Case Study: Coton Colors wins back 60 hours per month in order processing with Acctivate

Coton Colors Wins Back 60 Hours Per Month with QuickBooks Integrated Solutions for Inventory Control, EDI Order Management & Fulfillment

Coton Colors, a designer and manufacturer of lifestyle and giftware known for its Happy Everything!™ line, was rapidly expanding SKUs and inventory across multiple warehouses and had outgrown QuickBooks’ manual inventory capabilities. They faced tracking problems (including an “on‑the‑water” warehouse), slow order turnaround, hand‑keying thousands of orders, and increased chargeback risk, so they turned to Acctivate to extend QuickBooks with multi‑warehouse inventory management and tighter order control.

Acctivate, integrated with QuickBooks and paired with TrueCommerce for EDI, delivered automated inventory control, order management and fulfillment with bi‑directional syncing and batch import/export. The solution eliminated manual entry, saved Coton Colors roughly 60 hours per month (about two hours per day), drove near‑100% data accuracy with no more chargebacks, sped order turnaround during peak periods, and enabled seamless selling to large retailers—results achieved through Acctivate’s implementation.

Coton Colors

Lauren Davidson

Inventory Manager