Build Your Digitol Subscription

The Digitol subscription service has been designed to provide a cost-effective solution for independent dealers selling into the office products and business equipment channels. The subscription can be configured as a full-service ERP system or as a standalone ecommerce store. To explore an example of a fully-configured website and ecommerce store please click this link.

• Content-rich website designed for effective marketing to known contacts.
• If the website is selected as an option in the Digitol subscription then it also becomes possible to take advantage of programs designed to develop traffic to the website.
  • Email marketing services are available and are designed to leverage educational content on the website as well as access to a library of landing pages geared to specific elements of the dealers' value proposition.
  • Social media marketing services are available with multiple weekly postings on Facebook and LinkedIn that tie into ongoing email marketing campaigns.
• An ecommerce store designed for developing an omnichannel presence leveraging a vendor-agnostic catalog populated according to the vendors the dealer has relationships with. Currently supporting in excess of 500,000 products covering office products, furniture, & technology. Fully integrated with TaxCloud for calculating Sales Tax and with Authorize.net and PayPal for online payment processing.
  • B2B commercial commerce
  • B2B work-from-home commerce
  • B2C commerce
• The ecommerce store is fully integrated with the world's most popular accounting system, QuickBooks. All versions of QuickBooks Online and Desktop are supported.
  • Eliminates tedious data entry and potential for keying errors
  • Automatically creates customers and items in QuickBooks that don't already exist
  • Shipping, handling fees, discounts, and freight, are all transferred to QuickBooks automatically according to individual customer settings & programs
  • Vendor purchase orders are automatically transmitted to QuickBooks
• The ecommerce store subscription can be configured for EDI (Electronic Data Integration) with primary vendors such as Essendant, SP Richards, and Synnex/TechData.
  • Vendor Purchase Orders
  • Order Acknowledgements & Advance Shipping Notices (ASNs)
  • Vendor Invoices
  • Vendor Inventory
• The product catalog subscription can be configured to include an "Intelligent Pricing Module" (IPM) to assist with market pricing and optimal vendor selection that are necessary to maximize dealer profits. Nobody can intelligently price a catalog of half-million products without leveraging technology.
  • Contract management (multiple vendor cost files mapped to multiple customer contracts)
  • Market pricing that is based on multiple competitor channel pricing benchmarks (B2C and B2B)
  • Optimizing vendor selection and purchasing decisions by leveraging technology to maximize profits while minimizing administrative expenses
• The product catalog subscription can be configured to include an "Advanced Product Filtering Module" (APFM). This powerful feature has been designed to filter and display products available for promotions.
  • Vendor promotions with start and end dates
  • Hot/New products
  • Filter according to the manufacturer, channel (home/business), availability, etc.
  • Visually highlight promoted products with advanced product "ribbons"
  • Create "collections" of promoted products and incorporate them into marketing campaigns
• The Digitol platform is fully integrated with the world-class HubSpot Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and HubSpot Marketing platforms. This powerful integration enables subscribers to capture contact records seamlessly across system elements and conduct email campaigns and practice website conversion tactics that are vital to compete successfully with the online giants.
  • Contact record management and activity timelines without the need for double-keying and associated errors and omissions
  • Customer quote platform and pipeline management
  • Email and website engagement activity tracking
  • Efficiency tools with automation and pre-built time-saving email templates
  • Landing pages configurable to individual dealers' value proposition
  • Web page hosted calculators designed to help demonstrate the dealers' value proposition both to existing clients as well as prospective clients in the sales pipeline
• The basic Digitol subscription includes the best-in-class Data Capture Agent developed over the last two decades by EKM. Included in the base price of the subscription are the first 100 print devices. This printer fleet management technology forms the core of the strategy to compete successfully with the online giants currently dominating search results and online traffic.
  • Automatically identifies and calculates cartridge replacement dates according to real-time usage data
  • Provides data to the dealer that competitors do not have access to
  • Allows the dealer to associate devices with users and to cost-effectively build a contact database regardless of website traffic and typical conversion rates
  • Improves the dealer value proposition by providing a quantifiable measure of the Total Cost of Ownership of typical print devices including copiers, multifunction, and standalone print devices
• The basic Digitol subscription also includes full integration with the 2CLIXZ mobile App and free entry-level access.
  • Blue 2CLIXZ - users
  • Green 2CLIXZ - dealers
  • Hypernotes and contact/activity management
  • Integrated with the ecommerce store and placing the customer "hot" products on the mobile device for simple error-free ordering
  • Scan a QR code for originating service & repair tickets and/or ordering printer/copier consumables
  • Configured to enable budget control/spending management regardless of the user's physical working location
• The dealer's customer delivery routing requirements can be fully integrated with the product catalog and daily sales orders/vendor POs.
  • Routing is enabled via the 2CLIXZ mobile App
  • Supports B2B commercial as well as B2B work-from-home and B2C
  • Configurable to handle dealer inventory as well as vendor inventory including "wrap & label" programs offered by the major office products wholesalers
  • All elements of the sales order and delivery process support customer notifications on delivery status etc.