QuoteWerks continues to evolove to meet the needs of our customer

QuoteWerks has many useful features, but one often overlooked feature is the ability to reduce the inventory amount once a quote is converted to an order.  When a product is used in a quote and then converted to an order, QuoteWerks will ask you if you would like to allocate inventory for this order.  This option will only work if you have allocated the availability of the item in the product database, but it is a very helpful feature for many businesses.

Another great feature of QuoteWerks is the ability to keep the sales and accounting separate.  There are many security issues with allowing all the sales reps to have access to the accounting software.  Also, using QuoteWerks to complement QuickBooks allows businesses to keep QuickBooks clutter free of quotes and part numbers that never became orders.

QuoteWerks is far different from most software companies.  Although many software companies offer “updates” to their product, those updates are usually just fixes.  However, QuoteWerks updates are actual feature updates based on customer requests.  Usually three to four times a year QuoteWerks releases a new update which adds features and enhances integrations with the newest editions of the contact managers and accounting software systems.  This makes QuoteWerks unique in that it is a constantly evolving product which adds new features to improve functionality every three to four months.  QuoteWerks takes all customer requests very seriously and we try to implement as many as possible.

Below is a customer review of QuoteWerks:

“We love QuoteWerks, and have been big fans ever since the days of QuotePro.

This product keeps our salespeople out of our accounting system (always a good thing), and ensures that our inventory file only contains items that we have actually sold. This is critical as systems integrators, where we quote thousands of different products each year, but sell several hundred. QuoteWerks also makes the purchasing process much simpler, by automatically creating purchase orders for each vendor on a order.

As a reseller of QuoteWerks, we also really appreciate how quickly we can rollout and implement QuoteWerks for our clients. They appreciate how flexible and customizable QuoteWerks is for their businesses.

My favorite thing about QuoteWerks though, is how our suggestions are actually listened to and acted on. I have seen changes made to the product within less than a year based on suggestions that I made.

It just keeps getting better and better!”
- Kathryn Prager, Computer Upgrades, Inc., QuoteWerks Sales Partner and User

Stable and reliable, QuoteWerks won’t disappoint

QuoteWerks is one of the most stable and reliable programs available for purchase.  This is what differentiates QuoteWerks from other quoting solution programs.  Small and medium size businesses do not have the financial resources to spend money on programs that continually crash.  Companies require stability and ease of use when evaluating software and QuoteWerks has both of these.  QuoteWerks saves companies money every year by integrating with their new software and not crashing every time a new version of a contact manager or accounting system is released.  Companies continue to grow and use QuoteWerks as an integral part of their every day business.

Additionally, QuoteWerks’ ability to automate almost every function in the quoting process saves businesses countless hours every year; which in turn saves them countable dollars.  QuoteWerks is a complete and simple quoting solution tool for any size business.

The customer below reviewed QuoteWerks:

“We have used QW since build 14. We use it with GMPE and this is our primary tool in our business.  QW is without question the most productive and reliable software we have ever purchased.  Although we are just 4 users our spend on IT would be $20k per year over the last 5 years as we work in a high cost knowledge economy.  We use the multi currencies and have yet to find something we cannot automate in QW.

I cannot imagine working without it.”

- Manufacturer’s Rep business

QuoteWerks will be attending the Central Florida Business Expo

On Wednesday September 24th QuoteWerks will be attending the 2008 Central Florida Business Expo at the Amway Arena.  We will be at booth #20 providing demonstrations and answering any questions attendees may have, as well as making QuoteWerks available for purchase.

QuoteWerks is a complete quoting solution offering businesses a way to increase productivity while decreasing the amount of time it takes to create efficient, professional, and accurate sales quotes.  For more information please visit www.quotewerks.com.

“QuoteWerks’ service is second to none”

Technical support for software is one of the most important features for many companies.  Businesses often need help or training when first purchasing new software that will be rolled out across their company.  QuoteWerks offers excellent technical support with a variety of ways to contact us and also alternatives for when problems occur outside of normal business hours.  Tech support is offered by:

1. E-Mail (support@quotewerks.com)
2. Fax (Send a fax to 407-248-1482)
3. Phone (Call 407-248-1481 available from 9am-5pm EST)
4. QuoteWerks Support Forum (accessible 24/7)
5. Knowledgebase (accessible 24/7)
6. QuoteWerks Quick Start Guide and Help File (accessible 24/7)

Our customers often remark about how quickly and efficiently we are able to answer their questions.

