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Timesheets Extension For VTiger Is Now Available
February 26, 2018
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There were lot of requests for this extension in the past year. As most of our extensions are focused to “keep it all under one hood – CRM” (Email Marketing/Campaign for VTiger is the best example), keeping track of workers’ timings was very problematic before, not to mention bringing it to the CRM for billing, records, configuring workflows, and reporting. That’s the reason we developed this record-keeping extension Timesheets for VTiger that allows users to log the time spent in details as well as system admins to keep tabs on them. Timesheets is an extension for VTiger designed to elegantly track employees’ (users) time, with ability to visualize it. It supports custom periods, where you can adjust the length of the period to fit your business. In addition, periods can be locked to prevent any further modifications. It’s simplistic design, makes it extremely easy to log the time and specify
Create Custom Buttons In VTiger 7
February 22, 2018
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Macros extension is designed to cut down the time needed for manual task such as Follow Ups, Scheduling calls etc. It provides users with the function to create predefined actions (workflows) and trigger them from the record Detail/Summary View with just a single click. How to Create Custom Buttons Go to the “Menu” and select “CRM Settings“. Under “Other Settings” select “Macros“. Click on the “+ New Workflow“. Add a workflow name, select a module for the workflow. Then Click on the “Add action” button to select an action for when this macro will be clicked. Put in the details of that action and click on the “Save” button. Here you can see the “Macro Button” and it will execute the action with a single click (For this example it will create an activity for a call) For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll
View User Activity (New/Updated Records, Comments) For The Day In VTiger 7
February 21, 2018
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User Summary Report extension is designed to allow the system admin to see activity on certain records or list of records. It allows to monitor every created or updated record. How to View User Activity for the Day Go to the “Menu“. Click on the “Projects” and select “Summary Reports“. Click on a “Summary Report“. Here We can see the information such and First name, Last name, Address etc. Down below we can see the Updates made today. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Configure Custom Colors On Calendar Tiles In VTiger 7
February 20, 2018
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In Vtiger 7, User can pick the colors per user or Per status by using our VTiger Job Scheduler/Calendar extension which is a must-have for organizations that rely on calendar. How to Configure Custom Colors on Calendar Tiles Click on the “Calendar” icon on the top right corner of the screen. Click on the “Settings” button. Select “Yes” in the “Use Status Colors” option. Go to the “Picklists Values“. Select “Module” and click on the “Edit” icon. Than select the “Color” for picklist. Click on the “+ Add Value” button to add a status value. Add “Item Value” and select the “Color“. Create Event and select a “Status“. Here it will show the “Color tiles“. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll glad to be of service.
Customize Text On Calendar Tiles In VTiger 7
February 15, 2018
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We enhanced standard VTiger calendar by adding a Job/Work Scheduler view. This allows users to see events assigned to each user without them overlapping onto other users/hours. Tile/Box text is configurable + unique colors can be assigned based on status (also configured by user). How to customize text on calendar tiles Click on the “Calendar” icon on the top right corner of the screen Select “Job Scheduler” and and click on the “Settings” button. Click on “Click here to configure tile & hover text“. Click on the “Edit” button. Here you can put any text or select form the fields that are related to this activity or task. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Create Product/Service Bundles In VTiger 7
February 14, 2018
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Quote/Invoice/Order Templates extension allows you to define products/services which can be reused on the quote/invoice/order at any time. If you often find yourself creating the same quotes/invoices/orders or adding the same set of items over and over again, this will be a huge time saver for you. How to Create Product/Service Bundles Go to the “Menu” and select “Product and Service Templates“. Click on the “+Add Template” button to create a new Template. Add “Template Name” and select “Module“. Now add “Products and Services” and click on the save button. Here you can see while creating a quote you can add “Product/Service Bundles“. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
View Your Sales/Opportunity Forecast By Sales Rep In VTiger 7
February 8, 2018
