Software Solutions for Lighting E-commerce Businesses
A light is chosen for how it looks and bought for what it does, so specifications decide each order. Sellers list fittings with electrical details, sell to homeowners and to trade buyers, and handle driver and lamp faults. This page describes how these sellers operate online and what software fits.
Sell lighting by wattage, colour temperature and fitting, and stay clear of mix-ups.
Lighting looks like furniture and behaves like electrical goods. A fitting is picked for its shape and then judged by its wattage, its colour and whether it works with the dimmer.
Many sellers serve two kinds of buyer at once: a homeowner buying one lamp, and an architect or electrician ordering by schedule. The same catalogue has to answer both.
Lighting brands selling direct
A brand designs or imports fittings, then sells on a website of its own and on marketplaces, shipping from a single warehouse.
Lighting stores with a web range
A store lists part of its showroom stock online, and counter and site draw on the same record.
Dealers and trade suppliers
A supplier lets electricians, contractors and retailers sign in, order by the carton at agreed rates and pay on account.
Project lighting suppliers
A supplier prices schedules from architects and designers and delivers to site in phases.
The workflow for lighting.
- 1
Listing by specification
A fitting is listed with wattage, colour temperature, base or driver type and finish. Buyers filter on those fields.
- 2
Picking a variant
The shopper chooses a wattage, a colour temperature or a finish. Stock and price follow the variant chosen.
- 3
Order and trade pricing
Retail orders pay at the listed price. Dealers sign in and see only the prices set for their account.
- 4
Packing by fitting type
Glass and crystal are crated or double-boxed. Long lamps go with long-parcel carriers, and small fittings go in cartons.
- 5
Delivery and fitting
The buyer or an electrician fits the light. Questions about wiring are answered from the specification sheet.
- 6
Fault, return or warranty claim
A failed driver or lamp is traced to its order and batch, then replaced or credited.
The challenges, and what they cost.
What is specific to this trade.
These are requirements we would confirm in discovery. They describe what the solution may need to handle. They are not features that already exist.
- Electrical and fitting specifications held as fields
- Variant-level stock for wattage, colour temperature and finish
- Trade price lists and carton multiples
- Packing rules for glass, crystal and long parcels
- Batch and warranty references kept with each order
What we would build for lighting.
Chosen from the commerce capabilities this business needs, not a list of everything.
Who works in the system, and what each can do.
What it would connect to.
An integration is confirmed only after its API, access and scope are checked. A connection that updates on a schedule is described as scheduled, not real-time.
- The showroom’s billing and stock records, or the existing GullySystem dealer ordering software for the dealer side
- Card, UPI and transfer checkout on your merchant account
- Freight and parcel carriers, for those whose booking interfaces prove usable
- Accounts software, fed by a file or a narrow link
- WhatsApp dispatch notes, for sellers with a registered Business account
How the work runs, and what we need from you.
What you provide
- Your product list with wattages, colour temperatures and bases
- Your dealer price lists and how trade accounts are settled
- Your showroom stock record and what it can share
Settle the specification fields
We decide first which technical fields every fitting must carry, since filters and warranty answers depend on them.
Build retail and trade flows
Retail checkout and trade ordering are set up and tested with sample orders on sample fixtures.
Open one family of fittings
The first release is a single family of fittings. Stock, packing and claims are observed there before the whole range follows.
What you receive.
- A specification structure for the range
- Retail, trade and project ordering flows
- Packing and carrier rules
- A written handover with training for staff
How progress is judged.
Measures are agreed against your own baseline. We do not promise a result in advance.
- Wrong-variant deliveries, counted by order
- Listings that carry every required specification field
- Warranty claims traced to a batch
Selling at home and abroad.
The kinds of lighting business we cover.
Ceiling Lights
Turn an architect’s schedule into a matched, priced quotation and follow it to site.
Learn moreWall Lights
Say where each wall light can go, and which of its parts arrive in the box.
Learn moreTable Lamps
Sell a base and a shade as one lamp, or as two parts that must fit.
Learn moreFloor Lamps
Ship tall, awkward lamps flat and keep their many parts together.
Learn moreOutdoor Lights
Match each garden or facade light to its weather rating, power source and wiring.
Learn moreDecorative Lights
Plan for festival peaks, connectable runs and strings that fail on day one.
Learn moreLighting E-commerce & Specification Catalogue Software
Configured implementation
The store, specification filters and order flows are assembled on a hosted platform that suits the range, picked after discovery. No platform is named here. GullySystem’s wholesale ordering product exists for the dealer side, and is linked on the category page.
Read about the softwareExisting GullySystem products that apply
Related services
Selling in a shop as well?
Questions about lighting e-commerce.
Can the store show trade prices only to dealers?
Yes. Dealers sign in and see their own rates, while retail shoppers see the listed price.
Can one catalogue serve homeowners and project buyers?
Yes. Retail shoppers use the store, and project buyers are served through a quotation flow that reads the same stock.
Can it stop the wrong colour temperature being sent?
Not alone. It makes the variant clear in the order and on the packing slip, and scanning at packing can be added where you use barcodes.
Do we have to move our showroom billing?
No. The online side can read the showroom record. What can be shared depends on that software and is checked first.
Talk through your commerce requirement.
Describe what you sell, where you sell it and what is slowing you down. An engineer will reply within one business day.
- No obligation
- A reply within one business day
- Your details stay private