B2B Customer Portal benefits for your business

It seems quite simple but in practice, the whole process is time-consuming and typically not transparent. Finding the right product in the catalog, email exchange, offer creating, takes hours or sometimes days of work. Nevertheless, many companies still used this approach and it might work well, but only with a limited customer base and on very complex product range – typically custom made. Standardized products, or standardized configuration process allows to automate it in more than 80%.    

If the company have 5-10 regular requests, the sales managers can spend several hours working with them, and the rest of the time to look for new customers. What if we are talking about 100-200 regular requests (not orders) weekly? With a bigger customer database, sales manager will no longer be able to work effectively and many of customer might wait days to receive an answer, and most of the time will be spent on processing all request.  This begs the natural question of how much time manager will spend on finding new clients?  

Time-consuming process is not only on the company’s side, but also on the customers. Very often, they must spend a lot of time collecting the information to find the right product from catalogs, calculate price and coordinate them by emails or phone. Furthermore, experiencing difficulties they  may choose another vendor, thereby losing the loyalty.   

How B2B customer portal will let you collect all self-service features and tools in a convenient, accessible tool?

24/7 sales and new markets without limits  

B2B customers are provided with instant access to the product and service information of your company. You are no longer depended on time zones, and so you can reach more potential customers all around the world. Your customers can make orders even at night without waiting for the manager’s working hours or replace/change the order just in few clicks in the system.

Convenience and speed of order management   

How do your customers make an order? Traditionally they used to do it by phone, email, form on the website or in face-to-face negotiations. However, with B2B portal customers can do it more effectively and quickly collect an order: easily navigate digital catalog, enter the SKU of the product, upload CSV files, create lists from past orders and send RFQ.   

Effective workflow   

Working with the customer portal eliminates common human errors when working with documents and reduces repetitive tasks of your sales managers. The time employees usually spent on telephone calls and order management can be spent on finding new customers or building relations with existing ones, improve after-sales service as well as do more personal meetings with the key clients.  

Marketing based on the real data  

The collected data will give a business more insights that can be used to build more personalized communication, to make narrow segmentation and provide targeted marketing campaigns. Moreover, the system provides the ability to automate periodic reports with key indicators sent by email or provided on the dashboard in a personal account in real time. 

B2B portal can be integrated with other business systems 

Customers have a single access to an up-to-date information of stock, prices and discounts. It’s not simple and depends on the other systems integration possibility, but at the end of the day, the information flow and data exchange can be improved dramatically. Typically the customer portal integrates with ERP and CRM systems as well as PIM or CMS to provide end-to-end interaction. 

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