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New Compass Features Enhance One-Stop Shopping, Quotation & Configuration

Learn about new features to help you find, quote, price, and order products faster and easier than ever.

By John Vander Linden | Nov 16, 2020


Columbus McKinnon's Compass configurator now includes exciting new features to simplify and streamline your quoting process. These improvements continue to create a self-service tool where you can easily quote and order configured and non-configured products from all Columbus McKinnon brands.

Compass offers product selection and technical guidance to help you choose the best product for your application. With a wide selection of motion control products, ranging from hoists to radios, you can easily quote and configure the products you need, when you need them.

Compass now offers an expanded product portfolio with access to all Columbus McKinnon brands, including configured products, non-configured products and components. Browse a variety of new features to help you find, quote, price, and order products faster and easier than ever.

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New Compass Features Include:

 

Non-Configured Stock Parts Now Available

Order stock parts directly in Compass. Our initial offering includes chain shackles, anchor shackles and conductor bar components. Learn how in the tutorial below.



Pre-Configured Items & Model Number Search

Type a model number into the smart search bar and Compass will bring up the product with all characteristics embedded in that part number. Then, you can add it to a quote with no additional work. If you want to configure a specific characteristic of that product, but leave everything else the same, you can do that as well before adding to the cart. See how in the video below.



Basic/Expert Mode

You can choose Basic or Expert Mode depending on the level of configuration you need. If you only need basic information with basic modification, the configuration process is simplified. If you still need all the options, click on expert mode and you can create highly configured products. See how below.

 

Bulk Upload

Upload a spreadsheet with item numbers and quantity to Compass, and we'll give you pricing and lead times with the click of a button. See how easy it is in the video below.