ByDesign Technologies Wins Prestigious DSA Partnership Award

ByDesign and the Freedom Platform Receive Highest Distinction in the industry

ByDesign Technologies, the leading provider of software for the direct selling industry, today announced that it has been named the winner of the Direct Selling Association’s Partnership Award. ByDesign is the first back office software company to win this prestigious award in twenty-one years.

“The Partnership Award is the highest award given to any supplier from the association. It is a great honor to have the opportunity to work side-by-side with our clients as a true partner'” said Daryl Wurzbacher, CEO of ByDesign. ” We consider our team an extension of the clients we serve, and we are extremely proud that our contributions to their success have been recognized with such a meaningful award,” continued Wurzbacher.

ByDesign’s Freedom Platform is a turnkey solution that allows flexible configuration and includes open API’s proven to meet the needs of any sized client. Their services include commissions and genealogy, replicating websites, e-commerce shopping, client branded mobile app and a suite of tools for representatives. Freedom is the highest rated and reviewed Direct Selling, Party Plan and MLM Software by Gartner.

“My experience at ByDesign Technologies is to the point where I would recommend that anyone who is considering a new software provider take full advantage of the depth and feature richness of the ByDesign solution and not bother looking elsewhere. Since our launch, ByDesign has demonstrated what it means to be a great partner. We depend on them for their innovation so we can focus on supporting our consultants and our customers. I could not think of a more deserving company to win the 2018 DSA Partnership Award”, said Trevor Merrick, COO of Clever Container Company, LLC.

The DSA Partnership Award recognizes Supplier companies that provide a product or service that has had a measurable impact on the growth or development of a direct selling member company or increases the profitability of a member. ByDesign was selected due to their relentless pursuit of serving the industry through innovative software and outstanding support.

The Direct Selling Association (DSA) is the national trade association for companies that offer entrepreneurial opportunities to independent sellers to market and sell products and services. More than 20 million Americans are involved in direct selling in every state, congressional district and community in the United States.

• The Authorized .Net process for tokenized payments was introduced for Shopping Cart, Signup and AutoShip profiles via Extranet and Revolution. This enhancement will also support voids and refunds.
• The Revolution Customer reports capabilities were expanded by adding functionality from the Classic Personal and Customer reports and added new features (e.g., Search Filters, Search Ranges, Action Items, Results Features, Exporting, etc.) to assist Revolution Pro users in the management of their Customer base.
• Created new Party Order View which shows details of orders associated with a Party through Revolution
• New Party Setting to allow new orders to direct through the shopping cart as well as the party department.
• Optimized the speed of the Duplicate Orders of the Same Inventory Item report.
• Updated the Revolution Native App to better handle notifications with special characters or emoji’s better.
• Improved the user experience with by introducing a loading indicator during search screens.
• Rebuilt the Cancel AutoShip profile for Rep/Customer page in the new Service Oriented Architecture initiative.
• Modernized the Freedom Landing Page’s design.
• Inside the Compensation Plan Engine, an expansion of the number of configurable columns that may have a mathematical operation applied has been performed.
• Improved the enrollment process through Extranet to more efficient at calculating shipping.
• Updated the My Edit Profile page within Revolution to work with the Revolution App while still verifying anti-forgery tokens to prevent against CSRF attacks.
• Improved AutoShip by End Date report generation to now better handle null records.
• Enhanced the process when creating AutoShip orders from profiles to appropriately add the phone number to both the billing and shipping information when configured to do so.
• Improved response time while loading product pages in the Shopping Cart.
• Enhanced the system to make the two AutoResponders, “Customer Password Reset” and “Customer Password Reset Confirmation”, to  send immediately bypassing the standard AutoResponder queue.
• Enhanced the AutoShip process to recalculate taxes after AutoShip Promotions have been applied.
• Improved AutoResponder for refunds to better represent refunded amount.

Leveraging the New Compensation Plan Reports

You spoke, we listened and delivered! Our Revolution Pro features are now more powerful, convenient and easily provides the necessary information for your field to be successful.

Multiple bonus reports can be shown as a widget on the Dashboard

The Rank Progress widget shows the qualifications for the next rank and lets a representative know what they have achieved towards the next rank and how close they are to the achieving the next rank.

The current rank is displayed as widgets to help a representative easily view and maintain the rank. In the example shown the rank displayed is Elite as that is the current rank of the representative. These are dynamic and as soon as the next rank is achieved, the representative will be able to see the qualifications for that rank. These are also drillable to provide further information if necessary.

In addition, we added a bonus report that shows the current month’s running total commissions!

Commissions tab with additional options

Allows for multiple views (Self/Personally Sponsored/Downline/Group) so that a representative can view the report in the way that is most useful to them.

Added Genealogy level and linkage indication.

There are now other reports that can show on the Contact Cards.  In this example the Rank Qualification reports are configured to only show the applicable reports for the representative’s current and next rank.

All these configurations are flexible and can be tailored to your business needs! Contact Client Support today for configuration of these new features and to assist with any additional questions.

 

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