General

How to choose foreign trade software? First of all, we should clarify the business type of the company:

1. Agency procurement foreign trade companies: The main management process is to help foreigners place purchase orders, receive goods and load containers in the market or factory, and then charge commissions from foreigners, or earn price differences. The main management difficulty is that there are a lot of data in order, receipt, loading and customer invoice. It is very inconvenient to query the history in excel, and the inventory and non-receipt data cannot be automatically counted; The work of making customer invoices and customer bills is repetitive and prone to errors;

2. Self-operated procurement foreign trade company: It means that there are physical stores, sales networks, chain supermarkets, etc. in foreign countries. Domestic companies are responsible for purchasing products, while foreign companies are responsible for sales. Domestic companies are equivalent to a procurement department. The main management pain point in China is the unification of product data, such as the consistency of barcode and article number, and the inability to effectively query historical information;

3. Production-oriented foreign trade company: that is, it has its own factory, specializes in producing products of a certain industry, and develops its own customers all over the world;

4. Trade-oriented foreign trade companies: The company has no factories and does not produce products. It mainly accepts orders from international stations, major trade platforms, and various exhibitions, and then connects with relevant factories. As a middleman, it uses the way of formal customs declaration and export of products, collects money from corporate accounts, and earns product price differences and tax rebates;

Select appropriate foreign trade software according to the company's own business management mode

1. Purchasing agent type foreign trade company: At present, only our foreign trade software is specially designed for this business process. Other software needs to adjust the operation process and specific details, but it may not be appropriate in the end;

2. Self-procurement foreign trade companies and trade-oriented foreign trade companies: there is no general foreign trade software in the market, which conforms to the business process, and users must customize or secondary develop.

3. Production-oriented foreign trade companies: At present, most of the foreign trade software on the market are very suitable for this type of foreign trade companies, and such general software, as well as mail management, customer development and other functions, is actually more suitable.