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- Make and STICK TO priority list of the few features that are most critical to your business and run with Readysell's most basic implementation of those features:
- Automatic price updates
- Live with the fact that turning on automatic cost and sell price updates will change your old cost and sell prices
- Sale order entry
- Required
- Data review and tidy up
- Understand want needs to be cleaned up and work on it slowly over time if you can.
- Point of sale
- Skip this unless you have more than a few cash sales a day
- Automatic purchasing
- Requires a few hours training but has huge benefits in time saving and improved stock accuracy
- Web site integration
- Don't use contract prices if you can help it
- Scan stock in and out
- Huge time saving and accuracy improvements available. Recommended, but does require a few hours of training time, some large screens and scanners.
- Financials
- There are a lot of details that just have to be right with financials. There is no way to substantially reduce the implementation cost. This is one area where the small site strategy can't reduce implementation costs
- Reports
- Only use lists and reports as they currently are in Readysell
- Readysell staff on site at the start of the project
- Readysell's staff on site can kick start your training. It is over ten times more effective to train standing in your store than over the phone
- Make sure you go to another dealers site if you are not having Readysell on site at the start of the project
- Readysell staff on site for the go live weekend
- Readysell's implementation team are experts on tidying data, training your team and helping people manage the move to live operations
- Readysell can give you checklists of what do do. But you don't have the experience to correctly interpret the list and apply it in your business. It is like any do it yourself project. Even with the best instructions. You need experience to use the instructions, it is harder than it looks, and quick response is critical. Taking time to work out the answer on your first day can result in getting behind and errors effecting your customers.
- If you don't have Readysell on site your go live weekend will be a lot harder. Expect to spend more time fixing things after you go live
- Make sure you have spent time at another Readysell 8 site for a few days before implementation if you are thinking about this approach
You can book a Readysell team member to help you remotely over the go live weekend
Warning Readysell's implementation team do this all the time, they have many years of experience. There is no substitute for having a Readysell team member on site when you go live. You can save money by skipping this assistance, but your go live will be a lot harder. You may end up spending more on assistance after you go live helping with issues than the cost of having someone on site.
- Automatic price updates
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The most common reason why the small site strategy does not work you not being able to limit your expectations. It requires the discipline to expect NOT to implement Readysell in the best way you can. The best way is the most expensive way. We are trying to control implementation costs. There will constantly be ways in which you can do better. Once you start trying to add one more thing to the list of features you are using. You will find there are thousands of extra benefits beyond the basics. The project will grow if you let it and costs of implementation assistance will expand. Stick the the priorities agreed at the start of the project. |
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There is no way to implement all Readysell's features without eventually investing the training time. Expect to budget for ongoing self training or training provided by Readysell. If you don't do this your Readysell implementation will get frozen in time. With many of the potential benefits never implemented. |