There Is A Need To Find More Efficient Ways To Do Business In Our Industry.

Technology can be a growth engine for your business, but also a source of frustration. Rather than become a victim of technology, we decided to use it as a tool. The result is a fully functional site that allows you to conduct business your way.

Based on 300 years of combined experience in the Green Industry, the PlantFind team created the most widely endorsed set of web-based business solutions for the Green Industry. PlantFind was created by people like you, with your business needs in mind.

PlantFind is the premier business solutions provider for the Green Industry. PlantFind's products and services are designed to efficiently connect buyers and sellers, suppliers and retailers. We offer an automated solution for the acquisition, sale, and management of the goods and services necessary to operate your growing business.

PlantFind's solutions lower costs, increase margins, speed up transactions, and streamline your overall business, with benefits to all trading partners.

PlantFind's business-to-business e-commerce site offers a wide variety of services that benefit your business by taking full advantage of the power of the Internet.

The heart of PlantFind's business offering is the ability to check the inventory and availability of the entire PlantFind community. Catalogs allow suppliers a means to quickly build an on-line storefront. Suppliers can provide product listings, availability, and general product and supplier information for current and new customers to view.

Major features include:

• A storefront with information about your company
• Your catalog online
• Unlimited line item entries
• Easy to use interfaces for adding and updating catalog data
• "Green Pages" listing of all companies
• Option to sell items online
• Access to other catalogs and storefronts
• 24/7 access to the Marketplace
• Friendly and efficient customer service and support

Save time and frustration using our fully automated RFQ system. PlantFind's RFQ increases the speed at which companies can search for numerous items among multiple vendors, which results in faster locating and pricing of orders.

Major features include:

• Hundreds of thousands of plant listings and suppliers
• Automatic electronic notification (email or wireless) when RFQ's are received
• Unlimited usage for getting quotes
• Unlimited amount of products listed
• 24x7 operation of the RFQ system
• Friendly and efficient customer service and support

You've been asking for a place to find allied products - the tools, equipment, supplies, and other non-plant materials you need to run your business -- and PlantFind listened. You can now list and search for everything from arborist equipment to tractors.

Major features include:

• 31 different categories and hundreds of sub-categories
• Detailed descriptions of all items
• Full-color images, thumbnail and full size
• Link to supplier's website
• Simple and quick to do

Our on-line virtual trade show, show2net, provides industry associations and organizations with the ability to host their annual tradeshows on-line in conjunction with their actual 'physical' trade show, with the addition that the virtual show can last for as long as they want. The technology allows the show host to register all exhibitors on-line, administer the show more easily, extend the duration and attendance of their show by allowing 'virtual' attendance before, during and after the live show.

Exhibiting companies have the ability to enhance and maintain their "online" booths from any computer with an Internet connection. This is a password protected area and only the supplier can dictate who has access. The exhibitor has the ability to list up to 25 "show-special" items for sale, including pictures and narratives about each product. Exhibitors can use this as a communication tool as well since they can also have company and product information brochures available for download.

Attendees now have the opportunity to 'go' to tradeshows that in the past they may not have because of cost, time, travel distance, etc. While visiting show2net, an attendee has the ability to find companies by product type, name, booth number and various other ways. Once an attendee has found a product or company they have an interest in, they have the ability to request quotes, collect brochures (electronic), or even send purchase orders.

Major differentiators of show2net include:

• The ability to sell and market products online
• Provide electronic customer literature
• Sell booth space online
• Online registration
• Mass marketing
• Demographic collection of attendees
• Dynamic, targeted banner advertising
• Multi vendor booths
• Multi booth vendors

GroTime offers scheduling software for the busy Greenhouse Grower on the move. GroTime is the only "industry grown" software application for growers of annuals and perennials. GroTime addresses all your needs for scheduling your production form the seed to the store.

GroTime is software that was developed by growers just like you that were frustrated with the same old scheduling and growing pains of yesterday. The software is as easy to use as sitting down at your computer, selecting what you are growing, selecting when you want it ready and how you will grow it, and GroTime does the rest!

Want to drive even more business to your site? Think about advertising on PlantFind.com. You can get a full banner ad, or one of several other advertising options on our site. Whether you have a specific special that you want to promote, or you simply want to increase your traffic, let us help you do that.