Discount Buying Programs

PINE has made arrangements with several companies — companies you use in running your business — to provide discounts on their products and services. PINE and PIA combine the overall buying power of its over 7,000 member companies to negotiate these discounts and special arrangements, which you may not be able to receive if you were to negotiate directly with each company.

How Do I Participate?

You contact the company you are interested in using and usually, it’s as easy as identifying yourself as a PINE/PIA member. After that, you’ll begin to receive discounted pricing. If you have questions about the service or the products in a vendor’s program, just call PINE and discuss it with any staff member: 800-365-7463.

Available Programs: (in alphabetical order)

Member companies get an exclusive members-only 15% discount on all Adobe software, books, and training products. Save 15% instantly on full versions, upgrades, and multiple software license purchases of the Adobe products you use most, available only to PINE/PIA members. (More)

Apple product discounts will range from 4–17 percent depending on the product purchased, with smaller savings on hardware purchases and larger savings opportunities on software purchases. More information available here.

The BB Direct program offers members data hygiene services at a discounted rate, including NCOA Link Process—18 Month, NCOA Link Process—48 Month, and Delivery Sequence File Processing. The program also offers discounts to the Dun & Bradstreet database to acquire mailing lists both online or off. (Learn more)

PINE members receive major discounts on testing that can help you select the right person — the Caliper Testing Service. The Caliper Profile, an in-depth personality assessment, can help you learn an individual’s true motivations, competencies, strengths, and potential. The Caliper approach is fast, accurate and guaranteed. To begin service or for more information, PINE members may call Trisha DeIeso at (609) 524-1440. Be sure to identify yourself as a member of PIA to receive the special association discount. Or visit Caliper’s Web site.

PINE has established a discount towel wiping program with Clean Rentals & More that saves members a small percentage from the going market rate for wiping towels, uniforms and apparel, floor mats and sorbents. On top of the discounted pricing schedule, members experience a high level of customer service, receive quality woven towels, and receive a high level of customer commitment from the management of Clean Rentals. Additionally, towels will be laundered in an environmentally-sound manner. Contact Clean Uniforms and More! President, Mark Bodzioch, at 508-996-3333 for additional information.

PINE and Experian SmartBusinessReports.com are now offering you a new, easy way to manage your business credit and appraise risk by giving you direct online access to discounted business credit reports 24/7. PINE members can order reports directly from PINE's SmartBusinessReports.com portal.

PINE has developed an exclusive discount shipping program which provides member companies with discounts off regular pricing of up to 26 percent on overnight and 15 percent on ground shipments. Further details are available here. To enroll, contact PINE for an application or download an application here.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Discounts
PINE and 16 Printing Industries of America affiliates have joined together to form the Regional Affiliate Certificate Group offering manufacturing printers access to FSC chain of custody certification at group prices. On December 1, 2010, 47 companies were successfully included in the group launch, which is the first printers group created in North America. Learn more here or contact Jim Tepper at jtepper04@pine.org or 508-804-4101.

Members receive up to a 20% discount off the list price of GPO/government printing bid solicitation services from Government Printing Sales. Government Printing Sales gathers printing contract opportunities from hundreds of government offices, categorizes the jobs, sorts them according to printer capabilities, and provides the specs to printers at www.GovernmentPrintingSales.com. Members interested in taking advantage of the GPS government bid solicitation service can call Deborah Snider of GPS at 888-876-5432.

15% discount for members on all services. Contact them at 978-694-9992 or sales@interlinkONE.com. www.interlinkONE.com

PINE members receive a 20% discount on all nSight workshops. nSight offers a wide range of the most popular publishing tools, technologies, and skills-based communications training programs. A full listing of nSight’s workshops is at www.nsightworks.com/training.

PINE, in partnership with Marathon Solutions, Inc., is offering members a new buying power program that saves money on expensive processing fees.

PINE has negotatiated favorable discounted rates on renewable energy credits with Renewable Choice Energy. To date more than 20 members have decided to participate in this effort which brings low group pricing and a powerful marketing message for their company.  This is a great opportunity to add promotional punch to your marketing effort at very little cost! Contact Jim Tepper for further details.

A staffing service for the printing industry, PINE members are entitled to a discount off Semper International's posted rate fees. Contact Semper International directly at 617-557-3000 or visit them online, or check out this PDF. Be sure to mention you are a PINE member.

With Staples Business Advantage members are eligible to receive low contract pricing on more than 30,000 office supply products through StaplesLink.com—Staples’ easy-to-use Internet ordering platform. Go to the Staples Buying Power page to enroll. Once enrolled in the program, you can shop online at www.StaplesLink.com.

Save up to 30% on UPS shipping costs. PINE members have access to the UPS Savings Program which provides great discounts on UPS domestic air, ground and international services for both small and large volume shipping. Sign up - or convert your exisiting account - today at savewithups.com/pine. 

Save on the entire line of Xerox products and services including production color digital presses, the iGen4, FreeFlow, the Nuvera family of monochrome solutions, as well as a full line of office solutions, supplies, used equipment and more. Special programs and pricing for Xerox solutions are available to all PINE members. Contact your local Xerox sales representative for more information or simply call 1-800-ASK-XEROX to learn more about the benefits of your PINE membership.