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Register Now menu login li end here-- Request a Demo Vendor Agnostic You are in the driver’s seat. Select and change vendors instantly via one interface. Converge ™ Online Designer Take global brand initiatives to the local level while monitoring all user activities. Co-Op & Budget Management Manage all aspects of your co-op and MDF environments with easy procurement and payment options. Real-time Analytics Get real-time reports that help you analyze and make proactive decisions that affect ROI. Industry Examples (Choose your industry to see which GearBox modules apply) All Manufacturing Franchisor Restaurant Automotive Distributors learn more System Analytics Report on activities in real-time learn more Custom User Groups Manage privileges & product visibility learn more Reimbursement Bring offline activities online learn more User Hierarchy Structure for visibility & process learn more Co-Op / MDF Manage funding for your channel partners learn more Menu Engineering Enforce branding & design standards learn more Vendor Management Engage all support Vendors into a single interface learn more OnDeck ™ Manage copy in real time learn more Converge ™ Local Marketing Build materials easily learn more Sales Tax Manage sales tax for users learn more Formulate ™ Create interactive forms in a jiff learn more Resource Library Customize asset management × System Analytics You – and your users – can order up one of the many standard real-time reports in GearBox ® or build your own, based on user groups, roles or structures. And you can pull them one at a time or set them to automatically run and email on a regular schedule. You also can control what reports each user accesses. With all these options, you can easily measure the activity and needs of your channel partners. GearBox ® can even use predictive analytics to analyze ROI by region, cost center, client and more. That kind of detail means you always have the right information at your fingertips to make informed, proactive decisions. × Custom User Groups User groups allow you to manage all aspects of the online experience in real time. Based on a group’s needs, you can control things like: Product visibility Asset library access Report access Fund and payment options Pricing Customization options Site priveledges The user groups work in concert with the GearBox ® integrated hierarchy so your portal is not only intuitive, but mirrors your existing, internal business structure. × Reimbursement Most marketing logistics systems let you manage online co-op and marketing spending. But what about offline spending? Can your system manage everything from simple advertising placement to billboards, trade shows and customer events? GearBox ® can. Users can fill out a customizable online form — even upload proofs of performance-supporting documentation like invoices, flyers and photos from the event. Thanks to its hierarchical reporting structure, GearBox ® makes approvals easy and quick. You can follow an established reporting structure or flag specific users for approval. You can even document and monitor Grants of Authority (GOAs) to ensure the right people are seeing requests based on your criteria. And it’s all database-driven. So you can go back and review activities and proofs of performance to streamline the auditing process. × User Hierarchy GearBox ® can integrate the hierarchy of your organization, mirroring your corporate structure. You can send order approvals, customized item approvals, low-funds notices and other user request through the existing lines of management. The system is transparent, so everyone can see where a request stands within their assigned hierarchy. It’s flexible, too, so you can allow users to see requests outside their hierarchy. Local sales people can see and support national accounts, for example, even if those accounts are outside their reporting structure. × Co-Op / MDF GearBox ® has a fully integrated co-op, MDF and incentives management system designed to support advertising and marketing programs at all levels. You can assign co-op funds to specific product types and allocate them by user and group. You can modify the structure any time, so you have complete control over how funds are used and how they interact with each other upon depletion. You can have funds roll to credit cards, ACH and even PayPal, giving users greater control. Reporting tools take the co-op solution to the next level by providing a real-time snapshot of the overall co-op liability and feedback on participation. This allows your accounting department to accrue for outstanding liabilities, and it lets department heads project fund use and potential outages. × Menu Engineering With GearBox ® , users can easily navigate through menus in templated and customizable environments. And they can quickly implement a change for one menu or throughout an entire menu type. The system is intuitive. Users can sync menus across types, pull forward previously customized menus for quick adjustments and track what others are doing to ensure their pricing is on point. They can select their options, and the system will automatically assess the spacing requirements and modify the layout for a perfect product. You can control every element of the engineering process, including required fields, automated content, image swaps and other variables to ensure user-generated menus align with regional and national initiatives. When their menu is complete, users can use a campaign-style checkout tool to broadcast distribution to all locations — from one to a thousand. They can even make global changes after a menu ordering cycle is closed. × Vendor Management GearBox ® helps you manage all aspects of your vendor relationships. It’s vendor agnostic, so you can use the vendors you need — regardless of their tech capabilities. Some vendors might be fully integrated, using transmission technology to receive orders. Others might simply log into the GearBox ® Vendor Portal to get theirs. Users can say “bye” to multiple logins and websites. Now they can log in once to access all the vendors and products they need. GearBox ® also lets you control what products and vendors each user sees and what users each vendor sees. So you can create support networks and tiered pricing based on regional or client-specific needs. Now you can manage your existing vendors and change them out quickly and easily to serve your distributor, franchise or channel partner network. × OnDeck ™ OnDeck ™ is the GearBox ® tool that helps you manage your internal projects. Like the other modules, it’s completely customizable for large campaign rollouts, menus, product management and overall organization. OnDeck ™ helps you build interactive forms and customizable fields based on user roles, approvals and notification needs. Imagine OnDeck ™ as a customizable Google document on steroids, with automated notifications and complete visibility for activities and status. You can use it to push content to the app...