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"I told Handshake that I needed to be all set up for a trade show in a few weeks, and they were all over it. They told us exactly what information I needed to gather, and walked us through the integration with QuickBooks. It was truly a seamless process."
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"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."
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"I think the most important thing has been that the user experience is simple. We don’t have to do much handholding, and we’ve gotten a lot of really positive feedback."
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"We’ve been using Handshake now for half a year, and we’ve seen more changes and improvements in the past few months than we saw in the eight years with our own custom solution."
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"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 …
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"It changed our thought process pretty substantially to say that Handshake could do everything and more, compared to our current platform. So we wondered why we should support both of them."
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“Buyers really have that a-ha moment when they have the product in their hands and can see in-person the different features and benefits it offers.”
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"Our dealers are used to B2B sites with their other suppliers. Knowing that Buff, Inc. has one just makes it easier for them. They prefer to log in and buy, rather than making a call or sending an email, and then having to wait on a response."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The biggest return on investment has been the time savings, which directly translates to cost savings."
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"We looked at many iOS order entry apps before finding Handshake. Handshake offered a well thought out user interface that fit our needs well. Our national sales force loves using it, and the tight integration with our ERP system greatly simplifies our back office operations."
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"We’re having a very efficient time with the buyer. We can get them pricing on the spot, and we can get an order in at the show. It’s a tremendous increase in efficiency."
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"We tested it out, and it was exactly what we needed."