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Digital revolution: Automation and integrations, are they necessary?

Written by Drew's editorial team | Sep 10, 2021 3:20:35 PM

We get it. Your company is your life and you're nervous about taking the next step to move on. Every business owner faces the challenge of digitizing his/her company or keeping the status quo. Fortunately, digital transformations are easier than ever and can help you go from poor sales to strong ones.

Automating your commercial processes allows you to forget about the struggle of entering data manually. We already know that manual data entry takes a lot of time and increases the possibility of making mistakes. The solution consists in automating your systems and adding integrations to different software tools, platforms, or apps that you use to keep everything in one place. 

Automating commercial processes allows you to stop struggling with entering information manually. We already know that manual data entry takes a lot of time and increases the possibility of making mistakes. The solution is to automate the platforms or applications you use so that you have everything in one place. 

 

What is integration used for?

Integrating tools allow all types of companies (from retailers big companies to family businesses of e-commerce) to increase their sales by automating the gathering and entering of information. Integrating a quality system in your commercial practices provides you with a new way of monitoring different information points. By using a software integration, you will be able to do a real-time follow-up and have traceability in the reports of the end of the day, inventories, sales, refunds and more. You will not have to look through accounting books or trust sales to a specific employee anymore.

 

Why should you automate? 

Automations through integration can increase the efficiency and precision of your processes. When you add digital integration tools, you will be able to focus on more critical tasks, such as marketing campaigns, purchase decisions and analyzing the return on investment. In other words, you will get rid of manual work when writing reports and, consequently, you will have more time for making decisions and action plans. 

There are many ways to incorporate automation into commercial systems that can help your company. One of the most important functions of automation is that it reduces human errors significantly, which is one of the risks of manual data entry. This is why automating your process and add integrations will help you increase productivity: it will eliminate possible errors and will allow your team to save time. 

 

When should you automate? 

You can automate the business process at any time, but we recommend you to carry out a digital transformation as soon as possible.  The sooner you do it, the faster you will notice an increase in your productivity and, therefore, in your income. Digital integrations save you time, reduce general costs and error possibilities and make reports more accessible than ever. 

 

Due to the current situation, all companies are going through a digital transformation era. Its benefits are clear and many companies can increase their sales, refunds and productivity in general with the automation and integration of their software tools. Integrations make your commercial processes faster and more flowing. 

 

There is no bad time to digitize your company.