This article explains how integration will reduce costs, maximize profits, and more accurate demand planning for dealers and builders.
Comprehensive lead management
Don’t miss another new customer with Buildxact’s lead tracking and nurturing tools.
- Manage leads and track win/loss ratios, sales and supply forecasts using builder data and insights.
- Nurture customers by tracking opportunities from first contact to quote.
Faster takeoffs and estimates
Use Buildxact’s takeoff and estimating tools to help builders. Share the workload by completing takeoffs and estimates on their behalf.
- Improve top and bottom-line revenue with templated estimates incorporating your price lists. Complete takeoffs up to 80% faster and respond quicker to quote requests.
- A simple online takeoff tool captures and reuses measurements and units. No more paper plans, just exact measurements, in any unit, in a few clicks.
- Reduce errors with fewer back-and-forth calls and emails with builders on measurements and quantities.
- Succeed together as you work with your builders to fine-tune their estimates. Because builders have the option to build their own takeoffs and estimates, you can have the time to review before quoting.
More responsive quote requests
Always be first, with templates, saved price lists and automated processes that enable you to respond to RFQs faster than your competitors.
- Easily capture and respond to RFQs on specialty items.
- Quickly respond to RFQs using Buildxact with your saved price lists and estimate templates.
- Deliver premium service with add-on items to save builders from unexpected costs, or substitute items on hard-to-get stock.
- Submit RFQs to multiple manufacturers and distributors, saving time and getting quotes issued faster. Quickly view and compare responses to integrate into builder estimates.
Bids that stand out
Create bids that are hard to reject, with an array of customizations and features that ensure you always impress.
- Customize quote responses with branded, professional quotes, using Buildxact’s custom layout tool.
- Encourage upsell and add-on sales, with the option to include special offers and promotions.
- Forecast orders with digital acceptance indicating intention to buy.
Stay ahead of the game
Price and inventory volatility are causing custom home builders and pro dealers headaches. There is no magic solution, but effective and constant communication between all the parties involved.
The key to a healthy relationship is communication and setting realistic expectations. Both sound very simple, but in most cases where relationships sour, these two factors have crumbled.
Custom home builders and pro dealers need to have a synergistic relationship to be successful in the construction industry.
A simple monthly payment includes customer support, training and upgrades.
