Self-Guided Product Tour

Inventory

Gain complete control of your inventory by knowing what’s on your shelves at all times and keep your stocking levels lean for improved cash flow.

Manage Inventory in Real-Time

  • Set up seasonal MIN and MAX ordering levels and get automatic order recommendations.
  • Track your profit margins and see where you are losing money.
  • Identify your fastest moving parts with a click of a button and keep them at the register for less ticket time.
  • View your inventory turn rate.
  • Track lost sales to better manage customer demand.
  • Track your special orders from the time a part gets put on an order, is ordered and is received to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
  • Access inventory information for multi-store locations in one integrated system.
 

Streamline Purchase Order Management

  • View purchase history and track detailed information about your suppliers.
  • Get automated updates for manufacturer price lists to save time and eliminate manual errors.
  • Easily differentiate between parts by vendor to avoid duplicate part numbers.
  • Automatically create purchase orders based on sales history, seasonal levels and special orders.
 

Integration with Electronic Parts Diagrams

  • Electronic parts look-up interfaces to PartSmart, Snap-on's PartsManager Pro, MediaCat, MercNet, KubotaLink, HondaIn.
  • View inventory stocking information (the on-hand quantity, the customer's adjusted price, and bin location).
  • Select items and instantly send them directly to an invoice or work order.
 

Control Prices on Your Parts

  • Create global pricing rules and definitions.
  • Set holds on price sensitive items and increase pricing on fast moving items.
  • Charge more on parts sold through the shop by increasing profit margins.
  • Mark up parts by a percentage, percent margin or flat amount to generate more revenue.
  • Easily manage sales on products by setting price level overrides based on a specific date range.
  • Set special pricing for elite or high volume customers.
 

Invoicing

Offer efficient and professional customer service at the point of sale. Ideal provides you with detailed customer and product information which allows for quick transaction times, more opportunities to upsell, and the ability to print and email detailed information to the customer.

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Point of Sale

  • View any information on your customers, inventory, and create orders from any location in one powerful system.
  • Easily view all pertinent information on each individual part such as on-hand quantities, special orders, etc. from one screen.
  • Easily update customer information right from the POS.
  • Automatically reference superceded parts.
  • Get automated suggestions for alternates and substitutes to upsell and offer better customer service.
  • Print or email quotes, invoices, or work orders to customers.
  • Streamline transactions with integrated credit card processing solution.
 

Wholegood / Serialized Products Management

  • Get full floor plan visibility including aging items and financing information on all of the serialized items you have in stock.
  • Easily accept a customer trade-in and automatically add it to your inventory.
  • Keep a record for all quotes created to ensure a customer doesn’t receive two different quotes from different employees.
  • Register product for warranty purposes right at the POS.
  • Manage all of your stores from one location.
 

Parts

Gain complete control of your inventory by knowing what’s on your shelves at all times and keep your stocking levels lean for improved cash flow.

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Manage Inventory in Real-Time

  • Set up seasonal MIN and MAX ordering levels and get automatic order recommendations.
  • Track your profit margins and see where you are losing money.
  • Identify your fastest moving parts with a click of a button and keep them at the register for less ticket time.
  • View your inventory turn rate.
  • Track lost sales to better manage customer demand.
  • Track your special orders from the time a part gets put on an order, is ordered and is received to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
  • Access inventory information for multi-store locations in one integrated system.
 

Streamline Purchase Order Management

  • View purchase history and track detailed information about your suppliers.
  • Get automated updates for manufacturer price lists to save time and eliminate manual errors.
  • Easily differentiate between parts by vendor to avoid duplicate part numbers.
  • Automatically create purchase orders based on sales history, seasonal levels and special orders.
 

Integration with Electronic Parts Diagrams

  • Electronic parts look-up interfaces to PartSmart, Snap-on's PartsManager Pro, MediaCat, MercNet, KubotaLink, HondaIn.
  • View inventory stocking information (the on-hand quantity, the customer's adjusted price, and bin location).
  • Select items and instantly send them directly to an invoice or work order.
 

Control Prices on Your Parts

  • Create global pricing rules and definitions.
  • Set holds on price sensitive items and increase pricing on fast moving items.
  • Charge more on parts sold through the shop by increasing profit margins.
  • Mark up parts by a percentage, percent margin or flat amount to generate more revenue.
  • Easily manage sales on products by setting price level overrides based on a specific date range.
  • Set special pricing for elite or high volume customers.
 

Service

With a robust service module you can completely automate your service department from start to finish. Keep all history at your fingertips, manage deadlines, and ensure that you are delivering the service that was promised.

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Create & Track Accurate Work Orders

  • Track detailed information about each work order in one place.
  • Easily lookup history on Open or Completed work orders.
  • Create repair kits (for example maintenance kits) so you can instantly add a group of parts, supplies, and labor codes.
  • Send text or email notifications when a unit is ready for pickup directly from the work order.
  • Produce professional looking invoices with detailed labor notes, warranty information, and performed codes.
  • Automatically adjust price on a part sold through work shop.
 

Improve Technician Productivity

  • Allow your technicians to clock in and clock out of service orders using the Technician Time Clock so you can track their efficiency and overall time spent on a job.
  • Monitor your technician's billable hours and incorporate incentive plans to motivate them.
  • Assign labor to multiple technicians on each work order.
  • Easily calculate your technician commission totals.
 

