"TradeGecko and Xero are also constantly being reviewed and improved . I have seen some fantastic upgrades that have allowed for greater business reporting."

“Now that I’ve grown, I also look for ease of communication. When you manufacture overseas, language barriers can be a big deal. Now I look to build relationships with manufacturers who are better communicators and have more respect for procedure and processes.”

"If you think your business is not worthy of an order management system like TradeGecko, or that you can’t afford it, you’re wrong. You can’t afford NOT to use TradeGecko. When you think big, you grow big. TradeGecko will save you time, prevent a lot of mistakes, and is totally …

"Peace of mind – just knowing that everything is up to date."

"After starting to use TradeGecko, I’d say we save 60-75% of time each day- what used to be spent wrestling with spreadsheets. This allows us to be more effective in other spheres of our business, allows us to be more well-rounded and frees us up to go out and advance …

“We’ve built a TradeGecko integration that gives us shipping estimates, by tapping into USPS, FedEx and UPS’s APIs so that when we create an order in TradeGecko, we move into our app, get all the shipping estimates, choose one and apply that to an invoice as a shipping line."

"We travel to a lot of trade shows so we needed something that was very flexible and could talk to our different locations, so we can take orders on the spot."

“The real-time information helps capitalize on every sales opportunity, so we know right away where to get stock instead of wasting time on manual checks.”

"We've got people in Palo Alto working on software, and in Japan and Hong Kong working on R&D. Being a multinational team also lets us gear our marketing specifically to local markets with localised content. Drones are where we started, but we're more about developing easy-to-use systems for things that …

“We have looked at other countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam but tend to reject them on the basis that they are harder to audit or have very large MOQs. We prefer to work with smaller factories who really value our orders and can deliver quality for mid market price …

"I was about 29, 30, travelling through Seattle and saw this mobile espresso cart that a Boeing engineer built. I thought, That’s a good idea. I moved back to New Zealand, got a government grant, borrowed money off my dad and was in business. I was always obsessed with flavour …

“(As) a consumer electronics business it probably could remain viable with 100 shops. But when you have the utter greed of modern capitalism, when they opened 300 shops. it’s going to go broke.”

"We want to get people outside, help people get back to enjoying being outdoors, and not as a marketing initiative publicity stunt, but because it’s in our core values. That’s what makes me want to come to work every day: sticking to the values that make our company great."

“The Business Industry Is Really Tough And I Have Struggled With Many Different Things Along The Way. I Learned Quickly That If You Want To Be Successful You Need To Welcome Challenges And Learn By Mistakes. Without The Mistakes And The Lessons I Have Learned From Them I Would Not …

"Without TradeGecko helping us to manage stock in different places, we’d be spending 75% of our day trawling through emails, inventory on Shopify and spreadsheets trying to track down where everything is."