Manually maintaining product data costs the average furniture store 10 to 15 hours per week. Prices are no longer accurate, lead times are outdated, images are missing. Every error in your product data means a wrong quote, an angry customer, or an order that comes back. Live Articles from suppliers make that a thing of the past.
Product data is the foundation of everything you do in your store: creating quotes, placing orders, advising customers. Working with outdated information causes problems to pile up. A wrong price in your quote costs you margin. An outdated lead time results in a disappointed customer calling to ask where their sofa is.
The problem lies at the source. Suppliers regularly update their prices, lead times, and product range. A fabric supplier phasing out a colour. A furniture manufacturer changing its lead time from 6 to 9 weeks. If that information does not automatically flow into your system, you are working with data that is already outdated by the time you use it to create a quote.
Many stores still manage their product data in Excel spreadsheets or work with PDF price lists that arrive by email. This is error-prone and time-consuming. A staff member who forgets to process a price change can send out dozens of quotes with old prices on a busy weekend.
With Live Articles you always work with up-to-date product data, directly from the supplier. Prices, descriptions, lead times, images, and technical specifications are updated automatically. You no longer need to manage separate files, download price lists, or manually re-enter data.
In the LogicTrade catalogue module you browse through catalogues from various suppliers. Every catalogue is freely accessible, so you have immediate visibility into the current range. When you activate a catalogue, you can use the Live Articles straight away in your sales quotes and orders. New products appear automatically, discontinued items disappear.
Using Live Articles is free of charge for every LogicTrade store, regardless of which plan you are on.
Stores that work with Live Articles save an average of 8 to 12 hours per week on manual data management. Here is what changes:
No more Excel spreadsheets: No more emails with price changes you have to process manually. The data is simply there, up-to-date and reliable.
More time for advice and sales: Less manual management means you can focus on what matters: helping customers.
Almost no errors in quotes: Because you work with data from the source itself, wrong prices and expired configurations disappear from your quotes.
Start right away: Every LogicTrade user can get started today. Activate a catalogue and from that moment work with live supplier data. More than 800 furniture stores are already doing it.