Optimize Shop Efficiency & Profitability

  • Schedule and modify jobs for all your technicians through the Service Scheduler.
  • Import common or create your own flat service rates to ensure profitable jobs.
  • Enable your technicians to create pick tickets to ensure all your sold parts are accounted for on a Work Order.
  • Set predefined symptom, request and labor perform codes to quickly start and finish a work order ticket.
 

Process & Track Warranty Claims

  • Track warranty claims and money owed from each warrantor.
  • Easily separate and view the money owed from the warrantor vs. the money owed from the customer on a claim.
  • Track multiple warranty claims (for the engine, accessories and the rest of the unit) on each work order.
  • Easily reconcile warranty claims from warrantors.
  • View the warranty period right on your work order screen so that you always know if there's any warranty left.
  • Automatically register products through integrations with Ariens/Gravely, Toro EZ-Link, Toro EZ-Link for Echo/Shindaiwa, Stihl PSP to ensure you always collect money in a timely manner.
 

Reporting

Operate leaner, smarter, and more profitably. With every department’s data in one product suite, you have the ability to quickly and easily monitor the success of each department and your entire dealership.

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See the Big Picture

  • See the health of your business at a glance by tracking key performance metrics in real time.
  • Measure the key metrics that industry leading expert Bob Clements recommends you should be looking at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
  • With a click of a button run reports to see how sales impacts service, how service impacts finance, and everything in between.
  • Customize reports to fit your dealership’s operations.
 

Sales Reports

  • Keep tabs on you fastest moving parts so you know which items to stock the most of and make them easily accessible at your sales counter.
  • Identify your slowest moving parts so you know what items need to be removed from inventory to create better cash flow.
  • Know who contributes most to your bottom line by tracking your Gross Profit Margins for each vendor.
  • Know your margins on serialized equipment by tracking your average wholegood sales.
  • See the totals of all payment methods for a specified period of time which will help balance your cash drawer.
  • Identify items that are bringing in the most sales and are the most profitable.
 

Service Reports

  • Keep tabs on the overall labor efficiency of your techs.
  • Measure how efficient your techs are by their individual work orders.
  • Gage how profitable each tech and your overall service department actually is compared to their pay grade.
  • Track your average work order completion time to see if you’re properly estimating the correct labor times allocated to each work order and turning a profit in billed vs. actual completion time.
  • Monitor your Labor to Parts percentage to determine the work that’s involved repairing parts vs the work involved in replacing parts.
 

Inventory Reports

  • Easily pull up your inventory valuation to know the dollar value of your stocked items.
  • View your inventory turns to see how many times your inventory is sold and replaced over a given time period.
  • Track the average transaction value of your parts to determine the profitability generated from each sale, and set benchmarks to upsell and increase the value of each sale.
  • See the percentage of the stock that you filled each day.
  • Track your daily Gross Profit Margin to view trends and forecast your overall profitability.
 

Accounting Reports

  • Customer statements report
  • Receivable Transaction List
  • Receivable Aging Report
  • Cash Requirements report
  • Payable Transactional list report
  • Aging Report
  • Account Balances and Transactions list report
  • Account Register report
  • Financial Statements report
 

Integrations

At Ideal, we have long-standing relationships with key manufacturers and suppliers, and we are committed to enhancing the dealer to manufacturer connectivity to try and drive down costs and improve overall efficiency at your dealership.
We've been able add functionality to the Ideal system that lets you automate warranty claims, product registrations, and parts ordering with industry-leading OEMs and distributors.

Product Registration
ARIENS

Never lose track of your warranty claims and always collect money in a timely manner by registering all of your Ariens and Gravely products through Ideal.

EZ

Eliminate double-entry by automatically sending Toro and Exmark invoice and inventory data through Toro EZ-Link for warranty registration and promotional rebate purposes.

ECHO

Automate product registrations in ECHO’s Incorporated database through Toro EZ-Link for Echo / Shindaiwa integration, and use customer information for warranty confirmation, customer marketing, and product rebate processing.

STIHL PSP

Save time and money that's normally lost through incomplete warranty claim submissions, lost claims and missed submission deadlines by registering all of your Stihl products through Ideal.

Website shopping cart

Import shopping cart order to the Ideal POS and upload part product information automatically to the website.

Parts Lookup
Interface to CODIS (Power Portal)
Built-in Interfaces Associated with PSP (Partner Standard Protocol)
Automated Price Lists Updates

With Ideal, OPE dealers can automatically update price lists from the top manufacturers and suppliers to keep your pricing accurate and your inventory up-to-date.

These price lists allow you to update all your product numbers, prices, and descriptions in the Ideal software in just a few minutes!

