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Salespod - a mobile worker's Swiss army knife

Published in: Product on 15 September 2011

Salespod is a powerful mobile business tool developed to support multiple work assignments specific to mobile workforce.

From the very start, Salespod mobile application was imagined and built to serve mobile workers as their personal Swiss army knife - an 'all in one' tool that would contain handful of functionalities required for fulfilling everyday tasks of mobile workers.

Mobile sales, one of the most common and most complex jobs in the mobile business industry, necessitates a highest level of agility and dynamics. This high demands that are put in front of every salesperson must always be supported with an update information on products and clients and available to them at the right time.

Salespod solution fulfills all these requirements with ease and enables  salespersons to have exceptional control over their mobile sales proceses. In the same time, Salespod empowers back office users with the ability to monitor their salesperson's work in real time.

A user story from salesman named Bob

Let's take a salesman Bob for an example. Bob is a salesperson in a retail company with a dozen salespersons and he uses Salespod to perform his work assignments. His main focus every day is to visit clients he plans to visit, fulfill various sales and merchandising operations in their locations and, if possible, to take orders from this clients.

Every morning Bob receives a visit plan on his smart phone with a list of clients he has to visit during the following work day. The client list is provided to him by sales managers who are scheduling plan visits for their sales workforce and who are in charge of providing salespersons with update and fresh information.

When Bob arrives at his clients location he uses Salepod application to fulfill his assignments and he immediately sends collected data to his company. After he selects the client from the list of clients he is ready to:

  • Take an order,
  • Fill up form or a survey,
  • Take photos of products on product shelves,
  • Check client's payment status,
  • Check product stock status,
  • Send and receive messages from the company,
  • Make a note on the client,
  • Record his GPS position, etc.

All the data sent from Salespod mobile application are automatically synced with the company's web account  and accompained with their GPS position. Sales manager are provided that way with real time coverage of all the events happening on the field which gives them superb control over their company's mobile business.

When Bob finish his workday he is free of any papers and he doesn't have to go to the company afterwards. All the data he collected during his workday are already on Salespod server and available to sales managers for further reports and analysis.

Thanks to Salespod, Bob's company has speed up its overall sales process and reduced possibility of making any mistakes in work.

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