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Hardscape-Online is a web based version of the Hardscape Assistant. It has most of the features but there is no software to maintain. Click the link below to view a live demonstration.

Live Demonstration

This demo is just one possible setup we can create. If you already have a site that shows all your product information etc. then you would probably only need the calculators. We just wanted to show how it can all work together.

We can also add other sections if needed. In fact the whole thing can be customized to suit your needs. We can add your logo and color scheme.

If you would like to discuss getting your own Hardscape-Online, please call 604-540-8948 or email info@fitzsolutions.com.
 



NOTE: This program is not for sale to the general public.

New catalog version called Hardscape Catalog is now available. This version can include products, colors, patterns, photos, and documents but does not have any calculators. This version can be installed or can run directly of a CD. Click here for more information and to download a demo catalog.

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About Hardscape Assistant


The precast industry has seen great changes in the past 30 years in North America. In the early 1970’s, customers had few products, or colors or textures to choose from. In the past 10 years the precast concrete industry has made great strides in providing the customer with a variety of new products to make their projects unique. As the producers introduce more finishes, shapes and colors of pavers, slabs, tiles, and segmental retaining walls to their inventory, the designers, contractors and home owners will create more unique projects.

This innovation of products will place more demands on the hardscape experts like dealers, sales people, and contractors to have greater knowledge at their fingertips. The Hardscape Assistant is the marketing tool that gives you that fingertip knowledge! Just turn on the program and within minutes the sales person or contractor becomes an expert at calculating volumes and selecting the right products, colors, and patterns for the customer’s project. This is a user-friendly, yet powerful computer marketing program that no producer or hardscape dealer can do without.
 

Why Use Hardscape Assistant?


Because, your customers are looking to your sales people, contractors and designers for expert advice on your products. She or he want help with selecting the right products for that all important home project. They can’t describe it and this is where the Hardscape Assistant comes to the rescue.

 

The walkway, patio or driveway the customer has envisioned, comes to life as they browse through the extensive Photo Gallery of completed projects your Preferred Contractors have created. The customer doesn’t want to order the wrong kind of products, or wrong color, or the wrong quantities for the selected paver or wall pattern.
 

Turn On Hardscape Assistant


Spin the computer screen around so the customer can see, and in minutes you will be looking at a smiling customer, amazed at what she or he is learning and anxious to get started on their project.

 

Hardscape Assistant is the Swiss Army knife of marketing tools. It takes the customer through the libraries of shapes, textures, colors and patterns of each one of your products. And it shows not only the design possibilities in a gallery of photos, but it provides visual realities of textures, shapes and colors. It also can include a preferred contractors list along with accessories such as lighting, paver edge, glue and etc.
 

What Else?


I
t automatically calculates the volume of sand, base, and quantities of each paver unit when the size of the project has been enter. No more waiting while you try to figure how many units or square feet of border or circle pavers you need for that complex job. With in an instant your customer will have all the quantity information including number of pieces of edging and spikes, or the square footage of base fabric, bags of sweeping sand, tubes of glue, or caps, volume of gravel needed for their project.
 

Not only does the Hardscape Assistant calculate multiple borders, you can also add as many different sizes of circles or half circles to the project. Multiple bands can be added to each circle. Each time the customer adds or changes an item, all quantities will automatically be updated.
 

For retaining walls we can use your geogrid design charts including images to create a geogrid calculator that can calculate the estimated amount of geogrid required for a wall with just a couple of clicks. If you change the height or length of the wall the geogrid is automatically recalculated.

 

Hardscape Assistant can be used by the sales person at the counter, as a training tool, by individual contractors at a job site, architects, designers, and by associates in the cavernous box stores. Wherever, whenever, your customer wants examples, specifications, color, size, and price you can provide it.
 

Your logo and or your dealer’s logo will appear throughout the program and on all printouts.

 

And More…



Hardscape Assistant
stores all the information from each customer. A week or two after you meet a potential client a call will let her or him know you cared enough to remember the products patterns, colors and quantities that had been discussed.

Hardscape Assistant can handle both English and Metric units at the same time. This means you can enter some numbers in English and others in Metric within the same project.

We can customize Hardscape Assistant so that it reflects you, your photos of your products, your borders, your patterns, your user manuals, your accessories, and your marks of excellence.

Plus, no more huge and costly binders with your product information. Just send a CD packed with information and pictures. And less brochures and installation guides. Simply print what the customer likes. That is targeted marketing.

 

Different  Versions To Suit Your Needs


 

Hardscape Assistant is available in three versions.

  • Standard Version
    This is a stand-alone PC version which you can distribute on CD.
     

  • Web version
    This version runs completely over the internet. Users can access it through any web browser. There is no software to distribute.
    Live Demonstration
     

  • Kiosk Version
    This version is specially designed for use on kiosks with touch-screen monitors and without a keyboard or a mouse.

We can also create just a catalog version that just shows products, colors, patterns, photos, and documents but does not have any calculators. This version called Hardscape Catalog can run directly of a CD. Click here for more info about Hardscape Catalog.
 

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