Do you use an iPad on the sales floor?

[HenryIgnite]

Do you use an iPad to assist you in selling or to follow-up with customers? Would you use this technology if it existed?

 

[quake5254]

Definitely. It is an ideal device to do follow-ups as well as showing new products for sale. It is the best device for marketing, sales, and advertising.

 

[greatrat00]

I work for Blue Orange Apps in Panama City, Panama. We made iPO.

It's an app that a bunch of people with sales reps teams, tradeshows, wholesale and retail business have been using. iPO - Catalog & Sales. It's for iPad. It has a bunch of features a lot of people have found useful, such as:

• Freemium model - very few, or no other apps do this - that I’ve seen. We actually just implemented this to get word of mouth out - like Dropbox did.
• Very quick to set up. Just fill an Excel sheet and drag product pictures into your Dropbox
• Pictures are displayed upfront and products are given priority, like a Catalog app should be. No head-akes setting up a bunch of other stuff
• Really easy to integrate with any CRM through a flat file API - products, clients and orders all importable and exportable with CSV files
• The app is pretty quick, navigation-wise.
• Categories, subcategories and even multifiltered subsubcategories
• Global product search
• Camera barcode scanning - we’ll be looking into laser barcode scanning soon
• Interface is really intuitively designed
• Purchase orders are sent to client and back end office
• You can sell offline - products are all local on the iPad - this is critical
• You can take client and sales rep signature with really good digital signature technology

 

[quake5254]

That is neat!

 

[HenryIgnite]

How do you follow up with customers using your iPad? Are you referring to a retail setting?