The contact order function is designed to help you build and strengthen relationships through every step of your contact with the customer. Contact order is a simple and smart CRM system *.
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A big advantage of the function is that you, as a salesperson, work in the same system as the others in the group or company. This means that, for example, service technicians can create a contact order and send it on to you immediately when a sales question arises during a customer visit or service or vice versa.
But contact orders can also be used completely independently of other order functions in the system.
Click this button to filter your search.
Example: select those assigned to you, limit by date, customer, etc.
If you want to use the same filter multiple times, you can choose to Save settings, at the bottom of the box. Your selected filter will be viewed under the search box.
You can also choose to save the filter as Favorite. Read more about Save as favorite.
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Add a new contact order directly on a customer, facility or service object. Go to the tab Registers, click on the register you want to search in. When you have found the current customer, facility or service object, scroll to the bottom and click on the Add button and you will be presented a number of choices. The information for the customer, the facility and / or the service object is automatically added to the new contact order.
If you already have a work or service order open, click on the customer’s name and go directly to the customer card. Click the Add button.
All contact orders associated with a customer are displayed when you enter the customer.
Contact order (CO) also appear in the To-do list, where you can see any bookings for the contact order.
The list of contact orders is sorted by scheduled date.
Under Subject, describe what the contact is about. It can be such as Sales, Regarding machine service, Potential customer, Offer or perhaps which work area the customer operates in. You decide what suits you best.
Enter the customer’s name in the box. The search function (click on the magnifying glass) helps you find the existing customers. If the customer is not on the list, enter the customer’s name and the customer will be added to the Customer Register automatically with the contact information you fill in.
Enter the customer’s facility name if applicable. The search function (click on the magnifying glass) helps you to locate existing facilities. If the plant is not included in the list, enter the name of the plant and the plant will be added automatically to the Facility Register.
Here you can enter a service object if the contact order applies to one.
Here you fill in information about your contact. Only one contact person can be entered here.
Enter a status that describes where in the process the contact is.
With an administrator account, you can enter a list of statuses you want to use. These statuses will appear as a dropdown list.
See more under Information for Administrators below. See Image 4.
Status is displayed in the Contact Orders list and in the To-Do list.
Here you make your notes about the conversation or meeting, what you and the customer talked about, experience of the contact, paste in email conversations, etc.
For each note you make, the date and time and who wrote it are logged. You and your colleagues can easily see what you have done in relation to the customer and when.
In the Time required field, you can enter time in hours to get an idea of the time required for the contact order. Currently, the hours are not summed. Feel free to contact us if there is a need and interest for that.
You use bookings to book the next contact with the customer: digital contact in various forms, physical meetings or telephone contact. If, for example, you have agreed to contact the potential customer in six months’ time again, you will place a booking about it. The booking is in your calendar and in your To-do list, you will receive a reminder (notification) when it is time. You can also assign the task to a colleague in your group.
In what form you receive notifications (in the system, via email, via SMS …) and if you’re able to assign are permissions that are set with a admin account. See more at the bottom of the page.
Time to click Save!
Upload documents linked to the order, show on a map where the contact is and assign the contact order to employees.
As for other orders, the employee receives a notification that he has been assigned an order.
If the contact results in a sale, use the Sales Order function. Here you can read more about it: Create a sales order.
Did not get a pacifier and want to end the contact order? Click Complete to end and archive the order (this is marked with a dark blue color which in the system means executed / invoiced). It remains in the list of contact orders and you can always go back and see your notes and other information about the order. No risk of losing or forgetting what you did! The documentation remains.
Log in with an admin login.
Suggestions for Status can be found under Group Settings – Module Settings – Contact Order Settings.
List Mode Settings
If the orders, by default, are to be sorted by serial number, check the box. Default is otherwise sorting by date. Completed orders are always last in the list of orders, regardless of your choice here.
User permissions related to contact orders: View, View (only) assigned, Edit, Create, Delete, Assign, Assign itself, Delete uploaded files linked to contact orders .
* CRM = Customer relationship management, or customer care, includes the management, organization and administration of customers and customer relationships in a company.