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Newest Dealer Dashboard Updates – Open Carts Tab

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shutterstock_1848068845As promised in the last dealer dashboard blog update, we are continuing our improvements and additions to your dashboard and account access.  Some time ago we added a new tab for “Open Carts” to your account so you can easily get quotes for your customers and keep track of orders that have not yet been placed. In the past, you have had to call into the office to access your open carts for incomplete orders but now you can easily access any of these anytime you want to.  Many of you have been using this feature for several months now but there have recently been some questions and some dealers who didn’t even realize it was an available feature so we have put together a webpage with detailed information about how the open carts page works.

To keep this simple we are creating a separate webpage with instructions, screenshots, and suggestions about how to use this new open carts page.  Please visit https://www.halepetdoor.com/solutions/468-open-carts-tab-instructions to access this information.  You may also wish to bookmark it for future reference.

Again we hope you find these new features useful and look forward to more coming in the future.

An Announcement from the Hale Family

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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our father, Bill Hale. He was the father of three, the grandfather of 8, and the founder, inventor and owner of Hale Pet Door. 

Bill passed away peacefully in his bed on May 18th, surrounded by his daughters and grandchildren.

We will cherish his ideals and his dedication to life. He will be remembered fondly by family and friends for his tenaciousness, his creativity, and his ability to always problem-solve. His innovative mind created jobs for many people, and he has left behind a wonderful business that will continue to make pets happy around the world, both through the products themselves, and through his extensive work with pet rescue.

The Hale family has not set a date for services, due to the constraints of Covid. We will be keeping friends and family informed as the plans become more firm. 

We thank you all for your sympathies and your continued support of this big project called Hale Pet Door. Each person who has been a part of our story was special to our Dad. 

In lieu of flowers or gifts, our request is that donations be made in his memory to the Humane Society of Fremont County in Canon City, CO. Their website can be found here: https://www.fremonthumane.com/ 

With love and gratitude,

The Hale Family

Dealer Dashboard Update

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We are excited to announce to all our dealers that we are updating the dealer dashboard on our website not only to comply with current internet security standards but to give you the ability to personalize it for you.  

Each of our dealers now has the capability of customizing the content on “My Dashboard” to your own preferences, with what helps you the most or what you access the most often.  We will be deploying this change on Wednesday evening, January 20, 2021, so if you are attempting to access the dashboard during that time you may have some difficulties.  

To prepare you for this change and to provide you with a handy reference tool for future use, we have built a webpage with instructions for how to navigate and manage the new dashboard as well as screenshots giving you examples of what it will look like.

You can access the webpage by clicking on this link:

https://www.halepetdoor.com/465-dealer-dashboard-information

We hope you enjoy the improvements and find the new dashboard beneficial to you and your business.  Look forward to more improvements and additions coming in the future.  As always we welcome feedback and suggestions as to how we can make the site the most beneficial for the majority of the dealers.

Getting Custom Size Pricing Quotes For Your Customers

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Hale Pet Door prides itself on having 12 standard sizes that work for the majority of installations and pets but, we also realize that there are many situations where a custom size pet door is an absolute necessity. Therefore, we are always happy to provide you with custom sizing of pet doors as required for your jobs. We also realize that custom size orders take a bit more effort so we have tried to streamline the process as much as possible for our dealers. We provide tools for you to be able to get quotes quickly and easily for your customers even if you are on the job site doing a custom measurement visit.

We have created a PDF file that can be easily accessed either through the dealer dashboard info tab or directly from the public custom size pet door page in our products section.

This PDF contains information about when you might need to consider a custom size pet door, how to measure for a custom size depending on if you are dealing with a rough opening, a tip to tip measurement, and whether you are measuring for a new pet door or an existing opening. It also contains two price charts for custom sizes based on the number of square inches either for the rough opening or the tip-to-tip.

