The UK’s first AI driven glass trade platform
Sell more glass online. Without building an online store. We already built it for you.
GLAZIE LTD gives UK glass manufacturers a ready-built digital sales channel for made-to-measure glass. You manufacture the glass. We provide the storefront, specialist configurator, pricing infrastructure, checkout, customer journey and supplier portal needed to sell it online.
- £0 setup fee
- £0 monthly software fee
- £0 listing fee
You publish your supplier price. The agreed GLAZIE LTD marketplace margin is added on top when the customer price is formed, rather than being taken out of the price you publish.
- Ready-built online storeNo ecommerce project for you to fund
- Your supplier pricesPublish what you are prepared to manufacture at
- Paid marketplace ordersThe customer transaction happens before fulfilment
- Built for manufacturersYou focus on making and fulfilling the glass
How can a UK glass manufacturer start selling glass online?
Join GLAZIE LTD, a UK glass trade marketplace built for fabricators and sealed unit manufacturers. The online storefront, made-to-measure configurator, pricing infrastructure, checkout and supplier portal are already built, so there is no setup fee or monthly software fee. Suppliers publish their own prices and delivery coverage, while marketplace customers configure and pay online before eligible orders enter the supplier fulfilment workflow.
Thinking about an online glass store?
Do not waste money rebuilding what already exists.
A proper made-to-measure glass ecommerce system is not a normal online shop. It needs specialist configuration, millimetre pricing, product rules, checkout, delivery logic, customer communication and a manufacturing-ready order flow. Building all of that from scratch can become a major software project before the first online order is won.
GLAZIE LTD has already built the digital infrastructure. If your goal is to sell more glass online, connect your manufacturing business to the platform instead of paying to build the same technology again.
The storefront, configurator, checkout and supplier workflow already exist.
There is no onboarding software charge before you can use the marketplace.
No subscription is charged simply for keeping the supplier portal available.
Your catalogue is not charged product by product just for being published.
Free software does not mean there is no marketplace economics. You publish the supplier price you are prepared to manufacture at. The agreed GLAZIE LTD marketplace margin is added on top when forming the customer price. Our incentive is to make completed marketplace orders happen, not to sell you another software licence.
A new sales channel for your factory
Reach buyers your existing sales process may never see.
You already sell to the people who ring, email or hold a trade account. GLAZIE LTD is built for the demand that starts online: customers who want to search, configure, see a price and pay digitally instead of waiting for an office to open.
Another route to market
Participate in a specialist digital glass marketplace without replacing your existing trade sales channels.
Reach new buyers
Marketplace demand can introduce your factory to customers outside the network that already knows your telephone number.
Stay available online
The customer-facing digital journey can keep working outside normal office hours.
Keep the factory focused
The value of your team is manufacturing glass, not rebuilding the same ecommerce infrastructure every manufacturer would otherwise need.
How the marketplace works
From online customer to manufacturing order.
The point is not simply to give you another dashboard. It is to connect the customer buying journey to a structured supplier fulfilment workflow.
Customer shops
The customer starts on the GLAZIE LTD storefront and chooses the glass product they need.
Glass is configured
Dimensions and the applicable product options are captured through a made-to-measure buying journey.
The basket is priced
The server-side marketplace pricing path uses the applicable published commercial rules.
Customer pays
GLAZIE LTD handles the marketplace transaction as merchant of record.
Supplier fulfils
The selected supplier receives the order through the controlled fulfilment workflow and manufactures the glass.
Settlement is recorded
Supplier payables and self-billed documentation preserve the commercial history after fulfilment.
Customer → configuration → price → payment → supplier → manufacture → settlement.
Your factory, your commercial rules
Sell online without giving away control of the business.
Joining a marketplace should not mean accepting somebody else’s generic manufacturing model. Your supplier account is built around the products, prices and coverage your business can support.
Your prices
Publish the supplier prices you are prepared to manufacture at. The agreed marketplace margin is added on top when forming the customer price.
Your catalogue
Choose the products and manufacturing options your business supports rather than selling against a generic catalogue somebody else invented.
Your delivery coverage
Set the postcode areas or wider coverage your business serves, together with the delivery rules used by the marketplace.
Your operating picture
Keep working days and daily capacity current so the portal reflects the factory position. Capacity supports planning and visibility, but is not a hard routing gate by itself today.
Important: capacity is deliberately described here as an operational planning tool, not as a promise that the current routing engine will hard-block every order above a daily number. Orders that reach a supplier still require acknowledgement, and an order that cannot be fulfilled must be raised as an exception with a reason.
