July
Inspect, Anticipate, And Present Your Reports in VTiger
July 28, 2016
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“Reports” is a strong module and play a vital role in the success of your business, as it helps to maximize the productivity of your sales department. Reports enable sales team to collect data which is more critical to them just by going through the report and the hassle of checking thousands of the records is not required. On the top of that VTiger 7 Filters help you select the reports that are crucial to you in short span of time with convenience. How to Generate a Report First of all click the Report icon, located on the top right corner of the screen From the menu choose the Add Report option Stage 1. Details of the Report The first step of generating report requires you to provide some basic information regarding the report. This information can include Report name, Report folder, Primary module etc. The following image will show
Customized VTiger Duplicate Merge Tool
July 27, 2016
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VTiger has a built in ‘Find Duplicates‘ tool which works with all the standard & custom modules., The tool can be accessed from “Actions” –> “Find Duplicates”. It’s sophisticated enough where the user can select multiple fields to check for duplicates as well as exclude the empty values. In addition, the fields selected are displayed as columns and “Merge” button allows to compare records side by side, and of course, merge. Merging duplicates is a tedious process and requires a lot of patience, effort and most importantly, time. We’ve come up with a way to speed up the duplicate merging by enhancing current VTiger Duplicate Merge Tool. First – we added additional columns to allow users to see more information about the records to be merged, even though those fields/columns are not parts of duplicate check. Standard functionality only allows to show fields as columns which you are ‘checking as duplicates’,
VTiger & Sage 50 Integration – Sales/Purchase Order Import
July 26, 2016
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VTiger & Sage 50 Integration Sales/Purchase Order Import Sage is an accounting system used by many businesses around the globe and having it integrated with the CRM is crucial. There’s currently no extension that would enable seamless sync between Sage 50 and VTiger. We’ve worked with many accounting systems, such as, Xero, QuickBooks, Peachtree (Sage 50) and are very familiar what is involved in developing the integration between the two. VTiger CRM has exceptional quoting & invoicing capabilities as well as generating sales & purchase orders. However, it’s not ideal for accounting purposes and that’s why we created a custom export/import that gives the ability to transfer data from VTiger to Sage 50. The customization consists of 2 parts: Export Exporting VTiger Sales Orders Exporting VTiger Purchase Order Import Importing VTiger Sales Orders Importing VTiger Purchase Orders We added a button to each record “Export to Sage 50”. The button creates a file
VTiger’s Multiplex Project Management App Leaves No Stone Un-turned
July 25, 2016
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Project Management is a special discipline. In a well-run project, there is a constant array of management issues to deal with, as well as a challenging routine of project management processes. A survey conducted by Carnegie Mellon suggests that when organizations focus on their project management system, key performance significantly increases. Scheduling adherence rises 50%. Productivity can improve by over 60%. For the modern organization, the success of any project management initiative will be tied to tools they use. For financial and data heavy positions, spreadsheets still have a tremendous amount of value. But for centralizing and sharing information, fostering collaboration, and tracking productivity, spreadsheets are quite limited. That’s why you will need ‘’Vtiger’s Project Management App’’ to supplement your operations and reporting with intuitive tools. With the right combination of protocols and software tools, project management can engender significant cultural and operational changes that can propel your business forward.
3 VTiger Extensions For Your Company’s Sales Men & Managers
July 23, 2016
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Sales team of a company plays chief role in its success, there is no doubt about that. But what if I tell you that they need your help to do so? There are a lot of steps you can take to achieve the purpose, and one of those is configuring the automations for the team. We decided to gather a list of 3 extremely helpful extensions of VTiger your sales team can surely find handy to boost the sales of a company. VTiger Kanban View [dt_highlight color=”green”]Click here for pricing, additional screenshots, video & live demo.[/dt_highlight] [dt_fancy_image type=”” style=”1″ lightbox=”1″ align=”right” padding=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ margin_right=”0″ margin_left=”0″ width=”” animation=”none” media=”” image_alt=”” hd_image=”” image=”https://www.vtexperts.com/gifs/vtigerkanbannew.gif”][/dt_fancy_image] When looking for sales tools, one searches for software or extension that provide proper visibility throughout the sales pipeline, warn about potential hurdles, and suggest ways to close deals within the estimated time. That is exactly what
Control Summary View Field Sequence/Order In VTiger
July 23, 2016
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VTiger record view consists of two unique layouts – one is “Summary View” and the other is “Detail View”. Both views can display the fields configured. However, the two views are quite different when it comes to fields & columns. The Detail View comprises of 2 columns while Summary View has only one column. The limitation most users face is that for both views there’s only one way to organize the field sequence. Given that there’s a 2 column view where fields go Left to Right, versus in the one column view – it goes down. This is where the conflict in field sequence kicks in. If you are using both views, you would likely want to be able to separate the two and order the fields differently. Well, we’ve done it for you! One of our customers asked us to add a “Summary Field Seq” option in the “Field Editor” which overrides the standard field sequence