Here is one customer testimonial:

“We began using QuoteWerks 4 years ago and have experienced not only a better product but also better service than from any of the other business software applications we use. QuoteWerks’ service is second to none in the field of software support. Responses are quick and the staff is always polite, understanding and helpful. For anyone considering a quotation software solution, we highly recommend QuoteWerks.”

- Paul Hcakett, President, Emotron, Inc.

QuoteWerks is affordable and flexible enough for new businesses

QuoteWerks is a complete quoting software solution flexible and affordable enough to adjust to the challenges new businesses face.  It is designed to be easy to use and very intuitive.  QuoteWerks is not industry specific and can be a valuable tool for many new businesses.  Additionally, QuoteWerks is flexible enough to handle all the sales quoting needs for most new businesses without using all of your financial resources.

Microsoft Word and Excel are excellent tools for most new businesses, but were not designed to create, edit, or manage sales documents.  QuoteWerks was designed specifically to handle the complications of compiling all the necessary data into a cohesive useable document.  New businesses will not have to rely on inferior software to create quotes, orders, or invoices.

QuoteWerks is a very robust program with many features and is customizable for your business.  You can use QuoteWerks to standardize your quotes across your entire company and ensure customers receive professional and accurate quotes, orders, or invoices from all employees.  Managers have the ability to create sales reports to track commissions, open and closed quotes, invoices, and much more.

Prices start at just $199 for a single user of QuoteWerks and is based on volume pricing.  There are price breaks at 2, 5, 10, and 25 users for each edition of QuoteWerks.

Here is what one new business had to say about QuoteWerks:

“We started our business three years ago using QuoteWerks and it has been a
foundation for our growth.  QuoteWerks is both easy to use and flexible enough to meet our needs.  Customizing our document layouts and linking to suppliers’ databases are quick and easy.  Customer support is great!  We always get a knowledgeable person on the line the first time without waiting.  Software updates are implemented seamlessly.  Aspire Technologies appears to be a very well managed organization.

- Peter Hutwelker, President, Environmental Systems & Equipment Service

QuoteWerks’ product database helps companies run more efficiently

QuoteWerks ability to create and organize multiple product databases simplifies the sales process for companies who use numerous product vendors.  This unique feature in QuoteWerks allows users to create a product database for each vendor’s products.  This helps the company easily identify which products to select, edit, or delete.

Another feature of QuoteWerks is the ability to compare prices of the different vendors when products are in a quote. This feature allows you to offer your customer the best possible price or maximize your profit.  Since QuoteWerks pulls the product information automatically, it eliminates errors and the need to re-type information and also reduces the amount of time it takes for sales reps to create or edit quotes.

The ability for QuoteWerks to integrate with CRM’s and accounting software solutions ensures that your business will run smoothly.  QuoteWerks will help your business standardize your entire sales processes across your company and can be an integral part of any solution.

Here is what one customer had to say about their experience in using QuoteWerks:

“We have been using QuoteWerks for many years now and have found it an essential part of our business.  It saves us a lot of time and gives us one location to organize all of our product pricing information.  We work with over 30 different product vendors and QuoteWerks has makes it easy to provide timely quotes to our Customers.  We have integrated QuoteWerks with our Goldmine Contact Database and our QuickBooks financial software.  This saves us hours each day and helps us maintain a consistent flow of information across all aspects of our business.”
- Dave Theurer, Intermountain Environmental, Inc.

QuoteWerks will be attending the ConnectWise Partner Summit

QuoteWerks will be attending the annual ConnectWise Partner Summit this year from Wednesday September 17th through Friday September 19th in Orlando, FL at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa.  We will be at our booth providing demonstrations of our product and answering any questions you may have.  QuoteWerks will also be offering a 10% discount on QuoteWerks licenses, Real-Time Data Module Licenses, and the site license for QuoteWerks online ordering module for all ConnectWise customers on Friday September 19th.  The product will be available for full price for all attendees Wednesday through Friday.

QuoteWerks is a complete quoting solution offering businesses a way to increase productivity while decreasing the amount of time it takes to create efficient, professional, and accurate sales quotes.  For more information please visit www.quotewerks.com.

QuoteWerks: A complete quoting software solution

Many quoting solutions offer an aesthetic appearance without a lot of functionality.  Programs which lack significant features often try to mask this problem with an interface that has a pretentious look and feel to it without the actual useful operations. Quoting solutions need to be complete and target a wide range of businesses to be used effectively.

