Our software, built by dealers for LBM dealers, has helped businesses for more than 35 years improve productivity, control costs, increase profitability, and remain competitive in the lumber, building materials, kitchen, millworks and other building supply industries.
Spruce supports a variety of units of measure, ensuring accurate pricing, inventory management, and seamless transactions. This flexibility enhances the point-of-sale and ordering experience for both dealers and customers.
The robust Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in Spruce allows you to exchange information between your business and suppliers. As well, 30% of sales are non-stock special orders. Spruce automatically updates and populates the full catalogs of your suppliers so you can meet your customer's needs.
Spruce is designed to get customers through the check-out process quickly, creating a positive experience that promotes repeat business. In the backend, quickly access your customers’ quotes, orders, POs, receiving documents, and sales invoices in one centralized, easy-to-use system.
Quickly access your customers’ quotes, orders, POs, receiving documents, and sales invoices in one centralized, easy-to-use system. Save time and money by emailing customers their statements and invoices.
With so much of your cash tied up in inventory, you need to understand exactly what you’ve got in stock and ensure you have the right items available to customers exactly when they need them. Giving you complete visibility of your inventory, Spruce allows you to automatically track stock levels as you buy and sell products. You can also sync stock levels with your website in real time, see whether you’re running low and easily print out a list of products to fulfil orders.
Spruce includes a predefined series of charts and queries so you can select those that are most useful for your business, customize them, and save them to your analytics panel for easy access.
ECI recognizes that not everyone in independent merchant roles is IT literate, so we've designed our software to be intuitively simple, making it easy to train your team quickly.
In Spruce, you can process payments through point of sale or accounts receivable. Billing cycles close automatically and you can print/fax/email statements and invoices at any time.
You can schedule automatic payments on invoice entry, discount, or due date, and the software has complete history retention, including inactive and disabled suppliers.
Spruce offers many purchasing options including automated ordering and the ability to order stock based on past POs. Supplier catalogs are integrated into the system, so you know you’re ordering the right items.
Permission-based reports allow you to decide which employees in your organization have access, without specialized software or training required.
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