eBusiness Manager: powerful and affordable e-commerce for Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200.

Imagine being able to offer your customers the ability to place orders, and monitor their account status 24 hours a day, while at the same time allowing your employees to be more productive, and increasing order accuracy. The e-Business Manager module leverages the power of the Internet to help you increase customer satisfaction, and enhance your bottom line.

The Internet is fast becoming the method of choice for transacting business worldwide: the year-overyear growth in online commerce transactions continues to grow at a tremendous rate. Moving into the future, all of us will conduct an ever-increasing number of business transactions over the Internet, and applications with direct Internet functionality will be vital to remain competitive and responsive in this evolving marketplace.

The eBusiness Manager module brings this capability to Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 ERP in an easy-to-implement, out-of-the box solution. While simple to implement, eBusiness Manager also manages to be flexible and feature-rich, providing many customization capabilities available in much more expensive systems. 

eBusiness Manager offers three standard applets: store, for establishing a Web-based e-commerce storefront; .order, for more advanced online purchasing, and; .inquiry, which provides customers with access to account information. Three additional applets are available for eBusiness Manager from the Extended Solutions library. These include .sales, for remote order entry and sales management; .vendor for vendor-related inquiries, and; .timecard for Web-based time entry.

Customer Satisfaction

The eBusiness Manager module offers your customers the ability to place orders and to retrieve information about their account, such as open orders, invoices, and available credit. Because the Web site never closes, customers can get information when they need it instead of sitting on the phone or waiting for a call back.

Employee Efficiency

Your employees can use their time more efficiently; instead of typing orders into the system or relaying information to the customer by phone or e-mail, they can focus on other tasks. Also, because customers place their own orders, the accuracy of orders placed will increase.

Cost Effective

The eBusiness Manager module is designed to be implemented without requiring expensive Web or network consultants. It’s simple to set up, and can even be installed in a remotely hosted environment if you prefer not to maintain and manage your own Web server. Sage Software offers hosting services specifically designed to host the e-Business Manager application, allowing you to avoid the expense of maintaining your own in-house server. The modular design allows you to purchase the functionality that you need and lets you add functionality as your business grows.

Customizable

You can customize eBusiness Manager to fit your business in many ways. Numerous options within Sage MAS 90 and Sage NAS 200 allow you to define images and text to display on the various Web pages. User-defined attachments may be linked to inventory items to provide information to site users. You can quickly and easily change the overall appearance of your site by applying one of the included style sheets, or you may create your own. Advanced customization features, such as the ability to specify the fields, including user-defined fields, that you wish to appear on the pages, are also available by using an HTML or text editor.

.store (B2C e-commerce)

Credit Card Payments
If the optional Credit Card Processing module is installed, a credit card authorization will automatically be obtained when the shopping cart is submitted. Credit card payment information flows directly into the accounting modules.

User Profile
The .store applet allows customers to maintain a user profile so that shoppers who return to the site do not have to re-enter their information. Credit card information can optionally be stored as part of the customer profile.

Products and Services
The Products and Services pages display items available online in logical category groupings, making it easy for customers to find the items they want. When an item is selected, the image associated with the item is displayed, along with its price and description.

Display Shopping Cart
Customers can review the contents of their shopping carts before submitting orders.

E-mail Notifications
Decide to send e-mail notifications to the customer, salesperson, and a user of your choice whenever your customer successfully submits a shopping cart, or when you accept, reject, or ship an online order.

Order Management
When orders are placed, they can flow directly into the Sales Order module, or can be placed in an approval queue for manual acceptance before creating sales orders.

.inquiry

Robust Security Features
Multiple user ID flexibility allows for both supervisory and non-supervisory-level records management.  Non-supervisory users can view or modify their own records. Designated supervisors can view, modify, create, or delete any user account.

Customer Inquiry and Maintenance
Customers can view their own customer record. Only designated supervisors have the ability to edit customer data.

Products and Services Inquiry
The Products and Services pages display items available online in logical category groupings, making it easy for customers to find the items they want. When an item is selected, the image associated with the item is displayed, along with its price and description.

Comprehensive Inquiries
Multiple options for viewing detailed Invoice, Sales Order levels, and customer-level information with enhanced drill-down capabilities.

• Invoice Inquiry: The Invoice Inquiry function allows users to view summarized invoices for the customer associated with their user ID. There are also options for selecting groups of invoices to display, and for controlling the level of detail displayed.
• Invoice History Drill Down: From the Invoice Inquiry page, you can drill down to any stored invoice in the invoice history file. While viewing an invoice history record, the option to add all items or individual items to the shopping cart is available through the .order and .store applets.
• Open Sales Order Inquiry: The Open Sales Order Inquiry function works in a similar manner to Invoice Inquiry by allowing customers to view summarized Sales Order information for their account. There are also options for selecting groups of sales orders to display, and for controlling the level of detail displayed.

.order (B2B e-commerce)

Products and Services Inquiry
The Products and Services pages display items available online in logical category groupings, making it easy for customers to find the items they want. When an item is selected, the image, price, and description associated with the item is displayed.

Ship-to Inquiry
When creating a shopping cart order, customers can view existing ship-to addresses for their company and select the correct address for their order. They can also request a new ship-to address.

Display Shopping Cart
Customers can review the contents of their shopping carts before submitting orders.

Submit Shopping Cart E-mail Notifications
Accepting the order displays a confirmation page.  In addition to performing credit limit checking and a customer on-hold verification processing.

E-mail Notifications
Decide to send e-mail notifications to the customer, salesperson, and a recipient of your choice whenever your customer successfully submits a shopping cart, or you accept, reject, or ship an online order.

Order Management
When orders are placed, they can flow directly into the Sales Order module, or can be placed in an approval queue for manual acceptance before creating sales orders.