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Release notes archive 2024
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Week 16

User interface

  • Salesbuildr can now scale with your browser window so you can have a better overview of on larger resolutions.

  • We started to add sortable columns troughout the interface. Not all have been enable yet, more to follow in the upcoming releases

Marketplace

  • Search: We have improved the speed and search capabilities of the marketplace to make it much more precise. You can now type "HP Probook i5" to just show HP Probooks with I5 in the description.

Quotes

  • You can now set a default mail address that receives notifications of approved quotes only.

  • Enabled instant inline editing when you drop a widget into a proposal.

Contacts

  • Salesbuildr will now pull in the Linkedin profile link for your contacts and display an icon that takes you to their Linkedin page. This required you to enable the Apollo.io integration.

Dashboard

  • We improved the dialogue for the manage my profile screen.

Suppliers

  • TNWC has a large portfolio of new and refurbished mobile phone and is now available for you to enable in the marketplace in the Netherlands.

  • Target components is now available for you to enable in the marketplace in the United Kingdom.

Week 12

Our upcoming release is packed with new features and improvements aimed at streamlining your workflow and enhancing your customer interactions.
Here's what you can look forward to:

Quotes

Incorporate personalized videos into your sales proposals.

By integrating video content, you can take your proposals to new heights, captivating potential clients and conveying your value proposition in a truly engaging and memorable way.

Here's how this feature can benefit your MSP:

📼 Enhanced Customer Engagement: Videos add a human touch, fostering trust and rapport with your prospects from the very start.

🧠 Improved Comprehension: Explain complex IT solutions visually, ensuring clients fully understand your offerings.

💪 Competitive Differentiation: Stand out from the crowd with a unique, multimedia approach to sales proposals.

🔒 Increased Retention: People retain information better when presented in a multimedia format, boosting recall of your key messages.

🌐 Scalability: Leverage templates and automation to efficiently create customized videos for each prospect.

📈 Nurture Relationships: Use videos throughout the sales cycle to provide updates, answer questions, and celebrate milestones.

You can start incorporating existing Loom or YouTube videos by simply pasting the URLs into your Salesbuildr proposals. Imagine the impact of:

▶️ Product/Service Walkthroughs

▶️ Client Testimonials

▶️ Executive Introductions

▶️ Instructional/Training Videos

▶️ Proposal Walkthroughs

See how to use this new feature below:

Direct Teams Chat from Sales Proposals

you can now add a Microsoft Teams chat link to your virtual business card displayed on the proposal screen. This means your end customers can initiate a Teams chat with you *right from the proposal* they are viewing.

Why is this a big deal? 🤔

✅ Instant Connection: No more waiting for emails or phone calls. Engage immediately with clients who are viewing your proposal.

✅ Streamlined Communication: Answer questions, clarify details, and close deals while the proposal is top-of-mind for your customer.

✅ Personalized Touch: Show your customers that you're just a click away, ready to provide that personal touch that sets you apart.

To enable this feature, simply use the following link format under manage my profile from the dashboard, section URL to chat with you:


Imagine sending a proposal and being right there to address any queries. That's next-level service, and it's here with Salesbuildr.

Contract overview now includes parent contracts

With our upcoming release, you will now be able to view and select service terminations from contracts associated with the parent company in Autotask.

Ship to , bill to and contact on digital approval

When your customer approves your proposal, they will now see the ship to, bill to and contact on the approval screen for clarity.

Storefront Custom Dashboard Tiles

Introducing Custom Dashboard Tiles, designed to elevate your customer engagement and streamline their access to essential resources.

💡 Key Benefits:
✅ Create a personalized, branded hub for your customers
✅ Seamlessly integrate with Autotask using User-Defined Fields (UDFs)
✅ Flexibly configure tiles with custom icons, labels, and links
✅ Control tile visibility using company whitelists

🔗 Link tiles to customer-specific resources:
➡️ Customer specific portals (BrightGauge, PowerBI)
➡️ Invoicing and billing systems
➡️ Support ticketing and knowledge bases
➡️ Announcements and maintenance schedules
➡️ Pages with forms that trigger workflows

📊 Dynamically populate tile links using any URL you stored in the Autotask Company UDFs, ensuring each customer has a unique link to personalized content specific to their company.

