Ormita is a free business network that allows members to increase sales and reduce costs. It provides members with free marketing, promotion, export assistance, and networking opportunities. Transactions work like a barter system, where members earn credits for sales that can be used to purchase goods and services from other members, offsetting existing cash expenses. There are no fees for selling through Ormita, only a 7% fee when purchasing. The document provides details on the benefits of membership, how to register and use the online directory, and contact information.

1. Ormita
Information Pack

2. Why Join Ormita for Free? 3
More than a Business Network 4
Summary of Benefits 5
Is My Business Right for Ormita? 6
How Transactions Work 7
Registering Online 8
Searching Our Member Directory 9
Membership Fees 10
Contacting Ormita Worldwide 11
Everything you need to knowEverything you need to know

3. Bringing you guaranteed new
business
The Ormita Commerce Network
provides businesses with the
opportunity to increase their customer
numbers, open new markets, access
alternative (interest-free) finance and
generate client referrals.
Ormita is a closed network of
businesses that prefer to buy from one
another. Income earned from sales
made to other businesses must be
spent within the group.
Free marketing & promotion
• Your own dedicated broker to
help promote your business
• New customer referrals (online
and brokered)
• Website listings (with your own
logo, video, brochures and
unlimited product listings)
• Member deals via weekly e-blast
• Annual community resource guide
listing
• Entry to annual events
• Opportunity to put your marketing
collateral in new member
welcome packs
• Invitations to Business-After-Hours
mixers and other networking
opportunities
• Business counselling with experts
• Access to business seminars,
workshops, and other classes
• Facebook, twitter & social media
promotion
• You may invite other businesses to
join the network free of charge
Free international export
assistance
• Foreign market research
• Marketing advice
• Translation assistance
• Free use of meeting and
conference facilities in 10
countries
Export assistance available on
barter
• Accounting advice
• Advertising
• Client entertainment
• Graphic design
• Hotel accommodation
• Legal advice
• Printing & packaging
• Trade shows
• Trademark registration
* Free international export assistance is available subject
to certain criteria. You should be a trading member with
Ormita and your account must be in good standing. We
reserve the right to refuse certain companies based on
our own internal evaluation criteria.
Why Join Ormita for Free?
• Businesses should aim to
increase sales by 10-15%
• Purchases are funded out of
new sales to businesses within
the Ormita network
• You do not need to buy directly
from someone that you sold to
• You do not have to sell to every
member - or sell all year round

4. Mutual support
When you spend with your current
suppliers there is often no guarantee
that they, or others they do business
with, will ever buy something back
from you. These are “one-way”
transactions because every cent you
spend is money that you may never
receive back.
When you make purchases from others
within the Ormita network, your trading
relationships are based on reciprocity
and mutual support.
As a member of Ormita you are
working with others to build a better,
and fairer, business environment.
Ormita has more than 220,000 business
members.
You can also invite new traders to the
network free of charge.
If your business is not at 100% capacity
all of the time then you have an
opportunity to increase your revenue
and reduce your current cash costs.
The Ormita network can help you
supplement your cash income and
offset some existing costs against new
sales.
More than a Business Network

5. Brings new customers
Ormita brings new customers to a
business, without affecting the existing
cash sales already being generated
by the company. This may result in
more “word-of-mouth” referrals, an
increased work-portfolio, more
recommendations, improved
organizational skills, higher visibility and
more cash sales.
Provides repeat business
Participants will patronize other
members businesses over the
competition because the credits they
have earned are spent within the
“community” of members.
Pays for purchases out of new
sales
Businesses acquire what they need, or
want, and pay for it with additional
sales of their products or services.
Improves cash-flow
There are two ways to increase cash
flow – reduce costs and create
additional sales. Ormita does both!
Ormita provides business owners the
opportunity to acquire what they
need from businesses within our
network and to fund these purchases
out of new sales that they generate
within our network. This means that our
members preserve their cash for other
needs.
Increases profits
When you sell via Ormita you earn
credits that you can spend within our
network of members. When you spend
this credit you offset your existing by
paying out of those new sales, not
existing cash reserves.
The net result is more income and cash
in your pocket.
Creates wholesale buying
power
When members purchase using Ormita
they are buying out of the profit
margin created from new sales – not
their existing cash income.
Provides a test market
Ormita offers a risk-free method of
trialling new products "off-market",
creating a "buzz", soliciting feedback,
generating referrals and testing
consumer acceptance before a full
product launch.
Gives your business a
competitive edge
Businesses can attract customers away
from their competitors, fund prizes and
gifts for existing customers, create new
promotions and expand their
customer base.
Summary of Benefits

