Webinar: How to Use Cabinet Pricing & Ordering Software and Its Benefits

We are KitchenDEV, a technology and marketing company focusing on the kitchen and bath industry. Today’s main topic is Cabinet Pricing & Ordering Software for cabinet retailers and cabinet manufacturers. We also have Rate MB — Reputation Management product and Kitchen Design tool which is still in development.

We provide solutions mainly for manufacturers and retailers and we also support contractors, builders, and designers.

We provide Marketing Services, Design and Development services, and Reputation Management services.

We partner up with manufacturers and other players in the industry. 2020 and ProKitchen are soon to be our partners, and we are continuing to expand.

What Is KitchenDEV

KitchenDEV is a leader in the kitchen industry, offering end-to-end technology and marketing solutions for retailers, manufacturers, designers, and contractors.

Our team is specialized in services such as digital marketing, website development, reputation management, and custom-designed software solutions for kitchen and bath businesses.

We offer innovative ways and technologies to help other businesses get more customers and grow their business while keeping customer satisfaction on a high level.

We have been working with kitchen businesses for the last 6 years and learned a lot about the industry. We supported our clients mainly in the digital marketing area but during the last year, we started developing a product to solve some of the pain points that they have.

Cabinet Retailer’s Journey with KitchenDEV

We Help You Attract More Customers

Since cabinet retailers are physical businesses, they need to attract customers to their showroom. It starts with ranking on the first page of Google, having a good online reputation, having a good presence on social media, so we support retailers in all of these areas. This helps them get more leads. We track the calls, contact form submissions, and we continue to optimize each channel on a monthly basis.

We have a couple of success stories and ROI metrics on our website. I recommend you to check those.

We Help You Schedule Measurement Appointments

So after customers visit the showroom, the next step for the retailer is taking the measurements, so they need to schedule a measurement appointment or sometimes a customer will come with ready measurements. The next step would be showing what is available to the customer.

We Help You Introduce Cabinet Catalogs and Products to Your Customers

The pain point starts here. Retailers work with multiple vendors and every vendor has a different way of publishing their catalogs. Sometimes they have printed booklets, sometimes they have a catalog available on their website, while smaller vendors don’t have any of these. Going between multiple vendors and showing the catalogs to the customers is a pain point for the cabinet retailers. Our software solves that problem.

We Help You Schedule a Design Appointment

The next step would be scheduling a design appointment. It could be on the same day as a measurement appointment or it could be any other day. Some of the retailers use Google Calendar and we will support integration with Google Calendar, but all of these also managed within the software for smooth management and orchestration of it, as well as for high visibility with all designers and sales personnel at the showroom.

We Help You Smoothly Import 2020 Design of the Kitchen

After the design is done, the pricing is the next step. Some retailers price it just exporting it from 2020, but if you want to do a more advanced and more professional proposal and pricing for the customer, you may want to compare different vendors, you may want to give multiple options from the same vendor. For this, you need sophisticated software. This is where we come in.

Prepare Advanced Proposals Using Visual Proposal Builder

Create proposals in KitchenDEV’s Visual Proposal Builder with various pricing options and get your proposal accepted faster by your customers.

We Help You Agree with Your Customer and Manufacturer

The dealer orders the cabinets. Agree and handshake with cabinet vendor and initiate delivery to the customer, all within Cabinet Pricing & Ordering app.

Get Feedback from Your Customers

After the cabinets are delivered, we send a survey to the customer, helping the retailer business to collect photos and reviews for their business. This is crucial because usually after the installation is done, retailers don’t have an access to the customer’s home. By sending a survey and offering some small incentives, they are able to gather reviews and finished project photos. These photos the retailer can publish and showcase on their website and social media.

Repeat The Process and Grow Faster

This process is being repeated over and over. Retailers need a centralized and streamlined software to manage this end-to-end flow.

Demo for Retailers

Visit kitchendev.com and register for a free trial. After logging in, you are introduced with the dashboard, and in the demo trial version, you’re going to find two vendors enabled — TSG Forevermark and Fabuwood. You can check their catalogs, play with it. The orders you send will not go to the vendors but this is a good opportunity for you to explore the software.

How to Create a Proposal

You can select a customer from the list if you’ve worked with them before, but if you’re working with them for the first time, you add a new customer, you just type in and move to select a designer. Then you give your project description. Now you are able to select a manufacturer and add a version. The version concept is used in a couple of ways. You may need to go into multiple apartments of the same building or you may want to have different versions from different vendors you want to show to your customer. After your customer makes a decision, you delete other versions and order the accepted version.

