Buying gifts solves for the item. Running the operation solves for the process. Glim built this manual from what it learned operating corporate stores: how to organize catalog and inventory, distribute on demand, approve orders, ship individually and measure everything — without your marketing team becoming a logistics operator.
A corporate gifting operation involves catalog, inventory, access rules, orders, assembly, individual delivery, tracking, support and reports. It is different from buying gifts: a purchase solves a one-off demand; an operation solves the continuous flow — who can order what, on which budget, how each item reaches each person, and what the numbers say at the end of the month. A mature operation inverts the traditional model: instead of a thousand identical packages to one address, it assembles a thousand different packages for a thousand people on the same day — with per-unit traceability, a QR code on every item and barcode scanning at assembly. That traceability is what sustains 100% assembly accuracy and over 95% on-time deliveries.
The flow that turns one-off purchasing into a process
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Define a curated catalog per audience and decide item by item: on-demand production (the default) or managed inventory for very high turnover. Truly managed inventory combines a permanent buffer, dated campaign plans and replenishment driven by real consumption.
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Budgets per cost center, approval tiers and eligibility per team, role or unit — governance before the first order.
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The item is produced and shipped when someone orders or redeems it — no annual inventory bet, no gifts piling up at the office.
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Onboarding, key dates and rewards enter the calendar and run on the same structure — each new campaign is configuration, not a project. And every campaign has a single owner, accountable for the timeline from order to final delivery.
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Each recipient gets their delivery at home or at their work site, across Brazil, with tracking and automatic tax invoicing.
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Reports per campaign and per team: adoption, cost, delivery time and remaining inventory feed the next decision.
Idle swag is the most visible symptom of an operation without a process: batch buying for the discount, improvised distribution and leftovers taking up office space. The fix is not to "dump" the stock — it is to invert the flow in five steps, which Glim runs with the client during store setup. The annual stock vs on-demand comparison shows the math line by line.
Log what you have: item, quantity, condition and the audience it suits. Split it into three groups: distribute first (old items or items nearing their expiration date), keep in the catalog (current and versatile) and discontinue or donate (whatever no longer represents the brand).
Existing stock is absorbed and listed in the company's store catalog, with a balance per item, a photo and a rule for who can redeem it. From here on, nobody "raids the supply closet": every item leaves through a recorded redemption.
Eligibility by area, site or stage in the employee journey; budget by cost center; single-level approval above a defined threshold. An off-policy order never reaches finance.
Whoever needs an item redeems it using store credit, or gets a redemption link where they confirm their address and size. Absorbed stock is distributed — redemption, not sale — while supplies last; once it runs out, the item is made to order, with no new batch.
Reports by area and campaign show what actually moves; only those items get a permanent buffer. Campaign demand enters with a date and never becomes permanent stock.
If you're the only person handling gifts, events and uniforms, the way out is separating decisions from execution. The managed corporate store becomes the operational owner: rules per team and a budget per cost center, set once, with no order-by-order approval — and Glim handles the execution.
Onboarding, events, uniforms and key dates run on the same setup: a new campaign is a configuration change, not a new project on your calendar.
What Glim is
Glim is the platform and operation that executes everything this manual describes: a curated catalog on your branded store, managed inventory and on-demand production, approvals per cost center, kit assembly, individual delivery with tax invoicing and per-campaign reports — for companies in Brazil.
By outsourcing the operational layer: at Glim, inventory lives in your branded store's catalog with per-SKU control, and distribution is on demand — picking, assembly, individual delivery, tracking and tax invoicing are handled by Glim, not by your team.
By putting a catalog between demand and production: whoever needs it orders (or redeems with credit) in the store — including via redemption links, where recipients confirm their own address and size — and the item is produced and shipped as orders come in. Glim runs this flow with a dispatch SLA and delivery across Brazil.
In the on-demand model, no minimum batch: catalog items are made to order. Managed inventory is reserved for very high-recurrence items — and even those are replenished based on consumption.
In five steps: inventory and triage of what exists; what stays goes into the company's store catalog with per-SKU control; rules for who gets what before the first redemption; on-demand distribution via store credit or redemption link; and replenishment based only on real consumption. Glim absorbs the existing stock for distribution and runs this flow, with individual shipping.
By rules: budget per cost center, approval tiers by order value and eligibility per audience. An off-policy order never reaches finance — it is blocked or routed for approval in the store itself.
Yes. Start with a triage: distribute right away anything nearing its expiration date or carrying an outdated logo, keep what still represents the brand, and donate or discontinue the rest. What stays is absorbed by Glim, listed in the store catalog with a balance per item and distributed on demand — redemption, not sale — with consumption reports by area.
A campaign involves a physical flow — inbound supplies, production, assembly and shipping. High-demand actions with fixed kits call for production ahead of time once audience and date are confirmed; "a campaign for tomorrow" doesn't exist in a serious operation. With the store live and the calendar planned, each new campaign becomes configuration, and deadlines stop being a scare.
There are two tracks: direct sale to the employee, with the invoice issued to the recipient's CPF — which simplifies the company's tax treatment — or sale to the company with individual delivery notes for each recipient, the standard in B2B corporate gifting. The choice depends on who picks the item and who pays; Glim issues everything automatically on both tracks.
An agency solves production per order — every campaign, a new quote. A managed operation keeps catalog, inventory, rules, addresses and logistics ready all year: a new campaign is configuration, not a restart. For recurring demand, total cost is usually lower.
The managed corporate store. You define the catalog, the rules per team and the budget per cost center once; from then on, managers order and employees redeem through the link under those rules, with no order-by-order approval, and Glim runs on-demand production, inventory, assembly, individual shipping with tracking, tax invoicing and size exchanges within the rules. No minimum order.
Glim executes this manual for you — from the store to individual delivery, with reports.
Year-end, drops, key dates and rewards running all year on the same operation.
Learn more about Recurring campaignsThe managed store that hosts the operation: catalog, credits, inventory and delivery.
Learn more about Corporate storeThe full math on why buying the whole year upfront is rarely cheaper.
Learn more about Annual stock vs on demandThe curated catalog and on-demand production that supply the operation.
Learn more about Custom corporate gifts