iPO – Catalog & Sales – A Review
iPO
key features:
A great mobile catalog and sales solution
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iPO The leading sales app… “iPO is beautiful. Tons of people who hadn’t seen it at our last tradeshow wanted to get it right away. It’s really been great with our ERP” - Javer Sudo, App Store User
July 28th 2012
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sync
Getting my products setup was very quick and simple. Dragged everything to Dropbox.
nav
Navigation is very intuitive. My clients have found it very simple to use on their own as well.
order
Ordering is great. Just add products to cart, like online shopping. Checkout sends PDF to email
erp
Integration with my ERP (SAP) just required some simple scripting on our end. Flat files.
scan
Camera and Bluetooth barcode scanning works amazing. I recommend Bluetooth.
A sample of what iPO can do… Our sales reps now avoid traveling with bags full of samples. We’ve company has ever wanted to do on a been taking just a couple samples mobile device. From placing your logo on of each brand so that our the header which makes it feel custom customers get a flavor of what the made for your company, to integrating all materials are, etc. The rest is all done on the iPO catalog. During your products, clients, and ordering into our 2 month testing period before one app. this review, we made over 15 sales of $25,000 or more. We tried a few Modify the product pictures and info in other catalog and sales apps your Dropbox remotely and every sales before iPO and haven’t seen rep, no matter where they are will see the anything nearly as complete. iPO brings together everything your sales
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“Modify the product pictures and info in your Dropbox remotely and every sales rep, no matter where they are will see the products and info change on their iPad with the next sync.”
Why write orders up by hand, then scan them and send them back to the office when you don’t need to anymore? Products and info change on their
except it’s much more dynamic and
iPad with the next sync.
avoids all the paper and re-printing.
iPO comes out of the box synced up
After a couple hours, we decided to
to a demo Dropbox account. By
sync our own products. We took iPO
sorting through the over 200
out on a field trip for the first two
products in this demo, you get to
weeks with just 150 products, since
know iPO before you import your
this is what iPO allows for free. Our
own products. iPO was really easy to
customers loved it. They would
learn how to use because it really
constantly grab the iPad out of our
looks like a paper or online catalog,
hands to play with the catalog
The Headquarters of Blue Orange Apps, the developers of iPO, are in sunny and warm Panama City, Panama. We spoke to their team and were really impressed with where they want to take iPO in the future. We're really looking forward to some amazing updates from the iPO team.
With iPO we now send PDF files to our clients and our own office directly from the app. If the sale is made offline, the next time your iPad gets a connection, the PDF email goes straight out. Another great feature is the ability to send order generated CSV files. These files are also saved in your Dropbox. We’ve integrated them with our ERP
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iPO
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Freemium model - very few, or no other apps do this - that I’ve seen. This has lead to a great word of mouth effect for iPO 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
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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 and Bluetooth barcode scanning Interface is really intuitively designed