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End-to-End Petroleum Enterprise Computing from ADD Systems  
   

When discussing solutions with customers and prospects, we get this reaction all the time: “I didn’t know you did that!” We can’t possibly list every feature and opportunity here. But in our 36-plus years of working with the petroleum industry, we have seen nearly every situation imaginable, and devised a solution. If you don’t see it, ask. Your request might become the next addition to ADD’s already-comprehensive collection of features and functionality.
When it comes to our software, we mean it when we say that we’ve got you covered, top to bottom.

ADD Energy E3

Technology

 
 •  Developed using Microsoft® .Net framework
 •  SQL database
 •  Web services

Major Features and Interfaces

 
 •  Credit card processing - Capture, validate and automate customer credit card charges
 •  Document Viewer - Documents generated by E3 and our mobile solutions are archived and can be viewed, e-mailed or faxed
In This Issue
ADD eStore™ Lifts Off!
 
Team ADD in the Pink
 
ADD Responds to Customer Requests
 
Outsourced Mailings
 
Raven® at Home with Texas Propane Retailer
 
Tighten Security with ADD Energy E3®
 
Changes to Your ADDvantage
 
End-to-End Petroleum Enterprise Computing from ADD Systems (Product Insert)
 
 •  Capture all contacts with customers and prospects - Follow-up notification can be delivered via automated e-mail delivery to appropriate employees
 •  EFT automatic draftingof customers checking or savings accounts
 • Service station Credit Card Receipts import
 • Automated upload of supplier pricing from DTN or directly from supplier Web sites
 • Electronic payment import from bank lockbox or check scanning technologies
 • Supports flat rate for service billing
 • Supply House EDI reordering with RE Michel, F.W.Webb, Sid Harvey and others
 • Card Lock import from CFN, Petrovend andothers
 • Built-in routing and mapping capability:
  — Database batch geo-coding
— Geo-coding on-the-fly during account creation
— Automatic Geo-coding from ADD Mobile® products
 • Support for various third-party routing solutions
 • Seamless integration to the ADD Mobile product line
 • Integration with Microsoft Dynamics® GP
 • Coming soon: National Account billing and rebates for lubricant distributors

Raven

ADD Systems’ on-board truck solution for retail and wholesale fuel deliveries and propane meter reading. Developed and supported by ADD Systems with tight ADD Energy E3 integration. Raven is a fourth-generation product with over 3,000 units deployed across North America.


Technology

 
 •  Developed using the Microsoft. Net framework
 •  Windows Mobile

Major Features

 
 •  Wireless track the truck with GPS - Raven provides real-time truck location on a map, two-way dispatcher / driver messaging. Live status available to dispatcher such as current on-board inventory, total stops planned, actual stops made, etc.
 •  Passive track the truck with GPS - End-of-day upload of a driver route. Bread Crumb trail is stored here for each driver by shift
 • GPS coordinates are captured by Raven and the ADD Energy E3 database delivery location update provides automatic geo-coding of your accounts
 • Co-Pilot integration provides driver navigation with verbal turn by turn directions
 • Using Raven’s GPS capability it can warn driver if not at the correct delivery address
 • All ADD Energy E3 pricing capabilities supported at point of delivery:
  — Pre-buy contracts,
— Volume, stepped rate pricing,
— Price for “x” Deliveries,
— Custom user defined discounts,
— Prompt Pay discounts,
— Multiple miscellaneous charges per point of delivery invoice
 • Electronic meter interface support for Liquid Controls, Mid:Com, Actaris and Veeder Root
 • Automated posting of deliveries – Post a truck in seconds

Pegasus

ADD Systems field service dispatch and mobile computing solution. Developed and supported by ADD Systems with tight ADD Energy E3 integration. Over 1,500 Pegasus mobile field service computers have been deployed.

Technology

 
 •  Developed using the Microsoft .Net framework
 •  Windows Mobile deployed using inexpensive “smart phones” from Verizon, ATT and Sprint
 • Sybase SQLAnywhere mobile database technology

Major Features

 
 •  Supports point-of-service flat rate invoicing
 •  Real-time GPS tracking of technicians
 • Captures the technician’s entire work day including on-call time, idle time, in-transit and non-productive time. Dozens of Pegasus Analytical Reports provide an overview of your service department efficiency and responsiveness
 • Customer service can easily check the current status of a service call without talking with the dispatcher
 • GPS coordinates are captured by Pegasus, and the ADD Energy E3 database service location update provides an automatic way of geo-coding your accounts
 • Completely automates the service billing process. Calls completed can be reviewed and updated minutes after call completion

SmartConnect

A developers’ workbench API for integrating ADD Energy E3 integration to Web sites and IVR-enabled telephone systems to provide customer self-service capability. SmartConnect can also be used to develop interfaces to other third-party products such as tank monitors.

Technology

 
 •  Supports SOAP, XML, Enterprise andWeb services deployment

Major Features

 
 •  Web site payment processing
  — Credit Card
— EFT
 • Web site delivery and service orders
 • Prospect data capture from your Web site
 • Price Plan response capture and creation
 • The customer can view their balance, transaction history and service history

ADD eStore

ADD eStore is a consolidated state-of-the-art enterprise solution built for the fast-changing needs of the convenience store market. Using the latest Microsoft database design and development tools, ADD Systems can deliver a progressive, flexible, and scalable software product that will streamline your business processes and provide a strong foundation for growth. Designed in concert with our trusted customer advisors, ADD eStore exemplifies a modern C-Store application, one that is focused on tighter management of merchandise and fuel as well as efficient data access and movement. ADD eStore can help improve your productivity, increase your sales revenue, and improve your margins through enhanced automation and reporting. The rich feature set and efficient design of ADD eStore allows your staff to spend less time performing administrative tasks and more time providing a great customer experience for your loyal patrons.

Technology

 
 •  Microsoft .Net Framework using SQL Server Database
 • Utilization of PCATS NAXML standards

Major Features

 
 •  Single database – no synchronization required
 • Electronic vendor data exchange and support for PCATS Gateway – Pricebook updates, ordering, vendor rebates
 • Progressive architecture facilitates lower cost deployment and maintenance
 • Electronic merchandise receiving using our mobile Power*Scan device
 •  Less data entry = time savings
 •  Easy to create and manage Pricebook
 •  Effortless access to data and data movement
 •  Atlas Reporting™Tools (ART) - a set of embedded Business Intelligence features included with ADD eStore

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Dynamics GP is an industry-leading financial accounting system developed by Microsoft. The applications available through ADD Systems include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Bank Reconciliation, Payroll and the financial industry premiere report designer Microsoft FRx.

Major Features

 
 •  Integration to ADD Energy E3:
  — General Ledger
— ADD Energy E3 Accounts Payable Verify Gateway
 • User defined GL accounting structures
 • Excel-based budgeting
 •  Inter-company transactions
 •  Extensive drill-down

 
     
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