Grow Your Coffee Shop Wholesale Business
Tools to easily manage wholesale inventory counts from packaging to selling online
What Is A Wholesale Coffee Roaster?
Roasting your own coffee is one of the best ways to set your coffee shop apart and expand into new markets. In fact, coffee shops that are also a roaster are more profitable than those who don’t. For many cafe owners, roasting their own beans and selling wholesale is a daunting task. However, wholesale coffee tends to be the next best step for those looking to grow their business alongside multiple locations.
Creating a wholesale coffee business means roasting your own beans in-house that will later be ground and brewed by retail or foodservice customers. If you already roast your own beans this means packaging your beans and selling through new sales avenues. Otherwise, the first step is to begin roasting your own coffee.
For many cafe owners, roasting their own beans and selling wholesale is a daunting task. However, wholesale coffee tends to be the next best step for those looking to grow their business alongside multiple locations.
Wholesale Benefits
- Expand into new markets
- Increase your profit margins
- Have an alternative revenue source if your sale sales are disrupted
- Strengthen your brand
Increase Your Reach
Location-based coffee shops rely solely on customers coming in-store to purchase a finished good. Even if you have an e-commerce store for online ordering, you are still creating their order in-house. Roasting your own coffee and selling wholesale means expanding into new markets diversifying your business.
Retail, Foodservice & Grocery
Sell your coffee beans to offices, restaurants, hotels, local businesses, and even grocery stores. Increase the reach of your brand through other businesses to grow your customer base.
Other Cafes
If a coffee shop isn’t roasting their own beans, they’re ordering them from somewhere else. Selling wholesale to other cafes may mean disguising your brand name, however, it’s usually a great way to ensure a consistent profit flow.
What You Need To Sell Wholesale
This section is intended to be a guide to selling wholesale. However, depending on your goals and what resources you have available, it’s important to see what works for your business.
E-Commerce Website
Packaging Plan
Shipping Partner
Inventory Management System
Coffee Shop POS Systems And E-Commerce Channels We Partner With
Wholesale With Thrive Inventory
Thrive Inventory not only has the features your coffee shop needs to effectively run in-store and online, but will simplify your business as you expand to wholesale. Thrive Inventory works by connecting your inventory for all your sales channels and locations, including your POS system, online ordering, wholesale website, and roaster.
Bundles & Recipes
Invoicing
Variant Pricing
Internal Transfers
Why Coffee Shops Choose Thrive Inventory
Matt Kellso, founder and owner of Sagebrush Coffee has long been obsessed with coffee. In fact, he used to eat coffee beans like candy as a kid. And years later, Matt still couldn’t stay away.
In 2012, Matt’s passion for coffee finally turned into a career with an e-commerce store. After struggling to break into the market of a good cup of coffee at a Starbucks price point, he pivoted to bringing the best coffee possible to people’s homes.
“Thrive Inventory is an exceptional piece of software. We track our inventory, products, and bundles across several channels and get just the right reporting to be able to buy right. Good inventory management is vital for a business to be profitable and we wouldn't be there without Thrive Inventory.”
- MATT, SAGEBRUSH COFFEE
Plans For Every Coffee Shop
Starter
Save $50/yr- 1 User
- 1 Location
- 1 Integration
- AI Assist
- 1 Year Order History
- 1 Year Reporting
- 1,500 Transactions / Mo
Standard
Save $120/yr- 2 Users
- 2 Locations
- 2 Integrations
- AI Assist
- 3 Years Order History
- 3 Years Reporting
- 3,000 Transactions / Mo
Professional
Save $360/yr- 5 Users
- 5 Locations
- 5 Integrations
- AI Assist
- Unlimited Order History
- Unlimited Years Reporting
- 10,000 Transactions / Mo
Elite
Save $480/yr- 10 Users
- 10 Locations
- 10 Integrations
- AI Assist
- Unlimited Order History
- Unlimited Years Reporting
- 25,000 Transactions / Mo
Getting Started With Thrive Inventory
Free 14-Day, Full-Featured Trial
Explore all the coffee shop inventory solutions Thrive Inventory has to offer, including multi-location catalog syncing, stock forecasting, bundles, and recipes.
Real-Time Syncing & Reporting
Connect all your locations for real-time inventory syncing and reporting, increasing visibility for coffee shop owners.
Personalized Support
Our team will help set up your account and offer solutions to your unique challenges with a dedicated Account Specialist and Implementation team.
Resources For Coffee Shops
How Tradition Coffee Roasters Leverages Thrive Inventory For Cost And Time Efficiency
Try Thrive Inventory Coffee Shop Inventory Management For Free
Join Thrive Inventory and start saving on average 1 hour per day per location. Get advanced features such as custom reporting, barcode scanning, automatic purchase orders, price tag printing and more.
