BANGitUP and DATATRACK LAUNCH "BANGQUICK" and "MACA" - Mobile Accounts and Communications Assistant for construction industry

BANGitUP.com - leading Australian building materials exchange (800 builders, 300 suppliers). DATATRACK - award winning PDA software incorporating QUICKEN'S QUICKBOOKS. Provide benefits of e-commerce to the typical builder or tradesmen.

"The home" is the single biggest investment most people make in a lifetime. The promise of e-commerce is to more efficiently find the right product or reduce the overall cost of purchasing that home. Given that, it seems an irony that the construction industry is one of the least computer literate, therefore not as efficient and has most to gain from technology.

To meet this challenge head on and provide the benefits of technology to the typical builder or tradesmen, BANGitUP.com - the popular, grassroots, building materials exchange and QUICKTRACK - the innovate, *award winning PDA software, today announced plans for the launch of
"BANGQUICK" and "MACA" - the trade friendly, robust, Mobile Accounts and Communications Assistant at the INTERBUILD Exhibition, Darling Harbour, June 3-6. *Small Business Show - Best Software û 2000.

BANGQUICK combines a standard Palm PDA with QUICKEN'S QUICKBOOKS accounting system and BANGitUP's labour and building materials exchange (representing nearly 300 suppliers across the country including James Hardie Windows, All Type Timber, Higgins Insulation, Deveron Marketing, C&M bricks, Powerrun, AQUATEC waterproofing and Tradelink Plumbing Supplies) to facilitate electronic information exchange.

With MACA, an easy to use hand writing recognition system replaces notepads, calculators, diaries, address books, keyboards and endless sheets of paper. Builders and tradesmen will be able to receive job leads from BANGitUP, get quotes on materials from BANGitUP suppliers, prepare quotes for customers, invoice and accept payment on the spot. When they return home to their office, they simply put MACA in the hot-sync cradle and press ONE button to update their account and contact information - saving them 100's of hours per year in data entry time alone!

Through BANGQUICK and MACA, the construction industry now has a useable, efficient, cost effective electronic communications interface between consumers, builders, tradesmen, suppliers and government. This will result in greater efficiency and savings through the entire industry and supply chain.

For further information on BANGitUP.com, please contact Scott Maxworthy (02) 9531 2244, http://www.bangitup.com. For further information on QUICKTRACK, please contact Peter Weste at DATATRACK on (02) 9906 7300
http://www.datatrack.com.au or visit the Interbuild Exhibition Stand E34 at Darling Harbour, June 3-6.    

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