In addition to standard MERCHANT features including Sales, Purchase, Stock and Accounting functionality, specific functionality for Builders and Plumbers merchants such as Direct Orders, Back to Back Orders, Contracts & Haulier Orders/Charges have been incorporated. (See Key Features, below)

MERCHANT also operates within a database envronment, UniVision, which offers maximum efficiency and accuracy of data storage, with highly flexible manipulation and retrieval. Major benefits include easy access to all system information through a simple to use English enquiry language, VISION, to produce on screen or printed reports.

Whether a business is single site or a multi-branch operation requiring centralised processing or a distributed network, MERCHANT will deliver a complete solution in today's tough marketplace.

 Directs Order Processing supports:
  Master & call off order generation with full traceability
  Multiple master orders linked to a single contract number
  One supplier only per direct order - haulier may be different
  All inclusive sale price but with nett margin analysis
  Sales invoice raised from GRN or PIP
  Future price pre-loading

 Back-to-back Order Processing and Allocation supports:
  Both 'specials' & back orders of stock items
  Sales & purchase order linking and PO creation
  GRN matching to PO, linking to SO & stock allocation
  Standard supplier and price detail display
  Reporting of 'candidates' for allocation when multiple back order lines
    are outstanding
  Automatic release of picking/despatch notes

 Contract Quotation Creation and Management supports:
  Quotations to a number of customers & prospects for the same job
  Master/dummy quotation creation & quotation cloning
  Access to price & cost data, facility to amend margin mark-up
    percentages, current selling price/discounts, units of measure & nett
    buying price
  Customised quotation formats
  Quotation follow-up based on expiry date & probability
  Automatic generation of price records

 Branch Order Processing supports:
  Branch re-order routines
  Requests on the source branch
  Allocation to a transfer request
  Stock transfer paperwork
  "In transit" locations
  Automatic booking-in

MERCHANT also supports FULL Timber Functionality (See Overview)