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Exact Online interface with Merkato Essentials
Merkato Essentials’ integration with Exact Online offers companies with complex product variants a streamlined solution. Merkato Essentials automates product configuration and simplifies management, without creating thousands of parts lists. This speeds up quotations, improves order processing and minimises errors. Bekijk »
The four success factors for a good roll-out of your CPQ solution
Understanding the benefits of a CPQ solution for your organisation is step one to being able to optimise the entire process from sales to production. We previously wrote a blog about these benefits. But then… if you really want to get going with it, you need to get to work. At various levels in the Bekijk »
Why choose a CPQ software?
CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) software offers companies more efficient sales processes through product configurators that transform customer requirements into error-free, customised solutions. These tools make quotations and order processing faster and integrate smoothly with ERP and CRM systems, saving time, increasing customer satisfaction and improving workflow. Thanks to 3D visualisations and guided selling features, CPQ Bekijk »
Exact Online x CPQing Configurator
Clear product variations of composite articles in no time at all! Many companies rely on the handy and therefore popular ERP package Exact Online to keep track of their accounting and stock management. If your entire range is provided with parts lists, you can gain insight into the current situation with just a few mouse Bekijk »
Merkato Essentials can now be found in Exact Online’s app store
The term CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) is starting to find its way more and more into the marketing landscape. But applying CPQ correctly is an issue many entrepreneurs, marketing and sales departments struggle with. We strongly believe in the power of CPQ, no wonder we made it our company name. In this blog, we will Bekijk »
Linking Ridder iQ and Merkato Essentials
The term CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) is starting to find its way more and more into the marketing landscape. But applying CPQ correctly is an issue many entrepreneurs, marketing and sales departments struggle with. We strongly believe in the power of CPQ, no wonder we made it our company name. In this blog, we will Bekijk »
Construction supply company, but still without a configurator?
Treat yourself to the benefits! Within construction supply companies, the use of a configurator is increasingly common. We understand this trend very well, of course. After all, there are numerous imaginable applications with which a configurator can provide great efficiency gains. This also applies to construction supply companies. Bekijk »
Why Excel is not a suitable configuration tool
In the world of business configuration, choosing the right tools to meet the needs of your organization is essential. Although Microsoft Excel is a widely used program, it has certain limitations that make it less suitable as a configuration tool. In this article, we will discuss Excel’s shortcomings and why it is important to look Bekijk »
Staff shortage? Bet on automation!
The national staff shortage has been in control of the news for months. Recruitment campaigns, posters and printed cars with “colleagues wanted” have become the new street scene. There are also alternative solutions for some of these entrepreneurs. Thanks to smart automation, for example, you can grow without taking extra staff. Bekijk »
Optimize collaboration between customer, sales and production with the link between Ridder iQ and Merkato Essentials
A common misconception about a CPQ solution like Merkato Essentials is that this tool mainly focuses on optimizing the sales process and issuing error-free, consistent quotes in the right corporate identity. However, that is only one of the advantages. When you really use the power of a CPQ solution, you use it to optimize the Bekijk »
Product configurator software explained
Most of you know by now what exactly a product configurator does. If you would like to know more about this, please readthis blog. But what not everyone can pinpoint exactly is what product configurator software does exactly, what options there are and how this software can be used within your company or organization. In Bekijk »
The configurator as a dynamic questionnaire
It goes without saying that the Merkato Essentials can be used as a ‘classic’ configurator that optimizes and automates all kinds of business processes. After all, that is the core of the software. But there is also an increasing demand for the use of a configurator as a dynamic questionnaire: based on dependent knowledge rules. Bekijk »
Quotation documents that attract attention
The importance of a carefully drawn up and correct quotation is sometimes underestimated. This is remarkable, since the quotation plays a major role in the customer’s choice process in practically every industry. The content and visual attractiveness of a quotation are of course important, but so is the time it takes to issue it. Bekijk »
Merkato Essentials: create your own configurator
On our website, we regularly talk about Merkato Essentials, but also about the CPQing configurator or simply product configurator. Many different terms to describe the same software. CPQing uses the Merkato Group’s rules engine and allows you to pay only for the functionalities you want to use. You define the functionalities you want and do Bekijk »
Workflow improvement
By optimizing the workflow, or using people, resources and time as effectively as possible, a lot can be gained. Especially if you already work with an e-commerce platform that your customers are familiar with. How a webshop product configurator can improve the workflow of your organization. Bekijk »
Possible CPQ software interfaces
Although a CPQ software in the form of a product configurator can also be used stand-alone, there are even more gains to be made when it is linked with other software used within the organisation. For example, a CAM link can save FTEs but links with CAD, CRM or ERP software also reduce workloads. Bekijk »
Excel vs. CPQ: Optimizing Quotation Processes for Business Growth
Excel spreadsheets are probably the most commonly used method to apply CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote). But Excel is also frequently used to make (complex) price calculations or to arrive at a quotation. Whether they are small (start-up) or large companies, whether they work in the coffee industry, industry or the construction supply industry, we see Bekijk »
Calculating and monitoring margin in complex products
Calculating or determining margin is something most companies don’t have much trouble with. Especially with direct purchases and sales, this is fairly straightforward. It becomes especially tricky when you are a company adding value in the chain. In this blog, we will discuss how to easily calculate the margin, but also how to monitor it, Bekijk »
Sales configurator for international sales
A sales organization can also have complex structures. Especially if you work and work internationally with dealers, resellers, agents, importers or a combination of these. Moreover, there is usually also an internal sales department. How can a configurator help keep control. Bekijk »
Product configurator for hot drink vending machines
In this blog we look at a specific application of our product configurator: the coffee industry. We are happy to take you through the possibilities of our software in this specific sector, but we are also happy to show you how diverse the usability is at the same time. The product configurator is not only Bekijk »
Tiktak/Segafredo Zanetti Nederland BV: “In this market you want the best possible facilities.”
