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Getac has informed us of an adjustment to the list prices for selected Android-based products in their portfolio, effective from the 15th of July...
Getac has informed us of an adjustment to the list prices for selected Android-based products in their portfolio, effective from the 15th of July 2026. The adjustment results in a price increase for ZX80, ZX80-EX, ZX10, ZX10-EX devices.
Here is a breakdown of the relevant information for you:
- All new orders placed from the 15th of July 2026 onwards will be subject to the new list prices.
- Orders placed up to and including the 14th of July 2026 will be invoiced at the old list prices.
- Projects remain valid until their expiry date.
Please note that at the time this message was published, not all details regarding the SKUs and the exact new prices were yet available.
Do you have any questions? We will be happy to assist you with our expertise and service – let us know how we can best support you!
Seagull has informed us of an adjustment to the list prices for their portfolio, effective from the 1st of July 2026....
Seagull has informed us of an adjustment to the list prices for their portfolio, effective from the 1st of July 2026. This adjustment includes price increases of 5% for Subscription products and 8% for Perpetual products.
Here is a breakdown of the relevant information for you:
- All new orders placed from the 1st of July 2026 onwards will be subject to the new list prices.
- Orders placed up to and including the 30th of June 2026 will be invoiced at the current list prices.
- Project prices remain valid until the 31st of July 2026 and must be updated after that date.
Details of the affected SKUs and the exact new prices are available upon request from your sales representative. Do you have any questions? We will be happy to assist you with our expertise and service – let us know how we can best support you!
Mit der Hardware TSE 2 bringt Swissbit die nächste...
Mit der Hardware TSE 2 bringt Swissbit die nächste Generation der Technischen Sicherheitseinrichtung (TSE) in den Markt. Die TSE 2 bietet Resellern eine attraktive Gelegenheit auf mehr Umsatz, die Sie sich auf keinen Fall entgehen lassen sollten!
Fragen Sie schon heute Ihr Developer Kit mit neuem SDK und der Developer TSE 2 bei uns an. Die TSE 2 ist bereits bestellbar und aufgrund der hohen Nachfrage empfehlen wir Ihnen, Ihre Bestellungen für Q3 und Q4 2026 rechtzeitig zu platzieren.
Mehr erfahren Sie in unserem deutschsprachigen Webinar »TSE 2« am 09. Juli 2026 um 14:00 Uhr (MEZ), zu dem wir Sie gemeinsam mit Swissbit herzlich einladen.
Datalogic has informed us of an adjustment to the list prices for their portfolio, effective from the 1st of July 2026....
Datalogic has informed us of an adjustment to the list prices for their portfolio, effective from the 1st of July 2026. This adjustment results in price increases that vary depending on product categories.
Here is a breakdown of the relevant information for you:
- Mobile Computers: 8–15% increase.
- Fixed Retail Scanners: 5–15% increase.
- Presentation Scanners remain unchanged.
- Barcode-Scanners
- Gryphon 4600 & GFS Modules: 3% increase.
- QuickScan, Gryphon 4500 & PowerScan remain unchanged.
- Accessories: 5–15% increase.
- Services (Repair, EOC & Spare): up to 5% increase.
What the price adjustment means for your order:
- All new orders placed from the 1st of July 2026 onwards will be subject to the new list prices.
- All open orders received before 1st of July 2026 and delivered up to and including 31st of July 2026 will be invoiced at the current list prices.
- All special pricing arrangements, such as demonstration offers and promotional deals, will be subject to the price adjustment effective 1st of July 2026.
- All orders covered by an active Price Exception (PE) issued before 1st of July 2026 and shipped by 31st of July 2026 will remain valid until that date.
- PEs issued before 1st of July 2026 for affected products will expire on 1st of August 2026. For any orders that remain open or undelivered after this date, a new Price Exception must be requested from Datalogic.
- PEs issued on or after 1st of July 2026 based on the new pricing will remain valid for their standard validity period.
