Blue Cow’s Ignite® Enterprise is the most powerful management software in the fuel oil and propane industry. Fuel retailers both large and small are stepping up to Ignite® to put all of their management tools in a single, totally accessible, exceptionally usable energy software suite. Everything from mobile delivery routing, to customer relationship management (CRM), to back office accounting can be wrapped into Ignite® Enterprise. Here are just a few of the many ways you can use Ignite® to improve the efficiency and profitability of your propane or fuel oil business.
Traditional K Factor System
Ignite® allows you to use the familiar Degree Day System, with or without baseloads.
Early Schedule Deliveries
Choose your preferred scheduling pattern and the Ignite® system takes it from there. Choose the day of the week or month and it is automatically scheduled across the system.
SmartK System
Blue Cow’s revolutionary forecasting system goes beyond K Factors to deliver more comprehensive and accurate forecasting numbers. Click here for full details about SmartK.
Track Gallon Per Day Use
Ignite® will calculate a customer’s gallons per day used factor based on actual delivery history. No more guessing!
Julian System Scheduling
Basic delivery management based on calendar days between deliveries.
Tank Monitoring Delivery Scheduling
Ignite® interfaces with the leading tank monitoring services and will automatically generate a fuel delivery order when the tank reaches a predetermined level.
MAKING THE PAPERLESS OFFICE A REALITY
Reduce – or even eliminate – record storage space and costs with Ignite Enterprise. Among the helpful features you can put to immediate use are:
- Email invoices, statements and customer letters at the click of a button – to one customer or hundreds
- Send work orders to service technicians or delivery orders to drivers via text
- Save and store reports online in Word, Excel or PDF format
- Attach documents, files and images to customer accounts
- Replace slow and inaccurate interoffice memos with the Ignite® internal messaging system
- Powerful Reporting Functionality. Over 700 fuel industry-specific reports are programmed into the Ignite Software Suite or you can create, save, retrieve, and export your own reports in minutes.
Dashboards Control
See the most important information – automatically updated – at a glance. You’ll get a better handle on how your company is doing quickly and easily. Available Dashboards include Management, Fuel, Service, Collection, Delivery Dispatch, and Service Dispatch.
Audit Trail
You can track each change made in your company’s database by date, time, user and location. You’ll know who did what, and when they did it.
Budget Plan Management
Let Ignite calculate each customers ‘Best Gallons’ when creating a new Budget Plan. Recalculate your budget plans at any time during the plan due to unexpected market or weather conditions.
Pricing Plan Management
Manage all of your customer pricing contracts in a central location. Easily manage pre-buy, fixed and price cap plans for a single customer or hundreds of accounts.
- Review prior pricing plan history on an account
- Plot multiple plans per customer
- Track gallons and dollars by customer or across the board
- Track prebuy balances outside of your customers balance for easier prebuy balance management
Automatic Price Adjustments & Notifications
Add price differentials to date-driven or usage-driven customer fuel orders. Promote savings or protect pricing against competition. Let your customers know by email when their price has changed.
Credit Review and Collection Management
Your credit department can easily manage customer accounts, credit and collections. You set the rules and boundaries for customers and the Ignite® system will automatically place or remove a credit hold, while alerting the entire system. Alerts to the credit department allow time for account review and customer communications before the date of the next scheduled delivery.
Rate Your Customers!
This Customer Rating System automatically analyzes your customer accounts and assigns a score to each of them based on the criteria you choose. It is fully customizable by you. You determine what is important and how many points it is worth. Then the system analyzes each customer’s activity and which programs they are enrolled in and assigns the customer a rating.
Generate Proposals & Quotes
Ignite® makes it easy to create, send and track customer proposals and quotes, including delivery plans, pricing plans, service contracts and equipment installation estimates.
- Create and Maintain customer specific proposals, quick quotes or estimates for potential new customers or potential sales to existing customers
- Create templates for commonly used proposals
- Generate Purchase Orders, Work Orders and Invoices directly from an accepted proposal
Ignite Messaging, Chat, and Reminders
Ignite Messaging: Send customer specific messages to other Ignite Enterprise users or groups within your organization. Save customer specific messages as notes on the account
Ignite Chat: Built-in instant messaging functionality for Ignite Enterprise users. Great for multiple office communication
Ignite Reminders: Manage your schedule and never miss an important task. Set customer specific or personal reminders inside of Ignite Enterprise
Get Started Today
To schedule a demo with our fuel oil and propane company experts, call Blue Cow at (888) 499-2583 or visit our contact page.