For completeness, let’s start at the beginning. Because what is a product configurator and what does it have to do with quotation software? At first glance, after all, they are two completely different products. But nothing could be further from the truth. A product configurator is basically a tool that allows your customers to configure Bekijk »
Products with different dimensions
Automation is the future! But while one construction company is perhaps a bit skeptical, the other can no longer live without it. In all layers of the organization, in almost all branches, but certainly also at building supplies, it is becoming increasingly important to be able to sell tailor -made products. Bekijk »
Eribel Solid goes full efficiency with knowledge assurance
For completeness, let’s start at the beginning. Because what is a product configurator and what does it have to do with quotation software? At first glance, after all, they are two completely different products. But nothing could be further from the truth. A product configurator is basically a tool that allows your customers to configure Bekijk »
Create a product configurator
Making or building a product configurator sounds like an incredibly complicated process. This is also what some parties would have you believe. But for anyone with standard product knowledge, what is possible and what is not, it is actually quite simple. Especially with our CPQ software. The backend of CPQing Solutions consists of a rules Bekijk »
Wientjens: ‘Take the next step now!’
For completeness, let’s start at the beginning. Because what is a product configurator and what does it have to do with quotation software? At first glance, after all, they are two completely different products. But nothing could be further from the truth. A product configurator is basically a tool that allows your customers to configure Bekijk »
Product configurator as quotation software
For completeness, let’s start at the beginning. Because what is a product configurator and what does it have to do with quotation software? At first glance, after all, they are two completely different products. But nothing could be further from the truth. A product configurator is basically a tool that allows your customers to configure Bekijk »
What is a (product) configurator
If you have ever been able to put together a product (or service) online to your own liking or intended use, you have probably already seen a configurator in operation. One use of such a configurator is for putting together anything from cars to shoes, but a product configurator can also help the customer (and Bekijk »
3D Product configurator needed or unnecessary?
In this blog, we will discuss the functionality of 3D visualisations in a product configurator and to what extent they add value. After all, is a configurator with standard images often not enough for your user already? We would like to share some tips to make the choice between a configurator with 3D visualisations and Bekijk »
Sales configurator vs. Product configurator
If you know what a configurator is, you will soon come across two terms; sales configurator and product configurator. In this blog we will discuss both terms, what they mean and how they differ from each other. You can then decide for yourself which type of configurator is best for your organization. It is good Bekijk »
Construction supply company, but still without a configurator?
Within construction supply companies, the use of a configurator is increasingly common. We understand this trend very well, of course. After all, there are numerous conceivable applications in which a configurator can provide major efficiency gains. Bekijk »
From calculation to configuration
Many companies still work with calculation sheets to prepare their quotation documents. In fact, such a calculation system is the predecessor of the modern sales configurator. But this way of working has two significant disadvantages, which a configurator perfectly overcomes. This way you save work, time and money! Bekijk »
How to apply CPQ?
The term CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) is increasingly finding its way into the marketing landscape. But the correct application of CPQ is an issue that many entrepreneurs, marketing and sales departments struggle with. We strongly believe in the power of CPQ, so it’s no wonder we made it our company name. In this blog we Bekijk »
What is CPQ
For us, CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) is more than a marketing term. It is a way of doing business that we fully embrace. It is therefore not for nothing that we have derived our company name from CPQ. Because in our opinion (almost) every company should be involved in implementing a CPQ solution. Because it Bekijk »
Custom Configurator vs. Configurator software
During a search for a suitable (product) configurator for your organization you probably encountered two different options; Generic Configurator software and Custom Configurator. Both options have the same goal in mind, enable your customers and/or field service to put together their own products or services and without the margin of error. Bekijk »
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