Learning Pathway for Customer Relations

💡These topics focus on managing customer records and service tickets.

Customer Records

  • Billing Methods
  • Categories
  • Credit Terms
  • Staff Positions
  • Attributes
Customer Records
Billing Methods

Billing methods refer to the ways in which customers must pay their accounts (e.g. debit order, EFT, SWIFT).

The same billing methods are used for customers and suppliers.

Billing Methods: Explains the fields, buttons and features for displaying, creating or editing billing methods and provides step-by-step instructions for creating and editing billing methods.

Categories

Categories let you sort customer or supplier records and transactions for reporting purposes.

The same categories are used for customers and suppliers. However, they can be differentiated by using prefixes.

Categories: Step-by-step instructions for creating categories.

Credit Terms

Credit terms are the payment terms offered to customers.

The same credit terms are used for customers and suppliers.

Credit Terms: Explains the fields, buttons and features for displaying, creating or editing credit terms and provides step-by-step instructions for creating and editing credit terms.

Positions

Positions let you identify the people working for customers (e.g. Accounts, Rep, CEO).

The same positions are used for customers and suppliers.

Positions: Step-by-step instructions for creating positions.

Attribute Sets for Entities

Attributes capture additional information such as currencies, bank details and addresses.

Attribute Sets for Entities: Lists all the available attribute sets that can be added to customer records.

Custom Attributes

Custom attributes can be created to capture bespoke information on customers.

Custom Attributes: Step-by-step instructions for creating custom attributes and adding them to customer records (contacts).

Customer Records

All the customers’ static information. Customers are part of Contacts.

Contacts

  • Custom Attributes
  • Attribute Sets
  • Notes and Attachments
Contact Record
Contacts

Contacts is a central database of all the customer, supplier and staff records. The Contacts module lets you identify and capture additional information on staff working for customers.

Customer Age Analysis and Statements

Customer Age Analysis and Ledger

The customer age analysis and ledger are part of the same interface.

Mobile App

Mobile App

Customer information can be viewed and edited from a browser using the Mobile App.

Service Manager (Service Types and Service Tickets)

Service TypeOnce-off setup
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Create Service Tickets
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Capture Info, Notes and Tasks
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Assign to Staff
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TimekeepingOptional
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Resolution
Service Manager

The Service Manager can be used to follow up sales leads. It can also be used to create and manage tickets for customer queries.

Timekeeping

Timekeeping

You can use the Timekeeping module to record the time staff spend working on projects, tasks or general work.

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