Whiz Express - QUOTE
The smart quote & order solution for the fenestration industry
Generate custom window & door quotes and orders with ease
Whiz Express is our new age web-based application for quoting and ordering. Created especially for window and door manufacturers and their distributors, it is the result of our extensive collaboration with domain experts in the fenestration industry. In the fenestration industry, all orders are custom, which creates challenges at every step of the order process. Allowing you to leverage a single catalog across all sales channels, streamline the quote & order process for all your customers, increasing the accuracy of your pricing, product specifications, and even shortened delivery times, Whiz Express assists in nearly every aspect of your business. With access to valuable insight of quotes, orders, and sales performance data, you can make better and faster decisions to increase revenue. Whiz Express provides your users with an experience they will love, resulting in more sales and greater customer loyalty. With Whiz Express in your arsenal, you will experience greater productivity and profitability
Features
Create customizable product catalogs, including accessories, and manage dealers and orders with ease.
With Whiz Express, you can:
- Define your product catalog with product series and various options offered within each of these series
- Have different offerings for doors and windows with options for aluminum and vinyl
- Set up accessories as products with predefined pricing
- Upload your standard pricing with add-on pricing for various options
- Enable or disable available options with a click of a button for instant updates
- Set up dealers and configure their personalized pricing by setting multipliers and discounts by product series
- Set dealer-specific price lists for special pricing purposes
- Create & maintain users for your dealers with system access
- View and manage orders received from your dealers in real time
Make communication and workflow easier for you and your dealers with this feature. The Whiz Express Dealers feature allows you to give your dealers access as sub-users to this application so that they can:
- Set their own markups for individual product series as well on product accessories
- Define your repeat customers for you for easier quote creation
- View your orders and quotes using your dashboard
- Get follow up notifications for quotes and be on top of your leads and pipeline
- Provide special pricing on individual quotes with line discounts or order discounts
- Print quotes with your company name and logo for brand promotion
- Easily email PDF quotes to customers
Keep tabs on all incoming quotes and orders in one place. Whiz Express will allow you to gain valuable insight while keeping business operations on track and communicating with dealers about quote and order statuses.
- Monitor incoming orders
- Enter and import orders into ERP
- Keep dealers posted
Whiz Express will streamline the quote and order process, saving you time and allowing you to focus more on the core function of your job - selling. Once quotes are created, utilize Whiz Express to grant special pricing when needed and maintain visibility on quotes and orders.
- Create quotes on the dealers behalf
- Visibility to quotes and orders
- Grant special pricing with approval
Create customizable product catalogs, including accessories, and manage dealers and orders with ease.
With Whiz Express, you can:
- Define your product catalog with product series and various options offered within each of these series
- Have different offerings for doors and windows with options for aluminum and vinyl
- Set up accessories as products with predefined pricing
- Upload your standard pricing with add-on pricing for various options
- Enable or disable available options with a click of a button for instant updates
- Set up dealers and configure their personalized pricing by setting multipliers and discounts by product series
- Set dealer-specific price lists for special pricing purposes
- Create & maintain users for your dealers with system access
- View and manage orders received from your dealers in real time
Make communication and workflow easier for you and your dealers with this feature. The Whiz Express Dealers feature allows you to give your dealers access as sub-users to this application so that they can:
- Set their own markups for individual product series as well on product accessories
- Define your repeat customers for you for easier quote creation
- View your orders and quotes using your dashboard
- Get follow up notifications for quotes and be on top of your leads and pipeline
- Provide special pricing on individual quotes with line discounts or order discounts
- Print quotes with your company name and logo for brand promotion
- Easily email PDF quotes to customers
Keep tabs on all incoming quotes and orders in one place. Whiz Express will allow you to gain valuable insight while keeping business operations on track and communicating with dealers about quote and order statuses.