Synchronize Marketing Campaigns And Relevant Data With Vtiger’s MailChimp Extension
July 20, 2016
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Mailchimp is a powerful email marketing service that makes it easy to connect with prospects and customers. You can use it to run your business campaigns, featured documents, to send e-mails in bulk, blogs, online sellers and more. Use Vtiger 7 Mailchimp integration to collect e-mail marketing leads from any online form and add them to your Mailchimp subscriber list. Eliminate the manual process of adding subscribers individually and jumpstart your e-mail marketing campaign. When you sync the application you use to run your business and breakdown data between platforms, your work-flow becomes more efficient and that extra time lets you focus on increasing engagement and revenue. In the event you’d like to take in more about Vtiger 7 inherent Email Campaigns module, which gives you a chance to construct and fabricate records, outline and dispatch battles, analysis attack performance, launch campaigns and audit campaign execution, and additionally see singular
View Record Address On Google Earth within VTiger
July 20, 2016
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VTiger CRM comes with pre-designed Google Maps widget which enables to view the addresses while looking for lead or contact records. The feature is great! However, its practical application has not much been observed since the zoom is not adjustable and you can’t see much more than a pin and surrounding area. We took the integration with Google Maps a step further and added functionality for users to view addresses on Google Earth. What we coded was basically a simple button “View on Google Earth” (at least it looks simple enough) next to each address block, which opens a modal popup (without leaving VTiger) and shows the zoomed picture of the house and the area. The tool is very helpful for businesses dealing with Solar Systems, Fences or any other exterior work that requires a glance of the property to do the quote or evaluate the conditions. Please send us an email or give us a call if you need
Receiving Purchase Order & Creating Assets in VTiger
July 19, 2016
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Out of the box VTiger has a built-in Purchase Order handling tool that allows users to create Purchase Orders, print or email them to the Vendor as well as link them back to Sales Order or an Invoice. In addition, there’s logic behind each Status, e.g when the Purchase Order status is changed to “Received”, it will ‘receive’ the items and update the “Qty. On Hand” for each item/product. All of the functionality is great. However, it is missing one of the most important features – keeping track of received items/assets. We came up with a solution that not only allows users to update the “Qty. On Hand”, but also enables to enter the serial number for each item and create it as an asset. It also supports a bar code scanner, all the user has to do is to put the cursor on the first item box and start scanning – the serial numbers will be
VTiger Rich Text/HTML Comments
July 18, 2016
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One of the productive features of VTiger includes the running comments/notes tab for each record. It’s mostly used to post notes, record details from calls/meetings, or any information related to the record which does not belong in fields. We were asked to customize the VTiger comments section to make it even more useful! First, we added a date & time fields, meaning that before posting each comment, you can backdate or post it in the future data. It is very useful for the businesses who want to keep their notes intact and who can’t necessarily post the notes at the time the action is being taken place. Our customization allows the user to change the comment date/time as needed. Secondly, we added the ability to format the text, meaning that the comments posted are in “Rich Text” format, which allows users to add bullet points, images, underline, highlight the text and much more! We used CLKEditor which
7 Extensions To Boost Productivity Within vTiger
July 18, 2016
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Although hundreds of vTiger extensions are available on vTiger Marketplace, selection of suitable ones may require some time and careful thoughts. So we gathered a list of 7 vTiger extensions that can help you a great deal in enhancing the productivity and efficiency within vTiger CRM. These extensions make some very simple changes like adding buttons, displays etc. to standard and custom views. So you can avail the same interface while saving time and spare efforts. vTiger Quick Edit Automation is about everything at your fingertips, isn’t it? Or at least it should be. That is what vTiger Quick Edit provides. The extension leads the list by enabling a very simple “Pencil” icon beside every relevant field, pressing which triggers the Edit function. The sole purpose of vTiger Quick Edit is to allow modification of related records (1:m, 1:1), while working in a record’s Edit/Create view. For more
Develop And Design Attractive Documents With vTiger Proposal & Document Designer
July 17, 2016
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A number of tools are available in market to write a couple of pages, few chapters, or even books with basic to professional formats. But when it comes to craft versatile content like extensive proposals, sales orders, quotes, invoices, or executive subject matter in a style, selection of the right tool can be tricky. Searching for the perfect software is itself a tiring task, let alone the additional processes including email integration with the desired customizations. The problem was addressed at vTiger’s and the team came up with the ultimate solution in the form of vTiger Proposal & Document Designer, along with the capability of Electronic Signature. The powerful vTiger extension has the potential to nimbly design professional, mobile friendly documents and proposals right from the vTiger CRM in minimum time. You can create highly striking executive documents, pamphlets, proposal, etc. that are more anticipated to convince leads and opportunities.
