Best Practices

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  The Top 3 Pain Points of Payment Processing and How to Solve Them

  April 27, 2022

  In today’s market, consumers expect electronic payment options from their vendors. After all, e-payments offer them real-time flexibility and require less effort than paper payments. In turn, most businesses want to offer their customers electronic payment options, but they often run into problems with disconnected systems, security, and cost.  We have broken down these top […]

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  5 Signs You Need to Upgrade Your Accounting Software to an ERP

  March 31, 2022

  Is your accounting software package still the right option for your organization? If you have to ask, your business has likely outgrown this basic back-office software and requires next-level data handling. That means upgrading to an enterprise-wide system with financials, HR and operations modules — for example, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that meets […]

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  Help! What do The Beatles have to do with Microsoft Dynamics GP?

  December 15, 2021

  Great decision-making is often a blend of art and science. How confident are you in your own decision-making skills and track record? Can you think of any past “big” decisions you would rewind and do over if you could? Perhaps you realized after the fact that you failed to account for all available information, or […]

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  Supercharge Your Customer Service with the Right Software

  June 15, 2021

  Who holds the real power in your company? Who has the unmatched ability to either propel your customer-to-cash cycle forward into success or bury you in a mound of broken dreams? Is it the CEO? The owner? The receptionist? Mark Zuckerberg? Nope. (Good guesses, though.) It’s the customer. That enigmatic, capricious yet lovable, always-right son […]

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  Peak Season Preparation: New Tech or More Employees?

  March 16, 2021

  While a peak season is great for profitability, it adds other challenges to the books. Should you opt for newer, more efficient technology, or take the route of adding a seasonal workforce? Maybe the answer lies somewhere in between. Here are a few things to consider when ramping up for any busy season. New Technology […]

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  How to Retrieve Data for Better Business Decisions

  March 2, 2021

  A company’s strategic decisions rise and fall on the richness of its data — and on its ability to access that data. No matter how extensive the data your systems collect, it’s functionally useless unless you can organize it into metrics that drive corporate planning tools like KPIs. Deep dives into available data make solving […]

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  Go head-to-head with distribution giants — and win

  December 20, 2020

  Working in the distribution industry is a tough racket, and for small-to-medium operations, trying to survive and thrive can be a tall order. This isn’t because smaller businesses like yours aren’t up for the task — far from it. In order to get to where you are, you’ve had to be scrappy with your operations […]

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  Accounting Terms for Distribution Professionals

  June 28, 2020

  Accountants tend to use a lot of jargon, leaving some of us non-accountants feeling confused. In order to help, we’ve compiled a list of must-know accounting terms for a distribution professional.

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  Inventory and Supply Chain Terms You Should Have Down

  June 21, 2020

  What do all those inventory and supply chain terms mean? Learn the easy definitions you need to know when working in the supply chain and inventory world.

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  Order Processing and Purchasing: Terms You Should Know

  June 10, 2020

  Easy to Understand Definitions | SalesPad covers 18 Inventory Management, Order Processing and Purchasing terms. Drop Shipping | Blind Shipping | SOP to POP