Price List
A and I Products Little Wonder (Hayward)
Adrian Steel Little Wonder (KPM)
Ag-Parts, LTDS Little Wonder (LL Johnson)
Agri-Fab (***Dealer Must Provide) Little Wonder (Midwest Equip)
Agri-Fab (Dixie Sales) Little Wonder (Pace)
Agri-Fab (Oscar Wilson) Little Wonder (Willand)
Air-Flo Manufacturing LS Tractor
Allied (Can) Celtic Distributor) Mahindra USA
American Chrome Company Makita
American Yard Prod (Marr Bros) Martin Wheel (CPD)
American Yard Prod (Oscar Wilson) Martin Wheel (Medart)
American Yard Prod (Oscar Wilson) Dist Pricing) Maruyama (Cook's Power)
American Yard Prod (PES Dist)(Available) Maruyama (Oscar Wilson)
American Yard Products Maruyama (Robert's Supply)
American Yard Products (AES LawnParts) Maruyama (Scotsco)
American Yard Products (CPD) Maruyama (Smith South Central)
American Yard Products (Engine Warehouse) Maruyama (Tru-Power)
American Yard Products (RBI Dist) Maruyama USA (Hawaii)
American Yard Products(Can) Massey Ferguson (Agco)
American Yard Products(Dixie Sales) MAT Holdings, Inc. (Canada)
AMSOIL MCClane Manufacturing (PED)
Arborist Supplies (RBI Corp) McCulloch (CPD)
Arctic Snowplows (Canada) McCulloch (Dixie Sales)
Ardisam (Midwest Turf & Irrigation) McCulloch (Marr Brothers)
Ardisam, Inc. McLane Mfr (Robert's Supply)
Ardism Inc. (Can) (Lotus Eq Sales, ltd.) Melroe/Bobcat (GND)
Ariens Meyer Products
Ariens (Canada) Meyer Products (Hayward Dist)
Ariens (WCS Dist) Miller Electric Mfg.
Arrow Engine Company Monster Pwr Equip. (KPM)
Arrowhead Electric Products MTD
B3C Fuel Solutions (CPD) MTD (AES Lawnparts)
Bad Boy, Inc. MTD (Canada)
Bahco (Scotsco) MTD (Canada) Atlas Dist
Bahco (WCS Dist) MTD (CPD)
Bahco Pruning Tools MTD (Dixie Sales)
Banta Saw MTD (Gardner Connell)
BCS MTD (Marr Brothers)
BCS (Bever Valley Supply) MTD (Oscar Wilson) Dealer Pricing
BCS (Canada) MTD (Oscar Wilson) Dist Pricing
BCS (Earth Tools) (Canada) MTD (PES) (Available/Dealer Must Order)
BCS (Lucky Dist) MTD (RBI)
BCS (Scotsco) Murray
Bear Cat (Can) Murray (AES Lawnparts)
Bear Cat (FOE) Murray (Canada) Power Source
Bear Cat (Golden Eagle) Murray (Dixie Sales)
Bear Cat (OED) Murray (Magneto)
Bearcat Murray (Midwest En Warehouse)
Big Dog Murray (Oscar Wilson)
Big Dog (Hayward Distributing) Murray (Preferred Pwr)
Big Dog (Oscar Wilson) Murray (Sedco)
Billy Goat N2 Performance (Oscar Wilson)
Billy Goat (Balock Machinery) N2 Performance (RBI)
Billy Goat (Can) (Arns Rquip) National Liftgate Parts
Billy Goat (Can) Pro Pwr Dist. New Holland
Billy Goat (Florida Outdoor) Ohio Steel Industries (CPD)
Billy Goat (Golden Eagle) Onan (AES Lawnparts)
Billy Goat (Mdwst Equip Co.) Onan (Dixie Sales)
Billy Goat (OED) Oregon (Bever Valley Supply)
Billy Goat (PED) Oregon (Forestry) (Canada Power Source)
Billy Goat (Scotsco) Oregon (Forestry) Golden Eagle
Billy Goat (Texas Outdoor Power) Oregon (OEP) (Billious)
Bishop Company Oregon (OEP) (Canada Pwr Tech)
Blizzard Snow Plows Oregon (OEP) (Eng Warehouse)
Blizzard Snow Plows (CAN) Barrett Corp. Oregon (OEP) (Medart)
Blue Bird Oregon (OEP) (PES)
Blue Bird (Can) Celtic Dist Oregon (OEP) Can Theo Turgeon
Blue Bird (Canada) Oregon (OEP) Central Power Systems
Blue Bird (Florida Outdoor) Oregon (OEP) Gardner Connell
Blue Bird (Golden Eagle) Oregon (OEP) Midwest Eng Warehouse
Blue Bird (LL Johnson) Oregon (OEP) RBI Dist
Blue Bird (Pace Distributing) Oregon (OEP) Scotsco
Blue Bird (Steven Willand) Oregon Forestry
Bobcat (Carswell Dist) (See Commercial Grounds) Oregon Forestry (AES Lawnparts)
Bobcat (Hayward Dist.) Oregon Forestry (Can Power Tech)
Bobcat (KPM) Oregon Forestry (Eng Warehouse)
Bobcat (Melroe) Oregon Forestry (Gardner Connell)
Bobcat (Melroe) (Canada) Oregon Forestry (Gardner Dist)
Bobcat (Willand) Oregon Forestry (Magneto)
Boss Products Oregon Forestry (Midwest Eng Warehouse)
Boss Products (Distributor) Oregon Forestry (RBI)
Boss Products (Horizon Dist) Oregon Forestry (Scotsco)
Boss Products (Mid-Michigan Snow) Oregon Forestry (Smith South Central)
