Offline-first field tooling for South Africa's dual-channel route to market — run van-sales teams, beat plans and outlet visits across national chains and township trade, including routes where mobile coverage runs thin
Run field and van-sales teams with offline order capture, GPS-stamped outlet visits, beat plans and live reporting
Custom surveys, trade audits, offline data capture on entry-level Android handsets, and task tracking
Beat plans for dense township routes, traffic-aware sequencing across the metros, and GPS visit compliance
40+ pre-built reports, primary versus secondary sales visibility, provincial dashboards, and MTD tracking
GPS and offline attendance, AI face validation, photo capture, late alerts and payroll-ready month-end closure
Leave types, running balances, approval policies, auto-allocation and public-holiday calendars
Employee records, role assignments, org hierarchy, provident-fund-ready payroll inputs, and regularisation
Rand claim submission, fuel and travel heads, policy rules, approval workflows, and reimbursements
Outlet onboarding, GPS geotagging of spaza and forecourt sites, channel and category mapping, and territory management
Trade marketing managers build schemes in the admin portal under Settings > Scheme Management, tying each one to a brand, an SKU or a product category — including the smaller pack sizes that carry volume through township trade. Each scheme is then attached to the right outlets through Scheme Mapping, working off geotagged spaza shops, independent stores and cash-and-carry outlets rather than street numbers, which matters wherever street addressing is inconsistent. From that point the scheme sits against those outlets in the mobile app. When a rep arrives at a mapped outlet the live offer loads, and because it is held on the handset it still shows on a rural route or in a township pocket where the signal falls away, so the retailer always hears the right deal.
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Build trade schemes in the admin portal, with targeting that fits South Africa's pack sizes and its dual channel mix.
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Why It Matters:
Trade marketing holds every offer centrally, so the promotional budget is locked down long before it reaches a route.
Attach schemes to geotagged outlets so a rep sees the right offer at the right spaza shop, chain store or wholesaler.
Features:
Why It Matters:
Where street addressing is inconsistent, mapping to a geotagged location is what puts the right deal on the right counter every time.
Reps open the app at a mapped outlet and read the live schemes there, even where the mobile signal thins out.
Features:
Why It Matters:
Coverage still drops on rural routes and in township pockets, so the offer is cached on the handset and no sale is lost to a missing signal.
Point an offer at a brand, an SKU or a whole category to protect your movers and shift slow stock.
Features:
Why It Matters:
Precise targeting puts the push behind the exact lines that need it, down to the smaller pack sizes South African shoppers reach for.
A single settings area where every trade scheme is created, mapped and governed across the route to market.
Features:
Why It Matters:
All scheme activity lives in one place, so nothing reaches a route — or spends budget — without proper sign-off.
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