Jason Eastwood

Jason Eastwood is a co-founder of Brand Sauce, the company-store and branded merchandise business founded as On Demand Global in 2018.

Brand Sauce builds managed company stores and supports employee gifting, branded products and fulfillment. Meet the team and read our story.

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Articles by Jason Eastwood

• Company-store admin permissions: separate catalog, orders and finance

  Define company-store operator roles, restrict sensitive actions and test access boundaries with a practical permissions matrix and handoff checklist.

• Company-store card payments: authorization, capture and production release

  Choose when to collect company-store card payments without trapping made-to-order merchandise between an expiring hold and a paid-order production rule.

• Should your company store be public, unlisted or private?

  Separate company-store search visibility from private access with an audience worksheet, public-showcase tradeoffs and eight launch acceptance checks.

• Company swag inventory: SKUs, barcodes or individual asset IDs?

  Choose variant-level counts or individual item tracking, map supplier codes to decorated merchandise, and test receiving, transfers and returns before rollout.

• Company-store approval queues: who releases a held order?

  Design company-store approval queues with clear approver roles, request versions, expiry rules and release checks. Includes eight practical acceptance tests.

• PunchOut vs. a direct company store: when is integration worth it?

  Decide whether merchandise shopping belongs in procurement or a direct company store, with cost tradeoffs, approval boundaries and practical acceptance tests.

• Company-store SSO vs. email login: choose the right sign-in model

  Compare corporate SSO, email codes, magic links and separate passwords for employee stores, with mixed-workforce tradeoffs and eight practical launch tests.

• Company-store domains: your address or the provider’s?

  Compare a company-owned subdomain, provider-hosted store and company entry page. Define domain ownership, launch checks and a workable provider-exit plan.

• Company-store order emails: delivery checks and recovery

  Recover missing company-store confirmations without duplicate orders. Compare notification ownership, delivery evidence, fallback routes and launch acceptance tests.

• Company-store order sync: how to recover missing updates

  Build a company-store order recovery plan with clear status ownership, independent reconciliation, safe retries and six practical integration acceptance tests.

• Employee swag delivery deadlines: estimates, commitments and cutoffs

  Build a credible swag delivery plan by separating production, shipping and receiving, with cutoff calculations, supplier questions and fallback decisions.

• Shared gift codes vs. individual redemption links: what actually controls access?

  Compare shared codes, unique links and recipient-bound gift access, with an eight-case acceptance test for eligibility, checkout limits and recovery.

• How to prevent duplicate employee gifts when HR data syncs

  Prevent duplicate gift grants across HR imports, integration retries and manual requests with stable identity, an entitlement ledger and seven acceptance tests.

• Employee gifting data: what should your swag provider receive?

  Define the employee data each gifting partner needs, with a field-level handoff table, correction workflow, retention plan and prelaunch acceptance checks.

• Company-store access: an employee offboarding checklist

  Remove employee store access without losing track of open orders. A practical guide to SSO, permissions, allowances and six offboarding acceptance tests.