FurnishWEB

Version Enhancement : Product Visualization with Draping

Fri, 21 Aug 2015 01:37:31 GMT

We have integrated FurnishWEB with MicroD's industry leading product visualization software, ePrevue, which allows customers to create one-of-a-kind products through a fabric and frame proprietary draping solution.

Version Enhancement : Changeable Fonts and Colors

Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:03:42 GMT

FurnishWEB can be customized to add different fonts and colors to replace our default blue and orange design scheme. We wanted our clients to better integrate the site's look with their public websites, marketing, or company colors. Below are a few examples of what can be accomplished.

Existing FurnishWEB:

Dark Example:

Light/Modern Example:

This is not a template/theme process, but a custom project to match FurnishWEB to your marketing and design choices.

Please Contact Us for more information and to get cost and setup.

Version Enhancement: Product Introduction Notification

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:49:47 GMT

With our newest version release, FurnishWEB now provides the capabilities to highlight product introductions by displaying a banner notification on the "Product Information Edit Screen". If products are indicated as "new" in the Data Feed or if they are manually set to "new" on the Product Information Edit Screen, the banner will be displayed and link to the new product listing. If you need more information about enabling this feature, please email: support@microdinc.com.

We are happy to help!

Other Updates with this Version:

Added Order Sales and Last Price to the Monthly Smart Sales Screen and Reports
Added USPS Tracking Option for Shipping
"On Hold" Dealers have been added to all selection lists for Staff and Sales Representatives
Added a new setting to hide Sales Rep email information from dealers
Reworded Automated Order Emails

Version Enhancement: Dealer and Sales Representative Multi-Permissions

Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:33:12 GMT

We have updated the permssions for dealer and sales representatives to allow them to have multiple billing codes or territories. The old way limited a user to one specific territory or dealer code and required multiple email addresses. With this new update users are invited the exact same way, but when eddited there is the option of adding additional permissions. This will be most usefull to main sales representatives that manage more than one territory or dealers that have multiple billing locations or are part of a buying group.

Invite a dealer from the dealer dashboard as usual.

Click the add button to enter one or more additional dealer codes then click update.

Click on a sales representative to edit them and then select more than one territory by ctrl-clicking or command-clicking the territories they have access too.

Version Enhancement: Sales totals for Dealers and Sales Representatives

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 02:01:32 GMT

The dealers and sales representative dashboards have been updated to show Sales, Collections, and products for 24 months. The old way calculated these based on Year to Date. Consequently this reset to show nothing for the first part of the new year. We think this is more usefull than showing nothing for some dealers the begining of the year. We also took the time to add some speed improvements to both dashboards so the load time should be significantly reduced. We will be addding the option to switch the dashboards between Year to Date, Last Year, 12 monthand 24 month views shortly.

Version Enhancement: Order and Invoice Lists to Show Collection

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:15:35 GMT

There is a new option under Adminstrator Settings to show Collection, Family or Class on the list screens for orders and invoices. I have enabled and defaulted this to collection for all existing customers. This was a regularly requested feature by users so they could quickly tell which products were on specific orders and invoices.

Version Enhancement: Invoice Aging Reports

Sun, 12 Oct 2014 01:19:45 GMT

We have added an Invoice Aging Report to the available reports in FurnishWEB. This report allows a Sales Representative or a dealer to view invoices that they have not yet paid in full. This report groups by dealer and due date so you can easily determine which invoices need to be checked on for payment. Sales Representatives can run it for their territory or by dealer and a dealer can run this for their account to see their current invoice status easily.

MicroD Expands B2B Web Services for Manufacturers with FurnishWEB Acquisition

Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:17:47 GMT

The addition of the cloud-based portal technology will provide unique opportunities for home furnishings manufacturers to comply with and service customer needs by improving access and reliability of product, inventory, and order information for retailers and reps.

August 7th, 2013 -- Charlotte, NC and Roanoke, VA -- MicroD Incorporated and Internet Databases Corporation today announced that MicroD has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Internet Databases, developer and marketer of the popular FurnishWEB business-to-business (B2B) portal technology. The cloud-based customer service and collaboration solution enables home furnishings manufacturers to electronically share product information and manage orders with retail dealers and sales representatives. The addition of FurnishWEB will extend MicroD’s range of ecommerce and web solutions for both manufacturers and retailers to provide a one source solution for customers.

“Home furnishings companies are quickly recognizing the importance of the internet to their success and sustainability,” noted MicroD President and CEO Manoj Nigam. “Today’s manufacturers must provide the accessibility, visibility, and accuracy needed to conduct business at the speed of the internet. The acquisition of FurnishWEB uniquely positions MicroD to streamline the home furnishings value chain as a single source provider and furthers our overall strategy of delivering the most comprehensive web platform and services for the industry.”

