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Scrambled Part Numbers
By scrambling the part numbers, you can make it difficult for your customers and builders to shop around and get better pricing. After all, part of your service is your designers deciding what would look nice where. The printed invoice for a fixture could contain the:
- Scrambled part number
- Room name
- Description
- Quantity
- Price
- Picture
Even with this extra information, the scrambled part number still makes it hard for them to shop elsewhere (Note: our lighting showroom software makes it easy for you to find the item from the scrambled part number, the real part number, barcode number, manufacturer's part number or other numbers that you may have).
Complete the Sale With Light Bulbs and Other Necessities
When you sell a fixture onto an invoice, Windward’s lighting showroom software will automatically add the correct number of bulbs to the invoice. If you later change the quantity of fixtures, the number of bulbs will automatically be increased or decreased proportionally. If you are out of stock of the required light bulbs, you can use the Swap Kit Item feature to update the invoice with the new part number you are using. This ensures the link between the fixture and the bulbs remains.
One of the benefits of our lighting showroom software is that when you print shipping labels, the bulbs will be printed on the same label as each fixture, complete with the room name, job address, and other information.
Professional Quotes
Having the ability to print a professional-looking quote for the customer right from Windward System Five gives you time back to sell to additional customers and provides a great customer experience.
If you have a color printer and pictures of your fixtures, printing the customer's choices on the quotation will help them remember what they ordered and allow them to shop for other matching furniture.
Room Names
You can define as many room names as you wish. When you enter a fixture, the lighting showroom software lets you assign it to a particular room. This can help when preparing an estimate as you can easily identify each room and ensure you have provided lights for each.
When you deliver the fixtures to the job site, the boxes will be placed and installed in the correct room, the first time. To help with this, shipping labels can be printed with the room names on them. On the printed invoice, you can also sort the lines by the room name. Installers like to have all the fixtures listed for a given room so they can complete the work and move on to the next room.
Shipping Dates
Windward’s lighting showroom software tracks and reports shipping dates to make it easy for your warehouse personnel to get shipments ready on time. They can optionally use the confirmed field to ensure that the builder or owner has confirmed the shipping dates before loading the truck.
Special Orders
Special orders, also known as tag orders, can be entered from the work order. If you try to sell an item that is not in stock, our lighting showroom software will prompt you with a pop-up window asking if you need to special order the item. By placing the item on special order, the system will ensure that you don’tforget to order it.
Showroom Tag Creation
Professional, fully customizable showroom tags can be built using the label designer feature in our lighting showroom software. Create different showroom, sale exclusives and regular pricing tags. Avoid incorrectly tagged inventory by printing a photo on the showroom tag to assist sales staff in the tagging process.
Barcodes can help you keep better track of your inventory, saving you time and money. The ability to add barcodes to the showroom tags permit faster, more accurate recording of information. They also help decrease stock count time as well as time spent receiving inventory in the warehouse. Warehouse labels and barcode labels can be printed anytime, with or without cost codes or pricing information.
