STEEL KINGS: Order Management Made Easy With CAL
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Ready to turn slow season into rocket fuel for spring? We dig into the single biggest lever for shed and steel pros—process—and show how a smarter system can unlock more sales, faster delivery, and fewer headaches. With Tristan from CAL, we walk through a clean, unified workflow that pulls orders from Idea Room or Shed Pro, covers cash or RTO in one checkout, and tracks each building from production to delivery in real time.
We talk straight about the real pain: corrupted spreadsheets, double entry, dealers guessing at status, and RTO that drags for days while customers cool off. CAL compresses that chaos into minutes—select the RTO partner, surface 24/36/48/60-month payments, auto-generate contracts, and send for e-sign without leaving the dashboard. It’s built for how buyers actually decide, and it keeps your team in sync whether you’re on the lot, in the shop, or checking in from the road.
Inventory visibility and dealer-manufacturer alignment are the quiet superpowers here. With one source of truth, your customer service team can answer “where is my building?” instantly, dealers can move deals forward without waiting on callbacks, and owners can see the day’s pipeline at a glance. Pricing stays practical too: plans starting around $300 per month with a simple $10 per deal, a cost you can pass through, absorb, or treat as the price of speed and accuracy.
If you sell sheds, steel buildings, playsets, or mixed lines, this conversation lays out a proven path to scale without adding office staff. Replace spreadsheets with a system that actually sells. Subscribe, share this with your team, and leave a review with your biggest bottleneck—we’ll tackle it in a future episode.
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This episodes Sponsors:
Studio Sponsor: J Money LLC
Chapters
1. STEEL KINGS: Order Management Made Easy With CAL (00:00:00)
2. Sponsor Shoutouts And Platform News (00:00:33)
3. Seasonal Slowdown Mindset And 2026 Prep (00:03:20)
4. YouTube Push And Event Announcements (00:06:55)
5. Why Process Beats Holiday Hype (00:11:16)
6. Introducing Tristan And Cal (00:13:36)
7. The Pain Of Disconnected Systems (00:16:26)
8. Cal’s Origin And Scaling Philosophy (00:20:26)
9. Unified Sales Flow With Configurators And RTO (00:25:45)
10. Real-Time Status And Inventory Control (00:30:48)
11. Dealer-Maker Alignment And Adoption (00:40:35)
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