Become a Supplier

Catholic Purchasing Services, Inc. is a national non-profit buying service of the Catholic Church. We help religious institutions save time and money by consolidating the purchasing power of over 40,000 religious institutions and by negotiating national and regional contracts and agreements with quality suppliers.

We continually communicate with over 40,000 religiously affiliated institutions through catalogs, newsletters, and targeted mailings.

Our restricted e-commerce site gives registered institutions access to more than 100,000 products from more than 170 distributors and manufacturers. Customers using our website can browse our complete database of products and order directly from us. Orders are transmitted to our suppliers electronically or through other processes.

Benefits for Catholic Purchasing Services’ Suppliers

Credibility and Increased Sales in the Multi-Billion Dollar Catholic Institution Market

• As an organization of the Catholic Church, Catholic Purchasing Services gives you and your corporation credibility in the Catholic institution market. We provide a great door opener and unique opportunity for you that your competition will not enjoy.
  
• A Catholic Purchasing Services discount program is a powerful sales tool that increases your sales to a difficult-to-reach market.

• Churches
• Preschools, elementary schools, and high schools
• Colleges and universities
• Hospitals and nursing homes
• Other religious and social service institutions

• Catholic Purchasing Services will market your products in catalogs, monthly newsletters, and targeted mailings to over 40,000 religiously affiliated institutions.
• We can promote your entire product line on our website and online ordering system.
• We can market your catalog in our mailings.

• We can match your sales territory to our database of ALL Catholic institutions and supply you with contact information for prospective Catholic institutions in your sales territory.
• Our marketing and selling initiatives also generate leads for orders that require additional personal selling. We will turn these qualified leads over to you to close the sales.

• Your rate of closing sales with Catholic institutions will increase.
• Our courteous and highly knowledgeable customer service staff will take and process many orders for your products.
• In addition, we can assist you in closing orders that require more personal selling.

• By only invoicing ONE source (Catholic Purchasing Services), rather than many individual religious institutions, you will eliminate time-consuming accounts receivable issues.
• You also eliminate costly and time-consuming individual credit checks for Catholic institutions; your representatives can take orders without worrying about credit or payment.
• Your ability to invoice Catholic Purchasing Services electronically will dramatically reduce billing and other administrative costs.
• Catholic Purchasing Services pays you within your payment terms.

• By partnering with Catholic Purchasing Services, your company realizes a much higher share of the multi-billion dollar Catholic institution market.