A.3 Deastore.com solution for the B2B market

deastore.com is a site created for the B2B market, and has been designed to meet the needs of Libraries, Universities, Research Centers, Professionals, Corporate, Schools, Hospitals and other Institutions.

Which are the advantages in opening a Business Account in deastore.com?

• Credit account with payment at 30, 60 days
• Automatic Management of suggestions with 2 levels of users:
  • Administrator (1° level): in charge of the management of the account, who can buy directly and authorize more users of the same Institution to buy or to send suggestions for purchases
  • 2° level user: can send suggestions to Administrator about titles to be purchases. Administrator can decide if buying or not and each action will be notified automatically to the user (suggestion Approved, Refused, Not examined)
• Online check for orders, 24 hours a day
• Bibliographic records for title cataloguing, in the format chosen among: Unimarc, Marc21, UKMarc, MBA, XML, Excel, TXT.
• Administrative record of order and invoice, in different formats (EDIFACT, MARC, CIA, SAP, IBM, etc.)
• Check for duplicates, checks automatically both library holdings (OPAC) and deastore.com order system before sending the new orders
• Management of more than one reference number for the same order
• Automatic check of budget assigned for purchases:management of different budgets for single user or group of users
• Deastore.com is SFX Target and Open URL compliant

For more information, see section Business