Needless to say, Customer Relationship Management is an integral part of any kind of business. It is impossible to achieve success in your business without proper customer relationship management. If you want to grow your business effectively, you must ensure that you are maintaining a good relationship with customers. It is important to pay more attention to customers’ requirements and satisfaction with the products and services you provide. The business world around us is growing day by day. People started to invest most of their time in customer management by knowing the fact that the number of competitors also increased significantly. Maintaining good terms with existing customers and attracting new customers to your business are the two most important tasks when it comes to customer relationship management. For ensuring proper management of customer relationships, companies nowadays rely on CRM software.
Odoo ERP system offers you the dedicated CRM module for the complete management of customer relationships. Using this module, you can effortlessly track leads and convert them into new opportunities. What makes this module even more attractive is that the user can integrate this module with many other modules in Odoo such as Sales, Website, Social Marketing modules etc. You will get a fully equipped system in Odoo CRM which will be helpful to find new customers as well as maintain the existing customers. According to the requirement of the company, the user can set certain criteria for lead generation in the CRM module and follow-ups can be easily done with the help of scheduled meetings and appointments. This will simplify the work of the sales and marketing departments. The chances of converting leads to opportunities are high because the leads are generated in the system as per the demands of the company. By integrating the CRM module with other social marketing modules in Odoo, it is possible to expand the process of lead generation.
Partners Commissions
The latest version of Odoo introduces various new features in the CRM module for ensuring enhanced performance. You will get the fastest, most up-to-date, and most advanced system in the Odoo 15 CRM module. The newly introduced features in the Odoo CRM module will improve the operational efficiency of lead management. A detailed discussion on the new features of the Odoo 15 CRM module will help you to understand why you should rely on this module for complete customer relationship management.
When we take a look at the Settings menu of the Odoo 14 CRM, you will get a tab called Partners Commissions which includes the field to adjust the frequency at which purchase orders will be automatically confirmed. You can set the Automatic PO Frequency as Manually, Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly as per your requirement. By selecting the option Manually, employees can manually confirm purchase orders. This feature is also available in Odoo 15. Along with this, the user will get one more field in Odoo 15 which is called Minimum PO Amount Total under the Partners Commissions tab.
This field is used to specify the minimum required amount needed to automatically confirm purchase orders in Odoo. By specifying the minimum amount, the purchase orders with the specified total amount will be automatically confirmed under certain criteria.
Rule-Based Assignment
Another important feature introduced in the Odoo 15 CRM is the Rule-Based Assignment. As the name indicates, this feature will help a company to automatically assign leads to salespersons based on certain rules. The user can activate this field from the Settings menu under the CRM tab as marked in the screenshot below.
Based on configured rules, it is possible to automatically assign leads periodically. The Running can be set as Manually or Repeatedly. By selecting the ‘Manually’ option, you will get an action button in the Sales Team form view to manually trigger assignment. Selecting the Repeatedly option allows you to mention the interval between each cron run. The next execution date of the Rule-Based Assignment according to the repetition interval also can be seen in this field.
Multi Teams
In Odoo 15, it is possible to assign a salesperson into multiple Sales Teams. In order to get this feature, enable the Multi Teams option from the Settings menu of the CRM module.
This feature allows a salesperson to work on different sales teams at the same time.
Reporting
The reporting feature in Odoo 15 is beneficial for users to analyze and understand each operation done in the modules. In the CRM module, a company will get a clear insight into the reports of all processes taking place in the module in graphical and analytical patterns. When you take a look at the sub-menus provided under the Reporting menu, you can find that the options to generate reports about Dashboard and Forecasts are new in the Odoo 15 CRM.
From a single window, a user can easily examine and perform dashboard analysis with the help of the Dashboard reporting feature in the Odoo CRM. As you can see in the screenshot below, the dashboard report includes graphs and pivot tables together in a screen. If you want to get a separate view of the report, you can select the corresponding option from the Pivot, List, and Graphical views given on the top right corner of the dashboard.
This platform will help you to generate reports regarding Automated Probability, Bounce, Days to Assign, Days to Close, Days to Convert, Exceeded Closing Days, Expected Revenues, Probability, Prorated Revenue, and Count based on Sales Person, Sales Team, City, Country, Company, Assigned Partner, Campaign, Medium, Source, Creation Date, and Closed Date.
The number of leads generated with the help of different sales teams and mediums can be seen in pie charts in the dashboard. Along with this, the screen also displays the total number of Leads, Days To Opportunity, Days To Assign, % Opportunities, Expected Revenue, Prorated Revenue, and Days to Close.
Analysis of upcoming revenues can be done with the help of the Forecast Reporting option.
This platform contains options to convert into Kanban, List, Pivot, and Graphical views. The user can enhance the forecast report using different measures and sorting options given in the window.
Sales Team
The List view of the Sales Team includes a new feature to add additional fields to the list. When you click on the three dots given on the right corner of the screen, you will get an option called Add Custom Field.
With the help of Odoo Studio, this option will help the user to add customized fields to the Sales Team window.
With the help of all these newly added features in the Odoo 15 CRM module, a company can ensure effective management of customer relationships without any difficulties. This will ultimately lead your company to achieve customer satisfaction with the products and services you offer.
