Baucore for Agencies
Where Projects Are Won· Oct 22, 2026

Your agency's spec-to-commission workflow in one place

The operating platform for rep agencies.

A project starts in the field, long before anyone asks for a price. Baucore for Agencies keeps it on one record from there: the inquiry and its attachments, the quote, the order, the submittal, the shipment, the service questions that come afterwards and the commission at the end. One record across every manufacturer and distributor you work with, instead of a dozen inboxes and price books.

Baucore for Agencies: one spec-to-commission workflow across lighting, electrical, HVAC, and architectural rep agencies

Rep agencies run their business through email and spreadsheets, even though the work is structured.

Everything is manual. An inquiry comes in as an email thread with attachments. Someone has to read it, figure out the scope, and key it into a quote line by line, manufacturer by manufacturer.
No single view of a project. The same project inquiry can go out to several distributors at once. Without a shared system, nobody on the team sees the full picture: which distributor has which version, what's been quoted where, or what's changed.
Price books everywhere. Pricing comes from multiple manufacturers, each with their own format, and it changes monthly (sometimes daily). Reps cross-reference spreadsheets and vendor portals by hand instead of trusting one current source.
Handoffs lose information. Quote, order, shipment, and commission each involve different people, different paperwork, and mostly different tools, so status, history, and accountability get lost between steps.
The project was decided before you saw it. Specification and relationship work happens months before a request for pricing arrives, and most of what the field team learned lives in their head, their phone, or a visit report nobody opens again.

One system for the full lifecycle

Every stage of the agency lifecycle lives on one project record, from the first field conversation through to the commission statement.

Field, inquiry, quote, submittal, order, shipment, service, commission. All on one project record.
  1. Field

    Visits, specification activity and early project signals land on the project record before any request exists. When the inquiry arrives, it joins a project the team already knows instead of starting a new one.

  2. Inquiry

    Baucore Inbox reads incoming project emails and attachments, matches them to the right account, contact, and project (or creates one), and keeps every reply on the same thread instead of spinning up duplicates.

  3. Quote

    The system prepares the quote from what it read, broken out per manufacturer where a project spans several vendors, with full version history and audit trail as the quote is revised.

  4. Submittal

    Baucore generates submittal documents and tracks them against project requirements on the same record, so approval happens before anything is built and no separate manual process is needed.

  5. Order

    Once a quote is won, it converts into an order, and Baucore generates and tracks each manufacturer's purchase order individually, including validation against what the manufacturer confirms.

  6. Shipment

    Baucore tracks shipments per manufacturer and order line, so the agency sees what has shipped, what is outstanding, and the expected delivery without chasing tracking numbers by email.

  7. Service

    Delivery questions, damage reports and replacement requests arrive against the same project. The person answering sees the quote, the order and the shipment without asking anyone.

  8. Commission

    Baucore calculates commission and reconciles it against what shipped and was paid, replacing manual statement matching. Agencies that also buy and resell run that business on the same project record, with the commercial result tracked alongside commission.

What changes when you run your agency this way

One view of every project, no matter how many distributors or manufacturers are involved. No piecing it together across inboxes.
Faster quotes, because the system handles intake and the first draft instead of manual line-by-line entry.
Current pricing in one place for manufacturer price books, instead of stale spreadsheets and vendor portals cross-referenced by hand.
Quote, submittal, order, shipment, and commission stay on one record instead of scattering across email and separate tools.
Works across trades. Baucore for Agencies serves rep agencies for lighting, electrical, HVAC, and architectural products today.
You are on the project before the request arrives. Baucore records field and specification activity as it happens, so an RFQ lands against a project the team already knows.

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