- Monitor incoming orders
- Enter and import orders into ERP
- Keep dealers posted
Whiz Express will streamline the quote and order process, saving you time and allowing you to focus more on the core function of your job – selling. Once quotes are created, utilize Whiz Express to grant special pricing when needed and maintain visibility on quotes and orders.
- Create quotes on the dealers behalf
- Visibility to quotes and orders
- Grant special pricing with approval
How It Works
Whiz Express creates an extremely efficient process with a short cycle time. Communication between the dealer and manufacturer will become effortless. Whiz Express provides your users with an experience they will love, resulting in more sales and greater customer loyalty.
Distributor
Creates quotes in the Whiz Express cloud-based system
Distributor
Prints quotes with their own branding using Whiz Express and gives them to customers
Distributor
Converts quotes with a single click into orders for the manufacturer
Manufacturer
Views orders submitted from distributor in real time
Manufacturer
If needed, imports the orders into ERP/back-office system
Industry Pain Points
The fenestration industry supply chain has many common pain points
Rapid Response Required
Immediate replies are expected for inquiries. With so much competition for business, a swift response is critical.
Product Variation & Specifications
Most orders are made up of both stock and custom items, and require in-depth product knowledge to place accurately.
Distribution
The majority of orders are received from distributors, requiring smooth coordination and additional time to process.
Custom Products
Fenestration products are all custom-built, with unique specifications that demand industry expertise to understand.
Expedited Delivery Time
Market expectations are, “order today, install tomorrow”—made-to-order production & delivery with little lead time.
Industry Competition
The competition between dealers—and between manufacturers—is fierce, making any competitive advantage a big plus.
Whiz Express can help your business alleviate many of these common pain points through its intelligent, cloud-based technology that integrates manufacturers and dealers in a single workflow.
Whiz Express also allows you to:
- Seamlessly launch new products or update pricing
- Quote to customers and create orders 24x7
- Eliminate paper catalogs and transition to e-catalogs
- Print quotes with manufacturer and dealer logos (dual branding)
- Track the status of orders in real-time
- Follow up on quotes with push-notification reminders
- Expand and scale your system as you grow - even add additional users!
Testimonials
“Whiz Express is one of the best available solutions for the fenestration industry. It has shortened our order cycle time by almost 25% and has improved our quote-to-order conversion ratio.”
Crystal Windows
“Whiz Express has played a pivotal role in running processes within [COMPANY NAME]. Each quote we create is custom, so having the insight of quotes, orders, and sales data all in one place has allowed us to make better decisions to increase revenue. We literally could not function as a business without such software."
“Whiz Express has brought instant efficiencies to our work for quoting within the fenestration industry. It connects to every aspect of our business by providing quicker quotes to our potential customers, and we've benefited greatly from implementing this system.”
“Everyone in our company has benefited from Whiz Express – it has enabled us to gather all vital information into one centralized solution and have a real-time overview of all our quoting work.”
"After integrating Whiz Express, generating quotes for manufacturers and vendors from our internal team has made the process of quoting extremely easy. In the past, what would take our company days to generate can all be done within minutes - no exaggerating! The quotes generated are consistent and professional, and the details for each custom quote order are accurate. Overall, Whiz Express is a wonderful time saver that lets us generate quotes quicker, leading to a higher ROI.”
"After integrating Whiz Express, generating quotes for manufacturers and vendors from our internal team has made the process of quoting extremely easy. In the past, what would take our company days to generate can all be done within minutes - no exaggerating! The quotes generated are consistent and professional, and the details for each custom quote order are accurate. Overall, Whiz Express is a wonderful time saver that lets us generate quotes quicker, leading to a higher ROI.”
One comprehensive package for all your needs
Whiz Express comes with all of the bells and whistles you’ll need to streamline your door and window quote and order process.
- Whiz Express - Quote
- Request Pricing
- Dealers
- Customers
- Product series
- Product types
- List price
- Dealer multiplier
- Quotes
- Orders
- Sales conversion
- Hosted on a dedicated server