Built for Distribution Head
Get more outlets per rep, kill ghost visits, track every crate and rupee, and settle scheme claims without the monthly dispute.
In short
SalesPort gives a distribution head one operational screen for beat planning, GPS-verified van sales, scheme and claims management, and cash-and-crate tracking. It lifts outlets-per-rep, eliminates ghost visits, and removes cash-in-transit and returnables shrinkage — the four leaks that quietly drain a distribution operation every day.
The problems we hear first, in the words they're described to us.
Reps mark visits they never made, and your coverage report becomes fiction. Outlets that think they've been serviced go dry, orders are lost, and you only discover it when a retailer complains to the distributor.
A rep doing 8 productive calls when the route supports 25 is leaving two-thirds of the beat unworked. Without route optimisation and live tracking, you can't see the gap, let alone close it.
Field collections move as cash through too many hands before they hit a bank. Reconciliation is manual, shortfalls are 'investigated,' and the working capital sits exposed for days.
Crates, coolers, and returnables walk off the books at ₹15–30 Lakh a year for a mid-size dairy. Nobody tracks them per route, so the loss is absorbed as a cost of doing business when it shouldn't be.
Distributors claim, you question, and the reconciliation drags into the next cycle. Without outlet-level scheme tracking, every claim is an argument and every settlement is a guess.
The specific workflows, screens, and reports you'll actually use.
Build beats with route logic, then watch them run live with GPS-verified visits. Reps see their planned outlets and the order outcome of each, and you see real productive-call rates instead of self-reported coverage.
Load-out, sales, returns, and stock-on-van reconcile automatically, so a van's closing stock matches its sales without a manual count. Pre-sales and direct van-sales models both run on the same app.
Cash & Crate captures collections with OTP-confirmed deposits and reconciles against bank credits, shrinking cash-in-transit exposure from days to near-zero and ending the manual reconciliation grind.
Every crate and returnable is tracked by route and party, so shrinkage becomes visible and accountable. The ₹15–30 Lakh that used to disappear is now a number you manage.
Schemes are tracked at the outlet level and claims are calculated automatically, so month-end settlement is a report, not an argument. Disputes drop and the reconciliation actually closes.
The fastest ROI we see is almost always beat productivity — moving the average rep from single-digit productive calls toward the route's real potential pays for the platform on its own.
Crate shrinkage is the loss nobody budgets for and everybody has. The moment it's tracked per route, it shrinks — because now someone owns it.
Distribution heads tell us the cash module changes the most behaviour: when deposits are OTP-confirmed and reconciled, the 'investigations' simply stop happening.
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