"I wanted to increase efficiency and lessen the amount of time sales reps were spending on creating quotes. I also wanted the quotes to look more professional and modern."

"We try to do what we can to honor our relationships with retailers by not selling to a store right down the street. If someone’s supporting us, we want to support them. Now we just ask any potential customer for their zip code, enter it into our iPads, and immediately …

"It has completely changed the way an order is taken and how we communicate with reps."

"Now with Handshake, we’re saving the company money, and we’re saving the employee time spent on a manual task. We’re seeing such a huge impact on the merchandiser side. They’re able to place their orders right at the rack—it’s brilliant."

"We have an internal philosophy that we’re not going to be the sales reps of old. The business has changed so much that you can’t just be a catalog and price sheet guy anymore. That world no longer exists."

“They see that I have an iPad out, and I’m taking photos of sections of the store. I can see if any inventory is low and help them place quick filling orders. All I have to do is email the order from the app.”

"Most buyers are really impressed by it. For existing customers, they really love that we can pull up their account quickly on the iPad. We don’t have to waste time."

"In order to take advantage of these growing expectations we were seeing in B2B, we needed to provide a reliable, user-friendly tool that would allow us to promote more self-service buying."

"We had a particular customer who was ordering more from a competitor even though our pricing was significantly better. Since we switched to Handshake, though, our ordering experience is so much better that they’ve given us the majority of their business."

"Our independent retailers are passionate about providing the highest quality products to their customers’ pets. They are experts on pet nutrition and pet health and really passionate about what they do, but not always as focused on efficiency and streamlining process."

"We tried various manual and system approaches to address these problems through the years, all with limited success. Finally, we found the Handshake app in early 2013. It has worked the way I wanted it to from day one."

"Think about how many businesses have become self-service. Our customers are going to expect that."

“Sometimes if my supplier ran out-of-stock, they wouldn’t contact me, they would just send me what they had.”

"We put every single order through Handshake, and that order goes straight into Xero––and out to the warehouse for shipping. No one has to waste time keying in the order."

"It’s been great. The PDA used to crash all the time, but the Apple hardware just works."