’m definitely seeing the trend reversing. This is the first time in several years we had a net increase in total sales in dollars." |
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Jason Lorgan, UC Davis Bookstore"We began working with Verba in Winter Quarter of 2010. The feedback from students, parents, faculty, staff and administrators has been overwhelmingly positive. We have started utilizing their analytic tools and have been equally impressed. They have been a real pleasure to work with." |
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Pete LeBar, Allegheny College Bookstore"The first time Verba blew my mind was with their price comparison software at CAMEX 2010. They continue to impress with an evolving set of tools and applications I just don't find anywhere else. Highly recommended for any store looking to analyze and improve online market share." |
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Pricing for the Sequoia-Verba Partnership is totally transparent. Your store pays a single subscription fee, up-front, for one year of service on each product. There are no implementation fees or maintenance charges, and all updates and upgrades are rolled out free of charge. The pricing you see below is exactly what your store will pay.
| Full-Time Equivalent | Verba Collect |
Verba Compare |
Verba Compete |
Compare & Compete Package |
| Up to 1,500 |
$100 / month
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$100 / month
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$100 / month
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$150 / month
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| Up to 2,500 |
$200 / month
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$200 / month
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$200 / month
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$300 / month
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| Up to 5,000 |
$300 / month
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$300 / month
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$300 / month
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$450 / month
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| Up to 8,000 |
$400 / month
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$400 / month
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$400 / month
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$600 / month
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| Up to 18,000 |
$500 / month
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$500 / month
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$500 / month
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$750 / month
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| Up to 25,000 |
$600 / month
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$600 / month
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$600 / month
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$900 / month
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| FTE over 25,000? Call us for a quote: (415) 738 - 2374 | ||||
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