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Custom Hierarchies and Classes

Trade Promotion Management

Custom Attributes offer a more sophisticated method to partition financials for planning and tracking. Use custom attribute tags to partition into unique groupings for your brand.

Confido Accounting Integrations

Cash Application + Deductions

Confido has a two-way sync with your GL, and the ability to push checks directly from the platform.

Splitting Deductions

Cash Application + Deductions

‍For CPG brands that have multiple product lines or sell to retailers via distributors, it's important to split deductions in order to have visibility into spend buckets per product and per retailer. In Confido, we can automatically split all chargebacks out by retailer and product, which is a major unlock for brands trying to build Retailer and SKU P&Ls.

Creating a New Promotion Event

Trade Promotion Management

Confido has a native trade promotion planner where users can create promotional events, which will sync into the sales forecast and automatch with the deduction.

Sales Re-forecasting

Sales Forecasting

Create re-forecasts and merge forecasts together from your entire sales team. Collaborative forecasting workflows so you can through away those excel sheets.

Creating Approval Workflows

Trade Promotion Management

Collaborate across the organization. Need the ops team to verify a shortage deduction? Need the sales team to verify a promotion? Create approvals for the entire team through Confido with configurable thresholds and limits.

Sales Forecast Variance Call-outs

Sales Forecasting

Fast moving consumer goods brands can have hundreds of lines in the sales forecast that require re-forecasting and changing every month. Confido uses AI/ML to provide recommendations to accelerate this process.

Team Access Controls

Trade Promotion Management

Create a Manager-level for each team member and manage access to individual modules.

Create a Dispute

Cash Application + Deductions

Not all deductions are valid. Confido has a native dispute tool that will flag high-likelihood disputes and submit disputes.

Net Sales View

Trade Promotion Management

‍Trade rate is an important metric for sales teams to understand the performance of their promotion events, telling them the ratio between trade spend and revenue.

Reporting

Cash Application + Deductions

Confido's Reporting modules allows users to slice and dice deduction data by retailer, reason, product, sales owner, and more, to drill down and understand their spend buckets.

Promotion Performance and Analytics

Trade Promotion Management

Promotion Analytics charts are used to display weekly syndicated sales actuals, showing base and lift units over time, overlaid with average retail price.

Confido Supported Retailer + Distributors

Cash Application + Deductions

Here is a list of all the retailer + distributors that Confido currently supports. Confido's software will pull payments and backup directly from retailer / distributor portals + email, and automatically code each deduction for you to review in our Cash Application tool.

Shipment and Consumption Forecasting

Sales Forecasting

The ship to forecast side rolls up the forecasts from the planning groups and shifts your data by a specified amount of time to simulate the timing difference between consumption and shipment data

Trade Accruals

Trade Promotion Management

A complete view of trade accruals, actuals, and open accruals, linked with live deduction data so you can track your accruals in real time.

Validation Rules

Cash Application + Deductions

As users are reviewing, many payments will have multiple lines created due to splitting. We've built validation rules to help users streamline this review process by creating a soft-requirement for various line item fields base on others when reviewing a payment.

Opportunities + Forecasting Scenario Analysis

Sales Forecasting

Expanding distribution is a key input into forecasts and scenario planning, which users can configure through opportunities, in the Sales Forecast section.

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