D-Tools provides an extensive and integrated library of products from leading manufacturers and distributors, including dealer-specific pricing for an ever-growing number of brands. All product information is provided directly from our supplier partners.
D-Tools Cloud and System Integrator (SI) software provide access to a comprehensive, integrated Product Library of manufacturers’ products, containing detailed information, such as model number, supplier pricing, images, descriptions, specifications, and vital engineering information to help manage product information and pricing.
D-Tools also partners directly with hundreds of brands in our i3 (Industry Insight and Information) Program to provide our software users with up-to-date, detailed product information and unique-supplier pricing at the critical stage of their projects – helping ensure their products are chosen for each project, while helping their customers easily and accurately manage their product catalog and win more projects.
Click here for the full list of manufacturersThe D-Tools data team updates product and pricing information on a daily basis based on getting information from our vendor partners. Updates on specific vendors involves a number of factors, including how often products and pricing change, and how often vendors provide information to us. You can see the latest updates from the home screen of the Data Library in SI or the Catalog screen in D-Tools Cloud.
Most of our vendors provide us with specific pricing tiers. Currently the only standard or “base” pricing that we have is for Legrand brands.
Many suppliers will have special pricing reserved for their top dealers so there is a chance with every supplier that a dealer’s pricing may be lower than what we are showing on their approved price tier without us knowing. We allow suppliers to add an additional discount percentage on any price tier provided that the dealer gets the same percentage discount on all products. A user has the same abilities for applying a flat discount off all products by using a price rule within SI or D-Tools Cloud.
Current API suppliers:
Our data team updates data and pricing from our vendor partners on a daily basis. Updates on specific vendors involves a number of factors, including how often products and pricing change, and how often they provide information to us. You can see the latest updates from the home screen of the Data Library in SI or the Catalog screen in D-Tools Cloud.
Daily. We update supplier pricing on a daily basis so setting this to daily updates will ensure that you always are working with the most current pricing.
There is currently no function to schedule updates in Cloud. Anytime a dealer cost is displayed in Cloud a real-time call is made to our pricing server to show the most recent price.
MSRP pricing is available from D-Tools i3 partner brands that have published MSRP pricing. Not all brands offer a MSRP price.
MSRP is ONLY made available directly from the product manufacturer – no MSRP pricing is collected from distributors.
MSRP is an attribute of the product data available from the D-Tools Product Library and is updated in the same method as any other product attribute like description or dimensions. For SI that means if MSRP is available it will be downloaded as part of the product information. Users have the option to elect which attributes can be added/updated. For D-Tools Cloud the MSRP will be provided as part of the selected products to be added to the user catalog.
Not currently.
No. Very few suppliers provide that info right now (less than 5%). However we have had that as an active feature request which we will continue to monitor as more suppliers begin to provide this type of pricing.
That is information we cannot provide at this time. We receive a wide range of information form our vendors and for those vendors who do not supply us with a specific UOM the default is "each." As we continue to improve our data management tools and processes we hope to be able to be more specific about the amount of information provided by our vendor partners.
