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Retail Audit Software: Overcoming Challenges in Retail Data Collection


Managing retail auditing activities involves dealing with many challenges that are complex to overcome, mostly because the business is all about supervising multiple people in multiple locations. Fraudulent check-ins by field reps, lost paperwork, territory overlapping and data entry mistakes – challenges in retail data collection can affect the outcome of marketing strategies, and eventually impact the bottom line.

VisitBasis retail audit software can make a real difference when it comes to retail data collection. VisitBasis retail audit software is a complete retail data collection mobile solution designed to build, schedule and monitor field team activities in real time. VisitBasis provides tools for all types of retail data collection activities, including retail audits, merchandising, field marketing, field sales, and more.

VisitBasis retail audit software was developed by retail professionals, and therefore provides all the elements needed to collect retail data and monitor all the activities in the field step-by-step, allowing supervisors to take appropriate actions as needed even before the final results come in. VisitBasis retail audit software  allows managers to track and monitor each field rep's activities, getting live time stamped and GPS-confirmed data on what is going on in the field. 

With VisitBasis Retail Audit Software sales managers are able to:
  • Manage user, customer, and product databases in one place
  • Effortlessly schedule recurring visits, weeks or even months in advance
  • Calculate the shortest customer route for each field rep
  • Assign and re-assign territories among field reps
  • Create advanced task templates with actions that include photos and signatures, among others.
  • Monitor each mobile user at any point in time
  • Get up-to-the minute information on the activities being executed in the field
  • Generate reports getting data in various formats

Ready to move your retail data collection activities to the next level? Sign up today at www.visitbasis.com! Free downloads of the VisitBasis Retail Audit App for any number of users on Google Play and App Store!


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