Products & services
Categories and brands, with rates if you want.
Hardware and building-material suppliers
A website for your hardware and building-material business that contractors can quote from
A contractor or a house builder wants to know which brands you carry, whether you deliver to the site and how fast, and a rate for the quantity they need. Creatin Web designs and builds a website that says the first two and asks for the third, with a dashboard and an Android app your counter runs.
Quote requests arrive with the material, the quantity and the site, so you reply with a rate and a delivery day.
The problem
What goes wrong with most websites in this business
Nobody knows which brands you carry
Cement, steel, sanitaryware, paint: the brand decides the purchase, and the website says 'all building materials'.
Rates for quantity are a negotiation that starts from nothing
A quote request without the quantity and the site is a phone call that could have been a reply.
Delivery is your edge and it is unspoken
Same-day to the site with your own vehicle beats the wholesaler across town, if people knew.
The solution
What your Creatin Web website does about it
Products by category and brand
Cement, steel, sand and aggregates, sanitaryware, paints, electricals, plumbing as a catalogue with brands and, where you like, rates.
Quote requests with the quantity and the site
The quotation form asks for the material, the quantity, the site address and the date needed, with a notification on your phone.
Delivery areas and vehicles
Where you deliver, how fast, and what you charge, plainly.
The yard and the team
A gallery of the yard and the stock, and the people contractors deal with.
Your sections
What a website for hardware and building-material suppliers usually has
Each one is a section of your dashboard and a part of your public website. They are chosen for your business when the site is built; a gallery, a blog, testimonials, SEO controls, analytics and staff accounts come with every site.
Quotation requests
Material, quantity, site and date.
Gallery
The yard, the stock, the vehicles.
Team & leadership
The people at the counter and on the phone.
Offers & packages
Season rates and bundle offers.
Testimonials
Contractors' words.
What it does not do
There is no online ordering, no live rates, no credit account login and no online payment. The website shows what you carry and takes quote requests; the deal is done the way you do it now.
See it
Inside the dashboard
Real screens of the dashboard, filled with sample data. The business in them is not a real one, and not yours; the sections are the ones you would use.
Questions
Questions from hardware and building-material suppliers
Can we show today's cement and steel rates?
You can post rates as a notice or an offer and change them whenever they move; there is no live feed. Many suppliers show brands and take rates by enquiry.
Can contractors see their credit account?
No. There is no customer login. Accounts stay in your billing software; the website takes enquiries.
Can we take bulk quote requests?
Yes. The quotation form asks for the material, the quantity, the site and the date, so you reply with a rate and a delivery day.
Can we show delivery areas and charges?
Yes, written in your words on the page and repeated in the enquiry form.
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Free consultation
Tell us about your business
No obligation and no sales script. We listen first, then put a price in writing.
- We get in touch to understand your business and what the website should do.
- You receive a written quotation: your yearly plan and what is included.
- If you go ahead, we design and build your website and hand you the dashboard and app.