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Fast Order Taking

Manage returns, replenish stocks and take orders using super-fast tap-feature, purchase history, and barcode scan facility.

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Mobile CRM

Manage leads and get a 360° view of your customers including order history, invoices, payments, returns and more, to make on-field decisions.

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Global Ready

We help you localise, company theme, currency, tax configurations, units of measure, and more to ensure the app is ready for your market.

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Custom Pricing

Create multiple pricing groups, customer specific pricing, tailor catalogs, discounts and group or customer specific promotions.

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Promotions & Discounts

Setup different types of promotions using the flexible promo-engine to increase your order size and improve cross-selling and upselling.

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Speed Order-to-Cash

Effective management of route planning, customer order cycles, delivery schedules, payment collections to improve cashflow.

| | Typical Use Case | |------------|----------------------| | Direct labor hours | Labor-intensive assembly lines (e.g., apparel, handcrafted goods). | | Machine hours | Automated manufacturing (e.g., automotive parts, plastics). | | Units produced | Uniform products with identical resource consumption per unit. | | Direct material cost | Industries where raw material value drives handling and storage overhead. | | Square footage | Facility-related costs (rent, utilities, janitorial) allocated to departments. | 3. Customer & Sales Cost Drivers For analyzing profitability by customer or channel.

Introduction In activity-based costing (ABC) and traditional cost accounting, a cost driver is any factor that causes a change in the cost of an activity. Identifying the correct cost drivers is essential for accurate product costing, budgeting, and strategic decision-making. Below is a structured breakdown of common cost driver examples, categorized by business function and cost behavior. 1. Activity-Based Cost Drivers (by Business Function) These drivers link overhead costs to specific operational activities.

| | Example Cost Driver | Rationale | |--------------|------------------------|----------------| | Purchasing | Number of purchase orders | Each order incurs processing, shipping, and inspection costs regardless of order size. | | Production setup | Number of setups | Time and labor to reconfigure machinery before a batch run. | | Quality control | Number of inspections | Directly correlates with testing time and defect detection effort. | | Machine maintenance | Machine hours | More runtime leads to higher wear, lubricants, and technician labor. | | Customer service | Number of support calls | Each call consumes agent time and system resources. | | Packaging | Number of units packed | Direct variable relationship with materials and handling labor. | | Shipping | Weight or volume of goods | Fuel, handling, and carrier costs scale with physical measures. | | Order processing | Number of customer orders | Administrative steps (entry, verification, invoicing) per order. | 2. Volume-Based Cost Drivers (Traditional Costing) Simpler models use single, volume-based drivers—best when overhead is proportional to production quantity.

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mSalesApp - Power to be your best

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Seamlessly connect your data and boost your sales

You can easily import & transfer data between mSalesApp and your ERP or Accounting application. Get consistent information and gain more visibility and control during all the workflow.

When integrating with an Accounting application, customers and products can be imported to mSalesApp, from where you can manage the order fulfilment. Once transactions are processed, accounting documents such as Invoices or Payments are exchanged.
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In the case of an ERP application, customers and products are imported to mSalesApp, where you can take the orders and send them back to the ERP. mSalesApp can also receive payments, which are sent to the ERP to process the invoice. Once they are ready, the invoices can be sent back to mSalesApp.
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Plug & Play with your ERP or Accounting Software

mSalesApp can be integrated with your ERP or accounting software to automate your sales process. By doing this, gain access to extra features to sell more, better & faster, keep track of your customers and leads, and empower your sales representatives.

Discover some of the benefits of integrating mSalesApp:

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    Upload, manage & follow up leads
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    Create customer categories and record their preferences
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    Automate customer-specific pricing
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    Set promotions & discounts
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    Check your stock levels in real-time
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    Gain more visibility of your data
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    Keep a better track of your route
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    Prevent data duplication
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    Better understanding of the results & the completion of objectives

Integration with Xero, QuickBooks & MYOB

Easy, fast & no manual intervention required

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mSalesApp can automatically be integrated with Xero, QuickBooks and MYOB, meaning you don't need to do any further manual intervention. Just plug & play!

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| | Typical Use Case | |------------|----------------------| | Direct labor hours | Labor-intensive assembly lines (e.g., apparel, handcrafted goods). | | Machine hours | Automated manufacturing (e.g., automotive parts, plastics). | | Units produced | Uniform products with identical resource consumption per unit. | | Direct material cost | Industries where raw material value drives handling and storage overhead. | | Square footage | Facility-related costs (rent, utilities, janitorial) allocated to departments. | 3. Customer & Sales Cost Drivers For analyzing profitability by customer or channel.

Introduction In activity-based costing (ABC) and traditional cost accounting, a cost driver is any factor that causes a change in the cost of an activity. Identifying the correct cost drivers is essential for accurate product costing, budgeting, and strategic decision-making. Below is a structured breakdown of common cost driver examples, categorized by business function and cost behavior. 1. Activity-Based Cost Drivers (by Business Function) These drivers link overhead costs to specific operational activities.

| | Example Cost Driver | Rationale | |--------------|------------------------|----------------| | Purchasing | Number of purchase orders | Each order incurs processing, shipping, and inspection costs regardless of order size. | | Production setup | Number of setups | Time and labor to reconfigure machinery before a batch run. | | Quality control | Number of inspections | Directly correlates with testing time and defect detection effort. | | Machine maintenance | Machine hours | More runtime leads to higher wear, lubricants, and technician labor. | | Customer service | Number of support calls | Each call consumes agent time and system resources. | | Packaging | Number of units packed | Direct variable relationship with materials and handling labor. | | Shipping | Weight or volume of goods | Fuel, handling, and carrier costs scale with physical measures. | | Order processing | Number of customer orders | Administrative steps (entry, verification, invoicing) per order. | 2. Volume-Based Cost Drivers (Traditional Costing) Simpler models use single, volume-based drivers—best when overhead is proportional to production quantity.

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