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Features of Vesigo CRM
 
Vesigo CRM offers a wide range of features that will help your business reap the benefits of CRM quickly and easily. As your CRM technology partner, the experienced staff at Vesigo Studios can help you implement these features today so that you can start tracking and improving your customer's experience.
 
Feature Description Your Advantage
Outlook Integration
Integration with Microsoft Office Outlook
Seamless integration with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and 2007. This puts the power of CRM in the environment you are comfortable with. Easily interact with CRM data as you work in Outlook composing email messages and working with contacts.
Service Scheduling
 
Support for Service Scheduling
Schedule service and other appointments directly inside of CRM. Sharing calendar information is an important part of organizing your businesses activities. This is a great way to keep track of who is doing what and when they are doing it.
Reports
Powerful server reports are available to give you the information you need when you need it. Vesigo CRM makes use of server side reporting which allows you to always have the latest report data at your fingertips. Custom reports can be prepared and published for everyone in the organization to use.
Contacts
A list of contacts that you have relationships with. This can be directly linked to contacts in Microsoft Office Outlook. At the root of CRM are the individual people you cultivate relationships with. In CRM an individual is considered a contact who can be associated with many other entities such as companies. The Outlook Client makes it easy to link your contacts already in Outlook into CRM. That way you can make changes to the contact via CRM or Outlook and the data stays in sync.
Leads
Store leads and opportunities, cultivate them, and turn them into accounts. Leads can be entered manually or imported in bulk. Marketing campaigns can be run on leads that meet a certain criteria. This is a very useful tools for sales representative to track the progress of a lead as it's turned into a customer.
Products and Services
Store your list of products and services, including price lists and packaged deals. At the heart of your business is a list of products and/or services that you offer to customers. Enter these one time in CRM and use this list to offer authoritative pricing, prepare quotes and invoices, and track the items purchased by customers. Associate future products and services that will allow sales representative to up-sell customers later on newer items offered by your company.
Quotes and Estimates
Generate quotes quickly and print them as a report, export to a Microsoft Word template, or save as a PDF. With your products and services already setup in CRM, creating a quote for customers is easy. Simply select the products and services you want and CRM takes care of the rest. You can even write in miscellaneous line items if there is an extra item you need to add to the quote that is not already setup in the product catalog.
Competitor Tracking
Store and track competitor information. Get a better view of your competition and how they are interacting with your leads and customer base. CRM makes it easy to add competitors and then make associations to vendors, leads, suppliers, and customers who have interaction with them.
Knowledgebase
Archive articles that provide answers to common support issues. Generally the same support question is asked by not just one customer, but several. By archiving the solutions that your support staff discovers for problems, the knowledge base makes it easy to look up these answers later and send those to the customer. This makes for consistent answers to customers and avoids the problem of support personnel giving their own random opinions.
Contracts and Service Agreements
Comprehensive tools that store your customer's contracted rates, preferences, and history with your company. Store your companies standard contracts, such as support service plans, in CRM and assign them to customers so you can easily track and fulfill contractual agreements.
Customer Support Cases
Track each time you have a support interaction with your customers. Cases track a support incident that occurs with a customer. This makes it possible to record the nature of the incident, the time spent assisting the customer, and the solution to the problem. Since this is tied back to the contracts feature, logged cases will deduct from the contracted support incidents allocated to that customer.
Options and Settings
Configure CRM to operate the way you need with comprehensive options and settings that affect the whole organization. Setup company specific settings such as sales territories, office locations, business closures, and business units. This makes it possible for CRM to operate the way your business works. You can also setup user permissions and roles.
Customization
Customize CRM with the fields and workflow you need. Virtually every portion of CRM can be customized to work the way you need. Most simple customizations are possible through the CRM interface such as adding fields and changing views and lists. More advanced customizations such as dashboards and workflow integration can be accomplished with the help of the technical engineers at Vesigo Studios.