General

Nowadays, the competition in the foreign trade industry is fierce, and improving internal management performance and reducing costs have become practical interests pursued by foreign trade enterprises. Many enterprises choose to use foreign trade software to improve efficiency, but how to choose the appropriate foreign trade software for themselves?

1、 Would you like to choose the standard version or a secondary development based on the standard version?

The standard version is a mature solution version developed by software development companies in advance based on the needs of most enterprises in the market. Secondary development, in simple terms, involves customizing and modifying existing standard versions, expanding functions, and meeting enterprise requirements. Generally speaking, it does not change the original system core (software design concept). If the company's business and standard version processes are very consistent, choose standard.

2、 Understand the main business directions of software developers

Each software developer's main business direction is different, and the distribution of profit sections is different, such as business management, customer relationship management, email management, etc. Before purchasing foreign trade software, it is necessary to distinguish their main business direction. This can be directly learned from their official website.

3、 Don't blindly believe in internet search rankings

Search rankings no longer have practical significance. Most of them are spent on attracting traffic and advertising, and people are more likely to read a few more pages.

4、 Post service

This is very important, as post service is the basic guarantee for providing software. Generally, software developers will give away one year of service, and after one year, they will provide paid services. The specific service fees vary from company to company, and most of them are calculated based on the ratio of software sales amount.

5、 Telephone communication, listening to the professionalism of foreign trade knowledge

Nowadays, with the development of the internet, it is not necessary to have registered a local developer for foreign trade software. Relatively speaking, finding a professional foreign trade developer is more important than finding a local developer.

6、 Security of data

Before collaborating, carefully identify and after working with a software developer, don't worry that the developer will steal your data. If you are worried, don't cooperate. Software and networks are everywhere. If the developer intends to steal your business data, whether it is a standalone version or a network version, as long as you open the software in a network environment, you can steal it. So before collaborating, it's important to carefully identify and trust software developers unconditionally!

7、 Compare from deposit ratio and final payment date

Most of the two parties are cooperating for the first time. In order to increase mutual trust and cooperate in later testing, foreign trade software developers usually require customers to pay a partial deposit after signing the contract. However, each developer requires a slightly different payment ratio. Relatively speaking, the party with a smaller deposit is more trustworthy, Because a mature business management software needs to go through two processes: software engineers' "detail optimization" and "printing template development", it is impossible to waste a lot of time on it for a small deposit! The final payment date should not be too early, as most software developers require payment of the final payment within a week of the software's official use. This cycle is too short, and it doesn't matter if the reputation is very good and the after-sales service is done very well. Because multiple departments work together to continuously input several complete sets of business documents to discover the details of the software. Of course, enterprises should strengthen software testing during formal software testing to avoid unnecessary trouble in the future.