FurnishWEB is a hosted extranet solution that provides dealers and reps with secure access to their manufacturers’ product images and information (specifications, pricing, etc.), stock and planned availability, order status, and other sales tools and analyses. Moreover, the FurnishWEB system allows dealers and reps to place orders online which are driven by real-time sales analytics. Coupled with its interactive product catalogs, comprehensive web solutions, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and other existing technologies and services, MicroD will now offer a unique opportunity for manufacturers to provide unparalled customer service to their dealers, all while streamlining their internal processes.

According to Barry Welch, Founder of Internet Databases and Developer of FurnishWEB,“Over the past decade, I have gained a great deal of respect for MicroD’s dedication to the industry. We foresee tremendous synergies resulting with the addition of FurnishWEB to their impressive product range. As a part of the MicroD team, I am looking forward to offering expanded services to FurnishWEB customers, while continuing to support and grow FurnishWEB.”

The FurnishWEB staff will join the MicroD team to continue to support customers. Mr. Welch will be part of the MicroD senior management team. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by the privately-held companies.

About Internet Databases Corporation

Founded in 1999, Internet Databases began as a developer of websites and dealer portals for leading furniture companies. This work led to the launch of FurnishWEB in 2006 with Bassett Mirror Company and Intercon Furniture. Today, the dealer and sales rep portal hosts several furniture manufacturers’ extranet sites including, Bradington Young (a division of Hooker Furniture), Intercon Furniture, Pulaski Furniture, Schnadig International, and other industry leaders.

FurnishWEB enables manufacturers to share information with their retail and design customers, sales reps, and staff over a secure website and features a comprehensive online order, inventory, shipping, and tracking system. The data generated by all of these interactions provide actionable information to manufacturers, sales reps and retailers to facilitate data-driven merchandising and buying decisions. FurnishWEB covers the entire home furnishing industry including case goods, bedroom, dining room, home office, entertainment, mirrors, art, accessories, youth bedroom, and baby furniture.

About MicroD Inc.

More than 85% of the top 100 furniture retailers and brands trust MicroD’s online solutions. Select customers include Ashley, Bassett , Drexel Heritage, Ethan Allen, Kittles,Henredon, Klaussner, Lane and Lexington among others. Nearly 2,500 solutions are in use by furniture retailers, suppliers and manufacturers throughout United States and Europe. More than 650 manufacturers are connected through Exim Commerce to exchange close to 100,000 EDI documents each day with leading retailers such as Kittles, Bassett Retail Stores, Mathis Brothers, Sleep Country Canada, American Furniture Warehouse etc.

Cross-link to MicroD Blog

Shared Containers

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:30:38 GMT

Over the weekend we added the ability for Staff and Sales Reps to enter Shared Container orders. These are often referred to as Shared Containers, Split Containers, or Partial Containers. They are an important part of Order taking for many companies so we hope this helps to expedite the order process even more. The new option is available for admin users to enable Sales Reps and Staff for container orders under the settings section of FurnishWEB.

Image URL Added to Price Sheet

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:16:02 GMT

The image URL has now been added to the Price Sheet Excel report in the reports section. This option runs an Excel report with product, pricing and urls for a given manufacturer. These are timed links ( good for 30 days from downloading) so the images will need to be downloaded to another computer or server for continued use, but will will enable you to quickly load product images into another application, slide show, or photo gallery. Please do not hot link to the images in the image library.

To run this report go to the Reports Tab in FurnishWEB, Click on the Price Sheet option, select your filter options, then choose Excel as the report type. The image url options will then be show to run small, medium, large, zoom, or original.

New Printing Options

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

We have added a few new printing options to FurnishWEB.

There is now a Print link from the product list which will run an inventory report for the current filtered and sorted list.
The Order Report now has options for Photos, No Photos, and Messages to print or not print.
Territory Codes now print on the order detail and product detail
New Active Inventory Report option added to Dashboard Quick Reports links
New Options to Hide Pricing on Product and Price Reports
Added Multi-Select to Product Class

Bassett Mirror Writes More Orders with eCat and FurnishWEB

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:33:43 GMT

Bassett Mirror is using eCat and scanners to write more orders. The eCat iPad application is powered automatically with product and image data feeds from FurnishWEB. FurnishWEB's iPad integration with eCat allows you to manage product information, inventory, and images for eCat and send orders direct to FurnishWEB for order status and processing for customers.

