As the leading provider of e-commerce systems for the contract furniture industry, TechniCon offers unique solutions for furniture manufacturers and their dealers and customers.

To be successful, furniture manufacturers must give their customers and salespeople quick and easy access to product information.

When customers make fast and educated decisions, sales cycles decrease, the cost-per-sale is reduced and the return-on-investment rises across the entire organization.

Combining advanced product specification and e-commerce software with leading-edge visualization technology, TechniCon's CustomCommerce allows you to quickly and easily sell highly-configurable furniture products over the Web.

Using a Web browser, your customers can take advantage of self-guided selection and configuration tools to choose products and options.

Our technology allows your customers to not only find the right products, but to also see how those products will appear once installed.

Using TechniCon's award-winning product visualization software, customers interactively specify product options and finishes and then instantly see the results.

CustomCommerce's 3D display tools allow customers to rotate, tilt and magnify product images to closely examine a product from all angles.

Allowing customers to accurately see what they're purchasing speeds up the sales cycle by eliminating the need for back-and-forth sales calls. Order errors and product returns are reduced. Bottom line: happier customers, lower costs.

Using TechniCon's custom catalog tools, online product catalogs are easily tailored to fit the needs of your major accounts.

By only including in their catalogs those product lines, options and finishes approved by the customer, corporate facility managers and purchasing agents can be assured that furniture procurement will always be "on contract."

Custom online catalogs also help your customers communicate their standards programs to outside consultants.

CustomCommerce's authentication manager determines which catalog a customer is entitled to browse and the appropriate pricing to apply.

TechniCon's "legacy-to-web" tools leverage your existing product data, such as SIF and AutoCAD files, by translating and refining your text and graphics for use on the Internet.

Using these tools, we import industry-standard AutoCAD data and generate interactive 3D models for your Web site. Catalog SIF files are used to create master product online catalogs. Order SIF files can be transformed into custom catalogs.

Simply put, we can get your e-commerce system up and running quickly without having to recreate your product content.

Manufacturers require platform-flexible solutions that integrate with their existing business systems.

With CustomCommerce, you get easy integration with ERP, CAD and other corporate systems. Your e-commerce system will be available to every office and department in your organization.

CustomCommerce's E-Procurement Connector allows your customers to "punch out" from "buyer" applications to online catalogs. Supported e-procurement systems include Ariba, Oracle Exchange and Commerce One.

You'll also appreciate how CustomCommerce's Web compliance allows it to be "co-branded" with your company's Web site design and navigation scheme to match your overall Web strategy.

• Legacy-to-Web Tools: You never need to re-enter your legacy data. Using our proprietary tools, existing information such as product descriptions, feature sets and CAD data is automatically extracted and published to the Web. Design data is re-purposed into marketing data.
• Product Configuration and Selection: Our product selection and configuration tools eliminate the guesswork for your customers, allowing them to quickly locate the right product, even if you offer thousands of products with a million variations.
  
  Customers can narrow their options by using parametric search, industry-specific wizards, rules and constraint-based auto-configurators, hierarchical trees, and direct specification of product names and SKUs.
• Online Catalog: CustomCommerce replaces your cumbersome paper catalogs. On the road or in the office, your salespeople and customers can quickly and easily access your product offerings from the Web.
  
  CustomCommerce catalogs are quickly built, easily maintained, support multiple price lists, and allow a complex set of options and accessories to be associated with each catalog item.

• Three-D Product Views: Interactive 3D models provide customers realistic views of each product's options and finishes. Multimedia product information can be added using audio and video data.
• Reduced Cost-Per-Sale: With CustomCommerce, your customers can view every product and variation you offer on the Web, allowing them to make educated decisions without the need for expensive repetitive sales calls and back-and-forth design cycles.
• Faster Sales Cycle: In the past, product selection could take an entire business day. CustomCommerce lets your customers choose the right products within minutes, and enhances your sales staff's ability to make timely and accurate quotes.
• Increased Customer Loyalty: CustomCommerce has a simple yet powerful formula: allow customers to choose products easily, quickly, and accurately, and they'll come back again and again.
• A Single Source for All Your E-Commerce Needs: TechniCon provides everything your organization needs for a successful e-commerce initiative: industry-leading software, content development, Web site hosting, system integration, support and training.