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5 VTiger Extensions To Manage Lists Professionally
September 9, 2016
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Dealing with lists can be tricky in VTiger CRM, whether those are Related lists, list-view, or Kanban view. We gave deep thoughts to sort those needs, and designed some extensions that you will surely find very helpful in managing lists in VTiger. VTiger Related & List view Edits This VTiger extension allows you to edit fields from within any Related or List-view. So you don’t have to open a record to edit, as you can perform the changes from the Related or List-view. It is as simple as it sounds. Plus, the extension is compatible with all the custom & standard fields as well as all field types (text, picklist, multi-select, currency, lookup/relation, etc.). And it also supports custom filters and views. VTiger Related & List-view Edits is a great way to enhance the efficiency of your CRM system. The ability to modify records without the actual requirement
2 Must Have VTiger Extensions For System Administrators
September 5, 2016
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In the previous weeks, we have discussed a number of useful VTiger extensions that you can avail and implement in your CRM for the ease of your team and users to enhance the productivity. Today, we suggest 2 extensions that directly benefit system administrators in the most superior way. VTiger Automated Backups This stellar app for VTiger allows system administrators to backup VTiger Files & Database to a local folder or an off-site FTP without any hassle. The process is simple and easy. With VTiger Automated Backups module, you can go through and schedule out your automated backups for the best possible and timely outcome without any struggle. The number of days for keeping backups, frequency of the autorun, and the email notifications can be configured. Retrieving the backup is nothing more than moving back to the interface for VTiger Automated. For detailed information about the extension including
2 VTiger Extensions For Documents & Files Management
August 31, 2016
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There is no doubt about the importance of VTiger’s Document module. You can perform a lot of tasks with the module, but a couple of features are missing that may become very handy. Have a look at those features, covered very professionally by VTExperts with these extensions. VTiger Document Manager Just imagine creating one or multiple document records by simply dragging and dropping file or files anywhere on the screen. That is the potential of VTiger Document Manager. Being the top VTiger extension for Documents & Files/Folders management on the marketplace, it helps to keep all of the files organized. Plus, now you can see the user to whom the file belongs. You won’t have to go anywhere; the document and list themselves state the ownership. The extension is very accommodating in saving you precious minutes. It just takes about 30 seconds to open a document record, browse,
Generating/Combining Master Invoices in VTiger
August 31, 2016
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VTiger is a CRM, but also has some accounting elements such quotes, invoices & orders. Invoice functionality is as in any other accounting system – collect payments, export to PDF, mail or email it. If you are dealing with few invoices a month per customer – that might just work. However, if you end up with 10+ invoices that need to combined – we might be able to help. Currently, VTiger does not allow to combine multiple invoices into one “Master Invoice”, so we customized it to allow users to search for invoices using filters and select the ones that need to be combined and create one “Master Invoice”. We also added few custom fields to help keep track of the invoices combined. In addition, the “Master Invoice” will include all the items from the single invoices and will have a unique PDF template, which is easy to follow for the
Image Gallery in VTiger
August 30, 2016
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VTiger has the ability to attach and store documents which work very well. However, it is missing an ability to add images/pictures and view them without opening. We’ve developed a section on VTiger record which allows the users to attach unlimited number of images, and those images are displayed in the grid view. Meaning that you can see a thumbnail of the image. We also added the ability to zoom in and out which is extremely helpful for people having to deal with a lot of photos.In addition, the images can be moved around & deleted. This is just another VTiger customization we’ve done – if you need similar functionality, feel free to contact us. Thanks
3 VTiger Extensions To Customize Service & Sales Orders
August 29, 2016
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We, here at VTExperts Inc., keep a closer look on our users’ needs. So, the significance of sales orders and services is not something that we look away from. While using VTiger CRM, the Product & Services can be managed in several ways. But we observed some important customizations missing, which could be very helpful in services & sales purchase orders management. These 3 extensions from VTExperts exactly cover those missing features: Item Details Customizer – Advanced VTiger Item Details Customizer (Advanced) is the pro version of its successor and standard “VTiger Item Details Customizer” extension, with several extra features. You can customize Item Details (Product/Services) for Quotes, Invoices, Sales, & Purchase Orders. Moreover, you can also specify new formulas for each column as well as customize formulas for Totals. The extension accommodates multiple layouts of item details section for Quotes, Invoices, Sales & Purchase Orders. Also, it is compatible with PDF Maker that enhances its
Custom Availability Schedule on VTiger Record
August 26, 2016
