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Self-Storage Design Tool

It’s never been easier to design and quote self-storage. CentralLink’s new Self-Storage Designer Tool allows you to quickly point and click your way from building design to instant pricing and drawings. Contact your sales rep to request access to this feature. Once the feature is enabled it will be located in your menu under “tools.”

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Custom Purlin Punches

Don’t worry, it’s easy to create your own custom purlin punches with our punch editor. This will allow you to position punches where you need and then save them for future references. Once you have saved a custom punch it will always be available to you in from the purlin menu.

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Check your orders for errors

We all make mistakes from time to time, but with CentralLink it’s easy to find them before they cause problems. Before you place your next order, click the Check For Errors button.

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What size trailer should I use?

Check the Load Report for total weights and longest items on all the orders you’re coming to pick up. You don’t want to show up with a 16′ trailer and discover you have 20′ trim on an order. We want you to be able to safely haul any order you place with us.

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Submit a TopView Detailed Takeoff

You can find the Top View Detailed Takeoff page under the Tools menu in CentralLink. There is just a handful of fields that we need to know before we can get started. Fill them out, upload a drawing, and sit back and relax while we go to work.

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Troubleshooting a Mac

CentralLink works seamlessly with Macs and PCs alike. But sometimes, Macs can have issues with security certificates that CentralLink issues. Even when you accept the certificate, a Mac can sometimes get stuck in an endless loop of asking for acceptance of a security certificate. We are not sure why it happens, but we have found a simply solution that works for nearly everyone.

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Quoting when the color is not known

This is the typical scenario: a contractor walks in and needs a quote. But the homeowner has not chosen the color yet.

“Let’s just put it down as Green, then we can change it later.”

Inevitably, the order is accidently processed as green and it costs everyone a lot of money, with a lot of fingerpointing. We see it all the time.

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Quoting a Metal Roof Quickly

Our Roofing Quote is designed to make it quick and easy to give a ballpark price on a metal roof. Most homeowners don’t know what a metal roof costs, or whether they can afford it. You tend to get a lot of people who are just “kicking the tires.” CentralLink’s Roofing Quote is the perfect tool to make it easy to give them a price.

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