Create quick quotation using quotation template¶
If you often sell the same products or services, you can save a lot of time by creating standard quotation templates. By using a quotation template you can send a complete quotation in no time.
Business case¶
The service company who is selling the offshore projects to their customers with standard set of service products such as Project manager days, Developer days, and Project setup fee. The developers days are minimum to 20 days and project manager are one third of the developer days.
Configuration¶
Assumed that Sales Management application is installed.
Quotation template¶
Quotation template is a great feature that allows user to create offers with group of products those are sold together.
Create a products¶
Create the list of products that you are going to sale together, in our business case the list of products of type service are as below:
- Offshore Project Setup Fee
- Project Manager Consulting Days
- Developer Days
Create your quotation template¶
The quotation templates can be found under Sales / Configuration / Quotation Template, create or edit an existing template. Enter the appropriate name of the template and select the list of product(s) and their quantity as well as the expiration time for the quotation.
Tip
You can also specify discount, if discount option is activated in the Sales settings.
Tip
You can select a template to be suggested by default in the Sales settings.
Send quotation by email¶
You have to send the quotation by email, so that the quotation can be viewed, accept or reject or paid online by the customer.
Quotation viewed by customer¶
As a salesman you can start the follow-up on the quotation as soon as you see that a quotation viewed by customer. Everytime customer open the quotation preview you will have a message in chatter, this features of the quotation template help salesman to understand the customer interest on quotation.
Tip
You may remove the attached quotation (pdf file) at the time sending quotation by mail, if you want your customer should open quotation online.