Online Direct Limited Announces Beta Release of Sales Management Portal to Fully Automate the Sales Management Process for their Sales Partners in the UK.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 27, 2011 -- Online Direct released the beta version of their state-of-the-art Sales Management Portal, which is designed to eliminate time consuming and error-prone manual processes and reduce the dependency of sales partners on the company’s customer support team and in turn help them dramatically lower the day to day cost of operations and offer an industry leading service to their end customers.

The cost savings from streamlining sales management operations will allow sales partners to shift resources to more strategic business initiatives that can help expand their business.

The Sales Management Portal is composed of Contracts Management, Reports Management and Queries Management solutions. The interactive Dashboard displays all the information that sales partners need to know in one comprehensive view.

The beta version of the sales portal has been released to a few sales partners and Online Direct Limited is gearing up to launch the final release to all sales partners at the beginning of next year.

“We have been aggressively expanding our tools and services in the last two years to broaden and deepen our capabilities to help our sales partners complete their utility contracts with ease and improve their customer experience,” said Gary Styles, Business Development Director, Online Direct Limited. “This undivided focus on customers has been paying off and more energy brokers and suppliers are choosing to join the sales network of Online Direct, which undoubtedly has established itself as ‘the preferred sales network’ in the industry.”

The utility sales agents are faced with the daunting task of managing multiple contracts with out-dated tools and manual support processes. This support is insufficient to help all contracts go live with ease and on time. The complexity is furthered with regular price changes which have a cascading effect on the sales. The solution to this is the Sales Management Portal from Online Direct Limited.

Online Direct’s New Sales Management Portal

Going forward all the supplier contracts submitted via Online Direct by sales partners will be channelled through this easy-to-use Portal, some of the key features being:
•Fully automated sales processing
•Real-time price updates
•Instant pricing
•Real-time order tracking
•Integrated query management
•Commission management
•Auto contract validation
•Industry, market, supplier and Online Direct updates streamed daily
•Full reporting and MI package

In terms of usability Online Direct’s Portal comes with the following advantages:
•Web-based, accessible from anywhere- Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, Linux, UNIX, Sun Solaris, or even a Smartphone.
•Role-based authorisation

•Multi-User platform
•Secure and reliable

“Sales management automation through the portal is an opportunity for our sales partners to manage their utility contracts just by logging into their portal area, thus improving the operational efficiency. It is a smart solution to manage pricing, queries, commissions, statuses etc at click of a button. This portal is a significant breakthrough in the technology space designed exclusively for our sales partners in the business utilities market,” said Pank Jethwa, the Managing Director, Online Direct Limited.

About Online Direct Limited

Since forming in 1998 Online Direct Limited has established itself as the largest intermediary (aggregator) between suppliers and utility agents in the UK. The company provides business utilities services from all the leading UK suppliers such as E.ON, British Gas, Npower and ScottishPower, to a network of over 1000 B2B sales partners. The company has generated over 100,000 electricity and gas contracts in the last decade and is looking to expand its services to commercial telecoms and insurance. Visit them at: www.onlinedirect.co.uk for more details.

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