Comsense, now part of the Advantive Family, is an ERP system designed from the ground up to suit the unique and complex requirements of the architectural door, frame, and hardware distribution industry. Founded in 1989, Comsense provides architectural opening distributors across North America with a comprehensive solution. It offers a 360-degree view of projects and orders, with features including estimating, detailing, project management, and accounting. The system supports over 120 brands and manufacturers through electronic price books, ensuring complete and current product definitions and pricing. Comsense Enterprise handles the complications of coordinating door, frame, and hardware prep information, even across change orders. It also includes Comsense Spec Writer for generating architectural hardware specifications and integrates with electronic price books for up-to-date pricing and product information. Advantive is committed to supporting Comsense’s mission to provide world-class software to this specialized audience, ensuring customers continue to benefit from the extensive knowledge and skills of their experts.

Features:

• Build your project using our extensive collection of Electronic Catalogs, providing complete and current product definitions and pricing.
• Import door schedules and hardware sets from architects to get a quick start on your estimates.
• Optionally estimate your projects in bulk for increased speed.
• Enterprise handles the complications of coordinating door, frame, and hardware prep information for you, even across change orders.
• Heading builder generates headings based on a customizable collection of attributes including hardware set, door, frame, and opening information.
• Default prep feature streamlines the application of repetitive hardware preps to your doors and frames.
• Draw out your frame elevations and generate a costed material list from your drawing.
• Access our library of over 120 electronic price books and images for your product information, pricing, and catalog cuts.
• Use the Complete Opening window to view all aspects and products for each opening at a glance.
• Effectively control your projects and orders, with every detail at your fingertips.
• Powerful management windows provide an overall picture, with drill-down capabilities, of the projects and orders flowing through your business. They can also alert you to potential problem situations so you can take corrective action proactively.
• Track estimated cost vs. detailed cost vs. actual cost.
• Source material from stock, PO, or pool.
• Accounts Payable
• Automatically track variances from PO to payable invoice
• Accounts Receivable
• Set credit limits that apply for projects and sales orders, or set a special credit limit for a particular project
• AIA billing
• General Ledger
• Check printing with MICR encoding
• Bank reconciliation
• Financial Reporting

Use Comsense Specwriter to generate architectural hardware specifications. Start jobs from your library of typical projects so you never have to start a new project from scratch.

• Use Electronic Pricebooks to build up your hardware sets from product in our extensive database of over 100 brands. You can also access our extensive database of product images to include with your spec.
• Pull together all of your spec sections including your standard specifications, hardware sets, and product images into a single Microsoft Word document.

Updates to pricing applies updated costs to your configured product inventory as well as special ordered items. Our strong relationship with manufacturers has allowed us to provide electronic ordering with several vendors, with more on the horizon.

• Enhance your productivity in Comsense Enterprise by utilizing our extensive database of product data, list prices, and images.
• Our price book team is a dedicated group focused on ensuring our information is complete, accurate, and timely.
• We currently support over 120 brands across Canada and the United States.
• Our team is constantly working on price book updates to address annual price changes, special bulletins, and image changes.
• Updates to price books are published regularly by our team allowing you to easily apply updates to your system over the web.