What Is Metalsmith?

Manage Sales - You need to manage sales of metals to your customers in a simple, quick, accurate, and cost-effective manner. As well as look at sales trends of products and who your good customers are. Metalsmith will do that for you.

Manage Purchases - You need to manage the purchases of stock for your inventory, as well as of third-party products to fulfill your customer's needs. You need to keep track of what purchases are outstanding, as well as pricing trends and who your biggest vendors are. Metalsmith can do that.

Manage Inventory - Your inventory is large and you perform various processes on products before shipping them out to your customer. You have to keep track of the waste left over from these operations. You need to regularly count your stock to insure accuracy. You need various reports to show how stock is moving in and out of the warehouse. Metalsmith can do that.

Accurate Accounting - You need to have a bullet-proof accounting system that integrates with your sales and purchases. QuickBooks Online Edition is automatically updated from Metalsmith to keep your sales and purchases up-to-date.

Email Marketing - You would like to have email marketing campaigns to notify your customers of specials. Metalsmith integrates with MailChimp to simplify building your mailing lists from your customer base.

Why Use Metalsmith?

Cost Effective - Rather than have the expense and headaches of an in-house system, we'll handle the servers, updates, backups and all the other mundane (but important) functions of an IT department. Freeing you to do what you do best - sell metal.

Easy To Use - The beauty of Metalsmith is that you can do what you need to do without jumping through hoops. For example, products can be looked up without knowing any special codes, just a starting description. After typing a few characters, Metalsmith will display possible matches. The more characters you type, the more refined the list of matches.

Safety - We run Metalsmith on Amazon's Cloud Computing platform, EC2. This will give you the confidence that the servers are going to be available as much as possible because Amazon's data centers have redundant connections to the internet, backup power sources, and a vast army of technicians who watch over the EC2 24x7.

In addition, we backup the Metalsmith database nightly to an off-site storage facility.