Active Lightning has a number of clients who use Epicor's Eagle N Series to run their business, including point-of-sale. Below is a list of the online store's that we have created and integrated with Eagle using the ODBC and ESTU software supplied by Epicor.

Leader Evaporator

Cox Hardware and Lumber

Whitehead Industrial

Miller Hardware

Bomberger's Store

CWH Apartment Supply

Turner Ace / Salty Breeze Gift Shop

We have a product called ActiveTransfer that provides a system integration between Eagle and AspDotNetStorefront, or between Eagle and BigCommerce.

In addition to Online Stores that we branded, designed, and produced for Eagle Owners; we also provided in the past, just the ActiveTransfer capability for:

A-1 Appliance Parts (Huntsville, AL)

Valley Ace Hardware (Westcliffe, CO)

Bering's (Houston, TX)

Creating an Online Store

Creating an online store is like setting up another physical store in many ways, but with these advantages:

• sell to customers from all over the USA and outside the US as well
• the costs of opening an online store are close to that of a fork-lift, much less than what is needed for a physical store

It is important that the store have at least one staff member to manage the store, respond to customer emails (or online chat), and handle customer service issues.

Active Lightning provides assistance to build, update and maintain your online store.

Here are the project milestones for setting up an online store.

• Planning
• Blueprints (wireframes)
• Foundation
• Build (load product images and descriptions)
• Install Signage (name categories and topics)
• Stock the Shelves (set up product information)
• Set Up the Registers (set up Online Pymt Gateway)
• Set Up Delivery Service (set up shipping vendor)
• Open the Doors (go live)
• Promote the Store (online marketing)

“Our company tries to use technology to give our business an edge over competitors, and to provide our customers a compelling reason to buy from us. We do routine beta- and alpha-testing for our main computer system, Epicor’s Eagle System, (and have for many years). We do this to be an early adopter of innovative and useful technology in our industry. Still, we had no experience developing our own software when we hired Active Lightning. ...

“We have now worked with Sally and Active Lighting for several years. The relationship, while still based on the effective and innovative use of technology in our business, has moved to a higher level now. I find that whenever we discuss how to solve a particular issue, we inevitably end up discussing each issue from a total marketing perspective, versus a straight technology solution. I don’t know if every development company works that way, but I’ve come to depend on it from A/L. They have become a virtual marketing department for our company”

Virgil Cox
President / Owner
Cox Hardware and Lumber

"ActiveTransfer is an affordable solution that does what we want efficiently, seamlessly and effectively. It works magnificently! It works so well doing its thing that we don’t know its there. …other than the fact that we see the results – results that are just what we wanted."

Paul Wenke
Owner
Valley Ace Hardware