Bluestone Software Reseller Invitation  

If you supply small and or medium sized businesses with IT;

• business advise 
• products
• services

Please let us introduce to you our reseller opportunities

Your customers will be happy that you contacted them

There has never been a better time to talk to your existing customers about newly available software that offers them greater business efficiencies.

“You guys at Bluestone are an absolute delight to work with, and a refreshing change. I will certainly be recommending you to more of my customers” Jo Anderson of JCL Consultants

For Full Reseller Pack please contact dealer services at 01905 622888 

Your Customers will want you to contact them

As already mentioned, there has never been a better time to talk to your existing customers about newly available software that offers them internal process efficiencies.

Your customer benefits because;

• Their staff have extra time to do more of what only staff can do
• They get better motivated staff as the wasteful tedium has been removed from their daily activities
• Unrestrained growth potential as they can process more orders with the same staff levels.
• They get happier clients as the client gets a more effective service from happier staff.
• More effective business processes creating an impressive overall customer experience more likely to result in referrals.
• Their competitors start to look inefficient and ineffective.

The products we are offering into the channel are the perfect solution for both dealer and client, as the client is likely to grow more quickly requiring additional IT products and services. 

At times of economic uncertainty businesses look at their overheads for efficiency improvements, even if they are still meeting all their targets.

If a respected source recommends that they investigate a piece of software that has the potential to offer them a business advantage and a rapid return on investment, they will more than often do just that.

Using over 15 years of experience, Bluestone has developed a collection of effective products suitable for a wide range of vertical markets. We are now offering these products to selected dealers within the channel.

Bluestone Computing are inviting dealers to consider becoming Bluestone Software Resellers or Registered Influencers.

We are looking to partner with about 30 active resellers to create a "select yet UK wide network of resellers.

There is no limit to the amount of influencers we seek, so please do contact us for further information.

Influencers 

Influencers can earn hansom introductory commission payments
 
Influencers we see as respected professionals who give impartial advice to their friends and or clients. An example of this would be consultants, accountants, bank managers, breakfast meeting colleagues etc. Some will be charging for their advice and others may give it without charge.

This of course includes Sage dealers who are happy to recommend software but do not want to increase their direct product portfolio. 

Our Registered Influencers package includes

• Demonstration software to evaluate and show to interested parties
• Introductory commission on the software that can be optionally passed onto the client.
• Flexibility to select your preferred registered Bluestone dealer to install and support your client or to use Bluestones direct national services.
• Regular updates on new features and new products
• Introductions to free update meetings and training days
• Free optional technical and sales training at our training centre near Worcester just off the M5 Junction 5
• Telephone assistance to assess the suitability of a particular product.

Resellers

Resellers we see as businesses, actively selling business software and services. As a major proportion of our software integrates with Sage 50, Sage 200 and Act, Sage Resellers are the perfect fit.

We believe that we have a compelling Reseller offer;

• A selection of highly effective software products to introduce to your existing clients and to take to market
• New vertical markets for your sales teams to contact.
• Zero cost software to use in-house
• Zero cost demonstration software
• Zero cost telephone support for your in-house software.
• Zero cost software upgrades for your in-house software, including when you change your Sage version.
• Low cost optional technical training at our training centre near Worcester just off the M5 Junction 5
• Your customer remains yours
• Residual income (This is optional)
• No dealer rights payments required in the first 12 months or any upfront payments of any type other than optional training
• The potential for leads from registered influencers.
• The integrity of the Bluestone product portfolio and dealer channel is protected by asking all dealers to continue to meet the standards identified within the published dealer agreement.
   

Dealer Selection Criterion

Our dealer selection criterion is based on both parties, after initial discussions, knowing that they will make a good fit. This is likely to be the case for respected Sage dealers looking for established products to add to their portfolio.

Dealer Geographic Areas

We are not creating restrictions on where any dealer may sell within the UK as we are looking for national coverage. We envisage that most dealers will make many sales within about an hour of their offices but may well have national customers too.

Residual Income

Most of our applications are sold with either Software Support or with our Support Extra.

Support Extra is the most popular as it is worry free with no future upgrades costs when they move to newer versions of Sage and they know that they will get telephone support too, all for one monthly fee.

If you become a Bluestone software dealer you have the option to offer first tier support to your customer. We will supply you with second tier support and updates, we then share the income with you.

For dealers who are not interested in providing support we are prepared to offer first tier support.

Bluestone Software Products being offered through the Dealer Channel.

Bluestone software designed to work with Sage 50

Code Purple Recurring Billing Solution
Automated Billing Engine (one of our best sellers)

Code Utilities
A lot of the little extra things your clients want in Sage 50

Work Place Suite
Written in Dot Net you can use either Microsoft Sequel Server (including the free express version) or Microsoft Jet 4 database (as used by MS Access) as your database. We are including the following modules;

Pre-Sales (Due October 2010)
Handles all pre-sale enquiries from new and existing contacts
Enables group tasks to progress enquires
Integrated document management
Links to campaigns enabling analysis
Intrinsically designed to be simple and effective

Sales (Due October 2010)
Direct links to Pre-Sales
Multi-currency
Multi-warehouse
Multi-bin
Batch reference handling
Serial reference handling
Picking list process
Despatch
Invoice generation in Sage 50 or Sage 100

Stock (Due October 2010)
Multi-Warehouse
Multi bin
Batch reference handling
Serial reference handling
Stock transfer
Stock decanting
Simple factoring

Report Designer
Powerful inbuilt report designer
Multiple output options
Similar look and feel to Sages Designer

Recurring payments (due 2011)
Take recurring and variable credit/debit card payments
No compliance issues as all sensitive details held of site on secure and compliant server systems
Only a few pence per transaction

Property Services
Handles ad-hoc requests for work to be carried out on sites / units / apartments including automated billing in Sage 50

Other Bluestone software.

Workplace Organiser
Staff holiday control, flexi-time handling, staff motivation, sales targets, business efficiency based hours available, support agreements and call logging, site monitoring.

Getting to know the Products

Each of the products has a specification sheet and a download on our web site, www.bluestonecomputing.co.uk .

We are arranging introduction opportunities in areas near you over the coming months but we are also happy to talk you through a demonstration using remote access.

Training

Some of our simpler utilities and packages can be learnt quickly probably only needing a little guidance over the phone, but the majority of the short training course.

The courses are held at our training centre and are currently being offered at a heavily subsidised rate of just £150 per product for up to three delegates. On-site training is available with reasonable additional expenses being charged.

Tailoring and additions to the Software

Many of our customers have requested small tweaks / changes to the software to make it a perfect fit.

We are very happy to continue this practice and we consider each situation based on the requested changes;

Some changes are made free of charge if we feel that they should be in a market winning product.

Some are subsidised by us as they add value and depth to the overall product.

Some will be very particular to your client and they will probably very happy to pay to have a near bespoke solution.     

If you would like further information about any part of our offer please contact Henry Catherwood or our Dealer Services Team using the information below.