We have more than 10 manufacturers at this point and we are extending the system. I will pick a demo vendor that we kind of copied from TSG Forevermark and named it as Demo Vendor.

I’m going to name it as ‘’Kitchen with Island’’. Click Next.

We have 2 options: you can Upload 2020 Design. You need to export your design in text form and then import it. Or you can Select Door Style manually. The latter is what I’m going to do.

You can turn ON and OFF the Assembly option.

You can make the whole order as a knockdown and the prices will be adjusted. Optionally, you can even select some parts to be knockdown if for any reason you want a part to be custom assembled.

You can add modifications.

You can pick any from existing modifications or you can add a custom note, or you can add a custom modification. Maybe the modification you want isn’t listed in the manufacturer’s modification list, so you can ask for custom modification.

Right now, we are showing all the retail prices, but you are also able to turn your multiplier off and see your actual cost. The prices will be updated.

You can add your design files.

Add renderings from the 2020 3D Design, floor layouts, and any other to here and build a nice proposal. There is also a way to create a visual proposal, a powerful PowerPoint. You can watch a video on how to create a proposal with Visual Proposal Builder. Essentially, it’s like a page builder that you can use for your larger projects. It gives a modern layout and more options for upselling and croselling. You can even create templates that you can use over and over.

You can provide discounts.

When you’re done with pricing, you can provide discounts. We have prices and discounts per customer type. You can give one discount to homeowners and another discount to builders, architects, and contractors, for example. If a salesperson wants to give more discounts, there will be a warning and a manager’s approval needed.

You can adjust tax rates.

Similarly to QuickBooks, you can adjust tax rates, for example, if your customer is in another state.

These are the basics of creating a proposal in the Cabinet Pricing & Ordering app.

Now I’m going to show you the versions.

Let’s say I’m starting with a kitchen with an island and I’m showing the proposal to my customer. I can quickly duplicate this, rename it, and then we can play with the parts. So now we have two versions of a proposal. You can easily flip in between different versions of the proposal and you can continue to customize.

If you want to show another version from another vendor, you can choose another vendor and add parts, and continue to compare all these options.

Ordering from multiple vendors is not possible, so once you decide with which one you’re going to go with, you need to remove the other version.

If the customer is happy with the price and everything else, you can Accept and move to the Order stage.

If the Manufacturer is a KitchenDEV customer, the integration is seamless. The order will just go into their system, and they will see a notification in their orders list and they will be able to easily process the order.

If the Manufacturer is not KitchenDEV customer, then the order will go by email.

You can add instructions to your order.

When you are ready to order, you can add instructions for your order to the vendor. You can have the order delivered to your showroom or to the customer’s address, or you can choose to pick it up by yourself. You can also review the order and make changes. You can turn off the Assembly option if you have your own resources for assembly and you don’t want to pay for this service and reduce the price. You can also send the order as knockdown and have it delivered to your showroom and you can assemble it in the showroom.

If there are any custom charges on the dealer side, they can move it before sending, but in this case, we don’t have any. Let’s see how the order email will look like. All order details will be there ready to be printed out.

Now you can send the order.

Now the order is sent. We will log off from the retailers’ module and log into the manufacturers’ module.

Explore our Guided Tour Through Cabinet Pricing & Ordering Custom Software for Retailers

Why is KitchenDEV Different & How it Helps Your Retailer Business Grow?

Our product helps reduce the labor and improve efficiency during the proposal and order stage – You are losing time and money if you are not on an ERP.

Smooth onboarding & training covered by the KitchenDEV team. Invest in KitchenDEV and improve your workflow to save money and grow your business.
Software is simple & easy to use and does not require technical knowledge.
It solves ordering problems, simplifies catalog updates & project organization.
Software is web-based and can be accessed from anywhere
Integration with 2020 & (ProKitchen, Google Calendar, and other integrations coming soon…)
It keeps your suppliers, team & customers engaged during the entire process.
Our product supports multi-location showrooms and unlimited sales & design personnel

Cabinet Manufacturer’s Journey with KitchenDEV

Manufacturers’ journey with KitchenDEV starts with digital marketing and outreach. We help manufacturers reach out to more dealers, rank their website better and on the first page of Google.

Add your collections and styles.

We have a powerful catalog management tool. You can add your collections and styles easily, on a user-friendly screen, and you can also manage your prices, with a single click you can adjust all the parts and prices. Then you will charge all of your dealers at the updated price. Any change you make to your catalog will be distributed in real time.

Import and manage your dealers.

