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Retail Merchandising Software: Optimizing Retail Execution


Merchandising is one of the basic aspects of retail management. Field merchandisers perform regular retail visits to help consumer packaged goods companies to stay competitive by making sure that their products are correctly displayed on shelves and also efficiently promoted and always in stock.

Retail merchandising software is a tool used by some of the most sophisticated retailers and suppliers for in-store execution. It enables retail management to set up clear targets for merchandisers and allows the instant review of task performance, letting managers make better-informed decisions.

If you are looking for the most efficient way to plan and manage merchandising activities start with adopting proper merchandising software. VisitBasis is a merchandising app to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of your field team automation process: your merchandisers will have all the information they need to succeed at their fingertips and you will be able to monitor the results in real time. Due to our merchandising software’s intuitive design, even the most complex merchandising planning procedures are made simple.

VisitBasis merchandising software is a cloud-based, complete mobile data collection solution designed to schedule and monitor field team activities in real time. It has all necessary tools for office managers and field merchandisers to perform merchandising activities.

Office Managers
  • Plan visits - advanced task template building
  • Schedule visits and tasks individually or in bulk
  • Optimize Routes
  • Manage customers, products and field reps
  • Assign territories through easy mapping
  • Monitor – GPS track user activities in real time on a map
  • Report - advanced tools allow to extract data in many ways

Field merchandisers
  • Online and offline mobile data capturing including photos
  • Barcode scanner
  • On-the-go scheduling and planning, as well as route optimization
  • Works on any device, Android or iOS
  • One rep can use many smartphone or tablet devices
  • Easy-to-use interface 

Using VisitBasis merchandising software lets you easily coordinate all the stages of your retail merchandising operations to improve your retail management and enhance the productivity of your field teams.

Start using our merchandising software today completely free! No license purchase required. Just register free at www.visitbasis.com to start using integrated retail management solution for your business. 




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