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Streamline estimating, win more bids & improve commercial project management.

D-Tools software can enhance your operations across all commercial applications, so you can save time and deliver standout customer service.  

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Explore How D-Tools Can Help Your Business

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Track client interactions and key details to better understand customer needs, and use data to personalize your services and proposals for customers in corporate, hospitality, industrial, retail, house or worship or other markets. Track your pipeline with new construction developers and commercial decision-makers, ensure proposals receive appropriate follow-up, quickly respond to questions, and promptly address requests to nurture relationships and convert leads into customers.

Time-Saving Proposals

Turbocharge proposal creation for responding to bid specs with templates that bring your commercial projects to life with stunning multimedia showcasing video walls, digital signage, sound masking, building management, unified communications and more. Use D-Tools’ integrated product library with product information to save hours of research time and data entry.

Online Collaboration

Collaboration across the entire staff is a key to efficiency, especially on a large commercial project. Allow your sales teams to quickly access customer data, prepare proposals, and follow up with commercial leads to win more bids. Provide consistent communication and leverage staff talents across all of your teams, then receive proposal notifications to keep the whole team updated.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Track client interactions and key details to better understand customer needs, and use data to personalize your services and proposals for customers in corporate, hospitality, industrial, retail, house or worship or other markets. Track your pipeline with new construction developers and commercial decision-makers, ensure proposals receive appropriate follow-up, quickly respond to questions, and promptly address requests to nurture relationships and convert leads into customers.

Time-Saving Proposals

Turbocharge proposal creation for responding to bid specs with templates that bring your commercial projects to life with stunning multimedia showcasing video walls, digital signage, sound masking, building management, unified communications and more. Use D-Tools’ integrated product library with product information to save hours of research time and data entry.

Online Collaboration

Collaboration across the entire staff is a key to efficiency, especially on a large commercial project. Allow your sales teams to quickly access customer data, prepare proposals, and follow up with commercial leads to win more bids. Provide consistent communication and leverage staff talents across all of your teams, then receive proposal notifications to keep the whole team updated.

Organized Documents

Commercial projects can require deep documentation. Keep your documents organized and easily accessible via D-Tools. View the latest updated versions of proposals, contracts, designs, and change orders in one place to help avoid miscommunication and errors.

Professional Design Tools

Use provided industry-specific shapes for AV, networking, security and more using the in-app markup and save time creating professional, accurate drawings for large or small commercial projects. These tools support precise system design and visual quoting, helping you create clean and visually appealing materials to share with stakeholders.

Accurate Documentation

Access up-to-date, dealer-specific product information and detailed specs via the Integrated Product Library for digital signage, distributed audio, building management, unified communications and more. This product information allows for highly accurate documentation and budgeting for a consistent profit margin.

End-to-End Business Management

D-Tools acts as an end-to-end business management system, fully integrating your tools and platforms and giving you a unified view of your business operations. This management system makes it easier to track installation progress, change orders, maintenance, and other services, maximizing your efficiency so you can better meet deadlines.

Streamlined Scheduling and Workflows

Commercial projects in retail, corporate, and hospitality can have tight timetables. Smoothly coordinate installations in a single management system to avoid scheduling conflicts and inefficient resource use. Streamline intricate workflows, including design, installation, and post-installation maintenance, minimizing time spent on administrative tasks so your team can better focus on your core business activities.

Mobile Access

Enable your technicians to access information on the go. Technicians and project managers can add site notes and photos, track completed work, collect customer signatures, and view or update project details remotely. This mobile access keeps your entire team up-to-date and makes for more seamless operations.

Improved Sales

Detailed customer data tracking allows you to better identify customer needs to boost installation sales, sell more service contracts, charge for design services, quote accurate and appropriate prices, and cultivate recurring revenue streams. Access a clear view of each account, so you can avoid undercharging for change orders or failing to add items like cable and connectors, which can eat into your profit margins.

Enhanced Client Communication

Connect your entire team to the platform for enhanced communication with clients such as property managers, building managers and other key stakeholders. From quickly responding to requests to identifying and addressing client needs, this enhanced, team-generated communication can boost customer satisfaction and help you sell service add-ons.

Manufacturer Warranty Tracking

Use SI’s custom date fields to easily track manufacturer warranty timetables on every product in an installation project. Save time on recordkeeping and enjoy more accurate, organized, and accessible warranty information so you can promptly and appropriately respond to any issues.

Enhanced Reporting and Analytics

Data aggregation and analysis provide insights into your commercial integration business performance, including identifying best-selling products and services or analyzing profit margins. You can also use this data to evaluate labor utilization, identify strengths and weaknesses among your team members, and improve your employee management for enhanced productivity and employee morale.

Integrate with Accounting Systems

Accounting integration with leading applications like QuickBooks, Xero, Sage 100, Solutions 360 and NetSuite helps eliminate double data entry to keep your books accurate. Integrated credit card and ACH processing streamlines the payment process and enhances the customer experience.

Data Accessibility

Avoid the data silos common with commercial AV businesses in which project and customer data end up stored within different departments. Facilitate cross-company collaboration, ensuring team members can access the information they need when they need it for more efficient and accurate operations.

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Utilize D-Tools for all of your commercial AV projects

-Corporate Offices
-Bars/Restaurants
-Education
-Houses of Worship
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