Everything PortSpace does
99 features, grouped by the job they do.
Purchasing
Price requests, purchase orders, expediting and receiving.
Price requests (RFQs)
Ask vendors for prices at a link, compare the quotes side by side and apply the winner.
Printouts: Request for quotation (spec sheets), Requests for quotation and bids.
Purchase orders
Raised from checked items, sent at a link the vendor acknowledges, changed with a revision; labels and letters.
Printouts: Purchase orders, P.O. labels, Sidemark labels, Cancellation letters, Credit requests, P.O. revisions.
Vendors at their links
A vendor never signs in: each email opens one record, at cost, never your sell prices.
Fund requests and the approval chain
Ask the client for the money for issued orders, record it received, and track deposits and what falls due.
Printouts: Fund, deposit and payment requests, Fund requests list and totals, Deposit tracking, Payment projection.
Expediting
Every ordered item from ordered to installed: amber when it is coming due, red when it is late.
Printouts: P.O. expediting by source, P.O. expediting by manufacturer, P.O. expediting by area, Purchasing phase lists, P.O. status and history, P.O. acknowledgements, Quantity and cost discrepancies.
Receiving and claims
Book goods in line by line or a whole truck at once, with photos, and chase what came damaged or short.
Pick lists
What to pull from the warehouse for one delivery.
Installation schedule
Dated site visits by area, each knowing which items are ready to go in.
Site visits and punch lists
Walk the site with a phone: photos, issues pinned on a plan or photo and assigned, fixed with an after photo, verified.
Purchasing summaries
Issued orders totaled by manufacturer, source or item type.
Printouts: Purchasing summary by manufacturer, Purchasing summary by source, Purchasing summary by item type.
Longer reads
A page each on the parts people ask about most.
A brief that reads the client’s material into a planSpecifications and the spec bookProposals the client signs onlineEvery ordered item, from factory to floorThe money, without a spreadsheetEveryone sees exactly what they shouldAn AI assistant that does the boring partsSee the room before it’s ordered
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