We like the real time order status updates we get in Quartzy as well as their product availability information and timeline estimates (ETA). The alternate buying/price options offered by the Quartzy interface is very important and by far the greatest software's feature alowing our laboratory to save hundreds and thousands of dollars on most purchased lab supplies. Importantly, this automated Quartzy's "Quotation " system creates a strong price competition to the major vendors like Fisher Scientific or ThermoScientific that have contract agreement with our university. In my observation, this emerging competition may even affect the University-specific (discount) prices we get from those contract vendors by lowering prices even more in their attempt to win us back as customets. Besides, the process of order placement for the Quartzy-offeres products through this software is very fast and easy. The system of instant order confirmation through email with the accompanying itemized transaction receipts is a very convenient feature for account management purposes and P-card payments. The ability to calculate spendings for a given period of time and numerous filters to sort those spendings by user, vendor, funding source etc and export date to Excel provided by this interface is highly valuable for accounting, general spending control or money management purposes. We are very happy with the customer support services too.
The organization of information about purchases. We do a lot of work under grants, and need to be able to separate purchases based on which grant mechanism may be funding it. So its very helpful to separate them, and we don't even use some of the functionality to coordinate our inventory. Its a great tool
The quartzy portal isnuser friendly, price sensitive, great delivery times. The inventory tracker integrates easily whether ordering from Quartzy or outside vendor.