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One of our customer’s business model is to recruit people in medical industry. In addition to having to collect the data about the person, they also need to know his/her schedule. The niche they are in, requires a very detailed availability schedule of the person they are trying to recruit. We built a custom ‘availability schedule’ within VTiger which allows the user to open the record, in this case contact, click the “Availability” section and update record preferences there. It includes the columns for all days of the week as well as the hour periods that apply. It’s easy to use design only requires user to click on each checkbox to pick the time frame. We also added a trigger which locks or unlocks the availability calendar – this way only certain people can access it and no one will update it by mistake. The availability can also be reported on as well
VTiger Integration with UPS
August 24, 2016
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Out of the box VTiger has a great system to handle sales orders which allows the user to convert the sales order into invoice, purchase order, as well as to create recurring invoices. If your business requires shipping and handling products – you might be able to take advantage of the VTiger customization we did, which allows users to generate tracking numbers and print labels using UPS API. The customization allows the user to generate tracking number from within the sales order screen, by simply clicking the button. It is integrated with UPS API, which sends the package weight, dimensions, location and retrieves valid tracking number stored in VTiger. The user can then click on the tracking number and it will open the UPS tracking website. In addition, we added the ability to process 100s of orders at a time. The customer who we built this for – is shipping 300-500
VTiger View with Multiple Tabs
August 23, 2016
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VTiger Detail view can get busy very quick. Most businesses need to capture and store a lot of information (fields & blocks) on the record. Creating multiple blocks and 100’s of fields is one solution, however it becomes difficult for the user to scroll through all of those fields/blocks and find what’s needed. We came up with the solution that allows to create tabs and store the fields and blocks inside the tab. If you look at the screenshots below – you will see that the tabs make it a lot easier to find and update the record. We even added a ‘multi line’ tab which allows to create unlimited number of rows within the tab. Large description/text field is usually comes in handy as well. Need similar/same functionality implemented? Please contact us!
5 VTiger Extensions To Enhance Quotes And Invoice Generation
August 19, 2016
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At VTExperts, we try our best to provide you complete CRM solutions. And it cannot be accomplished without focusing on the accounts department. So we created several extensions that will be extremely helpful in creating quotes and invoices more efficiently. VTiger Product & Service Lookup This extension for VTiger is specially designed to enhance the output of sales documentation including Quotes, Invoices, Sales, and Purchase Orders. You can manually submit the Part Number, Category, Product Description or any other field that you configure to be the search field for Products/Services and see the results without opening the popup. Also, you can specify separate result fields including price, description, or again, any standard or custom VTiger field. VTiger Product & Service Lookup eliminates the need for the extra click (popup) and increases the efficiency and accuracy of adding Products or Services to the Quote, Invoice, Sales, or Purchase Order. For
4 VTiger Extensions To Collaborate & Enhance Team Work
August 9, 2016
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Business is a team work that you run with your strategies. Out of the team work and strategies, the later mostly depends upon your creativity as well as professional approach. You can enhance your strategies and strengthen them with experience. On the other hand, your team’s coordination is completely a different game that depends upon a lot of factors most of which are governable. One way to do so is by employing the best-suited tools and techniques that would boost the efficiency of your working party. You can accomplish a lot for your business with VTiger CRM, but you’ll be surprised how fruitful these 4 extensions can be towards the collaboration of your team. VTiger Multi User Assignment There is only one way to assign a record to multiple users in VTiger i.e. by forming a group of those users you want to put in, manually. We took
3 VTiger Extensions To Track Time & Stay On Top Of Support Tickets
August 2, 2016
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As the competition grows, companies deploy more and more advanced tools and techniques to avoid time consuming tasks or get them done rather quickly. As VTExperts always brings on some outstanding customizations for your VTiger CRM, we also thought it would make it more convenient for you if we categorize some really valuable extensions. So we collected a series of 3 VTiger extensions that you can employ to save time and make things easier for support team. VTiger Time Tracker – User Time Management VTiger Time Tracker Extension sounds like mere a time tracking customization. Yes, it allows users to keep track of time while working on important or otherwise assignments – but it does a lot more. It can run more than one timer, with the option to toggle between different running timers. Plus, it supports custom fields, comments, and manual time tracking. And it doesn’t have to stay on top;
Customized VTiger Duplicate Merge Tool
July 27, 2016
