Your wholesale nursery or greenhouse company will do a lot of work to keep track of orders and invoices. Jobs will be controlled and profitability insured with great effort by your landscape contracting business. Your retail garden center will go to a lot of effort to pass customers through the registers in a timely manner. What sort of reward can you expect from ActiveApplications for all this effort? One of the answers is Sales Analysis.
Sales Analysis is an application that requires only a few clicks to get the benefit. This review will not discuss every option available and may not even discuss what could be the best benefit for your company but it is where to look. to aid your company in making decisions on the future.
As sales are made a copy of the sale is kept in the database for future reference. It is kept in a way that makes it available for reporting or Inquisitor custom reporting. Take the example of looking up an invoice from the past.
A duplicate invoice from a past sale can be produced quickly if a customer requests it. This can be years later. You will not need to look through file cabinets for the original copy. It is done with a few clicks.
In addition to one at a time invoices Invoice reports of many flavors can be created.
Invoices can be displayed from any time period for some or all your your customers. It is quick and easy to see customer sales as a total as in the above report.
Item reports are also available. What did you sell to who, when and how much profit was made are answers Sales Analysis can answer.
How about a useful tool when it comes to taking orders for next year? Your preparation time is minimal with the Sales Item Recap
This report provides a convenient tool for getting the next years order.
A breakdown of a customer’s purchases with space for a next year order quantity can save your salesperson hours and hours of work. A new customer can be printed on each page for easy mailing or convenient discussion. It can even be mailed so your customers can create their own orders. That is a huge benefit to your staff. It is free with ActiveApplications Sales Analysis.
How about comparing your sales over multiple years. SA has it for items and customers:
SA has it for items and customers.
Ask your ActiveApplications Sales representative for a personal demonstration. This presentation has just a portion of the items available. Sales Analysis could be a huge benefit to your company.