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 CRM Tools for Complete Customer Relationship Management    


Evolution provides dynamic Customer Relationship Management functionality built into an integrated business management software application. With Evolution your Customer Relationships are not an isolated process from Accounting, Projects or from daily communications such as Email.

      In depth functionality with auto-populating functions are so your data tracks throughout Evolution where you need it to simplifies your data entry for increased productivity. 

      Evolution successfully enhances your ability to provide excellent customer service, support to your customers by providing an integrated, centralized customizable customer relationship management software for your business.


Contact Management Tools 

Adopt Evolution CRM for an advanced approach to basic contact management. With profile based user access, an interface packed with tools designed to bridge the gap between your information and action Evolution is one of the strongest solutions available on the market today for smaller to mid sized growing enterprises.

Effective contact management starts with the ability to store different types of information, search on a variety of information stored within a contact and provides tools to perform different types of actions from a contact file. Take this one step further and build in tools to perform certain types of actions with a team (a group of contacts) and you have a contact management solution rich in functionality as part of a solid CRM foundation. Some of the functions found in the contact management tools of Evolution CRM include:

  • Integrated Search Tool for all information within your contacts
  • Quick reports for your search results within contacts
  • Integrated Mail Merge Tool based on contacts
  • Integrated Mass Email Tool based on contacts
  • Integrated Move and Copy tool for contact mobility
  • Teams capability for events involving groups
  • Built in Accounting functions within contact structure
  • Business to business contact structure for multiple contacts within a company contact
  • Business to consumer contact structure for individuals
  • Built in mapping tool for contact addresses with links to Google Maps, Microsoft Live Local and MapPoint

Call Logs for Customer and Service Calls

Evolution's CRM includes Call Logs specifically designed to handle service calls for incoming and outgoing service calls with customers and partners. With the ability to see an overview of Call activity through reports, and and an over view of activity with a variety of filter options Evolution provides a robust tool for handling more specialized work flow needs for businesses.

Each contact has the Call Log tool built in to access a history of calls, initiate actions from an open call, and assign and notify more then one person of a newly created Call Log. The Dashboard and Flyout Panel provide up to date information on New Call activity as it happens for specific users. Companies looking for integrated service call functionality can look forward to the following functions with Evolution:

  • Automatic time/date stamping of Calls by the user who created the call
  • The ability to assign and notify others about new or open calls
  • Separate Notes screens for initial call and resolution activity
  • The ability to create and assign a Task within a Call
  • The ability to place an Order within a Call
  • Create an Appointment from a Call
  • Flexible Category & Status structure for customizing work flows
  • Ability to upload or scan in documents related to a Call
  • Assign a Call Log to an open Project
  • Integrated Knowledge Base for the ability to search on topics in your Knowledge Base

Products Owned: Define What Happens after the Sale

Companies who track activity, service plans and follow up maintenance with service work on Products a customer has purchased from will enjoy the Product Owned tools within Evolution. Whether it is service, warranty work or additional purchases, tracking activity related to Products after a Product has been purchased can a challenge depending on how information is managed.

Evolution's Products owned will track a customer or reseller's purchase history and provide an interface where additional activities can be tracked from the point of purchase. This structure supports a more specialized work flow for companies looking for tools to track related activities to products that have been purchased by their customers and resellers. Capabilities within Products Owned include but are not limited to:

  • Basic product information tracking to a customer or resellers purchase history
  • The ability to access the invoice directly from the purchase history
  • An information screen with customizable fields to shape your information requirements
  • Accessories or related product information will automatically track to a products owned purchase history
  • Track Repairs and generate a new work order within product owned
  • Integrated Call log functionality for work flow specific Call Logs within a Purchased Product
  • An overview screen for all Product's Owned for easy viewing of key information from a customer or reseller's account

Event Management: Automation for Action

Companies with multiple work flow needs within on organization will appreciate the integrated work flow management tools within Evolution. Event Management within Evolution allows companies to define, shape and manage actions that are based on a previous action even if it is a simple as a potential customer registering for information on a website or a Newsletter registration on a website.

Evolutions Event Management is designed to automate actions at critical points in the customer relationship life cycle. This drives overall activity within your company, provides attention to customers while maximizing internal efficiency with any person to person contact with customers and partners. The result is a more streamlined software environment where Employees activity has a positive impact on revenue.

Events encompass a wide range of actions and can be customized in numerous locations within the CRM tools in Evolution.

