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What is the difference between a front office and a back office?

The front office attracts and converts people — pages, booking, content, CRM and follow-up.

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WHAT IT ISThe front office attracts and converts people — pages, booking, content, CRM and follow-up. The back office processes the business once they buy — orders, commissions and payouts. Most teams need both. Upward is the front office: it can run standalone or connect to a compatible back office through developer APIs, so each system does what it does best.

How it works

Think of the front office as growth and the back office as operations. Front-office tools are used daily by members to create conversations; back-office tools are used by the company to process results.

Example

A member books a call through Upward (front office); the customer then orders through the company's back office, and a compatible integration can pass that status back to Upward.

How Upward addresses it

Upward is the front office: it can run standalone or connect to a compatible back office through developer APIs, so each system does what it does best.

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