QuoteWerks delivers real world functionality at an affordable price.  QuoteWerks is a complete quoting software program that is designed to help your company increase productivity and decrease the time it takes to create sales quotes.  Every QuoteWerks edition comes loaded with features such as:

• Bundles: allows companies to group like items together or items sold often together quickly and efficiently.
• Configurations: businesses have the option to build a quote using a step-by-step process, pre-defined, to eliminate product omissions and errors.
• Required and Optional Items: many products require additional products or services to be quoted with them and QuoteWerks allows users to setup required or optional items if this is the case and many more!

QuoteWerks also continues to evolve as a software program and continues to make updates and include new features every few months.  Since January 1^st, 2008 QuoteWerks has added over 122 new features! A complete list can be found here.  Customer suggestions are very important and we try to implement as many as possible without losing any functionality.

In the end QuoteWerks is the only quoting solution that can deliver hundreds of features, excellent customer support, a stable and reliable product, at an affordable price.

Advantages of QuoteWerks over web based quoting tools

Web applications are becoming more popular as companies grow beyond geographical boundaries.  However, this added growth also comes with added concerns about managing company information and security.  Web applications allow users to access company information as long as there is an internet connection.  This has a few major problems and lacks some major features.

First, once information is passed onto these servers the information is now visible by a third party.  Although the third party may not be interested in the information, they have access to it whenever they feel it is necessary.  Additionally, companies now have to pay an annual or monthly fee to access their own information that they created and uploaded to the web servers.  This is neither cost efficient or practical as it is primarily a convenience fee.  Businesses also must have contingency plans for when servers go down (planned or unplanned) for “maintenance”.  Furthermore, if the third party hosting this information shuts down operations unexpectedly, companies may not be able to access their information for a certain amount of time.  Finally, once information is passed onto these servers the question of who owns the information arises.  It was created by Company A but is stored on Company B’s servers.  Who owns it?

Information stored on an internal server is more secure and reliable.  QuoteWerks utilizes these features by storing all information on an internal server that is accessible only to employees.  No outside sources.  No third parties.  Also, with the ability to create remote users in QuoteWerks, companies can still have a remote sales force.  These remote users would be able to save all the company information on their hard drive instead of a web server and still issue quotes with the correct prices and product information.  QuoteWerks also enables these users to synchronize data between the main installation and the remote installation to receive the updated product information, documents, layouts, or bundles and configurations.

Best of all QuoteWerks charges a one-time license acquisition fee, as opposed to monthly, quarterly, or annual access and subscription fees associated with web-based quoting tools.

Although web applications are convenient there are too many drawbacks when trying to keep company information confidential.  With QuoteWerks, companies can continue to have a remote sales force without the worry of their information being compromised.

Streamline your quotes with bundles and configurations

QuoteWerks is designed to streamline the sales process and create fast, accurate, professional quotes in minutes rather than hours.  Business owners want their sales reps selling their products; not spending an inordinate amount of time creating and trying to design a professional looking sales quote.

QuoteWerks reduces the amount of time it takes to create a quote by creating a simple interface and the ability to integrate with other programs such as contact managers and accounting software.  QuoteWerks also has two unique features, bundles and configurations, that can help reduce the time it takes to create quotes even further.

The bundles feature is a tool that allows you to group together products that are quoted often with each other.  Creating bundles allows you to specify a group of products to add to your quote all at once, without having to manually remember to add each product separately.  For example if you have an entertainment package that you quote often, creating a bundle would allow your sales reps to add all the accompanying products that are included with it, with a click of the mouse.  This saves your company valuable time and ensures the customer is quoted the correct amount of products.

Configurations simplify building a quote by presenting the user with a step-by-step process for selecting products from a specified list.  The list of products displayed at each step will be based on the previous selection.  The lists of products and number of steps are specified when the configuration is setup.  One of the main advantages of using configurations is that once it has been setup, the sales rep can easily pick products from the lists presented to them, ensuring that the sales rep will not forget to add products essential to the quote.

These features help QuoteWerks stand out among quoting solutions and make it an intelligent choice for any business to improve their bottom line.

Below is a testimonial from a QuoteWerks user:

“With QuoteWerks we are now spending approx 20 minutes creating a quotation
rather than the approx. 2 hours prior to implementing QW. We further more
only involve 3 people (sales represent, Technical engineer and sales
manager) the quote process where we before also involved a secretary. After
setting up the configuration feature we will only involve the sales
representative and sales manager and cutting the quote time to 10 min.

The few problems, and it has been very few, we have faced in setting up the
system have been attended promptly by the helpdesk team who actually know
their software.

A great thing about QuoteWerks is that it can be as simple or as complex as
you need.

So in short: The only thing excelling these guys tech. support is the actual
product.”
- Atlas Pools in Kuwait