Details of the affected SKUs and the exact new prices are available upon request from your sales representative. Do you have any questions? We will be happy to assist you with our expertise and service – let us know how we can best support you!
Epson has informed us of an adjustment to the list prices for their portfolio, effective from the 1st of July 2026....
Epson has informed us of an adjustment to the list prices for their portfolio, effective from the 1st of July 2026. This adjustment results in price increases that vary depending on product categories.
Here is a breakdown of the relevant information for you:
- POS hardware & supplies: 5% increase.
- TM-L100, TM-T20IV, TM-m30III »Standard«, TM-P20II, TM-P80II, TM-P80II AC remain unchanged.
- ColorWorks media: 5% increase.
- DiscProducer supplies: 5% increase.
- LabelWorks supplies: 10% increase.
What the price adjustment means for your order:
- All new orders placed from the 1st of July 2026 onwards will be subject to the new list prices.
- All orders shipped up to and including the 30th of June 2026 will be invoiced at the current list prices.
- This also applies to orders that cannot be shipped until after this date due to limited product availability.
- Project prices will remain valid until their respective expiry date.
Details of the affected SKUs and the exact new prices are available upon request from your sales representative. Do you have any questions? We will be happy to assist you with our expertise and service – let us know how we can best support you!
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Why We’re Investing Millions to Become the Efficiency Champion of Distribution
Distribution is a business with tight margins – and our customers have every right to expect both: outstanding service and competitive pricing....
Distribution is a business with tight margins – and our customers have every right to expect both: outstanding service and competitive pricing. The only way to deliver both consistently is through uncompromising efficiency.
That’s why, over the past 18 months, Jarltech has launched the largest investment program in the company’s history.
Fully automated logistics: Our AutoStore warehouse in Usingen picks and processes orders around the clock – faster, more accurately, and more scalably than any manual warehouse. Orders placed until late in the evening are still shipped the same day and handed over to parcel carriers via our own truck deliveries.
AI in every process: From technical support requests that are answered within seconds using manufacturer expertise and knowledge from countless previous support cases, to intelligent inventory and pricing management, and the automatic identification of the right accessories for every project – we use artificial intelligence wherever it helps our customers move faster and makes our processes leaner.
End-to-end digital processes: From our webshop and the new Boost rewards program to order processing and returns management, every step is seamlessly connected – without media breaks, unnecessary delays, or manual handovers.
Our goal is ambitious: we want to become the most efficient distributor in Europe. Not for the sake of efficiency itself, but because every euro we save through smarter processes is reinvested into better service and more competitive pricing for our reseller partners. At the same time, it makes our distribution services more cost-effective for our vendor partners.
For our partners, this translates into tangible benefits: dedicated personal contacts, smarter and more responsive service, best-in-class inventory availability, competitive market pricing – and a partnership built for the future.
Distribution dynamics: why »cheap at any price« doesn’t work in B2B distribution
»Cheap at any price« may be a great slogan for consumers buying a television once every few years....
»Cheap at any price« may be a great slogan for consumers buying a television once every few years. In B2B distribution, however, it’s one of the most expensive misconceptions there is. Because the distributor with the lowest price is almost never the one that costs you the least. It sounds contradictory, but it's simply a matter of arithmetic.
Take the reseller who consistently buys from whichever distributor has the list price that’s two per cent lower. Sounds perfectly sensible. Until the day the exact device needed for a customer project is out of stock. Suddenly, the end customer is at a standstill, the roll-out is delayed, engineers are booked but left waiting around, and the competition couldn’t be happier. So what did they save? Two per cent on the purchase price. What does the disruption cost? Several times that amount. Product availability isn’t a nice extra – it’s part of the price. It just doesn’t appear on the invoice.