While the price charts only list the prices for door and wall models in the PDF itself, the first column lists the size equivalent which you can use to look up pricing on our website for any model we offer. The only exception to this would be for oversize giant measurements, in which case, you will need to call or email us for assistance.

As a convenience we are providing a direct link to our custom orders page and to the custom orders PDF. You may wish to bookmark these links to make them easy to find when you are on the job site or talking to a customer.

Once you have the quote and wish to place the order, you can order the same way as you would for a standard pet door. Choose the equivalent size pet door for the product you are ordering. Add it to your cart and then add a comment with the custom size information required for your order. Make sure you label your measurements with width and height and specify what type of measurement they are: rough opening, tip to tip, flap size, etc.

Of course, we will still be available to help you with any quotes you need by phone or by email but starting with the webpage and PDF may be an advantage. To fulfill state mandated COVID-19 regulations we are rotating staff, working from home or staying home with any symptoms as a precautionary measure. This may cause a significant delay in our response times due to the current backlog of orders and our high customer volume. We appreciate your business, patience, and understanding at this time and as we all go forward.

Manufacturing Reopening

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2TG08035Due to COVID-19 our factory operations were temporarily interrupted. The Governor of Colorado has issued a new Safer at Home Order so Hale Pet Door’s manufacturing facility is reopening 4/27/2020 with extended hours and producing all orders from oldest to newest. Your order will be processed as quickly as possible in the order it is received. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to manufacture and ship out the backlog of orders.

Take care and stay healthy,

Hale Pet Door

Temporary Factory Closure for COVID-19 Safety

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ALERT – In the interest of public health and pursuant to the Executive Order #D2020017 by the Governor of Colorado for a statewide Stay At Home Order, Hale Pet Door’s manufacturing plant is closed until April 27, 2020.

shutterstock_1118254217Our customer service staff is working from home and answering emails as quickly as possible. We do have some limited ability to answer phone calls but if you cannot get through right away, please be patient. For the best way to contact us, please email info@halepetdoor.com and we will respond to you as promptly as possible

If you are placing an order, the office will process it promptly and fulfill them in the order we received them when the factory returns to work.

Stay safe & healthy,
Hale Pet Door

Hale Pet Door Updated Pricing and New Product Offering

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Replacement Flap Kits will still be available as always

As was previously announced through our dealer mailings, due to continually increasing prices for shipping, tariffs, materials, and labor, we are finally having to increase some of our product prices after 4 years. We have kept as many of our products as possible at the 2016 prices but others have increased between 7-10%.

To make this transition as easy as possible for our dealers we have provided five new price lists on our website on the dealer dashboard. The price lists are available as downloadable pdfs for your use. The five lists are as follows:

  • Retail Door Pricing – the content of this list has also been streamlined and new categories added
  • Retail Replacement Parts Pricing – again more categories have been added to this list to make it easier to find what you are looking for
  • Retail Ramp Pricing
  • Retail Kennel Door Pricing
  • Custom Door Size Pricing

Please visit the info section of the dealer dashboard to read or download these files. Remember you have to be logged in with your dealer account to see the dashboard link.

Replacement Flaps Only will not contain weather stripping or magnets and will be offered at a discounted price

Additionally, we are pleased to announce that due to numerous requests from our customers and our dealers, starting on January 1, 2020, we will be offering a new option when ordering replacement flaps.

When replacing flaps on a pet door, we recommend replacing all the weather stripping and magnets as well to maintain the high quality of the Hale Pet Door. However, at times customers do not want the weather stripping or magnets replaced for various reasons. Hence, many of our dealers have ended up with a small stockpile of magnets and weather stripping and do not need them sent with each order.

Therefore, beginning in 2020, we will offer two options for replacement flaps: Replacement Flap Kits and Replacement Flaps Only. The Flap Kits will continue to be sent out with all the weather stripping and magnets they have always contained while the Flaps Only option will not have the extra parts included.

