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2. Simplify and Automate

your Business Processes:

Business Rules, Workflows and

Alerts

Continuous development in technology has greatly improved
the flow of information through a business. It is now easier
than ever for the right people to receive the right information
at the point of decision making. This is achieved through
features like predefined triggered alerts, schedule and
exception reporting, user-specific dashboards, reports, data
drills or pivot tables.

It is important that your system helps you drive business
processes and enforces your own business rules and logic.
For instance, new customers may need to go through an
approval process or you may require purchase orders over a
certain value to be passed by a manager. You may want to be
alerted when a sales order over a certain value is logged or
may want a daily report of unfulfilled sales orders.

Modern systems push this information out to you and provide
a user interface that enables you to define the condition you
want to be alerted to. For quick and easy enforcement of your
business, this is indispensable.

Some key capabilities for growing merchants include:

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