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PunchOut commerce, in plain English

Large organizations don't buy the way individuals do. Their purchasing runs through procurement platforms, and to sell into them your store has to speak the same language: cXML, OCI, hosted catalogs, and SSO for buyers.

That's what PunchOut does. A buyer starts in their procurement system, "punches out" to your catalog to build a cart, then returns the order back into their approval workflow. Done right, it turns a complex enterprise sale into a normal ecommerce flow.

We built TakoApp to bring PunchOut to WooCommerce, because the enterprise buyers were there and the tooling wasn't. If you're trying to sell into procurement, it's a shortcut worth knowing about.