Boss Products (Monroe Truck) Oregon Forrestry (Medart Dist)
Bradley Mower Oregon OEP (AES Lawnparts)
Bradley Mowers (Dist price) Oregon OEP (Oscar Wilson)
Brakequip, LLC Oregon OEP (Power Src Canada)
Branson Tractors Oregon OEP (Smith South Central)
Brennen Industries Oregon OEP Dealer
Briggs & Strat Power Prod. (Mdwst En Wrhs) Oregon OEP Dealer (Gardners)
Briggs & Strat Power Products Oregon OEP Dealer (Magneto)
Briggs & Stratton Oregon OEP Distributor
Briggs & Stratton (AES Lawnparts) Oregon PowerNow (Magneto)
Briggs & Stratton (Atlantic Power) Oregon(Forestry) (Menominee Ind Supply)
Briggs & Stratton (Canada) Oregon(OEP) (Menominee Ind Supply)
Briggs & Stratton (Central Pwr Systems) Orgill, Inc. (Available/Dealer Must Order)
Briggs & Stratton (Magneto) PAI Industries (Crane Carrier)
Briggs & Stratton (Marr Brothers) Parker Sweeper(Gardner Connell)
Briggs & Stratton (Mdwst En Wrhs) Peerless (Can Pwr Tech)
Briggs & Stratton (Preferred Pwr) Peerless (CPD)
Briggs & Stratton (RBI Corp) Peerless (Gardner-Connell)
Briggs & Stratton (Sedco) Peerless (Medart Inc.)
Briggs and Stratton (Dixie Sales) Peerless (Oscar Wilson)
Briggs Power Prod. (Dixie Sales) Peerless (RBI Dist)
Briggs Power Products (Can Pwr Src.) Peerless (RBI) Distributor Price
Briggs Pwr Prod (Preferred Power) Phoenix Pully's (Marr Brothers)
Briggs Pwr Prod (Sedco) Pix Belts
Brown Manufacturing PIX Belts (Medart Distributor)
Brown Manufacturing (Pace) Plugr Aerator (Gardner-Conell)
Brown Products (GND) Poulan
Brown Products (MAC Equip) Poulan (AES Lawnparts)
Burns Industril Supply Poulan (Billious)
Bush Hog Poulan (Canada)
Carlisle Tire (Dixie Sales) Poulan (CPD)
Carlisle Tire (Medart) Poulan (Dixie Sales)
Carlisle Tire (RBI) Poulan (Engine Warehouse)
Carlton Saw (Central Power Sys) Poulan (Gardner Dist)
Carlton Saw (CPD) Poulan (Oscar Wilson)
Case **Available** Poulan (PES Dist)(Available/Dealer Must Order)
Classen (Golden Eagle) Poulan (RBI)
Classen (LL Johnson) Rack'Em (KPM Exceptional Dist)
Classen MFR Raisman Corp (Available/Dealer must order)
Classen MFR (Pace Dist) Raisman Corp (Gardner's)
Classen Mfr. (KPM) Raven America
Comet (Dixie Sales) Red Max
Comet Industries (RBI Corp) Red Max (Carswell Dist)
Commercial Grounds (Willand) Red Max (Engine Warehouse)
Commercial Grounds Care (KPM DIST) Red Max (Hayward Dist)
Commercial Grounds Corp (Oscar Wilson Dist) Red Max (LL Johnson)
Commercial Grounds Corp (Carswell) Red Max (Midwest Turf)
Commercial Grounds Corp (Hayward) Red Max (MTI-Dist)-Canada
Corona Clipper (Scotsco) Red Max (Pace)
Corona Clipper (WCS Dist) Red Max (PES) (Available/Dealer Must Order)
Cost Distribution - Marine (Canada) Red Max (Power Equip. Dist)
Country Clipper (Conniff Sales Inc.) Red Max (Willand Distributor)
Country Clipper (Kaye Corp) Reed Manufacturing
Country Clipper (Marr Brothers) Rhino
Cub Cadet Riley Tractor Parts
Cub Cadet (Can) Atlas Dist. Riverside Pump (RBI)
Cub Cadet (Dixie Sales) Robin America (Subaru)
Cub Cadet (PES)(Available/Dealer Must Order) Robin Outdoor Power (Carswell Dist.)
Curt Manufacturing Robin Subaru (AES Lawncare)
Curtis Industries, LLC Robin Subaru (Billious)
Dana Foote (Dixie Sales) Robin Subaru (Canada)
Dana/Foote Robin Subaru (Capitol Engine CO)
Dana/Foote (Oscar Wilson) Robin Subaru (Marr Brothers)
Dayco Products LLC Robin Subaru (Midwest Turf & Irrigation)
Dealers Choice (Sedco) Robin Subaru (Oscar Wilson)
Delta Power Equipment Corp Rotary
Deweze (Division of Harper Industries) Rotary (Can) Vickers Marketing
Dingo (Division of Toro) Rotary (Carswell OEI)
Dixie Chopper Rotary (Dixie Sales)
Dixon Industries Rotary (Glo Distributor)
Dixon Industries (Carswell Dist) Rotary (Kaye Corporation)
Dixon Industries (Engine Warehouse) Ryan (Canada)
Dixon Industries (Hayward Dist) Ryan (Canada) (G.C. Duke Eqt)
Dixon Industries (Pace) Scag
Dixon Industries (Pace) West Coast Scag (Florida Outdoor Eq.)
Dixon Industries (Willand) Scag (Kpm Dist)
Do it Best Corp. Scag (LL Johnson)
Dolmar (Atlantic Power) Scag (Midwest Equip Dist)