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Sales Forecast for VTiger Extension was designed to help manage and predict Organization’s current and future Opportunities. It includes ability to view the entire company’s Opportunities as well as drill down to each Team or User. How to View Your Sales/Opportunity Forecast by Sales Rep Go to the “Menu” and select “CRM Settings“. Under “Other Settings” select “VTE Forecast“. Then click on the “View Forecast” button. You can view the Forecast for the entire organization or you can view it by sales team and the Sales Rep. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Add Tooltips Information Icons To Record Views In VTiger 7
February 6, 2018
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Field Tooltip Manager extension for VTiger is designed to enable and display helpful field tooltips on VTiger record views. How to Add Tooltips Information Icons Go to the “Menu” and select “CRM Settings“. Under “Other Settings” select “Tooltip Manager“. Select the “Module” and the “Field Name“. You can select a different “Icon” or upload a new one. Define the Tooltip content in the Rich Text Area. Here you can see the Tooltip Icon and the Tooltip in the record. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Transfer/Auto Fill Phone Number From Organization To A New Contact In VTiger 7
February 2, 2018
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In Vtiger 7, User can avoid repetitive data entry when creating related records by using our Field Autofill extension. User can create a contact from within Organization and not have to re-enter Office Phone, Fax, Address, etc.. How to Transfer/Auto Fill Phone Number from Organization to a New Contact Go to the “Menu” and select “CRM Settings“. Under “Other Settings” select “Filed autofill“. Select the modules you want to automatically transfer data, for this example we’ll be using Organization to Contact and click on the “Add Mapping” button. Select the records from which you want the data to transfer to, for this example we are using Primary Phone to Office Phone. When creating a contact select an “Organization” and a dialog box will popup asking for to auto fill the fields with the selected organization data according to your configuration, by clicking on the “Yes” button it will automatically fill the fields.
Tile & Hover Text In VTiger Calendar Job Scheduler Is Now Configurable With Fields
January 31, 2018
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VTiger Job Scheduler is the extension that enhances your VTiger Calendar’s capability to manifolds. It gives you day, week, and month views in a way that events and tasks do not overlap and become very easy to manage. With the latest update of the extension Job Scheduler or Advanced Calendar for VTiger, it allows you to edit and configure the information that is shown by default on an event or task block as well as when you hover your mouse cursor over it. You can insert some default text, map fields from the events and tasks, and configure them with the rich text editor according to your needs. It also allows you to map fields from the related modules. So say if you need to know the name of the Contact or Organization with which the current event is, if you need to know the place where the event
Status Colors In Job Scheduler Extension For VTiger Calendar
January 31, 2018
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VTiger Job Scheduler is the extension that enhances your VTiger Calendar’s capability to manifolds. It gives you day, week, and month views in a way that events and tasks do not overlap and become very easy to manage. Now, we’ve added a major function in VTiger Job Scheduler that allows to color the statuses of events wherever it matters e.g. in Picklist while creating an event and selecting a status, on Job Scheduler view of the VTiger Calendar etc. So, once the colors are configured in the extension settings, you will see statuses as different colors. Same for the Events box on the Calendars. The box’s color will depict the status of an event. It will help you quickly identify the status of an event and see if that event has either been planned, scheduled, held or cancelled. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll
Timeline Extension Is Now Available For VTiger 6
January 10, 2018
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The Complete Record Timeline/Summary (Communication + Updates) extension, shortly known as Timeline is now available for all version of VTiger 6. Previously it only supported VTiger 7 and above. The extension is extremely beneficial to quickly see any communication (emails, calls, comments) as well as record updates. It rolls up the information from 3 relationship level deeps, meaning if you are viewing organization timeline, you will see any information related to organization (emails, updates, comments) as well as any information related to organizations’ tickets/opportunities (or any other modules), meaning that you would see any comments added to the ticket/organization while looking at the organization timeline. More information about the extension can be found on the product page here. Extension’s helpdesk Link. If you need further assistance, send us an email to help@vtexperts.com or call +1 (818) 495-5557.
