Configure One’s User-Friendly E-Catalog

Configure One’s Web-based Concept E-Catalog software allows companies to rapidly implement and easily maintain enterprise electronic catalog software and electronic commerce software solutions for Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer applications. Whether you’re using the Concept E-Catalog in conjunction with the Concept Enterprise Product Configurator or as a standalone e catalog implementation, you’ll be impressed with the strategic business benefits that this rich-in-functionality e catalog software product will deliver. Concept E-Catalog’s extensive content management tools let administrators of electronic catalog software installations implement and maintain the solution without requiring any programming skills.

Business Benefits

• Frees up IT staff by allowing Marketing and others without programming skills to implement and maintain the electronic catalog
• Allows users to quickly find the items they require even if you sell millions of SKUs
• Helps increase sales and customer loyalty by allowing sales reps, distributors, and customers to find products faster
• Perfect for after market part sales
• Directs customers to your applicable distributors right when they’re ready to purchase, thereby providing a value-added service to your distributors
• Lets your customers search and select your product 24/7 via online catalog
• Matches your desired workflow – letting users order, request order, quote, or request a quote for the items in their shopping cart
• Offers customers method for requesting a quote or placing an order, letting sales or your distributors automatically create a quote upon request
• Integrates with the Concept Enterprise Product Configurator to let users customize your products to fit their needs

Delivers a Fully Integrated Solution

• Provides full product configurator functionality via the Concept Enterprise Product Configurator
• Includes full featured shopping cart functionality via Configure One’s Concept E-Commerce functionality
• Integrates with existing product data repositories wherever that data is stored, including ERP, MRP, CRM, or legacy systems
• Makes it easy to import product data in Excel, XML, and other formats
• Utilizes Web 2.0 tools such as AJAX architecture to deliver enhanced usability

Enhances Marketing and Sales Efforts

• Look and feel can be easily modified to match your company’s website branding, including colors and fonts
• Makes it easy to incorporate thumbnail and full images of items
• Includes pricing functionality to display the appropriate price of items
• Allows users to get to more information on items through Item Detail Pages
• Lets you attach product brochures and spec sheets in various file formats (for example, .PDF, html, CAD files, and AVIs) to individual items

Provides an Easy-to-Use Tool for Your End Customers

• Users can easily download product brochures and spec sheets from links you provide, or view information on Item Detail Pages
• Users control their view of the data such as the number of items included on a single page
• Users can search by best match, lowest price, and highest price
• Includes anonymous and logged in user functionality, so users can perform some tasks without a password
• Favorites functionality lets users place items into their favorites area for future viewing and/or adding to a shopping cart
• Recently Viewed Items section allows users easily get back to items they have recently clicked on
• Users can efficiently find the item(s) they’re looking for through global searches, filtered searches, point and click browse category drill downs, or a combination of approaches such as running a filtered search on a browsed product subcategory
• Unique Locate Distributor functionality allows end users to find their closest distributor(s) of your products and then to automatically contact the distributor(s) they choose
• Optional 3D product data integration lets users spin, zoom, and explode 3D information right in the web browser with the need for any browser plug-in software

Easy to Administer

• Catalog Category Manager lets you easily create categories and subcategories, and maintain catalog items appropriately in Concept E-Catalog’s hierarchical category structure
• Capable of handling over 5 million individual catalog items in a given implementation
• Includes robust yet easy to use content management tools
• Implementation-specific search weighting allows administrators to determine how an item will be relevant when a search term is found in its attributes
• Addition of keywords for searching is included and incorporated into search weighting functionality
• Allows administrators several controls to support e catalog search engine optimization (SEO)