Mobile invoicing
Multi-line, VAT-inclusive invoices at the customer’s door, priced from that customer’s price list, quantity bands or an approved deal. Numbers come from the seller’s own series, so they are issued offline and never repeat.
Van sales
Van sales software for route sales teams
SalesBlitz puts a point of sale in every van. The rep visits each shop on the route, invoices on an Android handheld, prints the receipt, collects the cash and counts the crates. Head office sees each run as it syncs, and nothing waits for a signal.
Route sales
Built for selling from the van, not the office
Van sales (route sales, or ex-van selling) puts the stock, the invoice book and the cash tin on the road together. The rep sells what is in the van, at the price that customer pays, collects what is owed, and comes back to account for every unit and every dollar. Paper and spreadsheets can’t keep those in step: by the time the books land at head office, the stock has moved and the cash has been counted.
In SalesBlitz, the route plan, the van’s stock, the invoice at the shop counter, the payment and the crate count are one record. Each selling run is a blitz: one seller, one route, one day, started on the handheld and closed with a cash-up. The same system runs the distribution side in the office: warehouses, prices, credit and reports.
On the handheld
What the rep’s handheld does
Printed receipts
The receipt prints on the Sunmi handheld’s built-in printer, 58 or 80 mm wide. No printer? The receipt stays on screen: printing never holds up a sale, and every reprint is counted.
Van stock
Stock reaches the van by a transfer from the depot. Each sale takes it out on the handheld at once, low stock shows in amber, and the office sees every movement in one stock ledger.
Credit and collections
Sell on account where you allow it. The handheld knows each customer’s limit and what they owe across all your sellers, blocks a sale over the limit, and lets the rep collect on older invoices.
Visits with GPS
Each visit records where the rep was and how far from the customer’s shop, and a reason when nothing was sold. Stops off the planned route are marked.
Returnables
Crates and bottles issued and collected are recorded at every visit, with a limit per visit, so empties are tracked per customer and per van.
How it works
How a selling run works
Plan the route
In the web back office, draw areas and routes, put customers on them, and schedule which seller runs which route on which day. Give the run a sales target if you want one.
Load the van
Transfer stock from the depot to the van. The printed transfer sheet has lines for whoever issued it, drove it and received it.
Start the blitz
The seller signs in with a PIN on an approved handheld and starts the run. The route’s customers, their prices, deals and balances, and the van’s stock are already on the device.
Visit, sell, collect
At each shop: start the visit, invoice, print, take payment in the invoice’s currency, count crates in and out, and end the visit. All of it works without signal and syncs when the handheld finds one.
Close and cash up
The run closes once everything has synced. The seller then declares the cash in each cashbook in a blind count; the office sees the difference and receives the cash.
Review
Managers see the seller’s day on a map, the target met or missed, and the reports: sales, collections, stock, the seller scorecard and the day-end report, emailed each evening.
Offline-first
Routes lose signal. Sales don’t stop.
The handheld keeps its own copy of what the run needs: the route’s customers, their prices and deals, their unpaid invoices, the van’s stock and the seller’s cashbooks. Selling, receipts, payments, returnables and even new customers work with no signal at all.
Each record waits in a queue on the device and uploads when there is a connection, oldest first and safe to send twice. A sale keeps the time it was made, not the time it synced.
The server never undoes a sale made in good faith. When something doesn’t add up, such as a price that changed while the handheld was offline, the sale is kept and flagged for the office to review, so the rep is never stuck at the shop. Two things do need a connection: finding a customer who isn’t on today’s route, and closing the run.
In Zimbabwe, the same queue carries ZIMRA fiscalisation: the receipt prints straight away, and the invoice is fiscalised through Fiscalizer when the handheld reconnects.
Who it’s for
Teams that sell from a vehicle
- FMCG distributors running vans on fixed routes: beverages, bakery, dairy, snacks and groceries.
- Wholesalers selling to tuck shops, supermarkets, bars, bottle stores and hardware stores on account.
- Manufacturers with their own fleet, selling direct to the trade (see SalesBlitz for manufacturers).
- Anything from a few vans to a national fleet: pricing is per van, and back-office users are free on every plan.
Questions
Van sales software: your questions
What is van sales software?
Software for selling from a vehicle on a route. The rep carries the stock, invoices the customer on a handheld, takes payment, and accounts for the van’s stock and cash at the end of the run. SalesBlitz adds the back office around it: routes, prices, credit, returnables and reports.
Does it work without mobile data?
Yes. The handheld sells, prints receipts, takes payments and records returnables with no signal, and uploads everything when it finds one. Closing the run needs a connection, so that the office has every record before the cash-up.
What devices does it run on?
Android. It is made for Sunmi handheld terminals (V2 Pro, P2 and T2) with built-in receipt printers, and runs on Android phones too. Your office approves each device before anyone can sell on it.
How do reps sign in?
With a PIN, on a handheld the office has approved. Five wrong PINs block the seller, and revoking a device signs it out at once.
Can reps sell on credit?
If you switch credit sales on. Each customer has a credit limit, or your company default. The handheld counts what the customer owes across all your sellers and currencies, and refuses a sale that would take them over it.
How are reps measured?
Each run can carry a sales target, recorded as met or missed when it closes. The seller scorecard adds schedule adherence, coverage, strike rate, lines per productive call, drop size and cash short or over, all from what was actually recorded.
What does it cost?
It is priced per van per month, with every feature on every plan: $17 on your own Android device, $19 with receipts printed on a Bluetooth printer, and $30 with a Sunmi V2 Pro handheld whose repair and maintenance are on us. Back-office users are free.
Keep reading
Related
- Point of sale software
Invoices, payments and printed receipts on an Android handheld, at the customer’s counter.
- Distribution software
Routes, warehouses, pricing, credit and returnables for FMCG distributors.
- ZIMRA fiscalisation
Every invoice and credit note fiscalised through Fiscalizer, without holding up a sale.
- Zimbabwe
ZiG and USD, VAT and surtaxes, ZIMRA, and routes where the signal drops.
- Pricing
Per van, per month: $17, $19 with Bluetooth printing, $30 with a Sunmi handheld.
Put your routes on SalesBlitz
Load one van, run a real route and see the day on a map.