Advance

Advance is a centralized platform designed to eliminate data fragmentation and manual work by bringing manufacturers, suppliers, decorators, distributors, service providers, and clients onto one connected platform. By integrating core industry standards like PromoStandards directly into its modules, the platform provides an end-to-end solution for the entire business cycle.

Centralized Data Hub: Stores and manages all customer information, leads, and sales opportunities in one location, ensuring teams work from a single source of truth, not in silos.

Sales Pipeline Tracking: Enables the creation and monitoring of unique sales opportunities, allowing sales teams to track progress from initial lead to final conversion.

Intelligent Assistance: New AI tools like Brand Assist can quickly analyze a client’s brand assets to ensure logo colors and decoration methods are compliant before an order even begins.

Automated Tasking: Task Assist reclaim’s time for sales reps by drafting emails and generating follow-up reminders based on system data.

Aether Web Stores: Fully integrated eCommerce stores where inventory and order data synchronize automatically with Advance, virtually eliminating the risk of selling out-of-stock items.

PromoStandards Core Integration: Provides real-time access to top suppliers for live pricing, product changes, and inventory levels, virtually eliminating out-of-stock ordering errors.

Automated Transaction Flow: Quotes and Aether Web Store orders automatically carry the same identifying number as they convert into orders, invoices, and purchase orders (POs), ensuring consistency and clear audit trails.

Intelligent Order Management: Order Assist proactively flags potential issues, such as low-margin orders or suppliers with known delays, before they become problems.

Wearable Matrix: Specialized features manage the complexities of apparel orders, including specific sizes, colors, and quantities, without manual data entry.

Dynamic Workflow Engine: Fully configurable system that manages the sequence of events in order fulfillment, including quoting, artwork approval, and production scheduling.

Conditional Routing: Automatically flags high-value or low-margin orders for manager approval while allowing standard, high-margin repeat orders to move straight to production.

Proactive Oversight: The engine is equipped with “timeouts” that alert teams if a specific step falls behind schedule, ensuring greater process control.

Inventory & Fulfillment: Includes tools for real-time inventory tracking, bin location management, and multi-warehouse support.

Unified Accounting Integration: Seamlessly pushes invoices and financial data to QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Sage, eliminating dual data entry and ensuring accurate financial records.

Advanced Report Generator: Allows users to build custom, sophisticated reports by connecting sales data, cost of goods, and fulfillment metrics.

Granular Margin Analysis: Provides deep insights into profitability, allowing admins to break down margins by sales rep, supplier, or product category.

Role-Based Permissions: Admin users can segment system access by user group and use custom logic to control specific events, such as who can delete records or approve invoices.

Enhanced Security: Includes modern protection and rigorous system stress testing to safeguard data.

Exclusively Tailored: Specifically engineered to support the unique needs of modern organizations in the print and promotional space.

Aether

Aether Web Stores are customizable storefronts that blend modern design with deep back-office integration.  Easy store setup and fully integrated with Advance, inventory, pricing, and order data are synchronized automatically, preventing out-of-stock orders and streamlining fulfillment.

PromoStandards Connectivity: Aether leverages dynamic PromoStandards connections to provide live inventory and product updates.

Automatic Synchronization: Products in the web store are automatically updated with real-time supplier inventory and pricing, virtually eliminating the risk of selling out-of-stock items.

Seamless Order Flow: Orders placed on Aether flow directly into Advance as ready-to-process sales orders, requiring no manual data entry.

Customized Workflows: Supports corporate compliance through approval workflows, cost centers, budget controls, and single sign-on (SSO).

User Group Customization: Different user groups can receive tailored access, unique pricing, and specific product visibility.

Multiple Budget Options: The platform supports individual or team budgets and shared spending pools.

Reward Points Support: Stores can be currency-based or utilize award points for employee recognition programs.

Decorated Pricing Display: Accurately displays pricing for products that require specific decoration or customization.

Dynamic Product Kits: Support for complex, configurable kits that allow users to select multiple items within a single package.

Responsive Design: Optimized performance across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.

High-Traffic Optimization: Engineered for reliable performance and speed during peak demand periods.

Advanced Couponing: Tools to build and manage sophisticated coupon campaigns to drive engagement.

Visual Customization: Flexible tools for customizing product imagery, layout details, and providing decoration previews.

Pop-Up Store Support: Includes on-site, physical Pop-Up Store POS support for in-person events.

Enhanced Security: Includes modern protection and rigorous system stress testing to safeguard data.

Exclusively Tailored: Specifically engineered to support the unique needs of modern organizations in the print and promotional space.

Custom & 3rd Party Integrations

Our Advance and Aether platforms feature a wide array of integrations designed to eliminate manual data entry and create a seamless flow between sales, operations, and finance. Connections and workflows that deliver powerful solutions.

PromoStandards: Antera Software has integrated 9 PromoStandards endpoints. These dynamic connections provide real-time data for pricing, inventory, order status, and shipping directly from hundreds of suppliers.

SAGE: Through the SAGE Connect API, users can search hundreds of thousands of products and push them directly into a quote or order within Advance.

ESP (ASI): Allows preferred vendors to sync on a predesignated schedule, ensuring all product information and pricing are as up-to-date as possible.

OneSource: Provides a robust API to access PromoStandards data from a single location, easily handling millions of requests to match industry standards.

QuickBooks Online: A full integration that automatically populates purchase orders, invoices, customers, vendors, and products into QuickBooks, eliminating duplicate entry.

Xero: A cloud-based integration where all order and financial data (POs, invoices, products) sync automatically.

NetSuite: Simplifies recording transactions, managing payables/receivables, and closing books within the NetSuite cloud environment.

Sage X3 & Sage Intacct: Helps businesses manage finances, supply chains, and operations with high agility and efficiency.

Microsoft Dynamics: Uses “live link” technology to push orders and invoices to Dynamics in real-time.

Aether Web Stores: Our proprietary solution that features automatic updates from suppliers and live inventory sync.

Shopify & BigCommerce: Automatically feeds orders into Advance for seamless order management, inventory tracking, and payment processing.

Adobe Commerce (Magento) & WooCommerce: Integrates web store orders directly into the Advance workflow.

Industry-Specific Platforms: Integrations with InkSoft, OrderMyGear, BrightStores, Liftoff, and Cart.com allow for specialized group ordering and decorated apparel fulfillment.

ShipStation: Built directly into the Advance platform and Aether stores, providing powerful tools to manage labels and shipping needs in one place.

Avalara: Automates tax compliance at every stage, enabling the collection, filing, and remittance of taxes domestically and abroad.

TaxJar: Provides automated tax calculation and simplified monthly reporting/filing for multiple states.

Fiserv (CardConnect): Integrated into web stores and Advance to allow one-click payments on invoices and quotes, including eCheck technology to reduce processing fees.

HubSpot: Connects marketing and sales data to Antera’s CRM functions.

Navitor: Specifically integrated with Aether stores for wholesale, personalized print-on-demand capabilities.

Email (SMTP/IMAP): Allows users to send and receive emails directly within the system across multiple accounts.

Open API: Antera offers over 400 open APIs for businesses that need to build custom connections to push or pull data from any module.