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The Internet has changed the way we do business, and entrée.NET brings those advantages to your foodservice distribution operation. Many of your customers may even be demanding such a system, or will do business elsewhere. The power and sophistication of entrée.NET makes your foodservice operation look like a multi-billion dollar entity.

It's easy and secure for customers to enter their own orders, while your sales reps can spend more time concentrating on new business and servicing more complex accounts better. Mistakes are reduced as customers enter their own orders. Everyone wins with entrée.NET as time and money are saved for both you and your customers.

entrée.NET is so much more than an order entry tool. Here are some advantages it offers:

  • The look of the system can be customized to match the appearance of your Web site, including custom colors and your logo
  • Works with all standard Internet browsers, from Internet Explorer to Apple's Safari
  • Flexible rules based system which lets you customize how it works down to the customer level including: how items are sorted and displayed on the screen, price hiding, on hand quantity hiding, order cutoff times, credit holds, minimum order amounts, etc.
  • Email customers confirmation of receipt of order
  • Customers can be notified via email regarding delivery status.
  • Interfaces with entrée.DOC so customers can view scanned and signed invoices
  • A "quick" order mode is offered where your customers can simply type in the item number and quantity
  • Customers can order off their custom "standard order" so they don't forget anything
  • Sort orders by item number, class, brand, unit of measure and description
  • Detailed product information with images
  • Can be used by your salespeople to enter orders for their customers using a single login account, so they don't have to know all their customers usernames and passwords
  • Customers can generate their own sales, history and AR reports
  • An all Microsoft infrastructure

For a live, online demo of entrée®.NET, please click here.



Distributor Tools


entrée®.NET provides foodservice distributors an easy-to-use website for managing orders, products, pricing, and customer access and information. The main entrée® application provides the Data Exchange Wizard to make exporting your data to the entrée®.NET website a breeze. entrée®.NET boasts a one-click order download process. What could be easier?




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Customer Management


  • You choose which customers have access to entrée.NET
  • You control customer passwords



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Salesperson Management


entrée.NET® provides the tools for salespeople to enter orders for their customers without having to be in the office, or call their orders in.

  • Control which salespeople have access to place online orders
  • See when salespeople last logged-on
  • Also a great tool for "chain" stores to manage orders for their stores



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Order Status


  • View outstanding [untransmitted] orders summary
  • Flag orders for retransmission



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Website Rules


entrée.NET® Allows the distributor manage how their customers use the system. Distributors can manage the rules for each individual customer, or for all of their customers :

  • Order Cutoff Time - Sets the latest time of day the order can be placed today for shipment by tomorrow
  • Price Hiding - Allows the distributor to control if their customers see pricing information
  • Enforce Credit Hold - Prevents customers from placing orders if they are on "credit hold"
  • Min / Max Order Amounts - Sets the minimum and maximum allowable dollar amounts for orders placed online
  • Max Order Days - Sets the amount number of days that a customer is allowed to place an order in advance
  • Can Order Any Product - Sets whether a customer can order any product in inventory, or if they can only order from their standard order items



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Branding


entrée.NET® version 2 allows distributors to brand the order entry website with their own logos and color scheme.



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Data Exchange Wizard


  • The entrée.net® Data Exchange Wizard is integrated into the main entrée® application.
  • Simple step-by-step process to export Product, Pricing and Customer Data to the central database
  • Automated order import facility



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Order Import Report


  • Print a hardcopy report of invoices generated by entrée.net®



Customer Tools


entrée®.NET lets your customers and salespeople place orders online, freeing your staff to manage sales more efficiently. Your customers can place orders anytime it is convenient for them. They can view pricing and product information, generate daily order worksheets, and manage their standard order guides all from an intuitive, SSL secured website.

entrée®.NET works with all virtually all computers and web browsers, allowing all of your customers to place their orders electronically.

Your customers will receive an email notification when their order has been imported into the main entrée system.




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Order Management


  • Check the status of new and sent / received orders
  • Modify / delete unsent orders




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Order Entry


  • Intuitive order entry process
  • Search for products by Description, Item Number, Brand Name, or Product Class
  • Quick order entry mode allows customers to quickly type-in the item number and quantity of each line of their order
  • Select items from Standard Order guide




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Order Guide Management


Aside from their Standard Order, customers can manage their own order guides, which simplify the order entry process.




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Product Details


  • View product details and special ordering information
  • View product image




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Open Balances


  • View open invoices
  • View open credits



For a live, online demo of entrée®.NET, please click here.





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