eCat vs App4Sales

eCat is a fast, easy to use interactive product catalog, product presentation, and order entry tool. It enables sales professionals to quickly find what customers need, prepare presentations and PDF catalogs, and take orders whether online or offline, at home, at a trade show, or on the road! Your company's product, pricing, inventory, customer, sales history information, and sales collateral like price lists, brochures and videos, and more are all stored on a cloud server. A powerful set of web admin tools enables you to distribute information selectively to users' iPads based on the needs of each type of user. Your catalog and other information are presented on the iPad in a fast, elegant, easy to use format and are fully available when the iPad is offline. eCat supports unlimited custom product fields and filters, multiple order entry methods, versatile pricing models, international currencies, multiple discounting methods, product configuration and pricing with user selectable options, barcode scanning, user and company customizable product lists, custom fields on the customer file, and numerous other features. eCat flexibly meets the needs of outside sales people, product managers, executives, and vendors of companies selling a visual product. Here are some examples. Companies use eCat to put up-to-date product, customer, and inventory balance information at the fingertips of sales teams, product managers, company executives, vendors and customers. Sales representatives use eCat to quickly and efficiently check inventory, match products to client needs, save custom lists, save presentations, create personalized PDF catalogs in multiple formats, email proposals and product specific literature, and send orders to their customers and manufacturers. eCat's 'Library' feature enables reps to quickly review and forward brochures, forms, pricelists, videos, etc. to customers. Product development teams use eCat to keep product specifications in a central place, easily view project status, and communicate with vendors. Retailers use eCat to put product information at the fingertips of their floor sales staff, show product availability across different stores and warehouses, and enable quick pricing of configurable items like upholstered furniture and other 'build-to-order' items. IMPORTANT: Login privileges must be granted by an authorized organization before application data can be downloaded and eCat can be used.

App4Sales is the perfect app for your sales representatives for quick order taking, used by thousands of sales reps. The integration with your ERP system makes it possible to access the complete customer database and register new customers. Representatives only have access to their own customers with their personal login credentials. Search the digital catalog and use the lookbook to give your customers a good impression of all your items. Add items to the order, load customer-specific price lists and let customers sign the order on your device. After sending the order, it will be created automatically in your ERP system. Manually entering orders in your ERP system is no longer necessary with App4Sales. With App4Sales it is possible to sell items anywhere: at an exhibition, in a showroom or at a customer. Paper order forms are history with App4Sales. The practical functions of App4Sales App4Sales has various functions that make it easy to speed up and optimize the sales process: • Lookbook with images of your items • Digital catalog • Fast order registration • Search and filter items • View customers and catalog in online and offline mode • Always have your real-time information at hand, including customer-specific price lists • Use barcode scanning for faster input • View all stock information, prices, item groups and historical data from your ERP system • Use the App4Sales CMS to manage users, content and user rights • App4Sales supports the most common languages • ERP connection with Exact Globe, Exact Online, AFAS, UNIT4, VISMA, SAP and more