VTiger Filters: “Assigned To” Equals To “Current/Logged In User”
July 15, 2016
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Filters in VTiger is one of the most commonly used feature and often system admins are required to create filters that require condition “Assigned To”, which can cause a potential problem when there are too many users. The way VTiger works now is, if you were to create filters for each user in the system (with the Assigned To condition), you would have to create as many filters as there are users., and sometimes more (if multiple filters are needed). We came up with the special “Assigned To” condition “Is Current User”. It means: you can create one filter, set it as public and select the condition to be “Assigned To is Current User” instead of using the “Assigned To equals UserXXX”. This eliminates the need of creating duplicate filters – the condition will filter only the records that are assigned to “the Logged In user”. This is just one of the many customizations
New Widget in VTiger Calendar View (Additional Filters)
July 14, 2016
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VTiger Calendar is great, but not perfect. As every software, there’s always room for improvement. One of the customers requested to add a special widget on the calendar view, so their managers could easily filter only the activities they need to see. If you look at the screenshot, you will see that the widget is embedded in the calendar view and allows a detailed search of events. Search fields are as follows: Organization Name (it’s an ajax/type ahead field, once you start typing – it will show possible matches) Status (activity status) Activity Type Assigned To (group/user assigned to activity) Such detailed search allows the customer to exclude the unnecessary activities/events/tasks from the calendar view and prioritize the day. This is one of the many customizations that we did – if you have an idea for implementation or need assistance with VTiger – please shoot as an email or give us
VTiger CRM 6.5.0 (hotfix – 20160714) Released
July 14, 2016
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VTiger 6.5 Hotfix (20160714) There were few critical issues reported, right after the release of VTiger 6.5 which have been addressed in the latest hotfix. Detailed hotfix release notes below. Related to Currency Formatting which was troubling re-editing of records on UI. Third-party library fixes for PHP 7 compatibility – for the modules below Mail Manager “Add Action” section is missing/unusable Failure to load email folders Importing Module Customer Portal (non functional) Quotes/Invoices/SO (line item popup doesn’t show any products) Custom Modules (can’t properly install custom modules(including PDF Maker) Calendar (relabeled “Activity Types” widget) You can find more details on this milestone. How to Apply the hotfix Hotfix does not require going through the upgrade process, see the steps below. Download hotfix: vtigercrm-650-hotfix-20160714.zip Extract the hotfix and overwrite VTiger 6.5 files If you are upgrading to to VTiger 6.5 – you don’t need to apply this hotfix as
3 vTiger Extensions To Keep The Database Clean, Tidy, And Perfect
July 9, 2016
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As business expands, amount of information in CRM increases. Although, the databases are computerized, it doesn’t mean they don’t require orderly setup. For instance, if proper channels are not followed, there might be overlapping or duplication of submitted information for number of reasons. vTiger presents several extensions that will aid you in data management and keep the information and looks neat and well-ordered. Even one of the useful extensions is free to download and install. vTiger Duplicate Check & Merge The first tool for neat and tidy database from our selection is the vTiger Duplicate Check & Merge. The aim of the Duplicate Check & Merge is to auto-detect and deal with any of the duplicate records in the database, plus to avoid the addition of any potential identical entries to the system. The extension set up a check point at every possible spot counting Quick Create, Summary View,
4 vTiger Extensions To Customize Your CRM’s Screen Layout
July 5, 2016
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There must be many tools in the market to customize CRM layouts, so we put our best efforts in to make layout extensions unique and different. In addition to switching and swapping the positions of fields, vTiger’s extensions do lot more. We are presenting the catalogue of four vTiger extensions that will really boost up your team’s performance while polishing the CRM into a more user friendly software. vTiger Conditional Layouts This is a very distinctive extension from vTiger developers. With vTiger Conditional Layouts, adding unique layouts becomes possible. The system administrator will configure secondary fields or blocks, that will appear after choosing an option from the primary fields. The executed option will lead to more specific and detailed information about the original subject. The extension carries vTiger Workflow capabilities with intuitive interface to configure conditions as well as fields to be shown, hidden, and made mandatory. Distinguishing Features:
VTiger 6.5 GA Released with 40+ Issues & 45+ Merge Requests Included!
July 5, 2016
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VTiger 6.5 GA Is now Available! VTiger is happy to announce GA release of Vtiger CRM 6.5.0. In this version, there were 40+ issues & bugs fixed as well as 45+ merge requests accommodated. Most of the changes were to make VTiger more stable, secure & bug free. The credit goes to the community who contributed to the release the most. VTiger 6.5 Release Highlights (Major) Customer Portal password encryption PHP 7 compatibility MySQL (STRICT_TRANS_TABLE) compatibility (default in 5.6.x) URLs in workflow emails are now clickable ($(general : (VtigerMeta) crmdetailviewurl)) Report Date formats (mm-dd-yyyy and yyyy-mm-dd) User Preferences (Only authorized user can change other preferences) Default Grouping Separator (causing currency fields to save with extra 00s.) Emails (minor fixes in formatting and emailing) Lead Convert Custom Action (Execute custom functions when lead is being converted) Improved Logging Minor Layout Improvements (cache, icons, header support) Default sorting order on
Custom VTiger Widget to Add Phone Numbers & Comments