ENCINITAS -- February 01, 2001 -- Material Express.com has for immediate release two new products - Order Express for electrical distributors and Order Express Wireless for electrical contractors. The current Material Express software allows contractors to purchase materials over the Internet from their estimating and billing software. With these two new products, customers can order directly from their distributor's Order Express Web site or from the field using Palm wireless technology.

According to Material Express.com President, Colleen Baer, "In working with distributors on the Material Express product we found that many distributors wanted to have their own Web order system, but didn't have the resources to write or host the site. As a result, we produced Order Express which can be customized to a distributors specifications and inventory, but will be created, hosted and maintained by Material Express.com." Ms. Baer continues, "This will allow the distributor to continue receiving orders from Vision's estimating and billing packages while marketing their personalized Web site to all of their customers."

With the new Order Express Wireless product, contractors may order materials from the field using their Palm. Customers can go to their distributor's Web site and create customized lists of materials that can be loaded to the Palm. Contractors in the field can easily select the materials necessary for the next days work from either these customized lists or from the distributor's entire inventory. The order is submitted to the Order Express Web site and saved in a shopping cart for placement to the distributor by the purchasing agent or owner in the office. Doug Smith, Vice President of Sales & Marketing says, "Contractors have been telling us for quite some time that getting orders from the field to the office is time consuming and inefficient. With the introduction of Order Express Wireless we solve that problem."

According to the company, "We are very excited about the release of these two new products and believe that we now provide a complete purchasing solution for electrical contractors. Also, with Order Express we provide an easy, inexpensive first step into B2B e-commerce for distributors."

MaterialExpress.com was founded by a team of experts in the field of electrical construction, software development, and information services. Our charter calls for the development and marketing of high quality, yet affordably priced, software and information services for the electrical construction industry. For additional information please contact Material Express.com at (800) 605-2167 or go to www.materialexpress.com or www.EPICline.com.