Your price list goes digital
Do not type the same price book into another system.
Your commercial information may already live in Excel, CSV, PDF or another price-book format. GLAZIE LTD includes catalogue import tools designed to reduce the manual work of turning that information into supplier catalogue data.
Structured data stays structured. A recognisable spreadsheet can be read from its cells rather than asking a model to guess a clear number.
Uncertainty is visible. Less structured documents can be assisted by extraction, with uncertain information presented for review.
You approve what goes live. AI assistance does not have authority to silently publish or change your commercial pricing.
Paid customer transaction
Manufacture glass. Do not become the online debt collector.
For marketplace orders, GLAZIE LTD handles the customer transaction as merchant of record. The supplier relationship is therefore built around a paid marketplace order rather than asking the manufacturer to create the retail checkout, process the card and chase the end customer.
The customer pays through the marketplace
GLAZIE LTD takes the customer payment and handles the customer-facing VAT invoice.
The supplier fulfils the order
The order progresses through the supplier fulfilment workflow, with the relevant commercial record attached.
7 days for issues to be raised
The configured dispute window allows relevant issues to be recorded before the payable becomes eligible.
Self-billed supplier documentation
The supplier-side invoice record can be generated under the self-billing arrangement instead of requiring a fresh invoice for every order.
Settlement history remains visible
Payables, deductions, reserves and payments can remain separately recorded so the commercial trail is auditable rather than quietly edited into one unexplained number.
Your registered address
Your VAT number
56 Ashgrove Road Ilford, London IG39XD
VAT GB 336090512
AI and automation are the engine, not the proposition
90% less human work. More time on glass, less time repeating office work.
The reason the platform can be offered without asking every manufacturer to build its own software is that repetitive digital work is handled centrally. The commercial outcome is what matters: another route to orders, less duplicated administration and a cleaner path from customer configuration to supplier fulfilment.
Price-book assistance
Use structured import and AI-assisted extraction to reduce retyping, while keeping supplier review between extraction and publication.
Customer answering with handover
Suitable customer questions can be handled digitally, with human handover when the conversation needs a person rather than a confident guess.
More than an online shop
A supplier operating workspace for marketplace orders.
Approved suppliers do not have to run the relationship from a shared inbox and a collection of spreadsheets. The supplier portal brings the main operating surfaces together.
Orders
Incoming marketplace work, structured specifications and fulfilment progress.
Pricing and inventory
Products, rates, manufacturing rules and price-book import tools.
Delivery
The areas you serve and the delivery commercial rules attached to them.
Capacity
Working days and daily output for an accurate operating picture.
Invoices and settlements
Payables, statement history and self-billed supplier documents.
Business settings
The legal and commercial identity used by the supplier relationship.
Profile
Trading information associated with the supplier organisation.
Tickets and inbox
Marketplace support and order-related communication in one place.
From application to first marketplace order
Getting your factory connected is deliberately straightforward.
Applying does not automatically publish a supplier. The business is reviewed first, then the approved supplier completes the operational setup needed for marketplace trading.
Apply
Tell us about the business, contacts, registered address, manufacturing operation and relevant accreditation information.
Human review
A person on the GLAZIE LTD team reviews the application. The supplier portal stays closed until approval.
Set up the supplier account
Complete the business profile, publish prices, configure delivery and keep the operating picture current.
Publish the catalogue
Supplier pricing should not become live simply because a document was uploaded. Review and publication remain controlled steps.
Participate in marketplace routing
Once the account is active with published commercial data and delivery coverage, the business can participate for suitable customer baskets.
Fulfil and settle
Acknowledge suitable orders, progress them through production and dispatch, then keep the supplier settlement history in the same relationship.
Who should apply?
Built for serious UK glass manufacturers and processors.
You do not need to be Britain’s biggest factory. You do need accurate pricing, dependable manufacturing and the ability to fulfil the marketplace work your business accepts.
Sealed unit manufacturers
Businesses producing insulating glass units and made-to-measure sealed units.
Glass processors
Manufacturers handling toughened, laminated, safety and other processed glass.
Specialist manufacturers
Businesses producing specialist, heritage or slim glazing where supported catalogue families are available.
Regional delivery operations
Manufacturers with defined postcode coverage and their own local or regional delivery capability.
Wider fulfilment networks
Businesses capable of serving a broader area where their delivery setup and commercial model support it.
Growing manufacturers
Factories that already know how to make the product and want a digital route to additional demand without building the software stack themselves.
Why build your own?
Your factory is already the difficult part.
