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How to Optimize Your Field Sales Teams Management


Managing a field sales team can be a challenging task. The challenges are doubled if your team is geographically dispersed. In today’s world sales team members often work in different cities, countries and time zones, or even speak different languages. The key solution to solve the issue is to give your field team managers and field reps the right tools to perform field marketing activities.

VisitBasis is a mobile data collection and field service management software for businesses with field merchandising, field sales and store audits operations. It is a cloud-based SaaS software for managing, scheduling, and monitoring field team activities in real-time.
The web-based office application works as a dashboard for all of your field team’s activities. Using VisitBasis planning, tracking and analytic capabilities you get a comprehensive field service management solution in one application:
  • Visits calendar
  • Custom task templates
  • Real-time reps location updates
  • Time- and GPS-stamped data from field reps
  • Query statistics
  • Control user access level with security roles

The mobile app works seamlessly across iPhones, iPads and Android smartphones and tablets and provides field reps all the tools to collect data at points of sale:
  • Schedule of visits and route optimization
  • Customer information (location, contacts, price-lists, MSL, history of visits)
  • Product catalog with different types of attachments
  • Automated data collection minimizes mistakes
  • Real-time reporting due to automatic synchronization
  • True offline capabilities

Field team management automation with VisitBasis is extremely fast and simple. And you can get it completely free! Your field team can get started in as little as half an hour. Just register account at www.visitbasis.com to get our field service management software completely free today. No license purchase required. Add office managers and mobile field reps and they’ll receive an email to help them download the app, register and join your team.


The VisitBasis App for Filed Sales is available for free download on Google Play or App Store for any number of users. There is no limit on the number of devices each user can carry, so your team can bring their own devices and be more effective. They will save time on training by using the devices that they already know and you save on hardware costs.


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