Augur Hosting: E-commerce websites for Prophet 21 distributors
Augur Hosting is a full e-commerce website for Prophet 21 distributors, built and hosted by SimpleApps. Items, pricing, and orders are synced from P21, so the site shows each customer the same numbers the ERP would.
It is built for how distributors actually sell. Logged-in accounts get real customer pricing, and reps can shop on behalf of an account. Fast reordering, will call, and a self-service view of orders and invoices are included. One site can serve both anonymous shoppers and logged-in B2B accounts.
What's built in
Prophet 21 integration
Items, pricing, inventory, and orders, all in step with Prophet 21.
Customer pricing
Each logged-in customer gets their own pricing, based on contracts or price libraries. Quantity breaks and units of measure included.
Account portal
A self-service view of order and invoice history, tracking, and balances.
Rep tools
Reps and inside staff shop on behalf of a customer, with that customer's pricing and limits.
Fast reorder
Saved carts, favorites, and scan-to-cart for reps restocking in the field.
Quotes
Quotes are created on the site or imported from Prophet 21. Either loads into the cart for checkout.
Search
Product search ranked by each site's Prophet 21 data and tuned for each site's needs.
Checkout
Tax and shipping estimates, plus payment on terms or by card with Element/WorldPay, UnifiedAR, and others. Card data never touches the site: payments are tokenized and the card provider holds the data.
Stock levels
Stock by location, synced from Prophet 21 and kept current.
Multi-site
One Prophet 21 back end drives one website or several, each with its own brand and its own items.
Every distributor combines these features differently. The showcase covers the range: sites from mostly B2C to strictly B2B, with P21 on-prem and in the cloud.
Fast, and easy to find
We use Google's Core Web Vitals as a guide to help improve performance and usability, so every site works on any phone, tablet, or laptop. A rep at the counter or in the field pulls up an item and it is right there, even as the item count grows. For sites that sell to the public, every product and category page renders as real HTML on a clean URL, with its own title, metadata, and product structured data. Search engines and AI assistants can read every item.
When an existing site moves onto Augur Hosting, its link structure and search standing are part of the plan. Google Analytics and other tracking are set up as part of the service, e-commerce conversion tracking included. It all runs in the distributor's own accounts, and the data is theirs. The distributor or their agency can add their own tags, pixels, and Search Console verification.
Built on our integration layer
Every site runs on Augur Microservices, the integration layer behind our custom sites and API clients. It stays in sync with P21 whether Prophet 21 runs on-prem or in Epicor Cloud. Because these are our own APIs, the Prophet 21 APIs are not required.
Custom sites
Not every Prophet 21 project is an e-commerce site. We also build custom sites and apps on the same integration layer, connected to P21 but built for a different job than selling online. Internal tools, workflow apps, and integrations between Prophet 21 and other systems. Built, hosted, and supported just like the e-commerce sites.
We build it, and keep it running
Design control stays fully with the distributor: an existing design, or one created together with SimpleApps. We build the site to match, wire it into P21, and host it. Timelines follow size and scope: most builds run three to eight months, and the longest run about a year, usually when item data needs gathering and categorizing first. New items sync from the ERP. Item content the ERP does not hold, like attributes and images, lives on the platform.
Day-to-day content can go a few ways: some keep it in-house, some hand it to their SEO or marketing agency, and others leave it to us. Most updates are self-serve: uploading images, changing copy, and adding coupon codes need no ticket. The team helps whenever asked. When a site needs a tool that does not exist yet, we build it.
These sites are mission critical. When one has a problem, a person answers, by phone, chat, or text, and we drop what we are doing until it is fixed.
See one working
The showcase sites are open to browse anytime. A short demo goes further: a walk through a working site, logged in, from customer-specific pricing to a finished order.
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