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Customizable, Real-time eCommerce with a PIM, ERP, and Content Partners

No technology is having a greater impact on wholesale distribution than eCommerce. Differentiating your company from the competition requires a system that is highly capable and fully implemented in your ERP software.

The new Inform eCommerce Pro is a fully customizable eCommerce platform using the leading Magento shopping cart system and Akeneo PIM (Product Information Manager) fully deployed with real-time data from Inform ERP.

The platform provides exceptional SEO and content management, real-time customer-specific pricing, inventory, and ERP transaction inquiries.

Fully Customizable Home Page

Fully Mobile Responsive, Sitewide

Search Results with Filtering Attributes, Optional Live Inventory, Live Customer Pricing, and Add to Wishlist or Cart

View Sales History and Easily Buy Again

Rich-Content Product Details with Multiple Images, Related Products, Attached Sell Sheets, Videos, and Customer Reviews

Product Content Enhances Your Web Presence

Great product data includes detailed, rich and industry-specific information about the items in your product catalog and sets you apart from your competitors. eCommerce Pro includes a PIM that stores and organizes your content and distributes it to your web store and Inform ERP. Our recommended Content Providers supply rich, compelling content that integrates with the PIM, eliminating manual entry.

Deploy your eCommerce website faster
Deliver more accurate search results with attribute filtering
Improve the quality and consistency of product data across all channels
Establish one source for your product information

The Most Powerful Sought-After Features

ERP Connected Content

Real-time ERP customer-pricing
ERP transaction inquiries
Reorder from sales history
Attribute filtering/searching
Online invoice payment (4th qtr)

PIM Connected Content

Multiple images
Multi-branch inventory
Quantity Break suggestions
Product ratings and reviews
Multiple saved product lists

Site Connected Analytics

Frequent search & popular pages
Expired shopping cart notification
Who's been where on your site
Best practice dashboards
Easy-to-use report building tools

Expand Your Business Offering with B2C eCommerce

Use your website to grow your business, reach out for more revenue from new accounts

B2C sales are prepaid orders, often from new shoppers without an established account. Your eCommerce platform must automate sales tax and shipping charges.

Preprocess shopping carts to validate against ERP order acceptance rules for quantity multiples, shippable product, and required buyer certification.
Identify and calculate sales tax. Store new sales tax jurisdictions and automate sales tax reporting
Shipping calculation by fixed rate, table rate, or package weight via FedEx, USPS, UPS gateway
Accept payment from customers using a selection of providers including Authorize.net, PayPal, Braintree Payment, and TSYS

Content and Data Integration

Inform helps distributors solve product content challenges with the powerful Akeneo PIM (Product Information Manager). Build extraordinary content that elevates your eCommerce presence.

Enhance organic search engine results and create superior product experiences
Organize images, descriptions, search categories, specification sheets and more, from nearly every source
Use enriched content including images and spec sheets in ERP order entry, quoting, and documents
Import product data spreadsheets from manufacturers
eCommerce content partnership with providers like TradeService, Unilog, BLUE HAWK, Omni, AD, Essendant and more. Learn more about our content provider partnerships »

Site & Content
Management

Take advantage of the large community of Magento designers and developers to enhance the eCommerce Pro site template
Automatically generate a Google sitemap
Create search engine friendly URLs
Bundled and grouped products

Customer Segmentation & Personalization

Merchandising
Abandoned shopping cart report
Best viewed products report
Best purchased products report
See products recently viewed and purchased by customers, their wishlist items, and more to deliver better customer service

Product
Browsing

Elasticsearch - offer suggestions for customer misspellings and other search capabilities
Define unlimited product attributes
Product image zoom-in capability
Present product videos from YouTube or Vimeo
Set related products, upsell, and cross-sell recommendations

Customizable, Real-time eCommerce with a PIM, ERP, and Content Partners

unrivaled ERP performance & modern ecommerce

Product Content Enhances Your Web Presence