Predictive Forecasting: POS Systems + Salesforce
Can you trust your forecast for next month? askotter reads POS Systems and Salesforce together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does predictive forecasting with POS Systems and Salesforce work for a small business?
askotter reads POS Systems and Salesforce side by side so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account. Forecasts that update as your numbers change, with a likely range attached.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From POS Systems
- Transaction data, Product-level sales, Customer identification.
- From Salesforce
- Leads and opportunities, Account and contact data, Pipeline stages and velocity.
- Status
- POS Systems and Salesforce are on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing POS Systems or Salesforce. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Can you trust your forecast for next month?
Most small business forecasts are last year's numbers in a spreadsheet. They miss that your ad spend doubled this quarter or that the busy season started early.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads POS Systems and Salesforce side by side, so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account.
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How POS Systems and Salesforce records line up
POS Systems and Salesforce both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Both tools can hold a phone number. Numbers are normalised to one international format before matching, which catches customers who never gave an email.
Shared between the two: the customer email address and the phone number.
What predictive forecasting uses from each
Predictive forecasting needs enough history to see the seasonal pattern.
From POS Systems that means daily sales by location and item. From Salesforce it means open pipeline by stage and close date.
POS Systems and Salesforce are on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
POS Systems on its own
A POS sees the sale at the counter. It only knows who bought when the customer gave a phone number or email for a receipt or loyalty account.
Timing. Many POS systems settle and export transactions in end-of-day batches.
Access. The POS vendor's API where one exists, or a daily export.
Salesforce on its own
Salesforce sees leads, accounts and opportunities. It knows which campaign produced a lead only when someone records it there.
Timing. Salesforce opportunity stages move when someone updates them, so pipeline data is as current as the team's CRM habits.
Access. A connected app with read-only access to Lead, Contact, Account and Opportunity.
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