Stella Source The revenue engine for metals — one platform for pricing, quoting, ordering, and payments, purpose-built for metal service centers and fabrication shops. Modules Customer Portals — Branded, self-service buyer portals with per-customer pricing, secure logins, file uploads, real-time quotes/orders, multi-location accounts, product limits, and digital payment links. Product & Pricing Manager — Single pricing engine for the portal, quotes, and field sales — weight-based, material-specific, customer-tiered rules, contract parts, base/list pricing, and bulk cost updates. Quoting & Sales Manager — Multi-channel RFQ workspace (email, phone, fax, portal, in-person, manual) with quoting rules, customer list, work-list dashboards, no-account checkout, and quote-to-order workflow. Online Payments Manager — ACH + card processing, payment links, QuickPay checkout (pay from invoice email via Plaid), automatic invoicing, cash-in-advance flows, check capture, automatic sweeps, ERP-ready exports. Analytics & Insights — Real-time dashboards for quotes, orders, sales trends, work lists, and customer activity — no setup, no manual reports. Integration Suite — 150+ ERP integrations (bidirectional), accounting/CRM connectors, REST API, pre-vetted dev partners; designed to launch without integration and add connections incrementally. Stock Material Sales (Service Center, Service Center+, Metals Premiere) — 24/7 self-serve storefront for stock and contract parts: AI product search, real-time pricing, customer-specific prices, saved baskets, mobile-friendly ordering, attribute filtering. Turns existing inventory into a digital channel. Intelligent Sales Assistant (ISA) (Service Center, Service Center+, Metals Premiere) — AI that reads emailed RFQs, fuzzy-matches items to the catalog, and produces a ready-to-send quote in seconds. Currently stock-sales focused. Customer accepts via storefront or directly from email — no login required. Fabrication Sales (Fabricator, Fabricator+, Service Center+, Metals Premiere) — Self-serve DXF/DWG uploads with instant pricing for laser, waterjet, plasma, oxyfuel, and saw. Basic nesting, cut-list quoting, remnant policies, machine-time transparency. The simple-jobs entry point that pairs with SecturaFAB. Advanced Fabrication (SecturaFAB) (Fabricator+, Metals Premiere; also service centers doing value-add processing) — Geometry-based estimating engine: true-shape nesting tuned for estimating accuracy, 30+ machine types, customizable tech tables, assemblies, bending/welding/paint/coating ops, real-time supplier pricing, deep analytics. Slashes complex quotes from a half-day to ~30 minutes; documented up to 400% quote-volume increase and 89% reduction in quote creation time. $7B+ quoted through it.