  • Automate emails to be sent out based on a specific category or status
  • Create Call Logs and assign them to staff members for automated follow up in person
  • Create Tasks and assign individuals or Teams to follow up, ideal for companies using project management
  • Automatic notifications for staff members for open Tasks, Calls and Appointments
  • Define an Appointment based on a category or status, an ideal tool for companies with direct sales forces using a consultative sales approach

SalesForce Automation & Management


The Customer Relationship Management tool set of Evolution allows you to customize even the most complicated sales and lead management processes easily. Complete with an intuitive interface and a wide range of functions available on one window, Evolution makes even complicated team sales processes a simple reality.

Define your own sales force management process by creating your own custom categories, statuses and sales work flow. Evolution's information management structure can easily be molded to reflect exactly how you prefer your company to be run. The idea is to have a business management software flexible enough to accommodate your process without you having to change your process to fit into a business management software application.

Benefits available for sales force management within Evolution include:

  • Role based dashboards and an active Reminder Panel(The Flyout Panel) for live ongoing reminders for daily communications, follow up actions and pending Quotes provide an interactive To Do list for lead management and sales follow up tasks.
  • Assign specific sales people to any type of contact in Evolution CRM.
  • Manage Productivity through Reporting for your salesforce.
  • House all Lead information in your Evolution to foster collaboration in your sales process.
  • Create and manage appointments and appointment history.
  • Easily track quotes, communications, competitors, projects, and documents through evolution CRM.
  • Event 'wizards'; Evolution will even automatically create new events or tasks once one task is completed. This feature is also great for customer management, project management, or setting reminders for sequential tasks that need to be completed as each Task is completed.
  • Alerts: alerts can be set for scheduled meetings, follow up calls or to remind someone when a proposal or quote is due providing a valuable tool for closing the sales loop on leads.
  • Reminders: Ideal for follow up activity for potential customers including phone calls, emails, scheduled events, proposals and quotes. Our reminders can be applied to communications and actions within Evolution and will alert you as they come due in the Flyout Panel on the right hand side of the window.
  • Lead Details: How did this Lead find you, were they referred by someone, and basic background information about their organization are readily available from this section of Leads.
  • Opportunities: With Evolution CRM you have a unique sales pipeline tool to track any open Opportunities with different types of contacts. Measure and track the potential sales amount and the timeframe of open opportunities within your Sales force.
  • Easily Move or Copy contact within Evolution using a 'Move and Copy' wizard.
  • One click creation of Order or Invoice from a Quote.
  • Track documents including images and multiple file types by contact
  • Store emails within a contactand view email history with a particular contact.

Maximize your sales force automation using these CRM tools within Evolution to enable your company to increase ROI on marketing efforts and increase revenue by closing the sales pipeline.

Maximize sales force automation further by making the most of up to date lead information as they go through the sales process. Evolution's collaborative Lead Management Tools provide tools for these frequently described scenarios:

  • Addressing one client's requests within a time sensitive schedule even with numerous other clients to manage
  • Communicating with other sales staff or sales managers about completed events or closed sales in a timely fashion.
  • Being able to collaborate successfully with other staff members on leads because shared information, document management and event handling can now be handled seamlessly.

All of the information mentioned in the list above is kept under the specific lead file for that prospect. Accessing Leads can be done by anyone in your company who has access to that file instead of having to look into a different software application.

These and many other time saving tools are available to your business by implementing Evolution Business Management Software for your company. Contact us today for a live demonstration.

 

CRM: A Complete View of Customers


Build revenue and optimize the potential of additional sales opportunities by offering an exceptional level of customer service to your clients. For Companies that provide Call center based customer support or service desk functions for your customers Evolution's CRM structure gives your company a total view of your Customer so you can both provide service and maximize sales opportunities with one phone call.

Evolution offers contact based accounting so you can perform various Accounts receivable and Accounts Payable functions. This means any Orders and Invoices processed directly from the Customer file will track to your company's General Ledger. Role based User Access Settings will define the information and functions an Employee has access to.

Here are just some areas you can manage Customers within Evolution CRM:

  • Evolution stores all contact information for every client and even validates fields as you type them.
  • Add custom fields for Custom Data for every customer. This could be specific data defined by your work flow process.
  • Evolution tracks all Work Orders, Request for Quotes, Quotes and Orders.
  • Shows a complete history of what projects, tasks or support requests each customer has had and even keeps track of the products owned by that customer.
  • Evolution allows you to keep track of all personnel within a customer's business.
  • Documents can be easily stored under each customer account.
  • Evolution has integrated all of your email functions, emails can be easily tracked by storing each email under the respective Lead or Customer file.
  • Tracks complete appointment histories for every customer, including the results of each meeting and minutes if needed.
  • Automatically perform Account forecasting and payment history for every one of your clients.

