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BrokerForce™ Key Features
Print this list for a comparison with the alternatives.
- One integrated
software - One company, one software for back office, road, showroom,
scanning, contact management, web ordering, and customer relationship management.
- Fast
to learn and the best support - intuitively operated, tab strips, tool tips, status bar text, daily tips,
context sensitive help files, FAQs on-line, e-mail
support at all times, phone assistance 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM MST M-F
- Export orders, import
invoices for free to and from your manufacturers in electronic format. How much time and $ will that save you
when you reduce your time posting invoices and commission by 95%?
- Just
want to track commissions? - Select a vendor, a customer, and enter the invoice amount
- commission is calculated for you
- Orders with or without details? From drop lists you select a vendor, a customer, select a ship date from a pop-up calendar, select items by item
number or description - order total, weight, cube, and commissions by line
item are
calculated for you
- Bar code printing and scanning
included for automating order entry at shows or in your showroom
with or without UPCs. A wedge scanner (~$100) is all you need.
- Bids, Jobs, and Quotations - organize, price-out, follow-up,
print your bid in a professional format
- Quickly reconcile vendor
commission statements print your reps' commission statements and
apply payments in batch
- No cryptic customer,
vendor, or rep codes to memorize - enter the first few letters of the name
and the record is instantly located for you
- One click duplicates an order or
fills back orders
- Samples, Accruals, Serial Number
tracking
- Include your agency and principal's logos
on orders and reports
- Print orders with pictures!
- Reports are pre grouped,
sorted, and filtered or easily customized with your choice of
grouping, sorting, and filters
- Flexible enough to track commissions
by price list, promotions, line item, category, order or invoice
- Manage any number of contacts, vendors,
reps, customers, or products.
- Automated pricing to match any vendor's
pricing structure with up to 6 pricing levels, SRP, volume based, contract, bid,
category, and promotional pricing. Commission rates may vary with each.
Not
an add on
- It's not a
legacy program with a graphic interface, it's a 32 bit architecture
application built for
Windows.
- Import from and export to
most database formats and EDI - Automated importing of manufacturer catalogs,
customer lists, and invoices in Excel,
Tab, ASCII delimited, or CSV formats
- Team and Enterprise versions are
network ready - the base program may be installed on 3 machines and a server
- Open To Buy, Booked
v Shipped, and Contract
Fulfillment tracking
and reporting
- Manage vendors' customer numbers, rep numbers, and customers' item numbers
- ODBC Compliant open architecture
lets you use your data with other programs; after all - it's Your Data
- Manage
options such as color and size with percentage, fixed, or alternate price
list influences
- Print your orders with size options, name drop, color, fabric,
frame or other in a matrix
You may find some of the features listed above in the alternative programs
and many
of those features will be in add on modules but, can they do this?:
- Reverse lookup addresses from phone numbers
- Create a map to your customer's location
- Hand-held and Wireless Pocket
PC support - Enter orders using our
hand-held PocketRep™
and/or synchronize your contacts with Microsoft Outlook, Symantec
ACT, Gold Mine, Palm Pilot, or Pocket PC.
- Fax or e-mail orders and
reports directly from your computer without the cost of a VAN,
e-mail links are hyperlinks
- Use your legacy data from Outlook, ACT, Know It, Rep Biz, Rep Manager, Rep
Time, SMS, and others
- Do you just
have the phone number? Click the <Phone> button and reverse lookup the
address
- Include pictures, sound, or video
in your product catalogs
- Mail merge contact
information directly into Microsoft Word, a hyperlink to the document is
automatically created for you in that contact's communications journal for instant
referral at a later time
- Follow-up appointments and
action items go directly into your Microsoft Outlook Calendar
- Keep reps on the road and in synch with database
synchronization
- Store
shortcuts to any
vendor, customer, or manufacturer web sites
- Store any number of hyperlinks to any
document or file on your hard drive, network, or the Internet
- Do you know
where you're going? Click the <Map> button to draw you a map
- Integrate orders directly by
e-mail with EXCELr8d Order Sheets or by the
Internet via your web site
- E-mail reports in Excel, Text,
Rich Text, Access Snapshot, or HTML format
- When you e-mail, mail-merge, or autodial from a
contact record, BrokerForce™ automatically creates a communications journal entry
- E-mail
merge to your list or a vendor's list of customers l
- Professional, photo quality reports
that take full advantage of your laser or ink jet printer
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