I spent years on the road myself. Every week filling in order forms, calculating prices on a pocket calculator and retyping everything into the PC in the evening. I know that world inside out — from carbon paper to the quotation that arrived too late at the warehouse.
When I switched to an iPad it became faster and neater. But it stayed double work: first at the customer, then again behind the PC. One day I decided: if it doesn't exist, I'll build it myself.
"SalesOnIPad is not software from a company that only knows sales by hearsay. It was built by someone who himself took orders from customers every week — every button exists because a salesperson found it useful." — The builder of SalesOnIPad
Order forms and quotations by hand, retyping everything in the PC in the evening. Familiar, but slow and error-prone.
Faster and neater, each customer with their own tab. But still twice the work: at the customer and behind the PC.
"If it doesn't exist, I'll build it myself." One app that captures and sends the order — offline, on the spot, without retyping.