Services offered exclusively to NCRMA members help businesses of all sizes and types cut costs and grow revenue. Members find cost and time savings derived by using just one of NCRMA’s vetted value-added services can more than offset their annual dues.
Health Insurance Coverage for Retailers
NCRMA Association Health Plan
NCRMA retail members are eligible to join the Association Health Plan. Participants join knowing there is no minimum number of employees (even one employee can enroll). They experience a likely reduction in costs for better benefits, access to more health plans for their employees and have more stability and predictability.
Affordable Workers’ Compensation Insurance
First Benefits Insurance Mutual
Our focus is to help NCRMA members mitigate risk by working with you to create a culture of safety for your employees, prevent workplace injuries and lower your claims costs. Experienced underwriting, responsible claims management, and “A+-rated” reinsurance coverage have allowed us to outperform industry loss ratios for more than 25 years. We work directly with insurance agents to provide quick, competitive quotes.
For a quick, competitive quote at 888.393.2667
Retirement Plan Solution for Small Businesses
Transamerica Retirement Plan Exchange
The Retirement Plan Exchange (the Exchange), powered by Transamerica, allows small businesses to provide a retirement plan to employees without having to take on all the administrative and fiduciary responsibilities that come with it. The Exchange can help reduce the administrative burden, transfer certain risks, and potentially reduce costs. With the Exchange, a team of professionals works together on your behalf so you can focus on running your business – not your retirement plan. When you offer a plan through the Exchange, you become a participating employer. Participating employers in the Exchange do not have to share a common association or industry.
Training and Credentialing Opportunities
RISE Up Retail Credentialing
Administered by RCA (an entity of NCRMA), RISE Up is a National Retail Federation training and credentialing program providing foundational employability skills to help people land jobs and get promoted in retail. The program is offered at no cost due to state funding. The National Retail Federation Foundation created four online training and credentialing courses designed by the retail industry to help students acquire the skills they need to land a retail job and advance into promising careers. There are four credentials available: Business of Retail; Customer Service and Sales; Warehouse, Inventory, and Logistics; and Retail Industry Fundamentals. For more information on the RISE Up program and the credentials offered, please contact Caroline Daly at carolined@ncrma.org
Get Your Website ADA Compliant Today!
Avoid Lawsuits and Lost Sales with UserWay
UserWay’s widget tool automates and bridges gaps in web accessibility – providing a low-cost, high-caliber tool for companies to make their websites accessible, ensuring customers with disabilities are not leaking from your market share and securing a legal defense against litigation and complaints.
The UserWay web accessibility widget can support any platform, including top hosts such as Shopify, WordPress and Wix. No matter what your site creation preference, their widget will be able to function within it. The UserWay overlay widget allows web hosts to set and match the UserWay control panel to their website design and brand. You will have the ability to change the overlay’s color, icon, placement and more.
While there are other solutions out there and UserWay themselves offer a free version of their widget, the old adage “you get what you pay for” is true. Here is a link to UserWay’s comparison of their free widget vs. their paid widget for you to review: https://userway.org/compare/
If you are interested, please contact Ann Edmondson at NCRMA anne@ncrma.org and she will help answer your questions and/or get you in touch with NCRMA’s UserWay representative.
Commercial Security
Sonitrol Security Solutions
10% off of equipment and installation, and two months free monitoring and maintenance for members.
If you are interested please contact Jeff Debonzo (919) 848-3611.
Credit Card Processing
Heritage Payment Solutions
Heritage Payment Solutions serves thousands of merchants in the Carolinas.
NCRMA membership benefits include:
- No set-up, application, or reprogramming fees
- No contract term or termination fees
- Statement transparency with Interchange pass through pricing and local representation.
Contact Doug Dominique (919) 414-0441.
IT Solutions
Benton Technology Solutions
Benton Technology Solutions is an IT Services company based in Raleigh, NC. Focused on providing top-notch customer service and competitive market rates, this family-owned and operated company serves the IT needs of small-to-mid-sized businesses across North Carolina. Benton offers managed IT services, data backup and disaster recovery, on-demand troubleshooting, hardware and software setup and configuration, server and network design, technology consulting and help desk support.
NCRMA members receive 20% off of normal corporate rates.
Contact Troy Benton for more information.
Banking Services
Coastal Federal Credit Union
NCRMA members are eligible to join Coastal Federal Credit Union. Coastal offers a full range of banking services, from checking and savings accounts to auto loans, credit cards, mortgages, and much more. Because Coastal is a member-owned cooperative, they generally offer better rates, fewer and lower fees, and several unique programs that banks simply don’t including seven day a week teller services, Beat the Bank Auto Loan Guarantee, low origination fee mortgage loans, and home equity loans.
Contact Ashley Holland Ansboro (919) 917-4529.
Background Checks
First Advantage
Time is valuable. NCRMA has partnered with First Advantage to bring you a frictionless and fast applicant screening program. With the self-service portal, you can set up your account and conduct your first background check in minutes. With employee theft a leading cause of retail shrinkage, First Advantage uses quality, intelligent data to enable smarter hiring for you. The solution is designed to help you mitigate the potential for inventory loss, all at lightning-quick speed and discounted rates.
NCRMA members can save 20% on your background screening solutions.
Return to work Solutions
JobReady
Job Ready Services works with employers to ensure their prospective hires can meet all physical requirements of the job description. They also offer job description reviews and consultations around preventive work related injury measures. NCRMA Members receive 1 free hour (a $250 value) of consultation with one of their therapists. This could include a review of current job descriptions for ADA compliance, a discussion about options surrounding difficult return-to-work situations, or a discussion about types of work-related injuries and possible preventative measures.
Call our office at 919-256-1400 to take advantage of this offer or to learn how Job Ready Services and WorkSTEPS post offer employment testing can help save your company money.
Email Marketing
Constant Contact
Constant Contact provides the tools and expert support you need to succeed at email marketing and drive results like more engaged contacts, new customers and repeat business.
Get started with your 60 day free trial below
- A coach will reach out to work with you.
- Discounted membership pricing with the product starting at $20.00 per month.
- Save 15% monthly
- Save 20% if you prepay for 6 months
- Save 25% if you prepay for 1 year
Insurance Solutions
Hodges Insurance
Hodges Insurance Agency is a full-service employee benefits firm servicing over 250 group insurance clients and more than 1000 individual clients. Hodges has a dedicated staff providing services to NCRMA members with small and medium sized businesses for over 10 years.