You already have the machinery, production knowledge, glass expertise, price book, delivery operation and people. If the missing piece is the digital route from online customer to paid manufacturing order, that is the part GLAZIE LTD is designed to provide.
Keep your existing website, trade accounts and direct customers. The marketplace is an additional channel for customers introduced through GLAZIE LTD, not a demand that you hand over the rest of your business.
You manufacture the glass. We provide the digital sales infrastructure.
Straight answers
Selling glass online: questions manufacturers ask.
What does it cost to sell glass online?
There is no fee to apply, no setup fee, no monthly software subscription and no per listing charge. You publish the supplier price you are prepared to manufacture at, and the GLAZIE LTD marketplace margin is added on top when forming the customer price, at a rate agreed with you before you go live.
What do I need to apply?
You will be asked for your business type and trading name, company registration number where applicable, VAT number if you have one, contact details, registered address, whether you manufacture your own sealed units, relevant accreditation information and the required supplier agreements. The application is designed to take about ten minutes.
Do I need to be FENSA or BFRC registered?
No. The application records FENSA, BFRC and other accreditation information where relevant, but those registrations are not required simply to apply. Every supplier application is reviewed by the GLAZIE LTD team before portal access is approved.
How much work will I get?
We do not promise a volume. Marketplace routing depends on factors that include the postcode areas a supplier covers and the published price for the basket, and where several routable sellers can price the same basket the current seller routing chooses the cheapest customer total. The purpose is to create an additional digital sales channel, not to guarantee a fixed quantity of orders.
Do I need my own website to sell glass online?
No. GLAZIE LTD already provides the specialist online storefront, made-to-measure glass configurator, pricing infrastructure, checkout and supplier workflow. You can keep your existing website if you have one, but you do not need to fund another ecommerce build just to participate in the marketplace.
What is the AI actually doing?
AI assists with repetitive work such as interpreting suitable price-book documents and answering suitable customer questions. A clear spreadsheet can be read directly from its cells, uncertain extracted rows are flagged for review, and AI does not silently publish a supplier price or accept an order on the supplier’s behalf.
Do I have to take every order?
No. Orders that reach a supplier still require acknowledgement. If you cannot fulfil one, raise an exception with a reason and GLAZIE LTD can handle reallocation. There is no hidden reject button and the reason remains part of the operational history.
Can I stop taking work while I am busy?
Keep your capacity calendar current so your working days and daily output reflect the factory’s real position. Capacity is used for operational planning and visibility, but it is not a hard routing stop by itself today. If you need a full pause on new marketplace routing, contact the GLAZIE LTD team, and raise an exception for any order you cannot fulfil.
Whose customer is it?
For marketplace-introduced orders, GLAZIE LTD is merchant of record and manages the customer-facing transaction, payment and VAT invoice. The supplier manufactures and fulfils the order under the supplier relationship and agrees not to solicit customers introduced through the marketplace directly.
What happens to my price book?
Your existing price information can be brought into a review workflow. Structured spreadsheet cells can be read directly, while less structured documents can be assisted by extraction. Nothing should become a live supplier price until the supplier reviews and publishes the catalogue information.
How do I get paid?
Under the self-billing arrangement, GLAZIE LTD can issue the supplier invoice record on your behalf rather than requiring you to raise one for each marketplace order. A payable is based on the commercial figures associated with the order, a dispute window of 7 days runs, and eligible settlement records remain available with their supporting history.
How long does approval take?
Every application is reviewed by the GLAZIE LTD team rather than automatically activating a supplier account. The supplier portal stays closed until approval, and you receive an email when the application status changes. We do not publish a guaranteed review time on this page.
Can I leave?
Yes. Supplier account closure requires the proper sign-off and cannot complete while live orders, open tickets, disputes or unsettled commercial obligations remain. That protects both the supplier and customers from work or money being left unresolved.
No surprises at the application
Four supplier agreements are presented before you submit.
The supplier relationship is commercial, not a free-for-all directory listing. The application records the required agreements so both sides know the operating rules.
Supplier Service Agreement
Supplier terms, operating expectations and quality obligations.
Self-Billing Agreement
Permission for GLAZIE LTD to create the supplier invoice record under the self-billing process.
Data Processing Terms
How order and customer data is handled within the supplier relationship.
Non-Solicitation
Marketplace-introduced customers remain within the marketplace customer relationship.
Stop paying to build the same technology twice
Put your factory online without building the online store.
Apply for free. There is no setup fee, no monthly software fee and no listing fee. Bring the manufacturing business you already have and connect it to the digital sales infrastructure GLAZIE LTD has already built.
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