Clarity Connect Partners with SBI Nursery Software to Improve Horticulture Clients’ Online Ordering and Availability

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 4, 2009 -- The partnership allows users to integrate the SBI software system, which includes inventory, production and order management, with Clarity’s robust plant database to increase efficiencies and online sales for growers, garden centers and re-wholesalers.

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Clarity Connect Partners with SBI Nursery Software to Improve Horticulture Clients’ Online Ordering and Availability

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“SBI is committed to expanding our value through strategic partnerships and integrations,” said Lisa Hattery, SBI marketing manager. “Clarity Connect is a perfect match. The partnership gives customers an industry specific e-commerce solution, which is important because marketing and selling plants on the web is much more complex than selling hard goods that don’t grow or die.” The SBI Web Modules can easily be integrated into a Clarity website and gives users unmatched inventory visibility, which translates to more sales and better customer service.

Forrest Keeling Nursery, www.forrestkeeling.com has taken advantage of the SBI/Clarity integration to provide real-time availability to their wholesale clients. “Having accurate availability online allows our customers to order against both current and future availability,” comments Kim Lovelace-Young, Vice President. “This has reduced the amount of low-value, high-cost customer support order handling and has freed our staff to focus on improving customer service in other areas.”

“We look forward to expanding our web-based business building capacities to our clients through our SBI alliance,” offered Timothy Howard, president, Clarity Connect, Inc. “SBI’s technology certainly fits with our focus of website development and marketing for horticulture companies of all sizes. SBI makes it easy to help our clients move toward more forward-thinking technologies that may have been cost prohibitive or intimidating in the past.”

SBI inventory databases are easily integrated into a Clarity customers’ online Plant Database Manager. Access to this information can be limited, if needed, by requiring a login to view ‘customer only’ data. Accurate website availability helps avoid overselling, and it can also automatically trigger a promotion to reduce overstocks. As web orders are placed, they are imported into SBI, which reduces data entry time and errors.

“For our customers,” Howard continued, “the bottom line is profitability. When we demonstrate how easy it is to add technological efficiencies to their website, they’re cautiously optimistic. But, when the new technologies increase productivity, reduce errors and add new sales, they become believers.” New customers also benefit from this relationship as they can have the ‘best in class solution’ for their business system and their online presence knowing that the two systems ‘play nicely together.’

About SBI Nursery Software:
SBI offers growers, garden centers and landscape distributors an industry-specific business management software package. This includes Production Management, Handheld Wireless POS, Handheld Inventory Control, Advanced Inventory & Order Management, Point of Sale Software (POS), General Accounting and more.

With an emphasis on customer-driven innovation, SBI software is constantly improving based on real customer processes. SBI is the only software company in the industry with live 24/7 support. To learn more go to www.sbinursery.com.

About Clarity Connect, Inc.:
Clarity Connect is a marketing and web technology firm providing comprehensive marketing services and products to horticulture companies including websites, e-newsletters, catalogs and garden center signage. Clarity synergistically applies extensive business, technology and marketing expertise to deliver big business capabilities without the typical overhead, cost and inefficiencies of larger marketing and technology firms. To learn more, go to www.clarity-connect.com.
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