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Handshake Overview

What is Handshake?

Handshake: B2B customer ordering and sales rep order entry solutions. Handshake is for companies like brands, manufacturers and distributors who are selling to retail stores or other business customers. For customer ordering - Handshake helps you provide a modern B2B eCommerce experience for easy online ordering and a mobile app for shelf-side orders when your customers are out on the floor. For sales rep ordering - Handshake provides a dedicated sales rep app that gives them the customer, product, pricing and inventory information they need to have better customer conversations. Orders can be entered fast and submitted instantly.

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Product Description

Handshake is a sales order management app for wholesale.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Handshake is the B2B commerce platform that helps you be closer to your B2B customers.

Not just a leading B2B eCommerce company, Handshake also provides seamless ordering solutions for sales reps in the field so you have a single view of both your in-person and online sales channels.

Our customer ordering solution, Handshake Direct is your very own B2B eCommerce website, but also gives your buyers the convenience of a mobile ordering app. This is critical for many companies whose customers are often working in a stockroom, or on the floor of a retail store and need to scan products easily and easily create reorders using their phone.

Handshake Rep lets sales reps at appointments or tradeshows write orders fast, with the product and customer information they need to have more strategic customer conversations.

Handshake's customer success teams are also industry-leading, providing training and seamless integration of Handshake into your ERP.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2011
HQ Location
New York, NY
Twitter
@handshake
1,626 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
7 employees on LinkedIn®

Mike E.
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Recent Handshake Reviews

Amanda F.
AF
Amanda F.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Useful and Efficient"
Handshake allows me to easily share opportunities with a target audience, collect information necessary, and keep track of interactions with and th...
JD
JULIA D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
0.0 out of 5
"Basic wholesale b2b"
Created linking trees (categories) for you based of similarities in your products/skus
Alec J.
AJ
Alec J.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Handshake was a terrific program, but it's been retired"
We sell a very visual, physical product. Handshake was focused on visual presentation, and supported high-resolution photos. It was a great way for...
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Handshake Media

Handshake Demo - Handshake Direct B2B eCommerce
Easy customer ordering on the web or mobile.
Handshake Demo - Handshake Direct B2B eCommerce Website
Your very own B2B eCommerce website and mobile app.
Handshake Demo - Handshake Rep Sales Order Entry App
Fast, intuitive order entry for sales reps
Handshake Demo - Handshake Rep B2B order entry app for sales reps
Customer, product, pricing and inventory information on-hand
Handshake Demo - A single, powerful website to manage your orders
Easily keep track of all your orders, customers, and inventory
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What do you like best about Handshake?

The ease of the UI in job searching. It is so simple to navigate and filter for what you are looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

There can be many different sections in Handshake (to look for jobs, make appointments, etc) and it's not always clear how to get to each section or what sections all exist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Figuring out what job opportunities are available for me along with making appointments easily with the career services team in Pepperdine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Handshake?

Helps me make orders easily / email orders / create estimates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

Does not allow my customers to place orders / constant changes in plan Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

- I can make orders easily

- email orders to my warehouse

- add pictures and edit pricing

- print orders

- create estimates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicole C.
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What do you like best about Handshake?

I love the ease of learning Handshake, it has been simple for us to grow the business to online also. Handshake has a beautiful outline and great functionality. Handshake has been easy for our Sales Team to create orders and submit them efficiently. I love that they can write notes on each order so our warehouse and merchandisers can know what to expect when they are out on the field. Quickbooks syncs with Handshake in a time frame that we can choose which is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

It seems to have technical issues lately. But it is still doing justice, and better than what we had before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Handshake:

I love handshake so far. This company is definitely worth looking into. You get what you pay for, for sure! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ease of setting up an online platform for our online store. I am loving all of the detailed reports that we are able to run with handshake, for each salesman and for different routes. It makes keeping track of our companies growth easy and accurate! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Handshake?

I used handshake as a portal for finding jobs and the most useful thing I found about was the the listing and compilation of jobs at one place. There are useful filters which help you to sort jobs of your choice and capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

Handshake could have a better portal to connect to recruiters which I think is missing there! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Handshake really acts as a catalyst and speedifys the process of job hunt for you! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Handshake?

