Reseller vs. Vendor: What's the Difference?
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Main Difference
The main difference between Reseller and Vendor is that the Reseller is a company or individual that purchases goods or services with the intention of selling them and Vendor is a enterprise that contributes goods or services
Reseller
A reseller is a company or individual (merchant) that purchases goods or services with the intention of selling them rather than consuming or using them. This is usually done for profit (but could be resold at a loss). One example can be found in the industry of telecommunications, where companies buy excess amounts of transmission capacity or call time from other carriers and resell it to smaller carriers.
According to the Institute for Partner Education & Development, a resellers’ product fulfillment-based business model includes a corporate reseller, retail, direct market reseller (DMR), and an internet retailer (eTailer); less than 10 percent of its revenue comes from services.
Vendor
In a supply chain, a vendor, or a seller, is an enterprise that contributes goods or services. Generally, a supply chain vendor manufactures inventory/stock items and sells them to the next link in the chain. Today, these terms refer to a supplier of any good or service.
Reseller (noun)
a company or individual that purchases goods or services with the intention of reselling them rather than consuming or using them
Vendor (noun)
A person or a company that vends or sells.
Vendor (noun)
A vending machine.
Vendor (verb)
To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one’s own program.
“I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn’t use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.”
Vendor (verb)
As the software vendor, to bundle one’s own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.
“Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.”
Vendor (noun)
a person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street
“an Italian ice-cream vendor”
Vendor (noun)
the seller in a sale, especially of property.
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