Click Here to read the Furniture Today Article

Order Pad, Photos, & Miscellaneous Enhancements

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:26:56 GMT

FurnishWEB Version 4.0.2 has been Released

We've introduced some enhancements to FurnishWEB over the past several weeks. We're thankful for all our users' feedback and suggestions.

Below is a summary of our new or enhanced functionality:

ORDER PAD

In the first of a series of planned enhancements to our ORDER PAD, this release enhances the experience of building container orders and some minor changes regarding experience of entering and saving orders. FurnishWEB now provides an option to change the container size while building the order and even to build the order to fill multiple containers. There are other improvements, too:

On container orders, the user can now 'Save as a Quote' without having met the container requirements and come back to the quote later and Move To OrderPad for completion.
The pricing disclaimer has moved sooner in the process prior to products being searched and added.
Added a preference so that some manufacturers to require a carrier selection.
Provide administrators the ability to re-export an order if there as a problem getting that order loaded into their back-office accounting database.
There is much, much more coming in our ORDER PAD and ORDER ENTRY area in general. Stay tuned.

PHOTOS & FILES

We fundamentally changed the way FurnishWEB stores and retrieves PHOTOS & FILES that are associated with products. PHOTOS & FILES such as JPEG, PDF's, and Microsoft Word or Excel files are now stored in the Cloud using Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) greatly expanding our capacity and download speed. In addition to that FurnishWEB now also:

Allows the same photo to be associated to many products.
Multiple photo sizes are created and stored for selection by the user downloading the file depending on their intended use.
Thumbnail photos have been added to product search, order view & print, and invoice view & print.
Accurately creates RGB photos from uploaded CMYK originals without a major color shift.
Provides the ability to email links of one or more PHOTOS & FILES to other people, even non-FurnishWEB users.
Adds a new section under Products that searches for PHOTOS based on data specific to the photos for that manufacturer. For example, show all the ROOM SHOT photos that are HI-RES for a specific COLLECTION.
Sets up FurnishWEB for greater use of PHOTOS & FILES … so watch for more improvements in future releases

MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES

As always, there are many patches, modifications, and improvements applied to FurnishWEB along the way. Here are are a few of the more notable:

Added indicator to show if an invoice has been paid. (note: not all manufacturers have provided invoice paid status as of this writing).
In Smart Sales, there is a new option to view historic sales in quantities in addition to the previous dollar amount reporting.
Added a new Quick Report to the Overview page to print a Stock Report for ALL items to go along with the Quick Reports for Active InStock items and Discontinued InStock items.
When searching or printing products, the criteria options now include the ability to choose more than one collection for the results. For windows: Hold down the control (ctrl) button to select multiple options. For Mac: Hold down the command button to select multiple options.
When searching or printing orders, invoices, and dealers, sales reps can now choose one or more dealers from a drop-down select box. For windows: Hold down the control (ctrl) button to select multiple options. For Mac: Hold down the command button to select multiple options.
Order and Invoice search results can now be sorted by dealer name instead of dealer number.
Some manufacturers provide three address lines for billing address and shipping locations. These are now displayed consistently throughout FurnishWEB.
Added total weight and total cubic feet to order screen and reprint, invoice screen and reprint, order detail report, and invoice detail report.

We hope these improvements provide great benefit and we look forward to even more feedback.

Bassett Mirror Implements FurnishWEB/eCat iPad App Solution

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:25:04 GMT

FurnishWEB in partnership with SuperCat Solutions has implemented SuperCat’s eCat iPad app for Bassett Mirror. ECat is a sales representative tool for enhanced product presentation and order taking. FurnishWEB together with eCat combines for an unbeatable combination for sales support in the furniture industry.

We’ve planned for sometime to offer our clients an iPad extension for FurnishWEB and we’re so pleased to have found a perfect match in SuperCat’s eCat solution. Both companies have worked to integrate the system by creating a Connector so that data and photos in FurnishWEB can be fed into SuperCat.

And now our very first FurnishWEB customer, Bassett Mirror, has chosen to work with us and our partners at SuperCat. The implementation went great. The Connector is performing well. Bassett Mirror’s sales reps started using eCat on their iPads about a month ago and all reports are very positive. The eCat program with FurnishWEB integration is being very well received by the field.

Also, here's a post from HandShake 2.0 about FurnishWEB and eCat .... Handshake App for Sales Orders and Sales Reps in Home Furnishings.

Enjoy!

FurnishWEB Respects Their Clients

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:52:12 GMT

In this video, Barry Welch talks about his company's respect for their clients and thanks them for the referrals that have helped FurnishWEB grow.