Retail Audit Software: Streamline Your Data Collection Activities

In order to maximize the value of retail audits, it is paramount to streamline retail data workflow, so you can easily capture, transfer, aggregate, analyze and share retail data managing all the operations in one place. But are there any mobile apps out there that can actually help companies streamline retail data workflow? Of course, in our mobile-driven world there's an app for that.

VisitBasis Retail Audit Software for Android and iOS mobile devices comes as a complete solution to paperless retail audits, as it is a comprehensive system for scheduling, monitoring and managing field team activities in real-time. VisitBasis Retail Audit Software allows field team managers and supervisors to oversee all stages of the retail data collection process, from scheduling retail visits, assigning territories and tasks to analyzing up-to-the minute results through VisitBasis online dashboard and reports.

Naturally, there are several retail audit software solutions on the market that give the promise of increasing the efficiency of retail audits, but not that many are designed to do so by actually streamlining data workflow.

To maximize the effectiveness of paperless data collection retail audit software should provide businesses the following benefits:

Customizable data collection forms to quickly design tasks
Automated data entry to minimize mistakes
Built-in camera for instant photo-reports
Bar code recognition for fast product search
Optimized routing in order to reduce travel distances
Time and GPS-tracking to prevent fraud
A BYOD interface to eliminate hardware costs
True offline capabilities to work even without Internet connection
Cloud data storage to access your data anytime and anywhere
Powerful analytic capabilities to turn data into meaningful information

See for yourself how the VisitBasis Retail Audit Software can streamline your retail data workflow – sign up today at www.visitbasis.com! Free downloads on Google Play and App Store for any number of users. After you register, don't forget to schedule a free online demo to see how it works.

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