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A smooth system is a must when you're selling fitness


Cape Town, 21 Jun 2018

A business with 10 000 different product numbers needs some way of keeping track of the economic side of the business, as well as the logistics and daily workflow.

So, when Fitness Engros set out looking for a new business management system, user-friendliness, flexibility and accessibility were essential criteria in its search. When the dust settled, it was Uniconta that was victorious.

Fact sheet
Solution: Uniconta
Industry: Exercise
Provider: Uniconta
User: Fitness Engros

You want it, you got it

"Our whole set-up requires agility and customisation," explains Thomas Bogelund, CFO at Fitness Engros. "We have so many different product numbers to keep track of and we need to be able to list them in several different ways, depending on whether they are for the sales team or the service technicians.

"Our whole business concept is about individual customisation, which is perfectly aligned with Uniconta's concept of allowing their users to set up their own individual layout, add their own fields and all the other features that allow each Uniconta user to get the exact functionality that they want."

Fitness Engros is one of the largest resellers of fitness equipment and machinery to the professional market in Scandinavia. It offers a wide range of brands covering the whole spectrum of fitness solutions, from apartment building fitness centres to advanced, high quality equipment for professional fitness chains and physiotherapists.

A good team

Fitness Engros' strength is the wide range of products it offers, but the amount of product item numbers in play really gets up there when spare parts need to be available in the warehouse for hundreds of different machines from several different brands. Fitness Engros also services the equipment, so its technicians need to be able to order the replacement parts and products while they are out at a customer site.

"That's why it was so important for us to find a system like Uniconta, which is so accessible," Bogelund explains. "We use the B2B webshop solution as well as the warehouse and logistics module in Uniconta, but we also have a third-party mobile service that makes life easier for our service technicians. Fortunately for us, the systems all work seamlessly together."

How the decision was made

"Our reseller showed us a Uniconta demo company that he had exported our own company data into, to create. It was quickly clear that Uniconta really suited our demands. It's flexibility and user-friendliness made it an easy decision. The shift from the old C5 system also went smoothly," Bogelund explains.

Bogelund's advice to others looking to switch is threefold: "Planning, planning, planning. It really pays to be patient and not rush into something that has not been fully thought through. Take time to predict and think it through. Think, for example, about the details of your invoicing needs and packing slips, etc, before you make the decision."

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