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VTiger has a built in ‘Find Duplicates‘ tool which works with all the standard & custom modules., The tool can be accessed from “Actions” –> “Find Duplicates”. It’s sophisticated enough where the user can select multiple fields to check for duplicates as well as exclude the empty values. In addition, the fields selected are displayed as columns and “Merge” button allows to compare records side by side, and of course, merge. Merging duplicates is a tedious process and requires a lot of patience, effort and most importantly, time. We’ve come up with a way to speed up the duplicate merging by enhancing current VTiger Duplicate Merge Tool. First – we added additional columns to allow users to see more information about the records to be merged, even though those fields/columns are not parts of duplicate check. Standard functionality only allows to show fields as columns which you are ‘checking as duplicates’,
VTiger & Sage 50 Integration – Sales/Purchase Order Import
July 26, 2016
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VTiger & Sage 50 Integration Sales/Purchase Order Import Sage is an accounting system used by many businesses around the globe and having it integrated with the CRM is crucial. There’s currently no extension that would enable seamless sync between Sage 50 and VTiger. We’ve worked with many accounting systems, such as, Xero, QuickBooks, Peachtree (Sage 50) and are very familiar what is involved in developing the integration between the two. VTiger CRM has exceptional quoting & invoicing capabilities as well as generating sales & purchase orders. However, it’s not ideal for accounting purposes and that’s why we created a custom export/import that gives the ability to transfer data from VTiger to Sage 50. The customization consists of 2 parts: Export Exporting VTiger Sales Orders Exporting VTiger Purchase Order Import Importing VTiger Sales Orders Importing VTiger Purchase Orders We added a button to each record “Export to Sage 50”. The button creates a file
3 VTiger Extensions For Your Company’s Sales Men & Managers
July 23, 2016
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Sales team of a company plays chief role in its success, there is no doubt about that. But what if I tell you that they need your help to do so? There are a lot of steps you can take to achieve the purpose, and one of those is configuring the automations for the team. We decided to gather a list of 3 extremely helpful extensions of VTiger your sales team can surely find handy to boost the sales of a company. VTiger Kanban View [dt_highlight color=”green”]Click here for pricing, additional screenshots, video & live demo.[/dt_highlight] [dt_fancy_image type=”” style=”1″ lightbox=”1″ align=”right” padding=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ margin_right=”0″ margin_left=”0″ width=”” animation=”none” media=”” image_alt=”” hd_image=”” image=”https://www.vtexperts.com/gifs/vtigerkanbannew.gif”][/dt_fancy_image] When looking for sales tools, one searches for software or extension that provide proper visibility throughout the sales pipeline, warn about potential hurdles, and suggest ways to close deals within the estimated time. That is exactly what
Control Summary View Field Sequence/Order In VTiger
July 23, 2016
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VTiger record view consists of two unique layouts – one is “Summary View” and the other is “Detail View”. Both views can display the fields configured. However, the two views are quite different when it comes to fields & columns. The Detail View comprises of 2 columns while Summary View has only one column. The limitation most users face is that for both views there’s only one way to organize the field sequence. Given that there’s a 2 column view where fields go Left to Right, versus in the one column view – it goes down. This is where the conflict in field sequence kicks in. If you are using both views, you would likely want to be able to separate the two and order the fields differently. Well, we’ve done it for you! One of our customers asked us to add a “Summary Field Seq” option in the “Field Editor” which overrides the standard field sequence
View Record Address On Google Earth within VTiger
July 20, 2016
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VTiger CRM comes with pre-designed Google Maps widget which enables to view the addresses while looking for lead or contact records. The feature is great! However, its practical application has not much been observed since the zoom is not adjustable and you can’t see much more than a pin and surrounding area. We took the integration with Google Maps a step further and added functionality for users to view addresses on Google Earth. What we coded was basically a simple button “View on Google Earth” (at least it looks simple enough) next to each address block, which opens a modal popup (without leaving VTiger) and shows the zoomed picture of the house and the area. The tool is very helpful for businesses dealing with Solar Systems, Fences or any other exterior work that requires a glance of the property to do the quote or evaluate the conditions. Please send us an email or give us a call if you need
Receiving Purchase Order & Creating Assets in VTiger
July 19, 2016
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Out of the box VTiger has a built-in Purchase Order handling tool that allows users to create Purchase Orders, print or email them to the Vendor as well as link them back to Sales Order or an Invoice. In addition, there’s logic behind each Status, e.g when the Purchase Order status is changed to “Received”, it will ‘receive’ the items and update the “Qty. On Hand” for each item/product. All of the functionality is great. However, it is missing one of the most important features – keeping track of received items/assets. We came up with a solution that not only allows users to update the “Qty. On Hand”, but also enables to enter the serial number for each item and create it as an asset. It also supports a bar code scanner, all the user has to do is to put the cursor on the first item box and start scanning – the serial numbers will be
VTiger Rich Text/HTML Comments
July 18, 2016