⚙️ Setting up custom dashboard tiles is a breeze. Navigate to the dashboard configuration settings in Salesbuildr, create tiles, set icons and labels, and map them to Autotask UDFs or a generic link. It's that simple!

🚀 Elevate your MSP storefront, enhance customer engagement, and provide a unified gateway to valuable resources. Strengthen your brand and streamline customer interactions with Salesbuildr's custom dashboard tiles.

Companies

You can now add a rule if you want to drop shipping cost above a specific order value by navigating to the company admin tab and setting a value under "Free shipping if above value". Read more.

You can now set the default company type that will be used when creating new companies inside Salesbuildr.

Advanced approvals

We added a condition that lets you set a trigger for internal approval when the value of a proposal exeeds a predefined anual recurring revenue (ARR) value. Read more.

Category overview

We clarified the category overview so you can instantly see if a category has hidden availability, the amount of products, wheater add-ons are configured, if shipping rules are applied or is set to hidden for non-admins.

Week 8

Our upcoming release is packed with new features and improvements aimed at streamlining your workflow and enhancing your customer interactions.
Here's what you can look forward to:

Storefront (view the updated documentation here)

  • You now have the option to automatically hide products that are not in stock for end customers.

  • When end customers open a draft basket, it now opens as a basket instead of a proposal.

  • The order confirmation page now shows a breakdown of costs for each item.

  • Mandatory add-ons are not greyed out for end customers to prevent them from deselecting them.

KPN RoutIT Integration (NL)

  • When you create a new service, Salesbuildr will now use the part number value to update the service MPN field inside Autotask.

  • Salesbuildr will now look at the service MPN field inside Autotask to try and match KPN-RoutIT services with services in Autotask.

Opportunities

  • You can now add new notes to your opportunities. These will also be sent to Opportunity in Autotask.

  • We added a new opportunity field where you can add an estimated churn value for your forecasting.

Product Catalogue

  • You can now fetch ICECat product information in bulk.

Companies

  • Year-to-date one-time revenue, MRR and the number of quotes sent are now available in the company export .csv file, so you can use this in your analysis.

Quotes

  • When copying a proposal, you now have the option to copy prices from the quote of default to catalogue prices.

Week 6

Opportunities

  • When you specify the contract duration, Salesbuildr will also update the contract duration field in Autotask.

Quotes

  • We moved the options for adding products to your proposal to the first tab on the side panel in order to speed up your workflow and prevent you from having to switch tabs.

  • We have added the ability to Inline edit pages.

  • Added a left pane with a table of contents to your proposal.

Self-service storefront

We have updated the self-service storefront to leverage a shopping basket with a more streamlined checkout process. Watch the video below to see how it works. The self-service storefront is an optional module, reach out to learn more or navigate to this page for more details.

Companies

Creating a new company in Salesbuildr will now also create the company in Autotask when you configure Salesbuildr to Autotask company mapping in the admin section under Autotask company import. Read how this works in this article.

Advanced imports

  • You can now map margin, unit, require procurement, select a specific distributor and select a proposal template to be used to bulk create renewal proposals. Read more here.

KPN Rout-it integration

  • You can now unlink services between KPN-Rout-it and Autotask services.

Product Catalog

  • New roundup options for products:

    • Whole number if price above 100 minus 1 cent.

    • Round up from 2nd digit.

    • Round up from 2nd digit minus 1 cent.

Templates

  • You can now use the internal quote note in internal email notifications using {{quote.internalNote}}

  • Be able to set a background image for content pages

  • You can now add attachments to widget templates that will be added as attachments to the proposal when you drag the widget into your proposal

Week 4

Quotes

  • Filter by Creation Date: You can now filter quotes by their creation date, making it easier to track and manage quotes over time.

