Automatically Build and Output Weekly Circular Ads (and Versions) With LAGO
Weekly circular ads and flyers (printed or digital) are the lifeblood of a retailer’s marketing program. The larger the retailer and its inventory of products, the more challenging it is to produce compelling and accurate flyers using SKU data that promote high-margin products. Even more challenging is to create multiple versions of that same flyer that support various regions and markets.
Comosoft LAGO is the industry-leading retail circular production software for complete automated production and management for both print and digital weekly circular ads.
Build Circulars Faster and More
Accurately With The Integrated InDesign
In today’s competitive market, you need to show your customers the most updated product information quickly and accurately to influence their purchasing decisions before they go to a competitor.
The LAGO Layout InDesign plugin gives graphic designers and production artists creative autonomy and greater efficiency with automated SKU-based layouts. In addition, it seamlessly integrates with Adobe InDesign to directly communicate with your assets (DAM) and data (PIM) to eliminate manual typesetting and image placement. No matter the size of the weekly circular ad or its many versions,
LAGO’s logic-driven InDesign templates automate page building and
ensure consistent branding, eliminating the risks of user error.
Automatically Optimize and Output Complex Versioning
No matter how many languages or regional variations your print circulars or catalogs require, you can automatically optimize the minimal number of versions needed and output for print production. The LAGO Version Optimization module makes it possible with a built-in algorithm that evaluates data fields within the Adobe InDesign document. As a result, production artists and graphic designers can do away with manually building individual versions based on variable data (like pricing or product availability), eliminate the extensive proofing process associated with each of those versions, and remove the possibility of errors from data interpretation. In addition, the weekly circular workflow becomes easily controlled for production managers, collaboration for proofing and approval is seamless, and final files are easily out for print and digital channel.
Increase Efficiency by Streamlining Production & Collaboration
Powerful PIM & DAM Integration
Turn complex product data into well-designed circular ads quickly and efficiently while merchandisers prioritize items with high margins or excess inventory.
Integrated InDesign Plugin For Automatic Page Building
Give designers creative autonomy, accountability, and greater efficiency with dynamic layouts that can build content automatically.
Collaborative Workflow & Proofing
A web-based system powered by Adobe InDesign Server provides user-friendly commenting tools and intuitive task lists for an all-inclusive proofing process.
Optimize Circular Ad Versioning
Automate the output of all versioning no matter how many languages or regional variations you require.
Streamline Print Planning & Publishing
Manage printers, batch versioning, and automatically export final files and data to defined print service providers.
Multichannel Production Output
Manage and output content (including XML files) from your print production to publish online interactive digital circular.
LAGO Customer Success Stories
Photo courtesy of Bass Pro Shops
Bass Pro Shops
Bass Pro Shops is the leading national retailer of outdoor gear and apparel with 200 retail and marine center locations across North America.
Photo courtesy of Lowe’s
Lowe’s Home Improvement
Founded in 1921, home improvement chain Lowe’s has become a Fortune 50 retailer, with over 2,000 locations and 300,000-plus employees worldwide.
Retail Circular Production Insights from Comosoft
The retail customer experience is not an easily definable event—or even a series of events. It’s a complex relationship, not a checklist of dos and don’ts. And, like all relationships, it takes time and effort to develop.
Brand consistency is about providing your customers with the same experience and impression of who you are as a company when they interact with you, no matter the marketing avenue or communication channel.
E-commerce brands need a way to manage consistent, high-quality product information across print and digital channels. PIM systems can provide that single source of truth.
The global product information management (PIM) market is poised for significant growth over the next few years. While the PIM market hit $9.9 billion in 2021—a testament to eCommerce and omnichannel selling—it’s anticipated that the overall market will reach $16.5 billion by 2026.
Those claiming that the power of print is waning need only look at the numbers to see how far this is from the truth. Print media is one of the most trusted media channels among consumers, who reportedly trust newspapers and magazines to help make a purchase more than any other type of advertising. In fact, 82 percent of Americans rely on newspaper and magazine advertising as a reliable source.
As retailers celebrate the end of the holiday shopping season and anxiously plan for the new year, one subject is on everyone’s mind: data. There’s so much of it, so decision-makers must ask some hard questions in 2024. Is our data managed as a “single source of truth” for marketing and advertising decisions?
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