Flooring Business Applications
Sales Automation
FloorLink.net is a sales team management system that tracks marketing
and sales activity in REAL TIME. It is best suited for flooring
manufacturers, retailers, distributors and contractors who need to
manage sales teams and multi-location operations. Specifically:
- Lead generation by ads/campaigns and their assignments to reps
- Conversion rates of each sales reps and the contact history
- Potential sales revenue in the sales pipeline to be closed in
next two months
- Comprehensive lead and sales activity reporting
Commercial Project Management
FloorLink.net has been used by flooring business to track commercial
flooring project sales process from inception to completion, especially
for projects that last a few months to 1-2 years. Specifically:
- Track project from pre-sales stage, contacts and communications
- Track project sources and marketing effectiveness
- Track project status progression and life-cycle management
- Custom define project key indicators and parameters like product
usage
Measure Estimating
FloorLink.net is integrated with online flooring layout estimating
tool to allow creating diagrams and estimates online (and to associate
with leads or customers. Specifically:
- Create floor diagrams and assign products
- Generate material and labor quotation on-the-spot with customers
- Print installation diagram and quote
- Share with office and installation crew for job scheduling
Job Installation Scheduling
Job scheduling system enables installation manager and sales reps to
collaborate the schedules and resources when a sales is made.
Specifically:
- Plan installation crew slots weekly or monthly
- View available slots and assign jobs on any date by sales reps
- Installation manager assigns crews and print job related
documents
- Collaboration view shared by sales reps, installation manager
and office managers
Marketing: Email Campaigns
Email campaign system enables marketing manager to promote
products/services to the prospects and customers in the company
database. Specifically:
- Create mailing lists using existing leads, customer contacts or
importing from Excel files
- Create marketing campaigns easily with pre-formatted html or
text templates
- Schedule campaign dates
- Complaint to existing legal policy regarding mass email sending
B2B Product Catalog Download
Product price catalog can be download automatically from major
flooring manufacturer sites. So users can review and quote based on
up-to-date pricing information from multiple vendors from anytime
anywhere. Specifically:
- Download price catalogs from Mohawk, Shaw, Beaulieu and others
- Mark up the prices as the reference for sales reps
- Purchase order and invoice orders are to be added soon
- Compliant to Flooring Industry B2B Standard
Inventory Tracking and Order Forms
Inventory system allows tracking stocked inventory items.
Specifically:
- Track in-stock items, out-stock items, transfers between
warehouses, and job request reservations
- Allow search for inventory quantities, pricing and warehouse
locations
- Track inventory level and write offs
- Simple inventory reporting
Document Management and Sharing
Document management module eliminates printing and faxing papers and
allows access from web. Specifically:
- Create corporate file folder structures
- Upload price lists, brochures or sales orders
- Share common files among coworkers
- Upload and attach any documents with prospects, accounts or
sales opportunities
Sales Activity Reporting
Generate various sales activities and administrative reports.
Specifically:
- Lead report (with source, type, neglected leads)
- Account report (with conversion rate, new account, active
account)
- Sales opportunity report (sales in the pipeline, sales revenue,
sales by source/rep, lost opportunity, etc)
- Inventory transaction report (in-stock, out-stock, transfers,
etc)
- Administrative report (reps login frequency, schedules,
appointments, etc)