Solutions

Retail/Wholesale

Propane Resources

From supplier to consumer, and every step of the way -- Propane Resources provides vital consulting services powered by FileMaker Pro.

FIELDFLEX creates and sets up displays in more than 10,000 chain stores across the country. To coordinate these jobs, some entailing over 2,000 individual store visits, FIELDFLEX relies on FileMaker Pro. FileMaker Pro's flexibility means the system can evolve as business grows. And FileMaker Pro's ease of use allows FIELDFLEX to update their system without a staff of programmers.

Nature's Own

Nature's Own, an international operation selling high-quality beauty creams and vitamins, needed a system to organize their orders -- as many as several thousand orders per month. Their FileMaker Pro-based system totals orders, calculates bonus checks owed to distributors, and manages varying sales taxes for each product in each nation.

Trek Bicycle

FileMaker Pro helps keep the wheels rolling on a vital catalogue production process at Trek Bicycle Corporation -- America's top manufacturer of bikes for serious riders.

Lifetime Products

Lifetime Products, manufacturer of basketball systems, table tennis equipment and picnic tables, uses a FileMaker Pro-based solution to organize customer service inquiries, product requests, production, budgets, and more. FileMaker Pro's ease of use saves Lifetime Products time training new employees, and delivers greater efficiency throughout the company

Shady Oaks Nursery

At Shady Oaks, a burgeoning mail-order nursery, a FileMaker Pro solution organizes customer information, processes orders, tracks inventory and more. The solution is built on FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Server running in combination with Citrix(R) terminal services -- delivering faster performance and expanded functionality using Shady Oaks' existing hardware

Sweet Spirit Candles

Manufacturer of an extensive line of hand-poured intent candles, sold by over 40 retailers, an overseas distributor in Japan, and online.

Agri-Sales Associates

Sales agency serving the agricultural, home-and-garden, hardware, and veterinary markets.

Willoway Nurseries, Inc.

Wholesale nursery provides over 1700 varieties of plant stock to independent garden centers and landscapers throughout the East and Midwest.

Bill Currie Ford

How does Bill Currie Ford, the largest combined parts, service and body shop operation in Florida, keep on top of its operations? By using a Ford-certified FileMaker Pro solution to track customer's maintenance needs and generate highly targeted direct mailings.

Paolo Vista

Paolo Vista, manufacturer and distributor of fine men's clothing, strives to maintain impeccable customer relationships. After trying for two years to implement a problematic MS-DOS system for managing customer orders, Paolo Vista turned to FileMaker Pro. The result? An easy-to-use, tailored solution.

Europawatch.com

What makes Europawatch.com tick? FileMaker Pro! Europawatch.com, provider of customized promotional watches for Fortune 1000 companies, features their entire product line on a FileMaker Pro-based Web catalog.

Terry Precision Bicycles

When Terry Precision Bicycles decided to expand from wholesale into mail order, business went through the roof. Needing an online order entry system that could keep pace, they turned to Biz Basics, a FileMaker Pro-based solution. Now, all wholesale or retail transactions at Terry Precision Bicycles -- including credit card verifications, inventory and accounting -- are handled through FileMaker Pro.

International Flower Essence Repertoire

Advocates of alternative remedies believe in the healing powers of the essence of certain flowers. London's International Flower Essence Repertoire, importer of such medicinal flower essences, believes in the power of FileMaker Pro. While FileMaker Pro is powerful enough to run International Flower Essence's business from beginning to end, it's also easy enough to use that new employees can learn the system in minutes.

AV-Store

AV-Store is the only exclusive online distributor of Sony audio and video products for the UK, and its Web site offers the complete range of Sony consumer products -- over 1200 items, all illustrated and fully described. FileMaker Pro keeps the entire AV-Store Web site organized, with categorized, searchable product listings, prices, technical descriptions and illustrations.

MonarchComputer.com

MonarchComputer.com, wholesale distributor of computer-related products, had outgrown its paper-and-pencil RMA system. When shopping for a new system, they considered Lotus and Microsoft Office -- but they chose FileMaker Pro for its ease of use, flexibility, and its ability to automate sorting tasks. Monarch has been so happy with the RMA system that they now use FileMaker Pro in the Customer Service Department as well.

Charming Shoppes

AdTrax, a FileMaker Pro-based solution, helps The Fashion Bug deliver fresh and fashionable marketing campaigns. From the initial photo shoots to the layouts, from the color separations to pulling the proofs, AdTrax tracks every job so that the Marketing Department knows where all the materials are for every given campaign.