Solutions
Manufacturers, brands, distributors and the consultants who specify them all need the same files from different sides of the table. Southbeam serves each — and builds the mobile apps, desktop tools and custom portals that some of them need on top.
Get the whole range specification-ready.
Manufacturers carry the largest catalogues and the most to gain from being named in a schedule. Load the range once and every product has its files — and stays that way as the range evolves.
- Whole-catalogue import from the price list
- Files regenerate when a product changes
- Catalogue and datasheets from the same record
Sell a factory’s product under your own name, properly.
Brands and importers need the factory's photometry presented as their own specification pack, consistently, in their own template and languages — without a design agency in the loop for every change.
- Your template, your languages, your item codes
- Lab photometry kept with its reference
- One record per product across every document
Stop emailing files to distributors.
Distributors need the current datasheet, IES and price list, and they need them without asking. A scoped portal gives each partner exactly what you have decided to share.
- Per-partner catalogue and price list
- Stock position, if you choose to show it
- Downloads recorded per account
Give consultants what they ask for, the first time.
Lighting designers and MEP consultants want an IES, a Revit family and a calculation they can check, in that order, today. When a brand can hand over all three, it tends to stay on the schedule.
- Files that agree with each other
- Preliminary data honestly marked
- A calculation already run in a reference space
Your catalogue in the pocket of everyone who sells it.
Sales reps, distributors and specifiers on site need the current product, its datasheet and its IES, and a way to send them — without a laptop and without asking head office. We build the app on the same product record as your website and portal, for iOS and Android, with the catalogue available offline. Scoped and quoted per project.
- iOS and Android from one codebase
- Catalogue and datasheets available offline
- Share a spec sheet from site; scan a QR on the fixture
- Same product record — nothing typed twice
Tools that run where the engineering happens.
Some work belongs on a workstation, not in a browser: generating four hundred IES and LDT files from a spreadsheet, building Revit families for three versions overnight, or producing lux packs for a whole range. We build signed Windows and macOS tools that sit beside your DIALux, Relux and Revit installs and update themselves. Scoped and quoted per project.
- Windows and macOS, signed installers, automatic updates
- Batch generation straight from your spreadsheet
- Works with the DIALux, Relux and Revit you already have
- Your data stays on your machines unless you choose otherwise
A portal built around how you actually sell.
The partner portal in the Platform covers most brands. When your process needs more — project registration and approval, price tiers by region and partner level, a live link to your ERP for stock and orders — we build it to your specification, on the same product record, and either host it for you or hand it over. Scoped and quoted per project.
- Project registration, approvals and price tiers, your way
- Connected to your ERP or accounting system
- Access scoped per partner and per region
- Hosted and maintained by us, or handed over to your team
Whichever part of the chain you sit in.
Load one product and see whether the files it produces would get past your toughest consultant.