Comsense: Software for Architectural Opening Distribution

Over 120 Brands & Manufacturers Supported in our Electronic Price Books
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Comsense Enterprise – The Complete ERP Business System for Architectural Openings Distribution

Founded in 1989, Comsense provides architectural opening distributors across North America with an ERP system designed from the ground up to suit the unique and complex requirements of the architectural door, frame, and hardware distribution industry.

A 360 Degree View of your Projects and Orders at your Fingertips

  • Build your project using our extensive collection of Electronic Catalogs, providing complete and current product definitions and pricing.
  • Import door schedules and hardware sets from architects to get a quick start on your estimates.
  • Optionally estimate your projects in bulk for increased speed.

  • Enterprise handles the complications of coordinating door, frame, and hardware prep information for you, even across change orders.
  • Heading builder generates headings based on a customizable collection of attributes including hardware set, door, frame, and opening information.
  • Default prep feature streamlines the application of repetitive hardware preps to your doors and frames.
  • Draw out your frame elevations and generate a costed material list from your drawing.
  • Access our library of over 120 electronic price books and images for your product information, pricing, and catalog cuts.
  • Use the Complete Opening window to view all aspects and products for each opening at a glance.

  • Effectively control your projects and orders, with every detail at your fingertips.
  • Powerful management windows provide an overall picture, with drill-down capabilities, of the projects and orders flowing through your business. They can also alert you to potential problem situations so you can take corrective action proactively.
  • Track estimated cost vs. detailed cost vs. actual cost.
  • Source material from stock, PO, or pool.

  • Accounts Payable
  • Automatically track variances from PO to payable invoice
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Set credit limits that apply for projects and sales orders, or set a special credit limit for a particular project
  • AIA billing
  • General Ledger
  • Check printing with MICR encoding
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Financial Reporting

Use Comsense Specwriter to generate architectural hardware specifications. Start jobs from your library of typical projects so you never have to start a new project from scratch.

  • Use Electronic Pricebooks to build up your hardware sets from product in our extensive database of over 100 brands. You can also access our extensive database of product images to include with your spec.
  • Pull together all of your spec sections including your standard specifications, hardware sets, and product images into a single Microsoft Word document.

Updates to pricing applies updated costs to your configured product inventory as well as special ordered items. Our strong relationship with manufacturers has allowed us to provide electronic ordering with several vendors, with more on the horizon.

  • Enhance your productivity in Comsense Enterprise by utilizing our extensive database of product data, list prices, and images.
  • Our price book team is a dedicated group focused on ensuring our information is complete, accurate, and timely.
  • We currently support over 120 brands across Canada and the United States.
  • Our team is constantly working on price book updates to address annual price changes, special bulletins, and image changes.
  • Updates to price books are published regularly by our team allowing you to easily apply updates to your system over the web.

Because of Comsense’s unique place within the architectural opening industry, Advantive has committed to supporting Comsense’s mission to provide world-class software to this specialized audience. Comsense customers will continue to benefit from the extensive knowledge and skills that our experts bring to each engagement. During implementation, Comsense experts will meet with you to learn about your business and flush out the uniqueness that your organization embodies to best preserve and enhance your competitive advantage. Advantive will work with you to determine how to balance software configuration with organizational adjustments to help your organization run as efficiently and effectively as possible. And when you have a question, our experts will be here to help you solve technical and procedural problems large and small.

Consulting

Our consulting team enjoys decades of collective experience not only with Comsense, but in the trenches as project managers and leaders at door and hardware businesses across North America.

Training

You can arrange for engagements with our consultants after your implementation. Many customers schedule these visits to get additional training, or to implement a feature or process that they didn’t use initially.

World-Class Support

Advantive is committed to providing responsive and reliable support to our Comsense customers
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What to Expect

  • Free 20-minute call with a product expert
  • Live demo tailored to your industry requirements
  • Discover what products best fit your needs
  • No games, gimmicks, or high-pressure sales pitch