The kits will be available through the quick order process on the home page and through their own product page on the website. The flaps only option will be available through the Replacement Parts section of the website. The flaps only option is also being offered at a reduced cost to our dealers and customers when compared to the complete flap kit.

We hope these two options will help you better assist your customers going forward and we wish you continued success in all your endeavors as we start a new year together.

Hale Pet Door Launches New Website

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We are very excited to notify you that we have launched a new website.  The URL is the same (halepetdoor.com), but the look is totally new.

We’ve tried to make the website more mobile-friendly and responsive for use with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets as many of you have told us that you place orders while between jobs.  The site does look different depending on whether you are on desktop or mobile but should hopefully be easy for you to navigate and find what you are looking for.  The information is still there it’s just in a different place.

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As you peruse the website there are some pages that have not been updated yet (including the dealer dashboard), so they have the old website look.  We are continuing to roll out changes over the next few weeks so those should be switching over soon.

If you find an issue on the new website, please email info@halepetdoor.com and we will have IT check into it.

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We hope you enjoy our new website and quickly learn the new flow of it.

We also want to let you know that we are updating the information on the site itself so if you could take a look at your dealer listing and let us know if the information is correct or if you would like updates we would appreciate it.  And finally if you are scheduled to attend any tradeshows, home shows, or pet shows this fall or winter or in 2020, please let us know the details and we would love to list it on our website as well.

Enjoy Your Independence Day Holiday

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shutterstock_1099379789Just a quick note to all of our dealers letting you know that Hale Pet Door will be closed from July 4 through July 7 for the Independence Day Holiday.

Orders placed after 11:00 a.m. on July 3 will be processed and shipped on July 8.

Please keep this delay in mind when placing orders and quoting lead times to your customers.

Wishing you and yours a Safe and Happy Fourth of July.

 

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Hale Pet Door offers new Products

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shutterstock_92824054We have some exciting product announcements for our dealers today.

Over the years we have seen the home improvement and pet door industry landscape change greatly. For example, sliding doors used to be mostly made of wood or aluminum – now they are usually vinyl or fiberglass. Screen doors used to always be smooth metal under ½” thick – now they are assorted shapes and many are over ½” thick, etc. To keep up with these changing conditions in customer’s homes and provide solutions for problems our dealers and customers encounter while installing pet doors, we have tried to improve or expand our product line over the years to where we now offer 10 different product models in 12 sizes with countless variations and options available.

To further that philosophy we are adding three new products to our existing line and we are releasing them to our dealers first.

The first product is fiberglass “people” doors. Many customers have beautiful old French doors they don’t want to cut into or an ornate, carved door that they would prefer not to use to install a pet door. In these and similar instances, you can replace the entire people door and install something more conducive to pet door installation. You can order the solid door, with or without a pet door installed. You can also order the door with a window lite in it. The lite can be ordered with or without blinds.

The second scenario we have seen more and more of lately is that our dealers cannot get glass from a local glass company with the cutout in it for pet door installation. We are offering two separate solutions for this.

The first option is to purchase the glass with the cutout directly from Hale and we will ship it to you for installation along with the pet door as usual. This is available in virtually any size and in either double or single pane glass. Pricing and shipping would need to be quoted for each order.

The other option for pet doors in glass doors is an “H” Bar. If you can get glass locally but they can only provide pieces without the cutout, this may be a good option for you. This allows you to order a large piece of glass for the top of the door and a smaller piece for the side of the pet door from the local glass suppliers. Using the “H” bar to connect the two pieces of glass, you can then install a pet door in the window or door as normal. The “H” Bar will come with a comp strip for the top of the pet door.

Please allow 2-3 weeks for the fiberglass door or the piece of glass. “H” bars and their hardware will ship in a similar manner to our screen stabilizer bars.

Please call 800-646-4773 or email info@halepetdoor.com for more information including pricing and shipping quotes.

We look forward to growing and expanding even more with you through these exciting new products.

To your success!

Hale Pet Door