Calendar Popup/Preview Extension Now Supports Custom Modules – New Feature
January 6, 2018
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Currently, the VTiger Standard Calendar is very limited and missing lot of basic functionalities. We have created several extensions to date which enhance the use of Calendar, making it more intuitive and helpful for users. Our extension Calendar Popup/Preview allows users to quickly preview the information without leaving the Calendar. It also displays linked records such as Contact, Organization, Lead, Ticket, Opportunities, and Campaigns. We recently upgraded the extension and added it to support and add Custom Modules as well as allow to see and update the linked Custom modules’ records. To use the feature, you’d need to: Install the extension VTiger Calendar Popup/Preview from your Premium extension pack’s list If already installed, upgrade it to Latest (alpha) Install Custom Module & Relationship Builder from the list If the custom module doesn’t exist, create the new custom module. Now, when you go to the Configuration of the extension, you
New – “Actions” Button Column On Activity Reminder / Calendar Popup For VTiger 7
December 15, 2017
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There’s a productivity centered extension Activity Reminder (Popup) for VTiger that gives reminders similar to Outlook. The reminder popup shows up automatically when the activity is due and displays current day’s activities with basic details such as subject, description, related to (contact, lead, organization, etc..) as well as Due In. We recently gave it a major upgrade and added the “Actions” button as a column to the reminder popup. Previously, those actions buttons were only accessible when you go to calendar > specific activity > and hover your mouse over it. With the Activity Reminder (popup) extension, now users can edit, mark as done, and delete any activities without the need to visit the actual activity in the Calendar. When you open the reminder popup (extension button at the top right – needs the extension to be installed), you will see this new column named “Action”. The action buttons
Benefits Of QuickBooks (Desktop) Integration With VTiger
February 8, 2017
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The current business environment is becoming more competitive with every passing day, but on the other side if we observe most of the new ventures fail to perform operations and go bankrupt even in the first six months of their inauguration. There are multiple reasons behind these failures and some of the prominent explanations to this phenomena include lack of funds, unprofessional behavior, limited resources etc. When we look at the performance of small scale business firms the biggest hurdle they face is limited resources, even with great planning they fail to achieve the desired results because of fund restriction. But the smart professionals incorporate solutions which are cost effective and tweak them as per their needs to get high results. One of such cost-effective tool from which small scale business are benefiting at a large scale is QuickBooks Desktop. Statistics show that 8 out of 10 new businesses
VTiger Sales Insights
February 6, 2017
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A group of different departments works together on a single client in order to yield profit. In order to make a valued client happy, right from the start when the process of initiating the customer takes place to the provision of after sales service to the client a number of different people who belong to different departments put their endless efforts. Out of all the departments (sales, marketing, human resource, accounts etc), Sales is the department who needs special care as they carry the most burden in whole process of satisfying the customer. Managing this department is a job which requires extensive efforts and deep insights regarding the performance of the whole team. Sales rep is the unit of this department and they play one of the most important role and that is engaging the customer and providing them with what they need. You don’t close a sale, you
VTiger’s Appointment Pages
January 20, 2017
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Doing business is far more complex than what is seems from the surface, sometimes a small mistake can cause huge loss and sometimes a little tweak in the operations can earn fortunes for the firms. Every business activity is important and little negligence can prove to be disastrous, it is commonly observed that firms take some small tasks for granted because of which they not only bear financial loss but their market value also gets hurt. Business operations in which carelessness is commonly observed include scheduling a meeting, sending feedback, unprofessional emails and many more. Imagine yourself leading an organization, do you want an unprofessional organized meeting to hurt the reputation of your business? The answer is very simple NO Now coming towards the hassle which people commonly face while scheduling a meeting and how they impact your firm’s reputation in a negative manner. Assume that you are a
“Tags” In VTiger
January 17, 2017