Dolmar (Cntrl Pwr Sys) Scag (Pace)
Dolmar (Magneto) Scag (Scotsco)
Dolmar (Midwest Engine Warehouse) Scag (Texas Outdoor)
Dolmar (Preferred Power) Scap (Power Tool Co.)
DR Power Products Schiller Grounds Care (SGC) (LL Johnson)
Eagle Compressors (Can) Celtic Dist) Shindaiwa (FOE)
Earthquake Shindaiwa (General Power Equip)
ECCO Shindaiwa (Jerry Pate) (Order Under Echo)
Echo (FOE) Shindaiwa (Midwest Equipment)**(Available)**
Echo (General Power Equip) Shindaiwa (Outdoor Equip Dist)
Echo (Midwest Equipment) Shindaiwa (Texas Outdoor Power Equip)
Echo (OED Dist) Silky Saws
Echo (Texas Outdoor Power Equip) Silky Saws (Dolphin Outdoor Pwr EQ)
Echo/Shindaiwa Simplicity
Echo/Shindaiwa (Jerry Pate Dist) Simplicity (Canada)
Echo/Shindaiwa (Canada) SMA
Echo/Shindaiwa (Golden Eagle) Snapper (A & I)
Echo/Shindaiwa (Lepco) Snapper (Canada)
Edgewater Mower Snapper (Midwest Engine Warehouse)
EFCO Power (Smith South-Central) Snapper (National)
Ego Power (Dixie Sales) Snapper Pro
EHP (Mdwst Engine Warehouse) Snapper Pro (Pace Dist)
Electrolux Home Products (RBI) Sno Ex (PED)-Pwr Equp Dist
Encore (Live Oak) Sno-Ex (Can) (Echo Can)
ESF (Canada) Sno-Way (KPM)
Excel (A & G Turf Equip) Sno-Way (Pace Dist)
Excel (Canada) Sno-Way International
Excel (Carquest) Snow-Ex (Congdon Assoc)
Excel (Power Trim) Sparex
Excel (Tidewater) Bronze level Spears Manufacturing
Excel Hustler (Coates) Spyder Manufacturing
Excel Hustler (Cook's Power) Stens
Excel Hustler (PES Distrib) Stens (Can) Arns Equip LTD
Excel Hustler ***DEALER MUST PROVIDE FILE*** Stens (Canada)
Exmark Stens (CPD)
Exmark (Blalock) Stens (Hayward Dist)
Exmark (Canada-Echo Dist) Stihl (A & G Turf Equip)
Exmark (Lepco) Stihl (Blue Mountain)(Available)(Dealer Must Order)
Exmark (Lucky Dist) Stihl (Bryan Equip.)
Exmark (Ness Turf Equip) Stihl (Canada)
Exmark (Pwr Eq Dist) Stihl (Crader)(Available)(Dealer Must Order)
Exmark (Robert's Supply) ORDER NATIONAL LIST Stihl (Intermountain)
Felco Stihl (Mid Atlantic)
Ferris Stihl (Midwest)
Ferris (Can) Theo Turgeon Stihl (Miss. Valley)
Ferris (Canada) Stihl (North East)
Ferris (Outfitters) Stihl (Northwest)
Ferris (Pace Distributor) Stihl (Pacific)
Ferry Morse Seed Co Stihl (Southeast)
Fisher Plow (Dist) Stihl (Southwest)
Fisher Plows Sulky Mower
Fisher Plows (Can) Sulky Mowers (Dist Price)
FNA Group (Dixie Sales) Swisher (Canada)
Fred Marvin Pruners (Available/Dealer Must Order) Swisher Mower & Machine Co
Gates (Atlantic Power) Tanaka (AES Lawn Parts)
Gates (CPD) Tanaka (Cook's Dist)
Gates (Gardner Connell) Tanaka (CPD)
Gates Belts (Mdwst Eng Warehouse) Tanaka (Gardner Connell)
Gehl Tanaka (Lucky Dist)
Generac (Marr Brothers) Tanaka (PECO)
Generac Engines Tanaka (RBI)
Generac Power (Billious) Tanaka (WCS Distributing)
Generac Power (Gardner-Connell) Techtronic Industries
Generac Power (Midwest Turf & Irrigation) Tecumseh (Billious)
Generac Power (Oscar Wilson) Tecumseh (Can) Can Pwr Tech
Generac Power Systems (Dixie Sales) Tecumseh (Carswell OEI)
Giant Vac Tecumseh (CPD)
Grass Hopper Tecumseh (Dixie Sales)
Gravely Tecumseh (Gardner-Connell)
Gravely (Canada) Tecumseh (Marr Brothers)
Gravely Atlas JSV Utility Vehicle Tecumseh (Medart)
Gravely Treker Tecumseh (RBI)
Great Dane Tecumseh (RBI) Distributor Pricing
Great Dane (Carswell) Tecumseh (US) PES Dist. (Available/Dealer Must Order)
Handy Ace Hardware ***AVAILABLE*** Tecumseh-Order by Distributor
Henderson Products Teleflex Marine (Dealer)***AVAILABLE***
Herschel Adams Temco H-M Parts Co.
Hilti (Canada) Textron (Order by Dist See CGC)
Hiniker Company Thermoid Inc. (Carswell OEI)
Homelite Tillotson
Homelite (AES Lawnparts) Tillotson (AES Lawnparts)
Honda (A & G Turf Equip) Tillotson (Engine Warehouse)
Honda (Engines Only) Tillotson (Gardner)
Honda (Great North Dist) Tillotson (Medart)
Honda (Iowa Power Products) Tilton
Honda (OPE) Tisco
Honda (OPE) (Canada) Celtic Dist TMC Power Equipment
Honda (OPE) (Hayward Dist) Tommy Gate Company (Dist Pricing)
