What is Metalsmith™ ? (The abridged description) A software system for metals distributors and brokers that runs in a browser and handles all the functionality of selling metal regardless of whether you keep inventory or not. It handles multiple currencies and measurement systems for maximum flexibility. While designed for metal distributors/brokers, it could be used by many other industries.

What is Metalsmith™ ? (The full description) Metalsmith software is a web-based system for metals distributors and brokers to manage all aspects of business, including …

• sales – quotes and orders
• purchases – inventory and 3rd party
• shipping & receiving
• inventory
• customers
• vendors
• accounting – integrated with the QuickBooks Online Edition
• administration tools to manage your own system
• hosted service – you only need a browser

Metalsmith was created in Adobe Flex for the web. So log on from anywhere, at any time. Sell in any currency or measurement system and switch immediately from one to the other with a single click. Email or fax quotes, invoices or any other document to a customer directly. Try the Metalsmith Demonstration system for yourself and see how easy it is to use. Just click here and create your own account.

"It's amazing how efficiently MetalSmith manages our business. From document control to inventory control, from accounting to purchasing, from sales to receiving, there isn't an aspect of our business it doesn't integrate and streamline. It is predictive and historic. It is convenient and dependable. It is ready when and where I am, and it couldn't be more user friendly. I really love it. It has to be the state-of-the-art program in our industry."
Joseph P. Gibbons President, Great Plains Stainless

Affordable for the smallest companies – $90/month By the end of the 4th quarter, 2009 we will have switched to a subscription payment method, making Metalsmith the most affordable management system for metals distributors in the world. For $90 per month/per user your company can take advantage of Metalsmith's easy-to-use functionality. There is no long term contract to sign. If you are tired of paying costly yearly maintenance fees for a system does not perform, we invite you to try Metalsmith. Do you want to be notified when our subscription service is ready? Contact Us.

"Browser based MetalSmith is 21st century, intuitive and cross platform. Its well defined interface does not depend on F-keys nor other outmoded means of input. It is well supported and it is a pleasure to use."
Shane Morgan President, Morgan Steel, Inc.

Simplicity vs. Complexity Installing and maintaining a system sophisticated enough to run your business is daunting and expensive. Programmers are not cheap. Buying and maintaining servers is not without its challenges. Switch to Metalsmith and quit worrying about those issues and focus on what your business is all about … selling metal. From your side all you need is a computer that runs a modern browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc. You connect to Metalsmith through the Internet. So whether you are in your office, at home, or on the road your data is readily available. Move over to the simplicity of Metalsmith and leave the management of systems and servers to us.

"Metalsmith is operating great. It's the only reason we've been able to get the financial reports back on track. Particularly, the cost of sales report and the inventory report have reduced reconciliation time for accounting."
Ronald K. Patrick, PC Certified Public Accountant

Reliability Metalsmith runs on the super-reliable Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) computing platform. For you this means that down-time is pretty much non-existent. Rather than one piece of computing hardware which is prone to failure the Amazon EC2 computing platform consists of numerous of computers linked together that behave as one super-computer. So if one computer fails, the system simply ignores it and everything keeps on working. Here is an interesting article on Cloud Computing found on Wikipedia.

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