Sends you notifications of jobs that suit your interests, companies are able to send you messages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

Too many job postings, old ones are not deleted so you see a bunch of invalid job postings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Handshake:

Indicate as much interests as possible on your profile so the number of jobs matched will increase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Used while in college applying for an internship or a job Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tim H.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Handshake?

This software helped us go from manual order entry form on paper to remote syncing and bulk monitoring of orders with historical records. This has improved our operation in so many ways! We could not do what we do without Handshake. Handshake has a great support staff. Our issues are rare but when they do arise(usually our fault) we are assisted immediately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

... When my coffee gets cold! We have 0 complaints about handshake service or functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Handshake:

Know what you want to do because Handshake has worked with us to achieve our future goals, even when the functionality wasn't currently available to HS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to serve our population of almost 15,000 students on a weekly basis. We stay organized and can hit a 2 hr turn around for emergency orders. Our syncing of Handshake to our Inventory ERP gives us the ability to instantly have all orders in house once placed. High need Emergency Orders are delivered to students within a 2-3 hour window. Handshake helps us address and execute immediate high impact interventions when children are going without. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akash B.
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What do you like best about Handshake?

Simplicity of customer facing portal, makes it easy for our clients (small business owners) to easily login and place orders. Migration of data from QB ( through Boomi ) was easy and we only have to to receive new items in one place (Quickbooks) which saves a bunch of data entry time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

Lack of automation in approving customers, it's a manual process which can take up time. The support team takes forever to answer tickets and they don't properly follow up on tickets once they have responded. I've had to reach out to my AM on several occasions to help expedite a support request after it's been unattended for week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Handshake:

Look into a shopify password protected website for a cheaper solution. Where shopify lacks in B2B it more than make sup in CRM integrations and website interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reduce time spend on phone writing orders, making re-orders easier for the customer, and properly showcasing our entire catalog to customers easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Handshake?

With handshake it is so easy to add products onto our online store. It's easy to change prices, make active or inactive . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

Sometimes we get glitches that do not allow me to confirm an order. Also, sometimes the orderes dont sync with my quickbooks/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Handshake:

I dont have any recommendations at the moment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

The benefits are that our customers can take their time and place their order on their own online. Which makes it easier for them and easier for us as well. It has cleared our lines a little so we don't have many missed calls because our customers are utilizing the website to place orders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Handshake?

The app is great! Being able to search accounts and products is the best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

The app works best on the iPhone, but other devices seem to lag. Usually the newer the device the better it works. I’m not sure why, but my brand new iPhone, it works perfect, but a brand new iPad, it lags, and anything older than a year and a half it just doesn’t work the way it should. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Handshake:

It’s great, just make sure, you have updated technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to take orders and have them immediately synced to my office. Once it’s synced to my office they can give me updates on those orders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Handshake?

I enjoy it when a customer calls me and I can look them up while I have them on the cell phone. No matter where I am I can put the customer on speaker phone pull the phone away from my ear and I can see their past orders, address and contact info quickly and easily. I love it when customers say, "Wow, you have a good memory!" when I'm actually just using Handshake. Thanks Handshake for making me look like RainMan! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Handshake?

With the new iOS update it seems to crash often when switching from customer to customer and placing multiple orders quickly.

I wish there was an address look up on the app. If I get stuck forgetting a customer name and need to look a customer up by an address I have to wait until I get back to the office and use an old fashion computer, mouse and keyboard.

Also, Handshake has a tough time when copying and pasting new customer data from notepad into the Handshake app. I often pop between notepad and Handshake when adding new customer info. For example when I copy the customer name out of notepad and paste it into the name field in Handshake then pop back over to note pad and copy the phone number out of note pad and go to put the number into Handshake the name field has disappeared. Handshake seems to not be able to keep up with the sync and then just looses the info. I find myself pasting the name into the name field of Handshake several times before it sticks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Handshake:

Easy to use for on the go billing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Handshake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Billing is a breeze! I run a lawn mowing company and my product skus are services like lawn mowing, fertilizing, hourly labor charges and shrub trimming. You don't actually need a physical product to make Handshake work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.