Honda (OPE) (Tru-Powerl) Toro (AES Lawnparts)
Honda (OPE) Oscar Wilson Toro (CPD)
Honda (OPE) Pace - West Toro (Ness Turf Equip.)
Honda (OPE) Tidewater Toro Profit With Perfomance
Honda (Pace) Toro/Lawnboy (Canada) Turf Care
Honda (PECO Dist) Toro/Wheel Horse
Honda (Roberts Supply) Toro/Wheel Horse (Canada)
Honda (SCOTSCO) Troy Bilt (Dixie Sales)
Honda OPE (Canada) Tru Cut (Blalock)
Hotsy Tru Cut (Scotsco-Hawaii)
Husqvarna (Canada) Tru-Cut (Dealer)
Husqvarna (Forest & Garden) Tru-Cut (Dist.)
Hy-Capacity Turfco
Hydro Gear (AES Lawnparts) TYM Tractor
Hydro Gear (Billious) Velke (Hayward Dist)
Hydro Gear (CPD) Vortexx (OED)
Hydro Gear (Dixie Sales) Vortexx Industries (Pace)
Hydro Gear (Gardner Connell) Wacker
Hydro Gear (Gardner's) Walbro
Hydro Gear (Marr Brothers) Walbro (AES Lawnparts)
Hydro Gear (Oscar Wilson Dist) Walbro (Billious)
Hydro Gear (PES) Walbro (CPD)
Hydro Gear (RBI Corp) Walbro (Dixie Sales)
Hydro Gear **Order by Distributor** Walbro (Gardner Connell)
Ingersoll (CPD) Walbro (Gardners)
Ingersoll Equipment Walbro (Magneto)
Ingersoll-Rand Walbro (Medart)
Jacto, Inc. acto, Inc. Walbro (Midwst Eng Warehouse)
Jason Industrial Inc. Walbro (PES)
John Deere Walbro (RBI)
1,589,360 Walker (A & D Dist)
John Deere (Canada) Available Walker (A & G Turf Equip)
Johnsered (Willand) Walker (Can) Arn's Dist
Jonsered (Carswell Dist) Walker (Can) DBH Dist
Jonsered (Hayward Dist) Walker (Canada) - Pro Power
Jonsered (Pace Dist) Walker (Cantrell)
Jonsered (PES) (Available/Dealer Must Order) Walker (Coates Landscape Supply)
Jungle Jim (Hayward) Walker (Emmett Equip)
Jungle Jim (RBI Dist) Walker (GHS Corp)
K & M Manufacturing Walker (Kurtzer's LLC)
Kaaz Corporation (Scotsco, Inc.) Walker (Lawn Equip Enterprise)
Kawasaki (Ope) Walker (Mid America)
Kawasaki (OPE) Canada Walker (Midwest Specialty Sales)
Kawasaki (RBI Dist) Walker (Precision Works)
Kawasaki Motors (Canada) Walker (Pro Power-Mid South)
Kimball Midwest Walker (Secrist)
Kioti Tractor Walker (Trac Equip.)
Kipor (Gardner's Dist) Wallenstein (Can)
Kipor (Lucky) Waterland Supply Co., Inc.
Kipor (Steve Willand) Weaver Leather
Kohler Western Products (Can)
Kohler (A & G Turf) Western Products (Douglas Dynamics)
Kohler (Canada Power Tech) Winco Inc
Kohler (Canada) (Yetman's Dist) Wisconsin Engines (AES Lawnparts)
Kohler (Central Power Dist) Woods
Kohler (Diesel Only) Worldlawn (General Power Eqt)
Kohler (Gardner's) Dealer Price Worldlawn (L.E.E. Inc.)
Kohler (Gardner's) Dist. Price Worldlawn (PECO)
Kohler (H.G. Makelim Co.) Worldlawn (Stull Equip Co)
Kohler (Loftin Equipment) Worldlawn Power Eqt
Kohler (Marr Brothers) Worx (Central Pwr Systems)
Kohler (Medart) Worx (Midwst Eng Warehouse)
Kohler (PES)(Available/Dealer Must Order) Wright Manufacturing
Kohler (RBI) Wright Manufacturing (Dist Price)
Kohler (Waukesha-Pearce) Wright Manufacturing (Hayward)
Kohler Generators (Collicutt Dist) Wright Manufacturing (KPM)
Krone Na Inc. Wright Manufacturing (LL Johnson)
Kubota Wright MFR (Can) Turf Tech
Kubota (Canada) Available Wright MFR (Keen Edge)
Kubota Eng of America (Engine Power Source) Wright MFR (OED)
Kubota Eng of America's (Loftin) Wright Mfr (Pace)
Kubota Engine of America's Yabravo (Engine Warehouse)
Kubota Engines (Southeastern Power) Yamakoyo
Kuhn (Canada) Yamakoyo (Dist Pricing)
Kuhn (US) Yanmar
Kuhn Knight Yanmar (Cascade Engine Center)
Kuny's Leather Mfr (CAN) Yazoo (Engine Warehouse)
Kuriyama of America Yazoo (FOE)
L & B Sales (Can) Ybravo
Landpride Ybravo (Pace)
Laser Sales (Can) Zama
Laser Sales (Willand) (Available) Zama (AES Lawnparts)
Lawn Boy-Profit with Performance Zama (CPD)
Lawnboy Zama (Dixie Sales)
LCT (Canada Power Technologies) Zama (Gardner Connell)
LCT Engines (CPD) Zama (Gardners)
Liquid Comb. Tech (Carswell) Zama (Magneto)
Liquid Combution Technolory (Medart) Zama (Medart)
Little Wonder Zama (Midwst Eng Warehouse)
Little Wonder (Carswell Dist) Zama (PES)(Available)(Dealer Must Order)
Little Wonder (GND) Zama (RBI)
Little Wonder (Golden Eagle)

