Hardware:
Laptop or Desktop PC
Location:
Anywhere in the World
All you need to get started is an internet connection. There is no software to install. There is no hardware to buy. Simply open your internet browser... navigate to LocalAutomation.com... login using your secure username and password... and you're off!
Hardware:
Local Automation Web Server
Location:
Austin, Texas
Your web browser connects you to the Local Automation web server and LocalAutomation.com. Our proprietary software allows you to:
Web Content and Customization
post web content: products, events, press releases, and more!
create professional webpages with absolutely no programming experience
create HTML e-mail campaigns with advanced tracking features
advertise new products and upcoming events
create event registration pages
publish your staff biographies and headshots
define sales territories for your sales engineers
Quotations
issue quotations using our revolutionary web-based quote generator
automatically synchronize prices and lead times for each line item with real-time data from your web portal (if applicable)
monitor quotes in real-time as they are created
e-mail daily quote summaries to your sales staff to encourage immediate follow-up
automatically compare quoted prices against your customer's order history and quote history to ensure consistent, high-margin pricing
search for quotes by quote number, quote date, part number, part description, customer name, and more
Orders
monitor orders in real-time as they are entered into your accounting system
automatically e-mail order confirmations to your customers as orders are received
generate sales graphs based on territories, salesperson, order dates, part numbers, and more
identify trends between your quoting activity and sales activity in order to help predict future sales performance
search for orders by order number, order date, part number, part description, customer name, and more
Customers
monitor new customers in real-time as they are entered into your CRM system
automatically send "welcome e-mails" to each new customer with a linecard attached
e-mail "new customer" summaries to your management team and sales staff to encourage immediate follow-up
Hardware:
Your CRM and Accounting Server(s)
Location:
Your Office
Local Automation connects to your office server(s) via a secure, read-only connection in your firewall. You continue to use your existing CRM and accounting packages (e.g. ACT, Outlook, Goldmine, Solomon) - absolutely nothing changes on your end. Our software takes all of your important business data and presents it to your staff in concise, beautifully designed webpages. You can view your orders, quotes, e-mails, and more - right from your web browser!
Hardware:
Your Distributors' Websites
Location:
Anywhere in the World
Thanks to a partnership with PerfectDistribution.com, LocalAutomation.com allows you to automatically post your product announcements, press releases, and upcoming events directly to your distributors' websites. Yes - we can really do that! In addition, your distributors can use their own version of the Quote Generator in order to issue quotes of your products with accurate prices and lead times!
The power of this feature can not be emphasized enough. Whenever you upload a new product... or issue a new press release... or update your online prices / lead times... that information gets instantly updated on your distributors' websites via the Perfect Distribution network.