Catalyst Catalog Builder 5.3

Catalyst Catalog Builder 5.3 is  a business-to-business software designed for building, distributing and updating electronic catalogs.

Catalyst Catalog Builder:

• Places your products in the most convenient location for customers, their computer desktops
• Showcases your products with detailed descriptions, pictures, up-to-date pricing and email / fax ordering
• Delivers Do It Yourself catalog creation in minutes, without specialist skills or outside expertise

Major Benefits:

Catalyst assists in increasing sales, reducing costs, saving time and will have customers thanking you for it. Key benefits include:

1. Become the preferred supplier providing detailed up-to-date product and pricing information at customers / prospects fingertips
2. Aggressively market your products with regular updates / promotions
3. Offer personalised catalogs with customer pricing
4. Superior product promotion with detailed information and quality pictures
5. Enjoy direct access to customers (place your catalog on their desktop) elevating you above the online competition
6. Significantly lower printing and postage costs
7. Increase staff productivity by releasing staff from non productive activities
8. Utilise cheaper distribution channels including email and web download
9. Receive program generated fax / email orders without missing details
10. Quickly create and update catalogs, without specialist knowledge

Why Would My Customers Use Catalyst? Catalyst provides customers with numerous cost free benefits including:

• Desktop access to product information, improving buying decisions
• Personalised catalogs expediting the order process
• Regular price and product updates
• An efficient email/fax ordering system, eliminating errors and saving time
• User friendly interface with powerful search function
• The flexibility to place orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  

How Does Catalyst Work?

• Catalyst Catalog Builder converts your current Excel price list and product information (images and descriptions) into a professional catalog.
• Catalogs are distributed to customers / prospects as an auto run CD or via email (requires a one time download of the free viewer program).
• Catalogs can then be updated (new products, pricing changes, removal of obsolete items) via email, CD or web download.

What About the Web?

Catalyst does not replace your website, but provides an alternative method of communicating with customers (unfortunately no communication method satisfies all customers).  Although Catalyst has the look and feel of many websites, there are several distinctive differences:

• Catalyst resides on your customers computer desktops, head and shoulders above the online competition
• Catalyst provides access to products without requiring an online connection Products display instantly and high quality product images can be used
• Catalyst enables you to build, distribute and update catalogs without programming knowledge or outside expertise
• Catalyst uses direct marketing techniques (send regular CD / email updates) compared with the Web's passive "build it, and they will come" approach
• Catalyst offers customers an unrivalled shopping experience including 1-click fax / email ordering, drop down navigation, running totals etc
• Catalysts entire cost is below many web / graphic designers hourly charge

Major Features:

1. Price List Creation Screen
   • Easy toolbar driven catalog creation
   • Unlimited price lists cater to customer specific pricing
   • Catalog expiry: Place an expiry date on distributed catalogs, with optional lock out. Expiry periods can be extended via email, CD or web download
   • Catalog Name: Track catalog distribution and success
   • Number of decimals: Specify the number of decimals permitted in the order quantity column
   • Thumbnail Images: Decide whether to display text or text and thumbnail product picture on group pages
2. Assemble Screen
   • Easy toolbar driven assembly and distribution
   • CD distribution: Create an auto run CD catalog with your products, pricing and 1-Click email / fax ordering
   • Email distribution: Send price lists and updates instantly and cost free
   • Single Email: Email a zipped catalog to a customer
   • Multiple Email: Email multiple customers their specific pricing and product information in a single process
   • Graphic Files: Select whether to email all, new or no graphic files
   • Password Protection: Optional password protection for distributed catalogs 
3. General Features
   • Online context sensitive help: Simply press the F1 key for help
   • Comprehensive step-by-step manual
   • 1-Click test: Quickly test and proof created catalogs