One of the most critical factors which can be used to determine how well an organization is performing is the quality of data they are sorting. Firms who are more efficient at gathering of quality data always have a competitive edge on others. Data entry is not only an integral part of a business firm’s but, it plays an important in every race of life like hospitals use the data entry to a very high extent. Well, data entry means inputting data into computers. Usually, it is a common point of view that data entry means recording data into the computer from the physical records. But, that is not the case, data entry means storing data into a system from any other systems like mobile applications, emails, internet forums and even physical records. One of the key features of a CRM is data entry, almost every CRM facilitates the data entry.

Data Entry Evolution

About one and half decade back the term data entry hit its boom when organizations started to computerize their operations. At that time most of the firms were going through the process of incorporate computers in their operations, because of which they used huge human resources just to input data into the computers. If in the current business environment you have to employ a number of employees just to enter data into the system, do you think you are using your human resource efficiently? Obviously, the answer is a big No.  Implementing so many human resources only on data entry procedures is not a wise move at all. Embrace the power of VTiger 7 and automate the process of data entry and yield greater benefits.

VTiger 7 Identifying your Needs

As I told before, data entry is an integral part of every CRM, then most of you will be thinking how VTiger 7 is different from them? Well, VTiger 7 is not an ordinary CRM and in regard to data entry again VTiger 7 did not fail to show its superiority. VTiger 7 analyzed the need of its customers carefully and concluded that there are three types of data entry to which clients encounter most. They are as following

–    Data entry from the emails, as email is the source through which most of the corporations is sent and received.

–    Data from different applications like mobile phone applications, social networks etc.

–    Data from web forms as it is a worth mentioning source through which business collect information

VTiger 7 Providing Solutions for Data Entry Needs

VTiger 7 provide three different tools to cater above mentioned most frequently used data sources for data entry. Other CRM does not provide the variety of different tools for data entry operation, here using VTiger 7 enables you to capitalize on the opportunities which you cannot cash using an ordinary CRM software. Following is the detail of tools which you can use to automate the process of data entry using VTiger 7 CRM

Mailroom

The first tool I am going to introduce to you is MAILROOM tool. As its name suggests this tool works with emails. It is like a secretary which manage all of your emails but a virtual one. These days mail box of people are bombarded with emails. Some of them are important but, mostly are totally useless. VTiger 7s Mailroom feature helps to manage forwarded emails and turn them into potential leads, tickets by sending it to the appropriate person from your contact list.  Whenever an email is received, Mailroom checks the contact from which it is being sent. First, it checks whether the contact from which mail is received exists in the contact list or not. If that contact is present in the contact list then it automatically forwards that email to the appropriate contact from your contact list like a sales rep, operation manager etc. This is the first tool that VTiger 7 offers for data entry.

Zapier

The next tool which VTiger 7 provides to its valued customers for automation of data entry is Zapier integration. Zapier is a famous software which helps to automate processes between two applications, it facilitates more than 400+ applications. Using Zapier you can automate the process of data entry from one application to VTiger 7 CRM. In routine business operations, there are some tasks which are repeated again and again, like entering information which is received from a customer via a text message into the VTiger 7 CRM. Use ZApier and create a Zap to automate such kind of data entry operations.

Webforms

Well, one of the most common medium of communication among people using the internet is websites. People use the forms that are provided on the websites to input information about themselves to start the process of communication with each other. VTiger 7s Webform takes information from their and stores it into your VTiger 7 database. It helps to target your audience more precisely and generate future leads.

Instead of involving a huge number of staff members in manual data entry, employ VTiger 7 data entry tools and use the human resource for some other fruitful activities.