Harness the Power of the Internet for Your Business

 

The Internet has changed the way we do business, and entrée.NET brings those advantages to your food service distribution operation. entrée.NET is compatible with entrée V4 SQL the next generation of our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for food distributors.

 

The Internet can be a powerful tool for businesses that want to increase their sales while also decreasing costs and improving profit margins. This is especially true when you can offer your customers the convenience of entering their own orders, as well as providing them with the means to increase their own productivity.

 

The success of Internet based e-commerce and the millions of online shopping sites, illustrates that when it comes to using the Internet, customers are not only capable and comfortable, but eager. In fact, many of your existing and prospective customers may have  already asked you about providing  an online extension of your food distribution operation.

 

If you are considering entrée.NET, chances are that you already have a website or are seriously considering creating one. You realize that you need to give your customers the online experience they have been asking for in order for your business to thrive. You know that by helping them, not only will your customers stay loyal, but the accuracy of orders and sales will both increase, while your costs will be slashed.

 

Order Entry Your Customers & DSRs will Love and Depend On

The entrée.NET system was created primarily for Internet based order entry by your customers and DSRs. It was designed to speed the user through the order entry process while helping them identify items they should be ordering but may have missed, locate items in your product catalog and discover your current "specials" and other items on sale or featured. They can view extensive information about each item including extended descriptions, images, available pack sizes, etc. Your product catalog can be viewed using "Tags" such as Kosher, Gluten Free, Fat Free, Peanut Free, etc. Customizable reports can be generated based on up to 13 months of purchase history including exporting to Excel or PDF documents.  Customers can view their accounts receivable status, including open invoices and payments. And if you use our entrée.DOC software, they can view and print their scanned invoices showing their signature.

 

How It Works

The entrée.NET system is specialized e-commerce software running on high capacity cloud based servers to always ensure the system is available and performing at top speed. For security and other issues, it does not allow a user to directly access your local server.  Instead entrée.NET communicates directly with the local server in your office for such things as accessing inventory information and downloading customer orders. All the activity such as when a user creates an order is saved on the entrée.NET cloud servers as the order is built. So if for some reason the user looses Internet access, no data will be lost. The customer or DSR will simply log back in and continue where they left off.

 

A Modern and Professional Website

If you have your own domain name (ex: myfooddistributingcompany.com) and would like a modern and professional looking site for your business, this can also be accomplished with entrée.NET. NECS can help you create your website and give you the ability to maintain it yourself. You’ll have the ability to change images, update the content of your “Welcome,” “About Us,” “Contact,” "Blog" and “Directions” pages. You will be able to automatically post your inventory list and specials, from your NECS entrée software, directly to your website, as often as you’d like.

 

Pop-Up Catalog for Your Existing Site

If you currently have a website which you love, entrée.NET provides an option for a public Pop-Up Catalog which you can easily integrate into your existing site. This will allow the public to see your product catalog which is automatically updated from your entrée software, so there is never a need to contact a web developer to keep your product catalog updated.

 

entrée.NET Language Translator

The Language Translator allows your customers (and salespeople) entering orders online to view your item descriptions, class names and item notes, in another language besides English. They can also chose to have reports translated into the language of their choice.

 

Behind the scenes, we use a special version of Google Translate (for software developers called "Google Translate API") to translate your current item descriptions (all four description lines, including the customer specific descriptions as held in the Customer Special Price/Standard Order file), class names and item notes. Over 60 of the worlds most popular languages are supported.

 

For more information about the cost of the Language Translator service and to view examples please visit this NECS Blog posting Introducing the Language Translator.

 

What entrée.NET Customers are Saying

“Online ordering through entrée.NET helps us to look more professional and gives us a larger presence. Reporting features offer customer advantages similar to those we receive from the entrée product. As a side benefit, customer self-service enables Cotati productivity improvements.“

                         Ed Maybrun, Cotati President

 

 

“We wouldn't have grown as fast as we did without online ordering that requires only one employee instead of six if we had to do order entry ourselves.”

                         John Richard, President and Co-founder, All-Brand New England