Documents are important part of business culture, the benefits they yield are countless. The nature of business documents is different from ordinary documents. Business documents are not just a mere piece of writing, in fact they gave a glimpse of the business firm. These documents tell the story of business, where it comes from, what are its future intentions and how determined the firm is in attaining its goals. Contracts which you form with other parties are not just mere documents actually, they are opportunity windows which act as a gateway through which you can expand operations of your firm to a whole next level. So, do you want to design these contracts like ordinary documents? Obviously, your answer will be NO! Most of the communication you do with your customers, suppliers, logistics etc. involves more documentation as compared to the physical interaction. So these stakeholders judge your professionalism by
Emails are an important part of business operations and no one can question their significance. They are equally famous among individuals and businesses. Personally, we use emails for communicating with others. With the passage of time significant evolution can be seen in emails. Like when it started, you could only send a written message using email. Now email is equipped with features like CC, attachment and filtering etc. Due to such development in emails. Same is the case with the purpose of emails, initially the only reason of sending emails was to communicate with individuals, but now firms are using it as one of the most effective marketing tools. Following are some facts related to email to make you aware of its significance: There are 4.6 billion email accounts created worldwide Daily 212 billion emails are sent and received related to business purposes Business-related emails sent and received by a
What is the purpose of a business? Why do we market products? What benefits does customer service yield? Why firms spend large amounts on improving their distribution channels? The answer to all these questions is that the firms invest resources, in all other business related operations only to increase their sales. So, we can say all the operations a firm is performing revolves around sales. Because it is the area where the firm makes the profits for its shareholders. “To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business” -Harvey Mackay The sales department is the backbone of profit making and plays
The business environment is becoming more and more intense day by day. So, to stay ahead of your competitors business firms have to anticipate things like sales, raw material, labor force etc. Companies which fail to forecast correctly not only face serious pressure from competitors, but sometimes also encounter disappointment from their suppliers and distributors. To broaden your view, some of the most important benefits of forecasting are given below: Financial Estimation Forecasting helps in determining your financial needs, it helps to estimate how much finance you need to put in your business to achieve the desired amount of revenues. But, the point that should be taken into account while forecasting is to make it realistic; superficial estimation of future purchase and sales yield is not good. Cut down Expenses A good prediction about future business operations can save a firm from a lot of expenses. Like the company will
Working in a traditional work environment, many of the tasks are reperformed every now and then. For example, you run a medical firm and two of your sales reps visit the same doctor at varying times, marketing for the same product and even the offer they are putting in front of that doctor is the same. Will you support such activities or discourage them? Obviously, you will go against it. Because in doing so much of your resources are wasted without any significant gain. Instead, if your sales reps had visited two different doctors then it would be more beneficial for the firm. In routine life, we don’t even keep two copies of the same song in our iPod because we assess it as wastage of storage. Keeping identical records is also a problem and can cause a number of glitches. Data Duplication in CRM CRM performs a huge range
Emerging business trends involve a lot of travel, in fact, there are jobs which specifically require working from the remote areas. So much hassle can cause a lot of problems which can lead to different kinds of further hurdles. Those problems range from poor customer service to forgetting some important paper on your desk while you are at a remote place. For example, a sales rep made a visit to a potential client at another city and recorded all of his credentials, but when he reached his office and started to brief his superiors about the new client, he noticed that his client missed one signature out of six on the contract that was made between the firm and the customer. Well, should he go back to his client and get the signature? Or he should ask his customer to e-sign the softcopy of the papers? Obviously later is the
When we look at real life scenarios, it is not hard to notice that only those people influence others more, who have great communication skills. Same is the case with business firms, an organization with superior communication setups yield far greater profits than ordinary ones. How better communicating process helps business firms? Well, there are numerous reasons behind this phenomenon, but I will like to quote some of those: A better communication process helps business to identify their needs more effectively and take decisions accordingly Good communication leads to comprehending the customer needs with more accuracy and then respond to them with product they want Effective communication model increases the productivity of employees and helps in maintaining better relationships among them Customer service depends on upon how efficiently firm’s representative can communicate with the customers, so in this regard organizations with strong communication image gets a competitive edge. We can
