Inform Digital Commerce Platform Open Source Technology

Solve the ERP + eCommerce Disconnect

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 flexible eCommerce platform and PIM (Product Information Manager) that delivers an exceptional customer experience. You gain full control over the look and feel of your webstore and customer portal, combined with real-time data from Inform ERP.

The mostly widely-deployed eCommerce system on the market, Magento Open Source is seamlessly connected with Akeneo PIM and Inform ERP. This platform provides exceptional SEO and content management, real-time customer-specific pricing, branch-level inventory, and ERP transaction inquiries.

Inform eCommerce Pro gives distributors an unrivaled ability to customize and leverage a vast marketplace of extensions and content providers.

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

Consumer Grade eCommerce meets B2B Functionality

Inform eCommerce leverages the power of Inform ERP to digitally connect with your web-savvy customers, getting you online in days, not months.

Live inventory and pricing with dynamic synchronization for enriched product content including attributes, specifications, related and substitute products
Inform eCommerce follows all Inform ERP pricing, product certification, and business workflow rules
Control individual users access to sensitive information including Accounts Receivable and permission-based cart submittal
Build RFQ's and convert quotes to sales orders
B2C capabilities automate sales tax, shipping charge, and credit card payment

The Most Powerful Sought-After Features

Connected Content

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

Images and Product Information

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

Site Metrics for Customer Analysis

Frequent searches & 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 PIM (Product Information Manager) Akeneo. 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

Solve the ERP + eCommerce Disconnect

unrivaled ERP performance & modern ecommerce

Consumer Grade eCommerce meets B2B Functionality