Payments

You can use Ideal’s fully-integrated Accounting module process all of your transactions and analyze how your transactions affect your bottom line, or you can interface with QuickBooks or Peachtree.

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QuickBooks Interface (NEW!)

  • Automatically send all your AR, AP and Inventory journal entries to QuickBooks – as soon as they are posted to Ideal.
  • Automatically create bills for your vendors in QuickBooks each time you finalize supplier invoices in Ideal, ensuring faster payments.
  • Use Ideal to generate a separate bill in QuickBooks for each floor-planned serialized product, so that all your AP information is accounted for.
  • Rely on one simple interface to instantly match your GL accounts and vendors in Ideal to those in QuickBooks.

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Integrated Accounts Receivable

  • Automatically post Accounts Receivable transactions to the General Ledger and create an accurate audit trail.
  • Provide customer statements that include detailed line-item information on what they owe.
  • Set payment terms for each customer (C.O.D, Cash, Net 30, etc.).
  • Enforce penalties for late charges.
  • Control credit limitations for each customer.
  • Take payments and instantly adjust money that is owed to you by changing the late charge.
 

Integrated Accounts Payable

  • Automatically post accounts payable entries into your General Ledger.
  • Accurately track financing information for all of the serialized items you have in stock with Ideal’s robust floor plan management capabilities.
  • Pay suppliers and process checks in one easy step.
  • Cash in on discounts offered by vendors for early payments.
  • See what it would take to pay through a certain date.
  • Set up flexible payment terms for each supplier.
 

Integrated General Ledger & Payroll

  • Stay on top of all assets and liabilities by having all transactions from each department flow into your General Ledger.
  • Optimize cash flow by instantly seeing profits and losses in your dealership and reallocating dollars where appropriate.
  • Compare your actual financial statements to the budget you set.
  • Easily trace information and get a more detailed description on all of your statements by drill down to each specific transaction item on invoices, receivables, payables and general ledger.
  • Instantly run financial statements by department or consolidated for the entire dealership to track profitability in real time.
  • Integrated with CenterPoint Redwing software to process payroll.
 

Customers

Provide better service and more personalized communication by tracking detailed information on each contact in your system.

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Be in the Know

  • Track all customer information (including sales history and equipment service history) in one place and on one screen.
  • Create customer categories so that you can compare your commercial, retail, government and other type customers.
  • Provide products that appeal to your current customer base, make decisions on what to offer to attract a different customer base, and see who is making you the most money (volume and gross profit).
 

Stay Engaged

  • Text or email customers directly from Ideal using pre-set templates.
  • Create mail merge lists to communicate with your customers.
  • Keep a record of all customer communications for future reference.
 

Rental

Seamlessly manage every step of your rentals operation inside your Ideal dealership software. This powerful tool was built from the ground up to ensure it effortlessly integrates with the rest of the Ideal system, eliminating double entry and streamlining the entire rental process to make life easier for both employees and customers.

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See How It Works:

Why TargetCRM:

Identify Happy Customers Identify Happy Customers

Survey the customers who have already purchased from you to group them based on how satisfied they are with your business.

Stand Out Online Stand Out Online

Stand out from other retailers on Google and Facebook with the highest rating and highest number of reviews.

Connect with More Customers Connect with More Customers

Engage customers in real-time two-way text and email conversations to drive as many people to your business as possible.

Target Happy Customers Target Happy Customers

Market to your most loyal and engaged customers using specific customer data in your system (e.g. their location) to ensure they keep buying from you, not anyone else.

Key Features:
  • Broadcasts
    Broadcasts

    • Send targeted promotions via text and email to your most loyal and engaged customers in just a few clicks
    • Tailor your marketing messaging to specific customer groups, based on data like distance, purchase history and category
    • Maximize your conversion rate and deliverability by sending relevant messages only
    • Import existing templates and other marketing materials you already use into TargetCRM
    • Leverage both email and texting to reach more customers

  • Messenger
    Messenger

    • Engage customers the way they want to be engaged – via text messaging
    • Eliminate phone tag and reduce voicemails by 80% or more
    • Manage your leads with texting, connecting buyers with salespeople much faster than via traditional web lead forms
    • Multiple department inboxes and multiple locations are supported, so that all customer-facing staff can text

  • Surveys
    Surveys

    • Automatically survey customers from each department and location after every sale and repair
    • Refer happy customers to Google and Facebook to leave (positive) reviews
    • Give your unhappy customers a place to leave feedback, so you can resolve the issue online
    • Gather 300%-500% more online reviews by putting review requests on autopilot

