📦 Rundoo Primer: Vendor Catalogs, a Smarter Buyer’s List, and COLORx 7
Fewer keystrokes, fewer mistints, and fewer missed special orders
Summary: Three updates this week. Vendor catalogs are live for Do It Best, True Value, and Orgill. The Buyer’s List (Special order products) now has powerful filters and better quantity tracking. And Benjamin Moore dealers can now integrate Rundoo with COLORx 7.
1. Vendor Catalogs for Do It Best, True Value, and Orgill
What is new with Rundoo? You can now browse and import full vendor catalogs for Do It Best, True Value, and Orgill right inside Rundoo. They live in two places: Products > Integrations, and on the order screen (click “View catalog” when you’re building a new order).
What does this mean? When you import a SKU from the catalog, Rundoo pulls in the unit of measure, cost, and price for you. No typing those by hand.
When you’re placing an EDI order, Rundoo also watches for two things:
Discontinued items flag a warning so you know to take them off the order
Quantity breaks show up as a suggestion, like “Add 3 more to drop your cost from $4.10 to $3.88 per unit”
Why is this important? Catalog data shifts all the time. Costs change. SKUs get pulled. New items get added. Keeping all that current by hand is rough and easy to miss.
With this live, your hardware store can pull in True Value Bosch drills or Forstner bits with a couple clicks. Your farm and feed store can order Orgill electric fencing or baling wire with cost and UoM already set. And your team stops placing orders for items the vendor doesn’t stock anymore.
What does this look like?
2. A Smarter Buyer’s List 🛒
What is new with Rundoo? Head to Orders > Special order products and you’ll see a cleaner, more powerful view. We’ve added filters for customer, sale, vendor, product, job, and date, and you can stack them together. Sorts and show/hide columns are in there too.
The table itself now shows more information for each product:
Linked order IDs (every order this product is on, not just the most recent one)
Linked shipment IDs (every shipment this product has been received in)
A quantity breakdown with required, ordered, received, and remaining
Reference cost and price from the original special order
What does this mean? The buyer’s list is where your team goes to figure out what still needs to be ordered for your customers’ special orders. When you’ve got a couple hundred open items across the store, scrolling through all of them is painful.
Now you can filter to just the special orders for one customer. Or just the items from a single sale. Or just the products tied to your True Value default vendor so you can order them all together on one PO. The “quantity remaining” column tells you at a glance whether an item still needs to be dealt with or if it’s already covered.
Why is this important? Special orders are where small mistakes get expensive. A customer’s Benjamin Moore specialty color, a custom lumber length, a specific medicated feed — if one of those gets missed, you get an angry phone call a week later.
For example: a farm and feed customer special-orders five bags of a specific feed blend. You can filter the buyer’s list to that customer, see that two bags were added to last Tuesday’s PO, none have come in yet, and three are still sitting unassigned. That’s the cue to add the remaining three to this week’s order.
What does this look like?
Here’s a video from Ozair explaining the feature!
3. Benjamin Moore COLORx 7 Integration 🎨
What is new with Rundoo? Rundoo now integrates with Benjamin Moore COLORx 7. When your team finishes a tint at the machine and clicks “Send to POS,” the tinted product shows up in the Rundoo new sale screen with the color, formula, and quantity already filled in.
What does this mean? If you were already using COLORx 6 with Rundoo, this is the same idea on the new version. If you’re activating COLORx 7 fresh, there’s a step during activation where you log in with your Retailer Gateway credentials and pick your store number. If COLORx 7 is already running on the machine, you can set it up from the gear icon in COLORx Utilities.
Before you start, you’ll need:
COLORx 7 installed and activated on the tint computer
Your Benjamin Moore Retailer Gateway login
Your store’s Benjamin Moore Outlet Number (found in Admin > Location > Integrations)
If you used COLORx 6 with Rundoo before, your site key is already set up on our side. If this is your first time with the integration, reach out to Rundoo support and we’ll finish the setup with you.
Why is this important? Manual tint entry is where a lot of small mistakes creep in. Wrong color code. Wrong base. Wrong quantity. When COLORx 7 sends the job straight to Rundoo, those keystrokes go away. Mistints go down. Inventory stays accurate. And your tint history lives in Rundoo, which helps when a customer comes back for the same color next month.
What does this look like?
Once you’re set up in ColorX 7, click Send to POS after tinting
Navigate to “Transactions” in Rundoo
Click “New”
The tinted products will show up in “Tinted Products”
Full setup guide lives on rundocs.com here.
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