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Lumber & Building Supply Operating Software

Visualize, manage, and control every aspect of your business

Sandbox ERP allows you to keep the existing processes that keep your business running while modernizing your process to save costs, increase efficiency, and greatly reduce confusion & errors.

Sandbox specializes in business management solutions for building supply & install companies

 

Sales and Project Management

  • Track the true cost and know the real margins on installed jobs including labour, consumables, and delivery.

  • Connect purchasing, including special orders, to a work order by automatically generating and distributing a PO from a line item added to a work order. No extra effort and easily connected back to project.

  • Manage customer deliveries by collecting information, signatures and sending delivery slips and invoices on tablets at the time of the delivery.

Communications and Interactions

  • Track all communications in one place against a chain of events from the initial lead through to accounting entries so your entire team can easily find key dates and see a timeline view of the entire life of the project.

  • Support your customers by providing them with self-service access to pricing, current projects, invoices and expected delivery times.

  • Automatically generate, manage, and distribute all documents associated with your operations, all through one system.

Inventory and Supplier Management

  • Sophisticated, yet simple, pricing update capabilities help you automate pricing changes based on customers, suppliers, product types as well as provide discounts based on unit of measure.

  • Track and account for vendor rebates allowing you to be more competitive while connecting those discounts to your quotes and work orders.

  • Integrate with e-paper based label systems to seamlessly push out pricing updates across multiple locations.

  • Create “recipes” that allow you to add all labour, consumables, and inventory to a single line item.

Executive and Finance

  • Run sophisticated sales reports that give you insights into your lead times, capacity planning and help you focus on the most profitable parts of your business.

  • Automate your accounting entries freeing up your controller to perform higher value tasks.

  • All information entered once then available for cross reporting in a single system. No need to manage multiple systems or report financials differently.

  • Ability to make accounting corrections with an audit trail without the need to make additional entries. This saves time and makes for cleaner bookkeeping.

E-commerce & Contractor Portal (Toolbx™)

  • Real-time inventory and pricing

  • Product catalog management without manual entry

  • Communicate with Contractors through a proprietary communication platform

  • Contractor self-service for quoting and deliveries

  • Contractors see their pricing levels based on their account

  • Accept payments either on account or by credit card

  • Download and view invoices and statements

 The Sandbox advantage

Born in the cloud, Sandbox ERP is developed for and hosted in Microsoft Azure for industry-leading speed, uptime, and security.

A new business model for a traditional industry means you don’t pay any implementation fees. Start paying your monthly subscription to start your implementation process.

We futureproof your business by being a highly scalable platform capable of ongoing configuration to meet the unique demands of your growing business.

Let us manage the systems while providing unlimited support, allowing you to focus on your business.

Here’s how Sandbox can benefit your business

We help everyone in your organization work smarter & outperform

  • Imagine being able to ask your business difficult questions and get an answer immediately.

    This is the power of Sandbox ERP. We enable you with critical and timely information so you can solve problems and grow without stress or guessing.

  • Get more out of all of your resources by connecting them to a master schedule making it easy to manage all your field work and installations.

    Remove the stress associated with managing all your equipment, employees and trades through a single dashboard.

  • Connect your profitability metrics to each project and job. Remove the wasted time and inefficiencies of managing a standalone accounting system.

    Build complex GL formulas that make it easier to get a current picture of your financial health.

    Share resources across lines of business or operating companies to properly understand profit and loss.

  • Manage the lifecycle of sales and projects by managing a sales pipeline that evolves into your quotes, work orders and contracts.

    Remotely collect information during the estimating process that evolves into contracts.

    Automate custom formulas for estimating and build “recipes” of labor, materials and consumables into your product catalog.

  • Provide better service to clients through self-service and automated notifications reducing customer calls and providing better service.

    Easily view all information related to projects and events in one place.

    Communicate seamlessly with other departments. Stop wasting time with double entry and spreadsheet data collection that lives on its own.

 Request a demo walkthrough to better understand how Sandbox can help your business and it’s unique needs

 What our customers say

"Sandbox improved the management of our open quotes and helped us better support our local contractors"

— A national building supply store