Quotes & Reservations

  • Provide faster customer service by creating quotes in a matter of seconds and converting them into reservations with a single click.
  • View and adjust rates, deposits, and discounts applied to a quote.
  • Bundle unit rentals with add-ons for additional selling opportunities.
  • Accommodate customers by managing unit delivery and pick-up.
  • Automatically generate a work order to communicate customer needs to the service department.
  • Identify items that are bringing in the most sales and are the most profitable.
  • Customize and send out electronic invoices to customers.
  • Take a payment directly from the rental module with an integrated, vaulted payment processing system.*
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Profitability Reports

  • Get an at-a-glance overview of your rental operations with detailed reports.
  • Assess lost opportunities, forecast future demand, and analyze unit performance.
  • Easily explore data and share reports with the team by exporting information to Excel.
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Mobile

The Ideal mobile app will allow your service and parts employees to perform key daily tasks from anywhere in your dealership.
The mobile app is fully-integrated with the Ideal dealer management system and works on most Apple or Android devices.

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Streamlined Inventory Management

  • Save time and improve efficiency by conducting year end and cycle inventory counts with your mobile device.
  • Expedite parts receiving process by recording all information right on the spot.
  • Sell more by having instant access to your wholegoods inventory.
 

Fast & Easy Unit Check-in

  • Start your work orders right from the mobile app to process customer requests faster.
  • Take pictures and instantly attach images to specific work orders, units and customers in Ideal to keep records for warranty purposes and improve communication between employees.
  • Take a customer’s signature and email their work order.
 

Live Access to Ideal for Technicians

  • Enable technicians to clock in and out, add labor and comments, take pictures, and complete jobs.
  • Empower technicians to add parts to work orders, eliminating extra work.
 

TargetCRM

The success of your dealership depends on how well you perform during peak season. What if you could strengthen your sales and service, even in the off season?

That's where Ideal TargetCRM comes in – an automated sales and marketing platform that will help you turn your one-time customers into repeat buyers, all year round.

Drive Repeat Business All Year Round

See How It Works:

Why TargetCRM:

Identify Happy Customers Identify Happy Customers

Survey the customers who have already purchased from you to group them based on how satisfied they are with your business.

Stand Out Online Stand Out Online

Stand out from other retailers on Google and Facebook with the highest rating and highest number of reviews.

Connect with More Customers Connect with More Customers

Engage customers in real-time two-way text and email conversations to drive as many people to your business as possible.

Target Happy Customers Target Happy Customers

Market to your most loyal and engaged customers using specific customer data in your system (e.g. their location) to ensure they keep buying from you, not anyone else.

Key Features:
  • Broadcasts
    Broadcasts

    • Send targeted promotions via text and email to your most loyal and engaged customers in just a few clicks
    • Tailor your marketing messaging to specific customer groups, based on data like distance, purchase history and category
    • Maximize your conversion rate and deliverability by sending relevant messages only
    • Import existing templates and other marketing materials you already use into TargetCRM
    • Leverage both email and texting to reach more customers

  • Messenger
    Messenger

    • Engage customers the way they want to be engaged – via text messaging
    • Eliminate phone tag and reduce voicemails by 80% or more
    • Manage your leads with texting, connecting buyers with salespeople much faster than via traditional web lead forms
    • Multiple department inboxes and multiple locations are supported, so that all customer-facing staff can text

  • Surveys
    Surveys

    • Automatically survey customers from each department and location after every sale and repair
    • Refer happy customers to Google and Facebook to leave (positive) reviews
    • Give your unhappy customers a place to leave feedback, so you can resolve the issue online
    • Gather 300%-500% more online reviews by putting review requests on autopilot

TargetWeb

Easily create and manage a website that connects to your DMS and OEMs, so you can reach more customers and boost sales.

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Sell online

  • Earn additional revenue by building your online presence and selling online
  • Reach customers online who wouldn't normally visit your shop in person

Integrate directly with your DMS and Manufacturers

  • Sync manufacturer product descriptions and price updates automatically from your DMS, saving you the time & hassle
  • Update your website catalog automatically whenever your inventory is, reducing errors and redundant work

Personalize your site

  • Easily customize the design and features of your website with our website editor

Gain actionable insights with advanced reporting

  • Access dozens of detailed reports to get insights about your website visitors, products sold and revenue

TargetPOS

Sell Effortlessly from Anywhere.
Give your customers a seamless purchasing experience. Search inventory, take orders, process payments, and more – all from your mobile device or tablet using TargetPOS.

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Accelerate Your Checkout Process

  • Reduce the number of clicks needed to complete a transaction
  • Trim your average transaction time to under 1 minute

Sell at the Counter, on the Floor and on the Go

  • Give them the flexibility to complete transactions from anywhere – counter, sales floors, tradeshows, or even mobile delivery trucks
  • Update your website catalog automatically whenever your inventory is, reducing errors and redundant work

Real-Time Updates

  • No more duplicate data entries. All orders and transactions are updated automatically in your DMS

Increase Customer Satisfaction

  • Easily add customers to orders, scan barcodes, and take payments so you can reduce friction in your sales process and serve customers better

Visibility in the Palm of Your Hand

  • Staff can access dealership information, such as stock levels and customer data, whenever they need it, wherever they are

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  • Reliable support and training you can trust
  • Measure important data like total invoice revenue, total invoice gross profit per day, number of new customers, customer payments, inventory adjustments and more
  • Reduce supply chain disruptions with our Locator Program
  • All-in-one software for life