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Agricultural commodity traders · CRM

Keep every buyer, grade and balance in one record, not in one partner's head.

A CRM for a commodity trader is a shared record of each buyer, the grades they take, the samples sent and the balance owed. GullySales sets up the fields, loads your existing buyers and teaches the team to fill it as they trade.

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What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Sales and marketing for agricultural commodity traders, the overview.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For agricultural commodity traders

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “A notebook cannot match a lot to a buyer at short notice”

    When a lot arrives, the partner thinks of who bought that grade last. A record that lists buyers by commodity and grade finds more of them in less time and lets another person make the calls when the partner is at the mandi.

  • “Outstanding balance belongs next to the buyer, not in the accounts alone”

    A salesperson who offers a lot to a buyer with an old unpaid balance creates a quarrel. When the CRM shows the balance and the age beside the buyer, the offer and the credit decision are made together.

  • “Quality disputes need an owner and a close date”

    A complaint recorded in a message thread is forgotten by the next lot. A dispute field with the lot, the claim and the settlement keeps the next conversation honest, and shows the partners which buyers carry an open claim.

What we do

What we deliver for agricultural commodity traders.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Buyer and grade record

    Fields for commodity, grade, usual lot size, season, payment habit, contact roles and last purchase.

    Result: Search by commodity and grade returns the buyers who took it before.

  2. Sample register

    Each sample sent with date, buyer, grade, test result and whether an order followed.

    Result: You can see which samples are waiting for an answer.

  3. Balance view by buyer

    Outstanding amount and age linked to each buyer from your accounts.

    Result: The balance appears next to the buyer before any offer.

  4. Dispute log

    The lot, the claim, the person handling it and the settlement.

    Result: Open claims are listed, with owner and status.

  5. Data loading and team practice

    Your buyer list cleaned and loaded, with a short routine for entering a call or sale as it happens.

    Result: Everyone on the team enters a call in the same way.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Fields worth keeping

Keep these fields against every buyer.

Grades bought
The partner or manager who closes the sale fills it, and it lets any seller match an arriving lot to the right buyer.
Usual lot size
Filled after each sale. It tells the team whether a buyer is worth a call for a small lot or only for a vehicle load.
Payment habit
Filled by whoever follows up on payment, and it decides how much stock is released before the last balance is cleared.
Outstanding balance and date
Entered from the accounts, shown beside the buyer, so a seller sees the dues before promising the next lot.
Open quality dispute and owner
The person who handles the complaint fills it. It stops a new lot going to a buyer whose earlier complaint is still open.

Who it is for

This is written for these agricultural commodity traders.

  • Grain and rice traders supplying millers and wholesalers
  • Pulse and dal traders serving processors and retail chains
  • Spice and dry chilli traders selling to masala makers and exporters
  • Oilseed and edible oil raw material traders for crushing units
  • Fruit and vegetable aggregators selling to markets and organised retail
  • Cotton, jute and fibre traders supplying spinning and processing units
  • Jaggery, sugar and sweetener traders
  • Cashew, areca and plantation crop traders buying from growers' groups

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Nobody will enter a sale or a payment on the day it happens, so the record would be behind the notebook and no one would trust it.
  • The partners will not share balances beyond themselves, so a record meant for the whole team would stay half empty.

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Do we need special software?
Not at the start. A well-built sheet or a simple CRM that your team will open every day works. We help pick one that suits the team's phones and habits, and then load the data.
Who should be allowed to see balances?
The partners decide. Some firms keep full balance detail for partners and show the sales team only a flag. We set the access to match your decision.
Can the notebook and the record run together for a while?
Yes, but name one as the master. If a buyer's balance differs between the two, the team will argue over which is right. Pick the record as the master from a set start, and carry the notebook's open balances into it once.
How do we protect buyer details if a munim leaves?
Give each person access only to what their work needs, and keep the master record under the owner's control. A munim who leaves then takes memory with them but not the full buyer list, grades and balances.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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