We have a dealer database. You can import your dealers in bulk using CSV file and you can set discount rates individually to your dealers. Also, you can invite your dealers to use our software. If you are a paying client, your dealers will be able to use the software for free for your catalog. They will be able to have their own view, their own showroom account, they can add their designers, salespeople, there is no limit.

Empower your dealers.

You are essentially giving your dealers a powerful tool. You’re giving your dealers a dealers’ login, and they are able to log in and order from your catalog, but we also give the full CRM tool where they can manage their customers and where they can also run surveys, collect reviews, have a visual proposal builder.

Handshake with your dealers.

Once your dealers are on the system, comes the time for the handshake process. Dealers send an order to you, you acknowledge the order and send a confirmation, and they have to then accept it and send it to again, and it moves to the production. We make sure the manufacturer and dealer fully understand the order and in cases where some parts are not compatible or a change needs to be made by a manufacturer, you can make it and send it back to the dealer.

Process the order.

Once the order is in and both parties agreed, you need to process the order. You can print out or show on a screen all order items in your warehouse, a collector can go in and collect all the items, and then the assembler team can assemble and mark assembled items. Everything goes through a production pipeline and we support you in each stage.

Upgrade your RMA management.

We also support RMA management. Dealers can initiate returns and you can accept. There are different rules to charge for the return — either accept it for free or charge for returns. Depending on the situation, you have different options to handle the return.

Manufacturer Demo

There are some shortcuts to go to your dealers, orders, and RMAs, so I’m going to click the Orders where you can click on individual orders and see everything about them.

Set prices for custom modifications.

You can set prices for any custom modifications asked from your dealers. When you save it, it will be added to the order. If it’s a recurring custom modification, you can add it to your catalog and it becomes that way available to all of your dealers.

Communicate with your dealers.

You can exchange messages regarding orders with your dealers within the app. The order will go through a certain flow. For example, when you receive an order, you can either approve or reject it.

Approve orders & provide delivery dates.

When you approve the order, you can download the order form and provide delivery and pickup dates, mark it as shipped or picked up, or if it’s moved into returned, you can mark it as ‘’return initiated’’.

Manage your dealers.

You will have all the information on your dealers on-hand. You can also manually create a proposal and order for your dealers, send them for approval, and continue moving through the order stages.

Manage your collections and styles.

You can manually change your prices or you can scale them. You can also upload your resources like a specs sheet for example. When you upload them, they become available to your dealers.

Communicate with your dealers.

There is also a general messaging area with your dealers not related to orders. It’s a kind of a mailbox.

Create Announcements

When you create an announcement, it will show up on the dealers’ screen. For example, if the tariff price increased, you can put it out and t will be available for your dealers to see.

Explore our Guided Tour Through Cabinet Pricing & Ordering Custom Software for Manufacturers.

Why is KitchenDEV Different & How it Helps Your Manufacturer Business Grow?

It simplifies
Catalog updates and distribution
Dealer management – dealer login
Order and RMA management
Inventory and Accounting (coming soon)
Integration with 2020 & ProKitchen (coming soon)
Provides a powerful proposal and customer management tool for your dealers
It keeps your dealers and team engaged during the entire ordering process
Software is simple & easy to use and does not require technical knowledge
Onboarding & training is covered by KitchenDEV team with real-time support

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Webinar: How to Use Cabinet Pricing & Ordering Software and Its Benefits

What Is KitchenDEV

Cabinet Retailer’s Journey with KitchenDEV

We Help You Attract More Customers

We Help You Schedule Measurement Appointments

We Help You Introduce Cabinet Catalogs and Products to Your Customers

We Help You Schedule a Design Appointment

We Help You Smoothly Import 2020 Design of the Kitchen

Prepare Advanced Proposals Using Visual Proposal Builder

We Help You Agree with Your Customer and Manufacturer

Get Feedback from Your Customers

Repeat The Process and Grow Faster

Demo for Retailers

How to Create a Proposal

You can turn ON and OFF the Assembly option.

You can add modifications.

You can add your design files.

You can provide discounts.

You can adjust tax rates.

You can add instructions to your order.

Why is KitchenDEV Different & How it Helps Your Retailer Business Grow?

Cabinet Manufacturer’s Journey with KitchenDEV

Add your collections and styles.

Import and manage your dealers.

Empower your dealers.

Handshake with your dealers.

Process the order.

Upgrade your RMA management.

Manufacturer Demo

Set prices for custom modifications.

Communicate with your dealers.

Approve orders & provide delivery dates.

Manage your dealers.

Manage your collections and styles.

Communicate with your dealers.

Create Announcements

Why is KitchenDEV Different & How it Helps Your Manufacturer Business Grow?

Start Using Cabinet Pricing & Ordering Software Now

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