Enterprise DNA

Instead of Epicor BisTrack

Stop renting Epicor BisTrack. Own your merchant system.

We build your version around your branches, price levels, trucks and credit rules, bring your BisTrack customers and products across, and run it for you through Omni by Enterprise DNA.

Epicor does not publish BisTrack pricing. It is quoted privately and priced by the features you take, and G2 reviewers put a typical rollout at six months.

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Where the money goes

What a BisTrack quote pays for that a timber yard does not need

An owner-run merchant lives on trade accounts, quotes, the truck runs, stock in the yard and who owes what. BisTrack wraps those in an enterprise system with its own price list, modules and project. Most of the cost is the layer between your staff and those records.

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A price you only see after a sales process

Epicor publishes no BisTrack price. You scope the users and modules with sales and wait for a number made for your business.

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Priced by the feature

Review sites list BisTrack as priced per feature, so delivery planning, pricing tools and the rest are each part of the conversation.

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Licences across the counter, the yard and the office

In Epicor's own case study of a 105-person timber merchant, 45 staff are BisTrack users. Every rep, counter hand and dispatcher who needs to look is part of the count.

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A six-month project before the first quote

G2 reviewers put a typical BisTrack implementation at six months of configuration, price set-up and training, much of it through a partner.

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Reports someone has to build

A new question, such as which builders have gone quiet or which contract prices sit under cost since the last increase, means a report built by whoever knows the report tools.

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Your trade history in someone else's format

Your accounts, prices and history live inside the vendor's structure. Leaving means extracts, column mapping and a partner's help.

What your yard gets

The merchant side of an ERP, without the ERP

Quotes

Quotes that know what the timber is for

Every timber line carries its end use, so a quote that puts weatherboard blanks on a deck or fence posts in a retaining wall is caught before it becomes an order.

  • check Each account's contract price or price level applied on every line
  • check Treatment checked against the hazard class each end use needs, with the source cited
  • check Quotes gone quiet or past their validity on the chase list, biggest first
  • check An accepted quote becomes an order in one step, unless a line breaks a rule

Dispatch

The truck runs, weighed

Each delivery sits on a truck, a day and a slot, with the load weight from the order lines, so an overloaded run or an unpicked order shows before the truck leaves.

  • check Today's drops by truck and slot, with what is not picked yet
  • check Load against each truck's capacity, flagged when it is over
  • check Failed drops stay on the list until rebooked
  • check Delivery dockets printed with your logo and the treatment of every line

Credit

Credit on what is owed and what is on order

Exposure is what a builder owes plus what they have ordered and not yet been invoiced for. That is the number the stop list uses.

  • check Bookings refused for accounts on stop, over their limit or past your stop line, unless someone signs off
  • check Aged debtors, overdue reminders drafted and month-end statements with your retention of title line
  • check Security registrations tracked, with lapses flagged 90 days ahead
  • check Builders buying much less than the quarter before, before they are gone

Yard and pricing

Stock that knows what is promised

Available stock is what is on hand less what open orders at that branch need, so short lines show the day the order is taken.

  • check Short for orders, under reorder point and slow stock, by branch
  • check A supplier cost rise shows every contract price and level it pushes under cost
  • check Margin by account after contract prices
  • check Designated building products checked for their product information link

Make it yours

Design your own Epicor BisTrack replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Epicor BisTrack. Try it here, and we build the real one.

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3. Make it fit

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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your Epicor BisTrack data across and run it for you.

What it looks like

Ask it like you would ask a colleague

Real answers from the demo data that ships with Building Merchant for Claude Code. It runs in Claude Code inside the Claude app, so it feels like any chat you already use.

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Building Merchant for Claude Code

Connected to your own database

Is any timber on our quotes or orders the wrong treatment or grade for what it is being used for?

quote Q-1001

Account
KRB
Product
DK14032-H31
Treatment
H3.1
End use
decking
Needs treatment
H3.2 or higher

quote Q-1006

Account
MAT
Product
PO100-H4
Treatment
H4
End use
retaining
Needs treatment
H5 or higher

order O-5010

Account
KRB
Product
FR9045-H12
Treatment
H1.2
Grade
SG8
End use
deck-framing
Needs treatment
H3.2 or higher

order O-5010

Account
KRB
Product
FR9045-UT
Treatment
H1.2
Grade
Utility
End use
framing
Needs grade
stress grade

Ask it anything

Ten questions this version answers

These run against the free version today. BisTrack has its own reports. The difference here is that you own the records and the rules, and you ask in your own words.

chat_bubble Which treated timber on quotes and orders this week is below the hazard class its use needs, and what should it be instead?
chat_bubble Which builders are over their credit limit once the orders not yet invoiced are counted?
chat_bubble Which trade accounts have credit and no security registration, and which registrations lapse in the next 90 days?
chat_bubble Which quotes have gone a week without a call, and whose are they?
chat_bubble Which contract prices and price levels went under cost when the last supplier increase came through?
chat_bubble Which builders bought much less in the last 90 days than in the 90 before?
chat_bubble Which truck runs tomorrow are over the truck's capacity?
chat_bubble What is short at each branch for orders already taken?
chat_bubble What is our margin by account after contract prices?
chat_bubble What is each rep's win rate, and what reasons do the lost quotes give?

