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What is Autoship?

Autoship is an automatic ordering program whereby representatives or customers of a direct selling company can place orders with the company that are shipped automatically on a periodic basis (usually monthly).

What can Autoship do for my business?

Autoship accomplishes several company goals:

1. It encourages the placement of orders on a regular basis by its sales representatives.
2. Since effort is required to cancel an autoship, representatives will order products over a longer period of time than they would otherwise.
3. Sales representatives don’t need to remember to order to meet their personal sales volume requirement.
4. When offered to customers of representatives, autoship increases the value of the distributor’s business by providing a recurring income on recurring sales between the company and the customers.
5. Autoship can be used to help balance the volumes of orders to be packed and shipped throughout the month.
6. Autoship helps to increase the rate of retention of both sales representatives and customers.
7. When you know the percentage of company sales attributable to autoship, you can predict next month’s total sales volume.

What types of products can be sold through Autoship?

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