Great Plains Ecommerce Altara

Available with Great Plains
Expand your sales opportunities and empower your customers by establishing an Internet storefront. By providing online access to your products, you can increase your revenue stream, reduce your administrative overhead, and expand from your local to a global market.

Increase Your Revenue
Make more sales without increasing costs by providing online access to your products and automating much of your sales cycle.

Expand Sales Opportunities
Reach out to customers, regardless of their location, with an online storefront that provides immediate access to your products and an efficient, easy buying experience that will make those customers want to return.

Reduce Operational Costs
By providing online sales information and processes, you can minimize the time your employees spend on the phone with customers, taking orders, and filling out paperwork.

Improve the Customer Experience
Save customers time, money, and headaches with a store that's always open and an online system that provides easy-to-use, accurate product information and current order status.

Empower Your Customers
Customers can enter their own shipping and billing addresses, plus credit card and purchase information that is automatically updated in your order processing system, helping you save you time and reduce data entry errors.

Implement an Integrated Solution
Streamline your inventory and sales process with seamless integration of your eCommerce storefront with Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains®. Customer, inventory, and pricing information will be accurate and up-to-date on your Web site, and you'll eliminate the need to maintain two systems.

eCommerce Features List

eCommerce

Deliver 24/7, local and global access to customers for order and account status.
Create a central repository for online inventory information, storing product descriptions, prices, quantities, and more.
Update your products or inventory just once and automatically display changes across your entire system, including your online storefront.
Automatically update account information in General Ledger throughout the sales order process.
Create and store customer records in a central location, and easily manage customer-specific information, such as unit-of-measure pricing.
Set your eCommerce system to automatically comply with sales tax collection rules, regardless of the location where your customer purchased the item.
Rely on customer-specific pricing and automatic credit card verification to make the ordering process easier for customers and reduce costs associated with each transaction.
Integrate your online storefront with Great Plains, thereby automating your entire sales cycle and eliminating cumbersome and error-prone fax, telephone, and mail orders.

Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 (required for eCommerce)

Take advantage of the Microsoft Commerce Server infrastructure tools to help you build a professional, world-class eCommerce storefront customized to your specific needs.
Get a dynamic view of your online business that incorporates all site data—including click-stream usage, purchase and browse history, product catalog data, campaigns, and user profiles.
Engage and manage a global network of customers and trading partners, transact business in multiple languages and currencies, and empower your business users to make smarter business decisions.
Seamless integration with Microsoft .NET technologies makes it easier than ever to build powerful XML Web services-enabled online business solutions quickly and cost-effectively.

** eCommerce and Microsoft Commerce Server are sold separately and are not available with Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains Standard.

Key Benefits:

Easily customizable and highly scalable

Supports connectivity with customers, vendors, business partners and employees

Robust, comprehensive functionality all-in-one source

Supports operations across countries, sites, languages and currencies

Key Features:

Microsoft Great Plains SCM supports your entire business and delivers these key functions:

Advanced Distribution

Advanced Picking

Available to Promise

eCommerce

eOrder

Inventory Control

Purchase Order Processing

Sales Order Processing

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