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5.1 Company

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Each company represents an account or an organisation with which you do or may do business.

 

The company tab helps you manage customer accounts for your organisation or business. Company contains your customer information such as name, address and email. Each company can be linked with other records such as contacts and opportunities.

 

You can use company tab to:

 

create a new company or edit an existing company
view a list of all companies added to the system
view a list of companies assigned to you ie companies associated with your account
tag a company with one or more tags
create a project or projects to be linked to a company
add a contact or contacts to a company
add a note or notes to a company
add an opportunity as a company
compose an email to a person at a selected company
schedule a call, meeting or task with a company
send an email, SMS or fax to a company
assign a company to a relevant user
maintain orders, invoices and payments information for a company.

 

Since these options are on the company module, Total Enterprise CRM assumes that if you create an item such as a note, project or email from this module that it is related to the selected company. This theme continues throughout the system to reduce unnecessary data entry.

 

Companies are used to manage any type of organisation, club or group of people. These could be customers, competitors, suppliers - or all of these. Linked to the company is a list of contacts, meetings, sales opportunities, telephone calls, documents and other relevant information. You can add companies manually to the system or you can import an already created list of companies.

 

Company records, stored in the system, can also be used to boost sales, create campaigns or maintain target lists, enabling you to get your message to your customers and open new sales opportunities. If you have an imminent marketing campaign, by using these records you can choose which companies should be included in those promotions and which should be ignored.

 

Company tab at a glance

 

Companies are listed in a sortable, flexible grid.
Each grid allows users to choose fields to display, and the order in which they are displayed.
Each column can be filtered and grouped.
Export to Excel feature allows ad hoc report generation.
Records in database may be tagged to help organise them.
Tags are displayed at the top so you can see them when you open the record.
New tags are simple to create, and you can filter any grid by tags.
A contact can be added to a company by a simple click.