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| - | ==== Sales Manager Guide ==== | + | ==== vTigerCE Documentation: |
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| + | Sales Manager Guide | ||
| + | 1. Add your team members & set up permissions | ||
| + | 2. Add custom fields to store information specific to your business and your clients. | ||
| + | 3. Customize Contact Type, Contact Status, Pipelines & Sales Stages | ||
| + | 4. Configure Automation | ||
| + | 5. Setup Appointment Pages | ||
| + | 6. Setup Group Mailbox for your Sales team and Individual mailboxes in Vtiger Inbox | ||
| + | 7. Bring your data into Vtiger | ||
| + | 8. Connect your phone system to Vtiger to track calls | ||
| + | 9. Follow up on opportunities and collaborate internally to move them forward through the sales cycle. | ||
| + | 10. Prepare Quotes, get discount Approvals, & send Quotes using custom templates | ||
| + | 11. See how your clients are engaging with the content you are sending | ||
| + | 12. Signing Agreements and Closing Deals. | ||
| + | 13. Setup Quotas and View Forecasts | ||
| + | 14. Get actionable information with Sales Insights | ||
| + | 15. Sales reporting and Dashboards | ||
| + | 16. Go Social with Twitter Integration | ||
| + | 17. Use Vtiger Buzz to stay connected even when you are not in the CRM | ||
| + | 18. Integrating Vtiger with Accounting application | ||
| + | 19. Integrate Vtiger with your favorite applications | ||
| + | 20. Get Documents from external drives. | ||
| + | 21. Install Gmail Add-on - Vtiger’s sidebar for Gmail | ||
| + | 22. Getting business done on the road with the Mobile app | ||
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| + | Sales Manager Guide | ||
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| + | This guide will help you tailor Vtiger for your Sales team. | ||
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| + | Who should read this Guide? | ||
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| + | Sales Managers | ||
| + | Administrators | ||
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| + | 1. Add your team members & set up permissions | ||
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| + | Vtiger offers role-based access control mechanism for distributed sales teams that want to restrict access to contacts and opportunities within territory. Within the records, profiles can be used to control which fields a user can access and edit. | ||
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| + | Add Users from Settings > Users page. | ||
| + | Reports to field in User record identifies the manager, and is used in Sales Forecast & Quotas dashboard. | ||
| + | Configure Sharing Rules | ||
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| + | 2. Add custom fields to store information specific to your business and your clients. | ||
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| + | You can add custom fields in Contacts, Leads, Opportunities and other modules. | ||
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| + | Adding Custom Fields to any standard module or custom module | ||
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| + | You can also add custom modules to store additional information related to contacts or opportunities (ex: Expenses module) | ||
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| + | Adding custom modules to track custom data | ||
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| + | 3. Customize Contact Type, Contact Status, Pipelines & Sales Stages | ||
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| + | Use Contact Type to classify Leads, Sales Qualified Leads, Customers Leads & Contacts. | ||
| + | Customize Contact Types and Contact Status values from Picklist Editor | ||
| + | Configure Pipelines & Stages | ||
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| + | 4. Configure Automation | ||
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| + | Setting up Workflows to automate activity follow ups and update downstream modules | ||
| + | Configure Assignment Rules to assign Leads. | ||
| + | Setup Discount Approval Rules | ||
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| + | 5. Setup Appointment Pages | ||
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| + | Set up Appointment pages for your sales persons (or they can do it too) to allow clients to pick available times for meetings. | ||
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| + | You can also set up Auto-assigned appointment pages that are auto-assigned to next available agent (ex: demo requests) and Group Appointment pages for group events (ex: webinars). | ||
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| + | Your Sales persons can create Meetings and invite contacts from Calendar in Vtiger. Meetings are one of the activities tracked in Sales Insights. | ||
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| + | Use Google sync or Office 365 sync or Outlook plugin to synchronize Calendar. | ||
| + | 6. Setup Group Mailbox for your Sales team and Individual mailboxes in Vtiger Inbox | ||
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| + | You want your sales team to collaborate on emails coming to your company’s sales address. Vtiger Inbox enables that, and also supports individual mailboxes. | ||
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| + | Setup Mailboxes in Vtiger Inbox | ||
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| + | 7. Bring your data into Vtiger | ||
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| + | Importing Contact data from a CSV file, an email, a form submitted on your website, or a third-party app like Google Contacts or Office 365 | ||
| + | Bringing Leads from the Website | ||
| + | Use Web Service APIs to connect to your existing apps | ||
| + | Contact Vtiger team if you need to learn about our Migration services. | ||
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| + | 8. Connect your phone system to Vtiger to track calls | ||
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| + | Vtiger connects to popular cloud based telephony systems. In less than 1 hour you can configure the extensions to initiate and received calls from within your CRM. | ||