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Data plays an integral role in the success of business firms, organizations with low-end data often face serious problems in progression and sometimes are outperformed by the firms which do not possess half of the resources in comparison to them. We are producing data more than ever and even the small scales business firms also take data collection into account and analyze it with state of the art techniques to gain quality results out of it. Data is equally important for improving external operations and internal performance of the organization, but with the changing business culture, the pace of data collection and data processing is also increasing. Now a day’s most of the firm’s decisions are backed by proper data analysis. According to a research each manager spends more than two hours daily in obtaining new data and then spend further time to refine it and collect meaningful information out
Basic To Advance Uses Of VTiger Calendar
January 13, 2017
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Planning is an important part of business, firms spend a huge chunk of their resources on planning just to make sure incoming season they perform better as compared to the previous seasons. Scheduling is an important part of the planning and a number of different tools are used for this purpose. One of such tools is the calendar, it is one of those few instruments which are most widely used in business operations. The benefits of a well-designed calendar are beyond measurement. To ordinary people, the application of calendar is just to remember dates, but for business professionals it is a handy assistance using which they keep track of stock delivery, meeting with a client, meeting deadlines, services, and product launch dates etc. If we analyze the habits of successful professionals it is not hard to observe that they use calendars to manage their schedules and take advantage of it
Uses Of VTiger Email Template Designer
January 11, 2017
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Communication is the heart of current business environment if we take a thorough look at all the procedural advancements from the past two decades, it is not hard to notice most of them involve an improved communication process. Firms started to use multiple tools to better the communication process up to the extent that to some firms their enhanced communication system turned into the competitive advantage. Current business culture provides a long list of diversified yet efficient communication tools, different tools offer different levels of benefits to a single firm. For example, for some firms text messages prove to be the best communication device, while for some video calls acts as the most efficient communication device. But there is one tool which is equally popular in all types of firms and the name of that communication instrument is E-Mail short for Electronic Mail. “91% of the consumers check their emails
The Mobile App VTiger 360 Makes Business Smarter
January 10, 2017
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Cell phone is a very handy innovation of past decade, at start cell phones were bulky and were very hard to carry around. But with the advancements in technology they became smaller in size and their functionality kept on increasing at a rapid rate. At first, mobile phones were used to make calls and send SMS only, but with the passage of time it took spot of many other handy gadgets like cameras, alarm clock, calculator etc. The mobile phone is a multipurpose device whose functionality has crossed traditional usage long ago. When we talk about multipurpose nature of mobile phones what comes in your mind when you think about its professional application? The answer is the usage of a mobile phone in carrying out business operations. Cell phones are vastly used in the field of business from sending emails to the clients regarding their queries to tracking the shipment
Benefits Of Integrating QuickBooks And VTiger
January 6, 2017
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While doing business you interact with a number of different parties which act as a different stakeholder and directly or indirectly offer something to our business in return of some benefits. When a business is interacting with a range of diverse people in order to cater them all firm has to perform different activities and one of such activity is managing financial and accounting side of the business. Payrolls play an important function in every business, using this tool you have to develop schematic according to which you pay to your employees and it is one of the most prominent function that your human resource department performs. Furthermore, another function which requires an immense amount of effort is invoicing (charging customers), it is an area where business faces serious struggle. In the current business environment, a number of different software is offered by diverse developers to provide you a better
Useful Insights Of Magento Carts In VTiger
January 5, 2017
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Once there was a time when if you told your friends that you are going to buy to purchase a jacket online using the internet, they would have considered you as a fool and made fun of you, labeled you some kind of a lunatic. But now online shopping is a practice which changed the whole face of the world economy, in fact, because of an online sale and purchases the term of E-economy is introduced. The reason behind the success of online shopping is its benefits it can offer to the customers. Using the internet for purchasing products save you from the hassle of physically going to the markets, moreover, the range of variety that is available in e-markets is far greater as compared to the traditional stores. On the seller’s end it helps them to reduce their costs as there is no need to rent out or purchase
Advanced Comments In VTiger Supports Rich Text Comments