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Do You Have Ongoing Problems with Your Wholesale Order Processing?

Written by Now Commerce Team | Jul 17, 2014 7:00:00 PM

Are ongoing challenges with your wholesale order processing causing headaches? Are you frequently sending replacement products or offering discounts due to fulfillment errors? Do customer complaints about delayed deliveries keep you up at night? Are you overwhelmed by handling orders multiple times? Imagine if one simple solution could address all these concerns. Fortunately, such a solution exists. An online sales and order management portal that seamlessly integrates with QuickBooks can transform your order management system, boosting efficiency, ensuring timely deliveries, and enhancing overall accuracy.

A B2B sales portal empowers customers and sales representatives to enter orders online. By integrating this portal with QuickBooks, information flows automatically between the two systems. Your sales portal will consistently display accurate product details, inventory levels, and pricing. Simultaneously, new order information will seamlessly transfer from the sales portal into QuickBooks.

This seamless interaction between the systems effectively resolves some of the most common order management challenges, such as:

Streamlined Order Processing

When your company first started, was there just one person wearing many hats? They took all the orders, managed inventory, prioritized customer needs, and even handled shipping. While this approach may have worked initially, it’s likely not sustainable for your growing business. As your operations expand, relying on a single individual becomes inefficient, and order processing slows down if they’re unavailable.

Empower your team with an online order processing portal that provides comprehensive access to order information. This system ensures that order processing continues seamlessly, with any team member able to step in and keep operations running smoothly, regardless of who is in the office.

Minimizing Mistakes

Your sales representative calls in an order, and a customer service member manually notes it. This note is then handed over to the fulfillment team and re-entered into your system. This process often leads to communication errors, resulting in incorrect products or quantities being shipped.

With an online sales portal, these challenges become a thing of the past. Customers or sales reps enter orders directly, and they are created in QuickBooks automatically, ensuring accuracy from the start. The real-time data in QuickBooks is accessible to your entire team, eliminating the need for manual copying or transcribing. This seamless integration reduces human error, consolidates data into a single system, and minimizes the need for manual data entry.