  • Character Limit in Description Field: A finite character limit has been set for the description field in quotes, enhancing clarity and readability.

  • "Insert Products Here" Button: The reintroduction of this button in the new editor simplifies adding products to quotes.

  • Clear Date Filters: New functionality to clear date filters, enhancing ease of managing and sorting quotes.

  • Open Products in New Tab: Products in quotes will now open in a new tab, facilitating easier reference and comparison.

  • Discounts: You can now choose between applying a percentage or a hard number when adding a discount, offering more flexibility in pricing adjustments.

Opportunities

  • New columns to separate MRR and One time revenue

Dashboard

  • Opportunity Summary tiles: New tiles show you year to date information on opportunities created. closed and conversion rate. This will be expanded over time with additional filters and date ranges.

Distributors

  • Custom Distributors with Optional Product ID Input: You can now input distributor product IDs optionally, offering more flexibility in managing distributor-related information.

Advanced Imports

  • Licensing Renewals and New Product Imports: Enhanced the import process for licensing renewals, including the ability to import new products when the category is unknown.

  • Import Column Q as Quote Title: The import feature now includes the ability to use Column Q "Title" as the quote title.

  • Combining Multiple Rows for the Same Product: Multiple rows for the same product in imports can now be combined into one row, streamlining the data entry process.

  • Date Format Explainer in Pricing Book Importer: An explainer for the "date format" has been added to the pricing book importer for clearer understanding and accuracy.

Pricing Books

  • Applying Pricing Books to Existing Items: When applying a pricing book to a quote, it will now apply to all already existing items, ensuring pricing consistency.

  • Special Bid Field Addition: A special bid field under the "purchase info" field has been added, which overrides the value from the pricing book, providing more pricing flexibility.

  • Simplified Pricing Books Search on Quote Dialog: The search functionality within the pricing books on the quote dialog has been simplified, making it easier to find and apply the right pricing book.

Week 2

Contacts

  • Improved Contact Management: The company tab has been moved to a company card on the contact page for consistency, making it easier to manage and view contact details.

  • Seamless Integration with Autotask: Now, creating a new contact in Salesbuildr will automatically create a corresponding contact for existing companies in Autotask, streamlining your workflow. Learn how to setup the integration with Apollo if you want contact details to be automatically fetched.

Contracts

  • Contract Churn Management: We've introduced tweaks for better handling of contract churn, providing insights and tools to manage and reduce churn effectively. Learn more in this article.

Quotes

  • Flexible Add-Ons Arrangement: You can now change the order of add-ons in quotes for better customization and presentation.

Templates

  • Global Quote Configuration: Added a global configuration to decide if generated product widgets are named after their category or parent category, offering more flexibility in template customization.

Imports

  • Licensing Renewals and Imports: Enhanced the import process for licensing renewals, including the ability to handle new products with unknown categories and import specific data as quote titles. Read this article to learn more.

Pricing Books

  • Simplified Pricing Book Search: Streamlined the search process in pricing books on quote dialogues, making it quicker and easier to find the right pricing information.

Dynamics 365 Integration

  • CRM Opportunity Status Update: Improved integration with Dynamics 365, including updates to opportunity status in the CRM, ensuring better synchronization and data accuracy.

Week 51

Templates

  • Full-screen images: You can now upload full-screen images as image widgets and use them in your proposal to make them more visually attractive.

  • Widget settings: We have relocated settings to the left of the widget, providing more screen area for content editing and removing the need to resize the window.

Quotes

  • New Tab for Product Details: Enhanced user experience by opening product details in a new tab, preventing disruption of workflow.

  • Drag and drop quote pages: Reintroduction of the drag-and-drop feature for quote pages, boosting efficiency in quote creation.

  • Quote options: Improved layout and arrangement of buttons in the quote detail tab, offering a more intuitive user interface.

  • Global Quote Configuration: Added global configuration for setting how Salesbuildr should name product widgets. When you insert a new product into a proposal, the title of the widget is set to the title of the subcategory of the product. You can use this setting to set the title of the widget to the main category.

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