{"id":249,"date":"2015-04-06T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/?p=249"},"modified":"2015-04-06T22:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T22:00:58","slug":"new-quote-and-invoicing-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/new-quote-and-invoicing-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"New Quote and Invoicing workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SalesVu now offers a complete process flow for services businesses. For every project, you can now track the following statuses: Quote Created =&gt; Quote Sent =&gt; Quote Accepted =&gt; Invoice Sent =&gt; Invoice Paid<\/p>\n<p>A. The Quote<\/p>\n<p>The Quote is created and sent by email:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1-Quote-Created.png\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-419\" title=\"Quote Created\" alt=\"1 Quote Created\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1-Quote-Created.png\" width=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1-Quote-Created.png 1020w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1-Quote-Created-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Customer receives the Quote by email:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-420\" title=\"Quote Email from customers email\" alt=\"2 Quote email sent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2-Quote-email-sent-.png\" width=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2-Quote-email-sent-.png 818w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2-Quote-email-sent--300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Customer Accepts the quote by clicking &#8216;Accept&#8217; on email:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-422\" title=\"Quote accepted by customer\" alt=\"4 Email accepted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4-Email-accepted.png\" width=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4-Email-accepted.png 982w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4-Email-accepted-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At every stage, you can refer to &#8216;Tracking&#8217; feature and check the status of email related to the &#8216;Quote&#8217;. At this stage, the status is &#8220;clicked&#8221; (meaning that the customer has clicked a link within the message) and you can deduct that Quote has been accepted<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-423\" title=\"Quote accepted status\" alt=\"6 Invoice received\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/6-Invoice-received.png\" width=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/6-Invoice-received.png 1319w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/6-Invoice-received-300x17.png 300w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/6-Invoice-received-1024x59.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1319px) 100vw, 1319px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>B. The Invoice<\/p>\n<p>When the &#8216;Quote&#8217; is accepted, you can send the Invoice by email:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-425\" alt=\"7 Invoice to be sent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/7-Invoice-to-be-sent1.png\" width=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/7-Invoice-to-be-sent1.png 1309w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/7-Invoice-to-be-sent1-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/7-Invoice-to-be-sent1-1024x314.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1309px) 100vw, 1309px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The customer receives the Invoice by email:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-427\" title=\"Invoice email\" alt=\"9 Invoice\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/9-Invoice.png\" width=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/9-Invoice.png 811w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/9-Invoice-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At this level, the status of the invoice is opened because customer has opened the email :<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-428\" title=\"Invoice read\" alt=\"10 invoice opened\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10-invoice-opened.png\" width=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10-invoice-opened.png 1318w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10-invoice-opened-300x21.png 300w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10-invoice-opened-1024x73.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1318px) 100vw, 1318px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The client can then accept the invoice and pay online by entering his credit card information.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The tracking tool will\u00a0allow you to know exactly the status of corresponding email to a &#8220;Quote&#8221; or an &#8220;invoice&#8221; at a time &#8220;t&#8221;. Please see the table below with the signification of all statuses:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-444\" alt=\"Sendgrid status\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sendgrid-status1.png\" width=\"499\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sendgrid-status1.png 499w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sendgrid-status1-300x274.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To follow your Quotes and invoices, you can also browse through the Quote\/Invoice report by choosing a specific \u00a0transaction types:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Invoice Type\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-06-at-9.44.11-PM.png\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-545\" title=\"Invoice Type\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-06 at 9.44.11 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-06-at-9.44.11-PM.png\" width=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-06-at-9.44.11-PM.png 1421w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-06-at-9.44.11-PM-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-06-at-9.44.11-PM-1024x460.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1421px) 100vw, 1421px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SalesVu now offers a complete process flow for services businesses. For every project, you can now track the following statuses: Quote Created =&gt; Quote Sent =&gt; Quote Accepted =&gt; Invoice Sent =&gt; Invoice Paid A. The Quote The Quote is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[20,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salesvu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}