When we take a brief look at mighty corporations of current business culture, it takes no genius to notice that most of the successful companies collaborated with others and multiplied their power. The concept behind these collaborations is to provide opportunities to your customers which you cannot offer alone. This also highlights a fact that only for their valued customers, companies go to the extent that they team up with their rivals. This also shows the level of commitment organizations show for their customers and only steps like these yield great customer base and promising profits. Such collaboration features a huge range of famous brands like Sony-Ericson, Reebok-Marvel, Microsoft-Toot etc. “Alone we are smart, but together we are brilliant” This is the approach that VTiger 7 followed while allowing office 365 integration with VTiger 7. The aim which VTiger 7 is targeting is to provide best possible solutions to their customers in
VTiger 7 CRM gives liberty to align and synchronize your QuickBooks Desktop with the CRM. It will empower you to sync Contacts, Products, Services, and Invoices among VTiger 7 CRM and QuickBooks. The synchronization of above-mentioned things works in both ways, which means information that is incorporated in one platform will be automatically updated on the other one. Minimum Requirement: To avail this feature, Sales Professional or Ultimate Edition is required. Supplies Make yourself ready before-hand. Following is the list of software required to be incorporated in your system prior to carrying out the original installation process: QuickBooks Desktop Software QuickBooks Web Connector VTiger CRM On-Demand Learn about the latest VTiger & QuickBooks Extension that provides a lot of advanced features. How to Install QuickBooks Web Connector QuickBooks Web Connector’s main function is to move information between VTiger 7 and QuickBooks. Download it from here. If you want to access QuickBooks
It is plain natural that you cannot sit in front of your personal computer all day long only to keep an eye about what’s going on in the CRM. Every single person has tasks to do, especially those with businesses to look. What if you could have a quick look on your VTiger 7 CRM without having the necessity to approach the PC? Maybe you have to check what was the most recent activity performed by your contacts, or in another scenario, your clients’ office and suddenly you have to check the fluctuation of the price of a product. So to cope up with little but important matters like these, you need a computer system, Wi-Fi, and so many other accessories. So why not save the hassle just by using VTiger 360 mobile phone application, because you can. Just by using VTiger 360 app you can save yourself from such
The article explains one of the features of VTiger CRM cloud version. However, the same or even better functionality can be added to VTiger CRM open source version. From the previous few articles, it can be easily evaluated that VTiger 7 is a CRM with no verges. From integrations to synchronizations to exceptional support and ticketing features, VTiger 7 is undoubtedly the best open source out there. We’ll talk more about the productive and beneficent services of VTiger 7 in the upcoming articles. Our today’s read is about another useful synchronization that enhances the significance of VTiger CRM. Since the major update from Microsoft named as Office 365, a huge traffic has revolved their ways to the package. So, it got inevitable to integrate the giant with the CRM. With the connector developed by VTiger for Office 365, synchronization between both management tools has been made possible. You can now
There are a number of platforms whose data can be synced into VTiger CRM. One of the most important and essential ones is Outlook. A huge number of businesses depend upon Outlook for their multiple needs. So, here is the data synchronization discussion for Outlook. The Outlook plugin in VTiger 7 is an easy and coherent way of synchronizing the CRM contacts, events, and to-dos with the information manager. Its control panel is filled with a number of tools that help you along. With the plugin you can: Synchronize Contacts, Events, and To-dos both ways Attach emails received in Outlook to the records they belong in your VTiger CRM account Configure the data flow and sync directions i.e. from VTiger 7 to Outlook or Outlook to VTiger 7 Restrict the harmonization of data according to the user and CRM sharing rules and profiles Notes! Vtiger CRM Plugin for Outlook 3.2 brings
Dealing with lists can be tricky in VTiger CRM, whether those are Related lists, list-view, or Kanban view. We gave deep thoughts to sort those needs, and designed some extensions that you will surely find very helpful in managing lists in VTiger. VTiger Related & List view Edits This VTiger extension allows you to edit fields from within any Related or List-view. So you don’t have to open a record to edit, as you can perform the changes from the Related or List-view. It is as simple as it sounds. Plus, the extension is compatible with all the custom & standard fields as well as all field types (text, picklist, multi-select, currency, lookup/relation, etc.). And it also supports custom filters and views. VTiger Related & List-view Edits is a great way to enhance the efficiency of your CRM system. The ability to modify records without the actual requirement
In the previous weeks, we have discussed a number of useful VTiger extensions that you can avail and implement in your CRM for the ease of your team and users to enhance the productivity. Today, we suggest 2 extensions that directly benefit system administrators in the most superior way. VTiger Automated Backups This stellar app for VTiger allows system administrators to backup VTiger Files & Database to a local folder or an off-site FTP without any hassle. The process is simple and easy. With VTiger Automated Backups module, you can go through and schedule out your automated backups for the best possible and timely outcome without any struggle. The number of days for keeping backups, frequency of the autorun, and the email notifications can be configured. Retrieving the backup is nothing more than moving back to the interface for VTiger Automated. For detailed information about the extension including
