You currently spend an average of 50€ per customer visit, all expenses considered. With portatour^®, one additional visit per day is possible, meaning 20 additional visits per month. This generates added value equivalent to 1000€ per field rep and per month.
In addition, following call suggestions proposed by portatour^® leads to more frequent visits to important A customers and thus higher turnover per customer. Customers with lower priority are visited less frequently, in accordance with the call interval - but are not forgotten!
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No; portatour^® does not store GPS records of drives. portatour^® is not a de-motivational and legally questionable surveillance tool. Instead, portatour^® is a great help for field reps. Visiting more customers, driving fewer miles, and spending less spare time for planning is a big motivation for field reps.

Yes, portatour^® works with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016, Siebel CRM, Sugar CRM and other CRM/ERP systems. More information here.

You can enter the appointment directly into portatour^®. portatour^® detects conflicts in your schedule and optimizes your itinerary to reflect the revised schedule. That way, you still have an optimized route even if your schedule changes. By the way: all your appointments will be synchronized with Salesforce^®.

In order to calculate better and more realistic routes for you, portatour^® uses historical traffic data as the basis for its optimization algorithm. “Historical traffic data” are speed data collected by navigation system and mobile phone providers through measuring the travel data of millions of drivers and providing them to us for the respective road sections in the form of a big data base, which portatour^® uses for route optimization. Live traffic data is only a snapshot of the situation and is not taken into account for planning. Use the navigation system of your vehicle or smartphone. portatour^® can start your smartphone's navigation system at the push of a button.

Yes. Import your new customers into Salesforce^® and portatour^® calculates optimized route plans for you to reach new customers in the most efficient way in addition to attending to your existing customers.

portatour^® is an online-web-application with support for offline data storage. In situations without internet connection, your most important data is readily available offline in your browser. portatour^® is optimized for using a low bandwidth, as is typical for mobile use. Being a web-application, it removes the need for installation and updates on your mobile devices and leverages the computing power of the portatour^® server farm for route-optimization.

portatour^® is suitable for any size of business:  From a one-person company to large corporations with 1,000+ field staff. Users come from many different industries: Pharmaceutical, medical, cosmetic, food, industrial and commercial needs, wholesale, collection agencies, toys, paper and stationery, merchandise, chemicals, paints and coatings, electronics, workshop supplies, craft supplies, car accessories, optics, drinks, food and beverage, tobacco, heating and sanitary, market research, mystery shopping, building services, sports and leisure goods, clothing and textiles, machinery, spare parts, materials, furniture and equipment, telecommunications, dental needs.

When receiving your account data you also get access to tutorial videos and PDF manuals in English and German. Within the application you will find online help. Additionally, our support team is happy to help you via email. Read more about help & support here. Optionally, we offer individual online setup workshops and user trainings for you and your team.

portatour^® is used for route planning in field sales with regular client calls, one-time visits as part of a product launch, pricing and inventory control in outlets, mystery shopping, new customer acquisition, recurring service activities. It creates an optimized route-plan for a travelling salesman with multiple stops.

Would you like to present the sales-tour-planning software portatour^® to your company? We are happy to prepare an online presentation for your management, sales management, IT management and key sales representatives, where we cater to your situation and answer individual questions. Contact us today.

Yes. Sign up for a free trial of portatour^® Anywhere, a web-version without further requirements. The trial license will automatically expire after 30 days and is limited to one field rep. There are no costs. You can also try an integration with the CRM of your choice.

portatour^® can be used for centralized, decentralized and combined route planning. Decentralized planning means that the field reps plan their routes themselves using portatour^®. This is the most common way portatour^® is used, as – especially in field sales – it is particularly important to adjust when appointments change and flexibly satisfy customer needs (more information in this article). Centralized planning is the case when back-office staff uses portatour^® to plan routes for the field rep team. A combined method is possible: back-office arranges appointments with customers and creates an initial plan which is then adapted dynamically by the field reps who also use portatour^® to fill gaps with additional customer visits.

No; portatour^® is a sales-route planner and therefore requires an assignment of customers to sales representatives. For sales region planning, we work with partners proficient in geomarketing.

No – portatour^® is a “software as a service” application. You subscribe to portatour^® as a service and save yourself costs for server hardware, software, installation, maintenance and operation. portatour^® is ready from the first day, is constantly updated, works on any device with a web browser and uses the computing power of the portatour^® server farm. You can choose between quarterly and annual payments.
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portatour^® uses the most advanced security standards: The communication between the device and portatour^® servers is SSL encrypted; to gain access you need a username and password. The portatour^® servers are protected by firewalls; data is stored on encrypted disks on multiple database servers. The data centre has biometric access control and video surveillance . We do not share your data with third parties. More information on data security at portatour®.

portatour^® is designed for high availability: Multiple redundant high performance servers with automatic load balancing and failsafes, 24/7-Monitoring with automatic alarm, redundant fiber connectivity to the Internet, redundant power supply, additionally UPS and diesel generator, redundant air conditioning and fire alarm system with smoke detection and extinguishing system.

Do you already have a trial or paid account? Then you received your personal access link in an email with subject “your trial account” or “your account”. If you are an employee of an enterprise using portatour^®, you receive your access link from your administrator. Your access link works on PCs, smartphones, and tablets. If you do not have an account yet, you can sign up for a free trial here.