The same applies to everything I’ve covered in this series. Payment terms that give a reseller breathing space. Credit facilities that keep the business moving. An RMA process that replaces a faulty unit quickly instead of leaving them waiting for three weeks. Configuration services that save valuable time. A knowledgeable person on the end of the phone who actually understands the product. Every one of these things has value – and the cheapest supplier is often the one that’s cut back on exactly these areas so the price on paper looks more attractive. You'll still pay the difference. Just later, somewhere else, and usually at a much higher cost.
I’ll say this quite openly, even if it goes against the stereotype of my own industry: distribution isn’t a price war – it’s a business built on trust, with a price tag attached. If you buy purely based on price, you train your suppliers to behave in exactly the way you least want them to. They cut back on service, inventory, accessibility and support, because suddenly everything revolves around the second decimal place. Then everyone acts surprised when nobody is there when it really matters.
Don’t get me wrong: price matters. We fight every day to remain competitive, and any distributor that’s consistently overpriced deserves to lose business. But price is only one variable among many – not the only one. The real question isn’t »How much does the box cost?« It’s »What will this business actually cost me in the end – including the days when things go wrong?« That’s the principle of total cost of ownership, and when you look at the total cost, the cheapest option is rarely the most economical.
The truly good buyer understands this. They negotiate hard on price – and still buy from the supplier they know will deliver when the pressure is on. Both at the same time. That's not sentimentality; it’s professional procurement.
So remember this: »The cheapest supplier is the one with the smallest invoice – and the biggest hidden costs.«
Distribution mechanics: broadliner vs specialist – why »everything for everyone« doesn’t work for us
There are two archetypes of distributors, and they could hardly be more different from each other....
There are two archetypes of distributors, and they could hardly be more different from each other. One is the broadliner: a gigantic catalogue, from hard drives and toner to network switches, hundreds of thousands of products, »everything for everyone«. The other is the specialist: a clearly defined world – in our case AIDC and POS, meaning scanners, mobile computers, label printers, point-of-sale systems and security – but with expertise at every level. Both call themselves distributors. And both are playing an entirely different game.
The broadliner lives by scale. Its advantage is breadth: a reseller gets everything from a single source, one invoice, one delivery, one login. That is convenient and exactly right for many standard products. The price paid for that is depth. If you stock 200,000 products, it is simply impossible to have someone in-house for each one who knows which scanner will still read at minus 20 degrees in a cold store, which printhead matches which label material, and why that one particular terminal causes problems during a rollout in France. For the broadliner, the product is a line in the catalogue. For the specialist, it is a craft.
And this is exactly where »everything for everyone« fails in our niche. Our products are not self-explanatory. A scanner is not simply a scanner – there are dozens of variants, accessories, cradles, firmware versions, configurations and industry-specific solutions. A specialist reseller equipping a warehouse worth half a million or planning a rollout across 3,000 stores does not want to talk to an ordering portal. They want someone who genuinely knows the products, who configures them, stages them, provides training, has RMA under control, and tells them when a particular device is the wrong choice for their application. That level of depth cannot be spread evenly and thinly across 200,000 products.
I do not want to criticise the broadliner – in high-volume business with products that require little explanation, it is unbeatable in terms of efficiency, and that is exactly where it belongs. But our industry is not a high-volume business with products that require little explanation. It is a solutions business. And a solutions business rewards those who master a few things exceptionally well, not those who are just somewhat proficient at many things.
That is why we deliberately chose depth over breadth. Not because we could not build a larger catalogue, but because in our world, »we do that as well« almost always means »we simply do it less well«. We would rather represent 40 manufacturers we know inside out than 400 where all we can look up is the price and availability. That is not modesty – it is strategy.
Incidentally, the market sorts this out by itself. In the long run, size wins in the standard business, while depth wins in the solutions business. Those who try to be both at the same time usually get squeezed in the middle: too small for the battle of scale, too broad for genuine expertise.
So remember: »Everything for everyone ultimately means nothing done properly for anyone.«