There is no doubt about the importance of VTiger’s Document module. You can perform a lot of tasks with the module, but a couple of features are missing that may become very handy. Have a look at those features, covered very professionally by VTExperts with these extensions. VTiger Document Manager Just imagine creating one or multiple document records by simply dragging and dropping file or files anywhere on the screen. That is the potential of VTiger Document Manager. Being the top VTiger extension for Documents & Files/Folders management on the marketplace, it helps to keep all of the files organized. Plus, now you can see the user to whom the file belongs. You won’t have to go anywhere; the document and list themselves state the ownership. The extension is very accommodating in saving you precious minutes. It just takes about 30 seconds to open a document record, browse,
We, here at VTExperts Inc., keep a closer look on our users’ needs. So, the significance of sales orders and services is not something that we look away from. While using VTiger CRM, the Product & Services can be managed in several ways. But we observed some important customizations missing, which could be very helpful in services & sales purchase orders management. These 3 extensions from VTExperts exactly cover those missing features: Item Details Customizer – Advanced VTiger Item Details Customizer (Advanced) is the pro version of its successor and standard “VTiger Item Details Customizer” extension, with several extra features. You can customize Item Details (Product/Services) for Quotes, Invoices, Sales, & Purchase Orders. Moreover, you can also specify new formulas for each column as well as customize formulas for Totals. The extension accommodates multiple layouts of item details section for Quotes, Invoices, Sales & Purchase Orders. Also, it is compatible with PDF Maker that enhances its
At VTExperts, we try our best to provide you complete CRM solutions. And it cannot be accomplished without focusing on the accounts department. So we created several extensions that will be extremely helpful in creating quotes and invoices more efficiently. VTiger Product & Service Lookup This extension for VTiger is specially designed to enhance the output of sales documentation including Quotes, Invoices, Sales, and Purchase Orders. You can manually submit the Part Number, Category, Product Description or any other field that you configure to be the search field for Products/Services and see the results without opening the popup. Also, you can specify separate result fields including price, description, or again, any standard or custom VTiger field. VTiger Product & Service Lookup eliminates the need for the extra click (popup) and increases the efficiency and accuracy of adding Products or Services to the Quote, Invoice, Sales, or Purchase Order. For
Business is a team work that you run with your strategies. Out of the team work and strategies, the later mostly depends upon your creativity as well as professional approach. You can enhance your strategies and strengthen them with experience. On the other hand, your team’s coordination is completely a different game that depends upon a lot of factors most of which are governable. One way to do so is by employing the best-suited tools and techniques that would boost the efficiency of your working party. You can accomplish a lot for your business with VTiger CRM, but you’ll be surprised how fruitful these 4 extensions can be towards the collaboration of your team. VTiger Multi User Assignment There is only one way to assign a record to multiple users in VTiger i.e. by forming a group of those users you want to put in, manually. We took
As the competition grows, companies deploy more and more advanced tools and techniques to avoid time consuming tasks or get them done rather quickly. As VTExperts always brings on some outstanding customizations for your VTiger CRM, we also thought it would make it more convenient for you if we categorize some really valuable extensions. So we collected a series of 3 VTiger extensions that you can employ to save time and make things easier for support team. VTiger Time Tracker – User Time Management VTiger Time Tracker Extension sounds like mere a time tracking customization. Yes, it allows users to keep track of time while working on important or otherwise assignments – but it does a lot more. It can run more than one timer, with the option to toggle between different running timers. Plus, it supports custom fields, comments, and manual time tracking. And it doesn’t have to stay on top;
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
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
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.
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,
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’s aims and objectives have never been lesser than providing the best possible outcome to users. And when you rely upon us with your valuable information, we make sure to keep it secure and safe from every possible threat out there. That’s why we designed some really effective tools to keep the security at best. In this article, we summoned up a list of three security extensions by Vtiger that can eliminate and avoid any potential threats to your data. Enhanced User Security There is a renowned quote, “You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar”. Likewise, the sensitive information in your CRM attracts more threats as your business grow. Vtiger’s Enhanced User Security is the extension that ensures a strong defense against any potential invasions. With carefully designed and professionally employed features of this extension, the possibilities of getting hacked are eliminated. The login security extension