Multi-User Collaborative Line Editor PLUS & Estimator for CPQ on Salesforce (Orders/Invoices/Subscriptions coming next)

Summary:

As per Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant Report: Salesforce CPQ is the visionary leader, but has more issues with poor ergonomics and UX design than any of the other vendors in the report

Our Solution We have developed industry's first Multi-User Collaborative Quote Line Editor PLUS or QLE+ and Estimator with a Rich User Interface It is for addressing several pain points with the existing Salesforce CPQ quote line editor (pain points listed below)

It can be used with any Salesforce based Quoting tool and is 100% complimentary. Think of it is using Microsoft Word instead of Notepad but with many more enhancement

Roadmap: Any transaction with line items can benefit from this add on. This includes Orders , Invoices, Opportunities, Subscriptions

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Pain Points/Features  Requested by CPQ customers

User Interface

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Ability to set custom column layout by User, Freeze columns, Column Heading Help Text Tool Tips

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Add Colors, fonts, formatting, bold/italics

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Have custom filters to be able to sort on any columns

4

Grouping in the quote line editor by any field such as Product Family on the fly

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Conditional formatting: Based on rules just like in Excel, be able to show different colors, fonts, etc

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Preview approvals from within the QLE for Standard approvals (as you know there is no preview approval capability for standard  approvals)

7

Ability to expose any object such as installed assets within the quote line editor

8

Economic analysis of the quote with a configurable field set

9

Ability for the user to save his/her own selection of columns and the order in which they would like to see them

10

Unlimited Tabs each with its own field set, colors, columns, or referring to any object in Salesforce

Excel Upload (Not CSV, but existing Excel workbooks)

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Upload quote line items by dragging an existing Excel (not CSV but Excel) sheet on to the quote without having to convert to CSV. Works with existing excel sheets

Automatically create multiple quotes from a single Excel file based on a configurable parameter such as creating one for every 300 lines. So an excel file with 1500 lines will create 5 quotes. While QLE+ allows you to view the 1500 lines all together in a single screen and work on it as if it were a single quote

Multi-User Collaborative Quote Management with Service Cost Estimation (This is a significant innovation )

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Combining multiple quotes in to a single view and being able to make edits across the quotes

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Overcoming the Salesforce CPQ quote line limit while also give multiple users their view of an overall aggregated quote

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Ability to maintain separation of Service Items, Manufacturing Costs, Procurement cost with customized tabs for each

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Ability to leverage CPQ to estimate projects within the context of the Sales Quote for a unified quoting and estimation experience.

Can surface Consumption Schedules for Usage Based Billing

Can surface Child objects to the Quote line such as Manufacturing Cost, Bill of Material Routings, Service Costs 

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Salesforce CPQ Quote Line Editor PLUS (QLE+)

Enhancements to address the pain points / requests we have experienced from Salesforce CPQ Customers

  1. Overcoming the Salesforce CPQ quote line limit
  2. Ability to freeze columns on the QLE
  3. Add Colors, fonts, formatting, bold/italics
  4.  Have custom filters to be able to sort on any columns
  5.  Grouping in the quote line editor by any field such as Product Family on the fly
  6. Conditional formatting: Based on rules just like in Excel, be able to show different colors, fonts, etc
  7.  Preview approvals from within the QLE for Standard approvals (as you know there is no preview approval capability for standard  approvals)
  8. Ability to expose any object such as installed assets within the quote line editor
  9. Economic analysis of the quote with a configurable field set
  10. Upload quote line items by dragging an existing Excel (not CSV but Excel) sheet on to the quote without having to convert to CSV. Works with existing excel sheets
  11. Combining multiple quotes in to a single view and being able to make edits across the quotes
  12. Ability for the user to save his/her own selection of columns and the order in which they would like to see them 
  13. Unlimited Tabs each with its own field set, colors, columns, or referring to any object in Salesforce

Demo Videos

Part-1

See the features like: Freeze columns, Unlimited Tabs, PDF export, Colors, Conditional formatting, Filters, Grouping, No Quote line limits, Ability for a user to save and re-arrange columns and much more

Part-2

Shows the seamless upload from an Existing Excel sheet (not CSV) which can have formulas, colors, multiple sheets, macros etc. and without any changes to the exsiting content of the excel sheet

Example Screenshot of the new and improved Salesforce CPQ Quote Line Editor