Van sales
In Arabic مبيعات السيارات
Van sales is a distribution model in which a rep drives stocked goods to customers and sells, invoices and collects payment on the spot during the visit.
In plain words
Instead of taking an order today and delivering it later, the rep carries the stock. The customer sees the goods, buys, gets an invoice and pays in the same visit, so a small shop is served in one call rather than two.
Van sales suits fast-moving goods sold to many small outlets: groceries, drinks, snacks, cleaning products. Each van is in effect a small warehouse on wheels, and its stock, cash and invoices all have to be accounted for at the end of the day.
The common mistake is treating the van as part of the rep rather than as a stock location of its own. When van stock is not counted and reconciled every day, shortages surface weeks later and nobody can say where they went.
- Loaded in the morning
- 120 cartons
- Sold on the route
- 95 cartons
- Unloaded at night
- 22 cartons
- Missing, to be explained
- 3 cartons
In Axon Suite
How Axon Suite handles it
In Axon Suite the rep checks in, sells, invoices, collects and takes returns from the rep app even with no signal. Each document waits on the phone and is sent once the van is back in coverage.
Feature
Selling from the van with no signal
Check-ins, orders, invoices, payments and returns are saved on the phone when there is no signal, then sent once it returns. Each one keeps the day of the sale and is sent only once, however often it has to retry.
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