Switching

How to switch from Epicor BisTrack

A move usually means exporting customer and product lists, mapping BisTrack's columns, checking the imported records, then running both systems side by side through a month-end before you stop entering into BisTrack.

  1. 1

    Export your customer and product lists

    Start with the customer and product lists you need to carry over. The usual route is to save each list from a BisTrack report to Excel, or ask your Epicor partner for an extract. The available reports and export options depend on your version, so check Epicor's customer portal or ask Epicor what your account allows. CSV may also be available.

  2. 2

    Load a test, then import

    BisTrack's column names will not necessarily match the fields in the new system, so map the columns before loading the records. Start with a test run if the import offers one, and check that the customer and product details land in the right places. If there is no test option, map a small sample first, review it, then load the full lists.

  3. 3

    Review flagged records

    After the import, review any warnings or records marked for attention before treating the data as ready. Check that key customer and product details are present and make sense, then correct the mapping or source data where needed and load the corrected records. Do not assume a completed import means every field came across as intended.

  4. 4

    Run both through month-end

    Keep entering and working in both systems for a short period that includes a month-end. Compare the aged debtors, stock on hand for your main lines and open quotes. Resolve differences until those records match. This gives you a practical check on the imported data and on how the new system fits your day-to-day work before you stop relying on BisTrack.

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    Stop entering into BisTrack

    When the aged debtors, stock on hand for your main lines and open quotes match, stop entering new work into BisTrack and switch to the new system. Keep the comparison period focused, and make sure the people handling accounts, stock and quotes know where new records should go. Do not switch off BisTrack before those checks are complete.

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Where the real effort goes

The main work is mapping BisTrack's column names to the new system's fields, deciding which of your own fields and rules need to be carried across, and choosing how much history to bring. The documented import route covers customer and product lists, so check what carries over and what does not before planning around older records. Enterprise DNA handles this mapping and migration when you have them run the system.

Not ready for a call?

Get your Epicor BisTrack switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Epicor BisTrack, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

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Three ways to own it

Choose who builds and runs your version

Open source

Do it yourself

Free code. Your hosting and agent costs.

  1. 1 Clone the repo, run npm install and npm run demo
  2. 2 Open it in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor and type /attention
  3. 3 Read the switch guide and dry-run your BisTrack customer and product exports
  4. 4 Set your branches, price levels, trucks, GST and stop line
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Built around your business

We customise it

One setup fee, then an agreed retainer

  • check Your branches, price levels, trucks, credit rules and treatment rules
  • check Your BisTrack customers, products, contract prices and balances mapped and checked
  • check A counter screen, a driver app with photos and signatures, or a web front end if your team wants one
  • check Your accounting system and supplier price files connected
Get your version built

Omni by Enterprise DNA

We run it for you

One setup fee, then a retainer

  • check Installed and operated through Omni by Enterprise DNA
  • check Supplier price changes loaded and the prices they break flagged
  • check Staff access, backups and connections set up
  • check Your Monday review, stop list and treatment checks done each week
Talk to Sam

Questions

Instead of Epicor BisTrack, answered

BisTrack runs our counter and our ledger. Do we lose that? expand_more

This replaces the trade side: accounts, quotes, orders, deliveries, stock, pricing and credit. Walk-in cash sales need a till, and the general ledger, payroll and GST returns belong in an accounting system. Many merchants already keep Xero or MYOB for the books, and Enterprise DNA connects it so invoices and payments flow across. If you want a counter screen, that is part of your custom version.

How do our records come out of BisTrack? expand_more

Epicor keeps its export help on its customer portal, and what you can save depends on your version and reports. The usual route is a customer list and a product list saved from a report to Excel, or an extract from your Epicor partner. The columns use BisTrack's own names, so mapping them is part of what Enterprise DNA does, or you ask Claude Code to map them and do a test run first.

Our drivers and yard staff are not going to type questions to Claude. expand_more

They do not need to. Drivers work from printed dockets, and the office records the delivery in one line. Reps and the credit controller ask the questions. If you want a phone app for drivers with photos and signatures, Enterprise DNA builds it into your version.

Is the treatment check a substitute for the building consent authority? expand_more

No. It checks what is recorded against the list of end uses you own, which follows B2/AS1 and NZS 3602 in New Zealand and AS 1604.1 in Australia, with each source cited. It catches the H3.1 decking before it leaves the yard. The consented plans and the inspector still decide what is acceptable on site.

We are part way through a BisTrack contract. When should we switch? expand_more

Use the time left to run both side by side for a month-end. When the aged debtors, stock on hand for your main lines and open quotes match, stop entering into BisTrack, and the change is a non-event.

Show Sam your stop list and tomorrow's truck runs

In a 30-minute call, walk Sam through how your yard quotes, dispatches and chases money today, and the report you wish BisTrack gave you. Sam will scope your version and what it takes to bring your BisTrack records across. If it fits, we build it and run it. If not, the free version is yours to keep.

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