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Point of Sale
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Quotations
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Quotation Management

General Features

  • Fully integrated with counter sales system and contract pricing system
  • All of the same features as found in the counter sales system
  • Quote can be copied to another quote or converted into an order
  • Quote can be converted into contract pricing which is then available to all salespeople selling to the associated customer
  • Whenever modifications are made to a quote, the associated contract pricing is also automatically updated
  • Quotes can quickly be repriced to reflect changes to current pricing
  • Quotes can be generated for customers who do not exist in the customer file
  • All pertinent customer information can be entered into the quote
  • "Quick price entry" logic allows for efficient price line entry
  • Maximum quantity indicator limits customer purchases of quoted products
  • Delivery price indicator used for entry of prices applicable to deliveries only
  • Salespeople can customize and maintain quote message paragraphs for use and re-use in quotes

Range Length Pricing

  • Especially useful for lumber, gyprock, steel or any products that have various lengths
  • Allows for quick and easy entry of pricing for a range of lengths on one line of a quote
  • Product descriptions for printing on the quote are automatically modified to reflect the range of product lengths
  • Contract pricing updated with correct pricing for all lengths within the range

Quote Printing/Reporting/Purging

  • Suppress any combination of prices and extensions, quantities and extensions, quotation total
  • Print to regular quotation format or letter format
  • Comprehensive quotation report/purge program allows for effective reporting and management of quotations
  • Maintain one generic quotation for multiple customers
  • Perform a quotation print run for all customers associated with a generic quote
  • Modify only the generic quote when making price changes for all customers associated with the generic quote

Promotional Event Pricing

  • Multiple promotional events running concurrently
  • Promotional events can be setup prior to the event to take effect automatically on the starting date
  • Promotional events automatically expire on the appropriate date
  • In multi-location system environments, promotional events are automatically distributed to appropriate stores
  • Regional pricing overrides
  • Enter promotional event pricing on a product by product basis or override by product group
  • Product group pricing overrides include discount percentage from retail or selection of pricing level
  • Pricing for up to three units of measure
  • Archive and copy capabilities allow copying previous promotional events as a base for current events
  • Promotional events reporting
  • Event report option to sort in entry sequence used for entry validation where pricing is entered directly from the printed flyer

Contract Pricing

  • Fully integrated with the counter sales system: customer contracts can be selected when creating a sale
  • Fully integrated with the quotation management system: customer contracts can be generated from quotations
  • Customer contracts include pricing effective and expiry dates
  • Contract pricing can be used to maintain individual customer contract pricing
  • Contract pricing can be used to maintain multiple customer job sites and shipping addresses
  • Regional pricing overrides
  • Contract pricing can be used to maintain generic type of customer pricing (ie renovators)
  • Enter contract pricing on a product by product basis or override by product group
  • Product group pricing overrides include discount percentage from retail or selection of pricing level
  • Pricing for up to three units of measure
  • Archive and copy capabilities
  • Sales statistics maintained for each contract
  • Contract pricing reports
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