Manufacturing and distribution companies often have sales canvassers who go directly to the field to offer company products with an outright sale system.
Sales canvasser vs sales staff
Just like any sales staff, sales canvasser meets prospects, offers, delivers products and performs various administration during store visits.From receiving and sending orders, creating invoices, collecting payments and other reports. However, sales canvasser sells the company’s products directly to customers by bringing the products in hand. So that customers can buy and get the product directly, along with proof of purchase. No payment terms need to be offered.
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What is the purpose of digitizing a sales canvasser with a mobile app?
Offering products with paper brochures, using paper invoice proofs, and other manual processes will look out of date. Not to mention if there is an input error or lost proof of a transaction due to manual processing in front of the client. All of this can be prevented by using data input automation software such as a mobile application.
Application can streamline sales canvassers’ administrative tasks, thus increasing their interaction with more potential customers. By digitizing data, sales canvassers can be more productive, their activity records are more accurate, and they can also monitor their own achievement targets through the same mobile application.
In addition, the application can also assist supervisors and management in seeing the stock level of goods at all warehouse locations as well as at sales canvassers’ mobile storage. The system aims to eliminate errors that often occur with manual systems such as remaining stock at the end of the day that does not match the data on goods sold, consumer locations that are not recorded so that they cannot be revisited, etc.
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Advotics DMS for sales canvassers
The canvasser module in Advotics Distribution Management System (DMS) can be used to accommodate canvass sales. Sales canvassers can access the system via the mobile application, while supervisors and management can access it via a web browser.
Application for sales canvassers