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One of the productive features of VTiger includes the running comments/notes tab for each record. It’s mostly used to post notes, record details from calls/meetings, or any information related to the record which does not belong in fields. We were asked to customize the VTiger comments section to make it even more useful! First, we added a date & time fields, meaning that before posting each comment, you can backdate or post it in the future data. It is very useful for the businesses who want to keep their notes intact and who can’t necessarily post the notes at the time the action is being taken place. Our customization allows the user to change the comment date/time as needed. Secondly, we added the ability to format the text, meaning that the comments posted are in “Rich Text” format, which allows users to add bullet points, images, underline, highlight the text and much more! We used CLKEditor which
7 Extensions To Boost Productivity Within vTiger
July 18, 2016
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Although hundreds of vTiger extensions are available on vTiger Marketplace, selection of suitable ones may require some time and careful thoughts. So we gathered a list of 7 vTiger extensions that can help you a great deal in enhancing the productivity and efficiency within vTiger CRM. These extensions make some very simple changes like adding buttons, displays etc. to standard and custom views. So you can avail the same interface while saving time and spare efforts. vTiger Quick Edit Automation is about everything at your fingertips, isn’t it? Or at least it should be. That is what vTiger Quick Edit provides. The extension leads the list by enabling a very simple “Pencil” icon beside every relevant field, pressing which triggers the Edit function. The sole purpose of vTiger Quick Edit is to allow modification of related records (1:m, 1:1), while working in a record’s Edit/Create view. For more
Develop And Design Attractive Documents With vTiger Proposal & Document Designer
July 17, 2016
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A number of tools are available in market to write a couple of pages, few chapters, or even books with basic to professional formats. But when it comes to craft versatile content like extensive proposals, sales orders, quotes, invoices, or executive subject matter in a style, selection of the right tool can be tricky. Searching for the perfect software is itself a tiring task, let alone the additional processes including email integration with the desired customizations. The problem was addressed at vTiger’s and the team came up with the ultimate solution in the form of vTiger Proposal & Document Designer, along with the capability of Electronic Signature. The powerful vTiger extension has the potential to nimbly design professional, mobile friendly documents and proposals right from the vTiger CRM in minimum time. You can create highly striking executive documents, pamphlets, proposal, etc. that are more anticipated to convince leads and opportunities.
VTiger Filters: “Assigned To” Equals To “Current/Logged In User”
July 15, 2016
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Filters in VTiger is one of the most commonly used feature and often system admins are required to create filters that require condition “Assigned To”, which can cause a potential problem when there are too many users. The way VTiger works now is, if you were to create filters for each user in the system (with the Assigned To condition), you would have to create as many filters as there are users., and sometimes more (if multiple filters are needed). We came up with the special “Assigned To” condition “Is Current User”. It means: you can create one filter, set it as public and select the condition to be “Assigned To is Current User” instead of using the “Assigned To equals UserXXX”. This eliminates the need of creating duplicate filters – the condition will filter only the records that are assigned to “the Logged In user”. This is just one of the many customizations
New Widget in VTiger Calendar View (Additional Filters)
July 14, 2016
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VTiger Calendar is great, but not perfect. As every software, there’s always room for improvement. One of the customers requested to add a special widget on the calendar view, so their managers could easily filter only the activities they need to see. If you look at the screenshot, you will see that the widget is embedded in the calendar view and allows a detailed search of events. Search fields are as follows: Organization Name (it’s an ajax/type ahead field, once you start typing – it will show possible matches) Status (activity status) Activity Type Assigned To (group/user assigned to activity) Such detailed search allows the customer to exclude the unnecessary activities/events/tasks from the calendar view and prioritize the day. This is one of the many customizations that we did – if you have an idea for implementation or need assistance with VTiger – please shoot as an email or give us
VTiger CRM 6.5.0 (hotfix – 20160714) Released
July 14, 2016
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VTiger 6.5 Hotfix (20160714) There were few critical issues reported, right after the release of VTiger 6.5 which have been addressed in the latest hotfix. Detailed hotfix release notes below. Related to Currency Formatting which was troubling re-editing of records on UI. Third-party library fixes for PHP 7 compatibility – for the modules below Mail Manager “Add Action” section is missing/unusable Failure to load email folders Importing Module Customer Portal (non functional) Quotes/Invoices/SO (line item popup doesn’t show any products) Custom Modules (can’t properly install custom modules(including PDF Maker) Calendar (relabeled “Activity Types” widget) You can find more details on this milestone. How to Apply the hotfix Hotfix does not require going through the upgrade process, see the steps below. Download hotfix: vtigercrm-650-hotfix-20160714.zip Extract the hotfix and overwrite VTiger 6.5 files If you are upgrading to to VTiger 6.5 – you don’t need to apply this hotfix as
Custom VTiger Widget to Add Phone Numbers & Comments