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Lineson
provides technology solutions for manufacturers, reps and distributors
in the industrial, contractor, construction
and rental markets including e-commerce and sales chain
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Lineson has optimized ProStores specifically for the industrial,
contractor, construction and rental market.
If you are trying to figure out which edition will work best for you consider
the following questions.
If you answer yes to these questions, then you may benefit by using
ProStores Express Edition.
 | Are the products you sell currently being sold online? |
| Would your business benefit from selling your products online? |
| Do your customers ask about purchasing your products from your website? |
| Are you looking for alternative ways your existing customers can do
business with you? |
| Would your business benefit from having an expanded advertising presence? |
| Do you prefer an easy to use package with solid features over packages
that are more advanced with all the bells and whistles? |
| Do you have 100 products or less to list in your online store? |
| Are you looking to give eCommerce a try without making a major investment
of time or resources? |
| Would your business benefit from signing up, posting and managing eBay®
product auctions? |
Consider ProStores
Business if you answer yes to the next
questions.
| Do your customers expect to see your products sorted into categories or
departments for easy selection and purchase? |
| Would you like to provide shoppers with detailed product information? |
| Would your customers benefit from being able to search for specific
products in your store by typing in a keyword, product name, manufacturer,
SKU, price and/or category? |
| Do you use QuickBooks and would you save time and money by having
products, orders and customers seamlessly update between your online store
and your QuickBooks company records? |
| Do you have employees that may require access to specific areas of store
administration to perform their independent tasks (i.e. shipping, customer
management, product updates, etc.) without gaining access to all areas of
store administration? |
| Would your business benefit from posting your products in several shopping
search engines, producing highly qualified traffic and an efficient sales
channel for you? Marketplace support includes Shopping.com, BizRate
and Froogle. |
| Do you often place multiple products on sale and would providing
shopper’s quick links to easily purchase those products be important? |
| Would you prefer a desktop icon to alert you of new customers and orders
over logging into the store to obtain a status? |
| Would you like the ability to issue credits, partial credits or line-item
credits to shoppers, based on your store policies? |
| Do you require sophisticated reporting functionality from your online
store (i.e. top selling products, top customers, total sales, returning vs.
new customers, search results, tax liability)? |
If you answer yes to any of these questions, then you need ProStores
Advanced Edition.:
| Do you wish to sell one of the following from your online store: services,
subscriptions, or memberships? |
| Do you sell to other businesses? Businesses of all sizes often use a
purchase order system to manage their procurement of goods and services.
Would you like to accept purchase orders as a method of payment? |
| Do you often conduct storewide sales (placing everything in the store on
sale) while excluding certain products from sales in order to maintain those
products margins? |
| Would you like to be able to offer quantity discounts, such as two for the
price of one? |
| Do you assign special promo codes to your advertising, direct mail or
other marketing promotions? If so, would you like to allow your customers to
redeem coded offers in your online store? |
| Would you like to be able to hide products from your catalog when
inventory reaches zero, or the product re-order threshold, so that shoppers
do not place orders for items that are not in stock? |
| Would you like your customers to be able to place orders for items that
are on backorder and have the customer notified the item is on backorder
before they place their order so they are aware of the situation? |
| Would you like to be able to view the total cost of your inventory? |
| Do you have repeat customers who purchase the same items each visit (i.e.
businesses that you supply, customers that return rather frequently to
purchase the same goods)? If you have repeat customers who purchase
the same items each visit, a “saved shopping cart” is a user-friendly,
time-saving tool. When they save their shopping cart, your customers no
longer have to browse the product catalog and place their desired items in
the cart – it’s all there, in the cart, from the last time they shopped
in your store. |
| Do you take customer orders by phone, fax or email? If so, would you like
to have the ability to manually enter those orders directly into your
customers’ accounts with your online store? |
| Would you like to offer your customers anywhere, anytime access to their
account information? Advanced Edition offers advanced customer
service features that allow your customers to view and edit their billing,
shipping and contact information, check the status of an order or review
their order history, and even make a copy of an invoice or receipt from a
previous order. |
If you answer yes to any of the
following questions, then you need ProStores Enterprise Edition.
| Would you like to offer special pricing to certain groups of preferred
customers, such as frequent buyers, wholesalers, etc.? |
| Would you like to be able to give discounts to certain types of customers
based on a percent off the sales price or a percentage above the cost? |
| Would you like to track sales by customer groups? |
| Would you like to set up an affiliate program that drives traffic from
other sites to your store, and incents other sites to sell for you? |
| Do you sell products that need the involvement of a salesperson, such as
those that require customization or special handling during shipping? If so,
Enterprise Edition can capture the customer information and
automatically assign a salesperson for follow up. |
| Would you like to assign your salespeople to specific customers, and
credit those salespeople when their customers make a purchase online? |
| Would you like to view sales activity reports of affiliates, sales
managers, and sales people by day, week, month, quarter and annually? |
| Would you like to automatically communicate orders from your online store
to the product supplier? Enterprise Edition can notify your
suppliers of new orders according to their preferred communication method,
whether fax, email, XML or EDI. |
| Would you like to set up a virtual inventory process that allows you to
offer products in your online store, but not have to carry them in
inventory? Enterprise Edition can automatically send orders to your
suppliers for drop shipment, eliminating the need for costly inventory. |
| Would you like to automatically update your customer’s order status?
When you receive order acknowledgements and shipping confirmations from your
suppliers, Enterprise Edition can automatically pass them along to
the appropriate customers. |
| Would you like to improve the management of your supply chain overall?
With Enterprise Edition you can associate products with suppliers and
view orders by supplier, letting you manage the entire process more
efficiently. |
Key Benefits
| Express Edition
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Shopping cart and web pages for corporate
information |
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Administration console displaying real-time
activity |
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Real-time, secure credit card and electronic
check processing |
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Integrated UPS®, FedEx® and Canada Post
shipping |
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Sign-up, post and manage auctions on eBay® |
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| Business Edition
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Sophisticated catalog, shopping cart and search
engine |
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Powerful design tools to fully customize your
store’s look and feel |
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Integrated with QuickBooks® |
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Advanced reporting capabilities |
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Submit products to multiple marketplaces
including Shopping.com, BizRate and Froogle |
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| Advanced Edition
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Sell products, services, subscriptions
and memberships |
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Electronic product fulfillment |
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Sophisticated inventory management |
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Extensive merchandising options |
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Enterprise Edition
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Automate
your supply chain |
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Create a virtual inventory system |
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Create customer groups |
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Offer wholesale pricing |
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Create an affiliate program |
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Assign online activity to your sales force |
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ToolLines.com is a full functioning e-commerce site featuring multiple product
categories. One with a big difference, you the manufacturer have full
control over how your product is marketed. This site allows you to tweak
your business processes for maximum efficiencies in test marketing on the
internet channel. Test pricing, marketing mix, EDI or XML
integration. With the complete control.
Key Benefits
| Fully functioning e-commerce site |
| Test pricing, marketing mix |
| Test XML or EDI integration |
| Fine tune fulfillment options |
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Manufacturers
Selling into the industrial, contractor,
construction or rental markets either through Reps or
direct sales.
Reps
Manufacturers Representatives selling to
distributors.
Distributors
Retail Tool Distributors, Rental Yards,
Industrial Distributors.
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