Evolution customer relationship management does much more than what can be mentioned in this list above. Try Evolution first hand and see how Evolution Business Management Software can benefit your company.

Resellers

For companies who utilize Resellers or Dealers who resell your products and services Evolution's CRM tool set includes a section especially for Resellers. Functionality within Resellers includes:

  • Complete communications tracking with built in Reminders for Calls, Tasks, and Appointments.
  • The ability to keep record of all Personnel and their Role within the Reseller within a Reseller file.
  • Store numerous documents within the Reseller file by category and type of Document.
  • The ability to track Projects that your Resellers are involved in.
  • A complete Products Sold history for each Reseller.
  • The ability to track which Product families a Reseller includes in their portfolio of offerings to their clients.
  • Complete Accounts Receivable functionality for each Reseller including, Work Orders, Orders, Invoices, RFQ's, Quotes, Account Information, Billing information and Sales Activity for each record.
  • Complete Accounts Payable functionality for each Reseller including Bills, Purchase Orders, and Account information including Vendor Taxation numbers.

Here you can have all of the functionality built into Customers with additional functionality designed to manage Resellers to track which lines or Product families a Reseller sells in addition to tracking any of your Products they have sold. This gives you an accurate picture of your Resellers performance.

Rolodex

For general contacts that don't fall into the normal categories of leads, customers and the like, Evolution has developed areas to store miscellaneous contacts: Your company lawyer or stock broker, or any food service and catering companies you may use.

Rolodex is designed for contacts that can be accessed by the entire company (for staff that have appropriate security permissions).

"Personal Contacts" are exactly that Contacts that are only used by you and can not be accessed by anyone else within the company. Personal Contacts are accessible through the Personal tab. All of these contacts are built to utilize the full power of Evolution's centralized management technology:

  • Complete email, appointment and time management
  • Complete document and file management
  • Project management
  • Task management
  • Personnel that belong to the Contact Corporation or personal information if the contact is an individual
  • Much more!

An important aspect to remember:

Every staff member in your business (with the correct security settings) can now gain access to all of your CRM information in an online and offline manner.

This is a powerful benefit because you are not dependent on an Internet connection or by database or network disconnection problems. Your sales staff can now open their laptop in front of any client or customer, view the latest inventory levels, supplier orders or data important to the transaction and tell their customer right on the spot if their needs will be met on time and within budget; no need to contact anyone directly in the office, no need to pull any other staff out of productivity. The benefits of continual access to your live information can't be understated. This is just one benefit of integrated CRM data management. Fill out a Request for Information form to see how Evolution can benefit your business today.

Because Evolution is designed as an integrated Business Management Software Application other types of functionality are integrated with the Customer Relationship Management tool set.

Data Import Tool

Get Started quickly! Evolution comes packaged with a powerful import tool that allows you to take an export from any software and import its information directly into Evolution. Evolution even allows you to specify exactly what fields or areas within the software you would like your old data to be moved into. Simply "connect the dots" and your import is complete. Millions of contacts can be added to Evolution in a minutes or even seconds. Evolution perfectly scales to any size. There are no database size performance limits to you Evolution software.

Below is a Short List of the types of data that can be imported. If you don't see your system listed call us, we likely already have an import for your file type!

  • QuickBooks Lists
  • Peachtree
  • Goldmine
  • ACT! Including All Notes and Groups!
  • Excel
  • Access
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • dBase / Fox Pro (and many others)
  • Outlook (Including E-mail, Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks)
  • Comma Separated Text Files
  • Any ODBC compliant data source

Added Benefits for Accountants

Out of office accountants or accounting controllers can now access all needed business information remotely from their office by "synchronizing" with your version of Evolution. From there they can do all of your accounting remotely, never needing to physically enter your office, siphon through paper receipts or request an email containing your current accounting data.

Your Accountant (with your security permission) can access scanned invoices, receipts or deposits that you have placed in your Evolution software and validate your standings within moments. Never limit your accounting procedures because a staff member or outside accountant is updating your data. All data management with Evolution can be done "live" with no limitations.

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For more information see: Evolution introduction (concept), Process Flow Optimization (concept), Network and Data Optimization (slides)