Integrations
Here you will find the external connections supported by Boardera to help expand the capabilities of your platform.
cofactr (EMS)
Use this integration to deliver on time and on budget with the streamlined parts quoting, procurement, and inventory management platform for electronics. When a customer places an order on your Boardera platform this integration will automatically create a ‘program’ on the Cofactr platform allowing you to purchase the required parts quickly and easily.
Getting Started
If you would like this integration enabled, please contact support@boardera.ca
Once enabled, setup is easy, navigate to your ‘Integrations’ page and fill in the form with you API key and location ID. Follow the instructions if it is not enabled. Once it is configured, ‘programs’ will automatically be generated on the Cofactr platform when an order is placed in the Boardera Platform. In addition, your team will be sent the program link in the manufacturing package so it’s easy to find all the components for your orders.
Please contact success@cofactr.com for assistance retrieving your API Key and Location ID if necessary.
Once and order is placed in the Boardera platform:
A link will be created for you in Orders/Documents:
In addition, the link to the created cofactr Program is placed in the Readme file within Orders/Documents/Project Package Download. This can be given to your purchasing team to get a head start with procurement.
Clicking the link will direct you to that cofactr program, after authenticating, where you can review the BOM and commit purchasing decisions.
About cofactr
1-Click Parts Purchasing & Order Management
Replace manual PO entry, wrangling distributor shopping carts, and endless email chains with simple, intuitive procurement automation. Empower your team to focus on delivering value to your customers, with easy-to-use software to automatically procure an entire BOM across every distributor in seconds with a single click. Leverage AI-powered order tracking to provide a single, accurate dashboard for order status across every distributor.
Automate Inventory Management & Kitting
Cofactr makes it easy to track inventory and manage consigned materials with the warehouse management system purpose built for electronics manufacturing, so you can deliver top-quality products to your customers with less labor and fewer delays. Features like MSL management, lot-level traceability, and barcode printing and scanning that works out of the box with every major electronics distributor, helps your team work more efficiently and accurately.