6. Trading ideas
In deciding whether or not to join
Ormita, the first question a business
owner must ask is: “Do I have
something to trade and can I do it
without impacting my current business
cash-flow?”
• Mid-to-high margin products or
services
• Depreciating inventory
• Empty seats
• Excess capacity
• Idle production time
• Overstocked inventory
• Seasonal products
• Slow-moving merchandise
• Time-sensitive products or services
• Unfilled appointment time
• Unsold space
If you have one or more of the above
then you can use it to offset your
existing cash expenses by selling it to
other members of the Ormita network.
Ensuring repeat business
A business is always in demand
because there is only one (or a few) of
them competing in the Ormita
marketplace.
1. Value is created through selling
your products and/or services to
other members.
2. As a member you agree to spend
this new revenue with other
members of the Ormita network.
3. Whatever it is that you need, be it
advertising, distribution,
equipment, office supplies, repairs
and maintenance, professional
services, training, entertainment, a
holiday, or anything else; as long
as someone else has it, chances
are you can get access to it!
Ormita is a closed network of
businesses trading with one another,
thereby ensuring repeat business. The
network can also help to generate
new cash referrals for your business.
Save cash while networking
• General new sales of slow moving
inventory, unsold time or space.
Become more efficient
• Take overstocked, last season or
end-of-line items off-market while
earning full retail value.
• Substitute imports with higher
quality, locally provided goods or
services at wholesale prices.
• Decrease wastage and develop
new consumer habits.
Build your brand
• Build a community network
around your brand.
• Expand distribution channels and
market reach.
• Gain repeat business and take
customers away from the
competition.
Is My Business Right for Ormita?

7. The Ormita exchange platform
Ormita acts as a clearinghouse for the
trade of excess capacities, goods and
services - much like an alternative
commodity exchange.
Participants buy and sell their excess
capacity and/or stock in return for
already budgeted for products and
services or new investments.
Rather than needing to engage in
direct barter between participants
Ormita brokers transactions through its
own marketplace.
Transactions are detailed in a
computerised ledger which records
the value of the items purchased
(debit) and sold (credit) - much like a
clearinghouse does for stocks, or a
commercial bank does for checks.
Recording transactions
The Ormita ledger system utilises a
“credit” as a method of accounting
for sales and purchases.
• 1 Ormita Credit = $1 Cash in your
local currency.
• When a business buys its account
is debited.
• When a business sells its account is
credited.
Just like any brokerage firm, Ormita
receives a cash commission on each
transaction each time you make a
purchase.
Sellers pay no transaction fees to
Ormita.
Buyers pay a fee of 7% in cash.
How Transactions Work

8. Who can register with Ormita
• Registered companies, sole
traders & partnerships
• New start-ups
• Charities / non-profits
• government enterprises
Creating your online account
Enter the following information to
complete your online registration:
• Select your country and language
• Enter your email address
• Enter your username and
password
• Complete the other details
together with the verification code
The fields will be verified. If there is any
problem/missing information, an error
message will display in red, indicating
what is required. Correct the fields as
indicated.
Registering Online
https://www.ormitatrading.com/createAccount/createAccount.php

9. The search bar
A search bar is conveniently located
at the top of every page of the
website.
Search results
Results are not limited to 'whole world'
matches,. i.e. the word "plumb" will
return matches with Plumber and
Plumbing as well as Plumb.
Narrowing down searches
The more search criteria entered the
narrower your search results become.
For example, searching for "Luxury
Hotel" will find only the listings with the
exact phrase Luxury Hotel in either
their account name, description,
keyword(s) or product listing.
Viewing search results
Search results appear with newest
members showing at the top of the
page followed by older accounts.
‘Hidden’ results
Some company names may appear
as “Hidden”. In other situations the
contact details of the company may
be hidden. To view these details simply
invite the company to Connect to you.
Searching the Member
Directory

10. An affordable system
Ormita makes its money by charging a
cash commission every time you buy
something from another member of
the network.
We strive to make this fee as low as
possible and charge no other fees of
any kind, including when you make a
sale to another Ormita member.
Joining Fee 0
Fee when Selling 0
Monthly Fee 0
Annual Fee 0
Fee when Buying 7%
Membership Fees
No Joining Fees No Annual Fees No Monthly Fees

11. If you have any questions or need
information you can’t find on our
Web site, please give us a call –
our experienced Customer Service
Representatives are available to
answer your questions.
Australia +61 7 3106 3811
Austria +43 1 311 7296
Belgium +32 2 808 9128
Brazil +55 21 3958 0819
Canada +1 647 931 6841
China +86 27 85412366
Croatia +385 1 300 0874
Cyprus +357 25 025092
Czech Republic +420 22 888 1634
Denmark +45 89 88 11 29
Estonia +372 668 2549
Finland +358 9 3158 2401
France +33 1 8288 3929
Germany +49 931 3069 99281
Greece +30 211 790 2320
Hong Kong +852 5808 2722
India +91 44 23710135
Israel +972 3 720 8938
Italy +39 015 952 6193
Latvia +371 6 616 3598
Luxembourg +352 2033 2510
Malta +356 2778 1011
Mexico +52 55 4170 7577
* In countries where Ormita does not have local
representation calls will be answered by our head office
Customer Service Team.
Contacting Ormita Worldwide
Morocco +212 522 995 252
Netherlands +31 20 808 2007
New Zealand +64 9 974 9159
Nigeria +234 1255 8901
Norway +47 21 98 89 79
Poland +48 22 307 3022
Portugal +351 30 880 1735
Romania +40 3 1630 0662
Russia +7 498 619 5663
Singapore +65 3158 1477
Slovakia +421 2 3305 7871
Slovenia +386 1 600 1417
South Africa +27 12 004 2339
South Korea +82 70 7705 3525
Spain +34 91 119 6149
Sweden +46 8 4083 9907
Switzerland +41 43 508 1008
Turkey +90 850 377 8101
Ukraine +380 44 392 0736
U.K. +44 203 519 6833
USA +1 646 843 6214
Zambia +260 97 789 5034
Contacting Ormita Worldwide

12. All information correct at the time of printing
For information, advice and support, contact the Ormita Customer Support Team.
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