Steelyard Adds Time-Saving Features and Tools
Furniture World News Desk on
10/11/2019
Steelyard recently announced their new time-saving features and tools, just in time for the October High Point Market. Of note, Steelyard has added a new Collaboration feature, a one-click Purchase Order tool, and an exclusive Click & Keep tool, all created to make the complicated business of interior design a simpler, more efficient landscape. Plus, they are all free for designers to use. Learn more about these offerings by stopping by their chic new Airstream RV hangout located on the corner of Commerce and Wrenn, adjacent to The Point, during the High Point Market, Friday, October 18 - Tuesday, October 22.
“Designers work extremely hard and are often juggling several large projects at the same time,” says Shawn Hughes, Steelyard’s chairman and CEO. “At Steelyard, designers matter. Our goal is to support our designer partners, to make them more efficient, to streamline their processes and, in the end, make them more successful. ”
With the Collaboration feature a designer can easily share his or her inspiration, vision or project presentation boards with members of their team and with their clients for an end-to-end process that is uncomplicated and polished. Each project can have different team members as collaborators. Need to change the lighting? No problem. Everyone on the project will see the most recent versions in real time. The feature also allows designers to keep everything organized in intuitive project folders. Stay up-to-date and in-the-know on every project and schedule. Then use the Collaboration feature to send information directly to the client via a link, where they can review, approve, and share notes. Once the designer is ready to move forward, order entry and transmission is available with nearly a single click.
Steelyard’s Purchase Order tool makes product procurement and expediting simpler than ever before. With a single click, create a purchase order for one item or aggregate items from multiple projects for a particular manufacturer. Add special terms, discounts or other company-specific information and then transmit it directly from your Steelyard dashboard to the vendor. The Purchase Order tool populates the project folders with updated information including order and anticipated delivery information. Purchase orders can be sorted by project, vendor, date and more. All in one easy-to-access spot.
With Steelyard’s exclusive new Clip & Keep tool, those moments of brilliance don’t have to turn into research and entry hassles. Find a product online — furniture, faucets, fans, whatever — and with a click on the Steelyard Clip & Keep tool, the product is transferred from any online site to the designer’s choice of project folders. Designers can also keep multiple photos of the same product, giving them the ability to work with room scenes, vignettes, or multiple-angle silhouette shots. Plus, every clipped image remains in the designer’s library on Steelyard, organized and searchable, so there are no more hours wasted trying to re-create work that’s already been done.
Designers are invited to stop by the Steelyard Airstream during the High Point Market for a quick demonstration. While there, be sure to snag a Steelyard swag bag, pick up a map for the great Nail Polish Trail and score VIP passes to the hottest ya-gotta-know-somebody-to-get-in events. Or just hang out ‘streamside with industry friends.
About Steelyard: For more than 20 years, Steelyard has been the industry’s most comprehensive digital product resource serving the interior design trade. Digital and search technology has changed a bit since 1997 when we scanned brand catalogs page-by-page onto the first platforms. But the need for a streamlined way to quickly view thousands of products has not changed, and every evolution of Steelyard — from site upgrades to rebranding to more site upgrades — has been designed to create the most efficient way to search and organize products in a password-protected, wholesale environment. At Steelyard, we’re here to connect the industry’s best brands and trade programs with design professionals like you. Whether shopping the go-to giants or hunting for bespoke and emerging artisans, we put them all at the designer’s fingertips with a single login. For more information, visit steelyardaccess.com.