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| + | Phone calls is one of the activities tracked in Sales Insights. So, connecting your phone system will give you more actionable information. | ||
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| + | Connect Vtiger to your phone system. | ||
| + | 9. Follow up on opportunities and collaborate internally to move them forward through the sales cycle. | ||
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| + | Ready to engage? Send an email or place a call in a single click (& record it, too, if you choose). Or if you need assistance from an expert in the organization before you can do that, @tag them in a comment that instantly lets them know to take a look. | ||
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| + | Vtiger ensures that you’re always in the know with on-screen, SMS, or email alerts that notify you if a contact becomes active, idle, or meets other conditions. Do this for contacts assigned to you or your team, or select individual contacts to receive notifications for. | ||
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| + | Not yet ready to reach out to a contact? Create a task to follow up with them later. Or if you’ve already scheduled a meeting, create a calendar event. Tasks and events are linked to the contact’s record so that their information is just a click away. Calendar events are also synchronized with Google, Outlook, and other calendars. | ||
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| + | 10. Prepare Quotes, get discount Approvals, & send Quotes using custom templates | ||
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| + | Generate a Quote using quote generator when an Opportunity is in quote stage | ||
| + | Setup Approval rules to automate discount approvals. | ||
| + | Customize your Quote and Invoice PDF generated using Print Templates | ||
| + | Personalize Email content using Email Templates | ||
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| + | 11. See how your clients are engaging with the content you are sending | ||
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| + | Did your prospect open the Quote? How they view all the pages in the Quote? | ||
| + | How about that comparison document you sent? | ||
| + | Which marketing document is leading to better conversion? | ||
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| + | Get answers to all the above with Document Insights. All you need to get it is share documents directly, or insert document links when sending emails. | ||
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| + | Learn more on the Document tracking page. | ||
| + | 12. Signing Agreements and Closing Deals. | ||
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| + | Gets document digitally signed in seconds with DocuSign integration to close deals faster. | ||
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| + | 13. Setup Quotas and View Forecasts | ||
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| + | Using Sales Forecasts module, get realistic estimates of your team with an option to adjust your team’s forecasts | ||
| + | Set monthly or quarterly quotas | ||
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| + | 14. Get actionable information with Sales Insights | ||
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| + | Which opportunities are at risk? | ||
| + | Which opportunities need your attention? | ||
| + | Which opportunities are taking most of the time? | ||
| + | Which stage of the funnel are opportunities taking most time at? | ||
| + | How are different sales persons advancing the opportunities? | ||
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| + | Get answers to these and more questions from the Sales Insights | ||
| + | 15. Sales reporting and Dashboards | ||
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| + | Track your sales team activity, sales pipeline and sales performance on your dashboard. | ||
| + | Create custom reports and charts and pin it to your dashboard | ||
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| + | 16. Go Social with Twitter Integration | ||
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| + | Connect with your customers socially, convert a tweet to Lead or an Opportunity and monitor your competitors | ||
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| + | 17. Use Vtiger Buzz to stay connected even when you are not in the CRM | ||
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| + | Get Vtiger Buzz, your personal sales assistant! | ||
| + | 18. Integrating Vtiger with Accounting application | ||
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| + | Synchronize contacts, products, and invoices between Vtiger and your company’s accounting system without any manual entry using any of the following integration | ||
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| + | Quick books | ||
| + | Xero | ||
| + | Tally | ||
| + | PayPal | ||
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| + | 19. Integrate Vtiger with your favorite applications | ||
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| + | Office 365 | ||
| + | Outlook | ||
| + | Use Zapier integration to connect Vtiger with 300 + applications via a zap | ||
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| + | 20. Get Documents from external drives. | ||
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| + | Google Drive | ||
| + | Drop box | ||
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| + | 21. Install Gmail Add-on - Vtiger’s sidebar for Gmail | ||
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| + | While reading an email from a Contact, you might have often felt the need to look up the recent notes, opportunity status, or related tickets for that contact. Vtiger CRM for Gmail, a Chrome extension, gives you everything you need to know about the Contact, right within your Gmail window. Click here for more details. | ||
| + | 22. Getting business done on the road with the Mobile app | ||
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| + | Be connected to your customers and don’t miss any activity while you are on the road using Vtiger mobile app. | ||
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| + | IPhone | ||
| + | IPad | ||
| + | Android | ||