We get a kick out of making our customers lives easier through websites and software that just works. Ultimately the biggest bang for buck for our customers is in software integration…but what does that mean?
In a nutshell its taking one piece of software and getting it to talk successfully to another piece of software to save manually transferring information that businesses need for daily operation.
Think automatic transfer and syncing of your online sales to your accounting software, automatic ordering syncing to your POS or your newsletter subscribers to your email marketing program, these are good examples of time savers for busy people and the list of integrations is endless.
Your website provider should be talking to you about how you can save time and money through integration, but before you get their help here are three important keys to getting your software talking.
1. It should be cost-effective – get ready to think about the time cost of manual data entry versus the effort to integrate. No one has an unlimited budget so have an approximate idea of the time you are spending on that manual task to start with.
2. It should clearly replace a time-consuming process – don’t settle for a partial integration when the full process is what gets the win. Make sure your provider clearly identifies what you are getting and the benefits
3. A willingness to work with others to get the job done – we find that the key factor in successful integration projects is a willingness to work with other software providers. It is so rare for companies have one supplier for everything, so being able to talk to the people who already support your business is absolutely critical
Did we already mention we love software integration? Our customer Bar Zushi has their orders syncing to their POS and once you’ve taken the step to connect dots in your business that you did not know were possible we think you will too!
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