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As a Salesforce user your sales reps can now synchronize their accounts and contact, account contacts, opportunities, and orders to LogiSense Billing. The following This article will describe what will be required by your sales reps in order to successfully sync this data using the native objects in Salesforce.
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Any accounts that you are planning to synchronize with LogiSense billing must have the Sync ‘Sync with LogiSense LogiSense’ check box enabled.
AR Term Account Status, Bill Group and Tenant all require a value when syncing an a account. These are all picklists and are populated from LogiSense billing.
Subscription Invoice Recipient and Usage Invoice Recipient are optional fields and perform an account lookup. Meaning that you can set another Salesforce account which is synced to LogiSense to receive that type of invoice. It is important to point out however that if the invoice for the account you are configuring. If you do select a different account an account as an invoice recipient in these fields that that account must first be first synced with LogiSense billing prior to syncing the account you are current currently on.
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Note: split invoicing is not supported, if another account is invoiced it must be invoiced for both subscription and usage charges) |
The final field not listed above is Currency. Each account being synchronized with LogiSense billing must also have an Account Currency set.
Contacts
As part of the Account sync any Contacts (direct or shared) under the account can also be synced. If you would like to send contact information to LogiSense billing along with the Account make sure that the Sync ‘Sync With LogiSense LogiSense’ checkbox is enable enabled on the Contact as well as there being a value selected for the Contact Type ‘Contact Type’ picklist.
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When you are ready to sync an account and any contacts simply click the Sync ‘Sync With LogiSense LogiSense’ button on the account screen.
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Click YES ‘Yes’ to confirm.
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Opportunities
Any Opportunities that are sent to LogiSense billing for a particular account will be saved as an
Creating an Opportunity
Navigate In Salesforce navigate to the account the opportunity will be created under
Create a new opportunity under the account
Make sure that the Opportunity Currency matches that of the Account Currency
Enter values for any other native or custom fields that your organization has put in place
Click Save
Add Products to the Opportunity using the LogiSense Pirce Price Book
You can enter a quantity Quantity for each opportunity product but do not change the Sales Price. This field is now a calculated field and will be explained in the next section.
Once you are done adding all your opportunity products you can now customize pricing or sync the opportunity as is if no pricing changes are required.
Customizing Opportunity Product Pricing
While on an opportunity, click on the Opportunity Product Name
You’ll notice that the standard opportunity product screen has been slightly modified with a few additional fields and a new section, Product Services.
Let’s go through the new fields first.:Account Product Code Name - a read-only field that is auto-generated using the product code, followed by a dash and incremental number. This is a unique identified identifier for this opportunity product. It allows sales reps to attach the same product to the opportunity with different pricing or terms so that when the product is ordered by a customer in the future they can select the correct one.
Minimum Term - populated with the
package contract set in LogiSense billing.Opp Minimum Term - allows your sales reps to override the default Minimum Term for this opportunity product.
Unlike native Salesforce where your sales reps would adjust the Sales Price on the Opportunity Product, custom pricing of a product is done from within the Product Services section of the Opportunity Product screen. This section is broken out between Recurring Charges and One Time Charges depending on how the package was configured.
Click on the Service name within the Product Services section for the one you would like to adjust pricing onfor. The pricing screen is broken into a few sections.:
Opportunity Product Service Detail - lists the opportunity name, opportunity product, quantity or number of this service under the product and the product service you are currently viewing.
Allowance - if there is a usage bucket configured on the service it’s its details will appear here including the name of the bucket, it’s its recurring frequency, followed by the allowance.
Recurring Charges - allows the user to override the list price for each status
Transition Charges - allows the user to override the list price for each transition charge associated with the product service.
Rate Charges - allows the user to override the list price for any usage rates that are associated with the product service.
Click Save once all edits are complete
Repeat step 2-3 above for any other product services you would like to adjust pricing for
Proceed throughout your regular process of advancing the opportunity through it’s its stages.
Syncing Opportunity to LogiSense
Once your opportunity has gone through all stages it can now be synced with LogiSense.
Set the Opportunity Stage to one associated with Closed‘Closed:WonWon’
Click on the Sync With LogiSense button
Confirm the sync but clicking YES Yes
Orders
Using the native Order object in Salesforce your reps can take customer orders and customize pricing to be sent to LogiSense billing for processing, billing, and invoicing.
Creating an Order
Navigate to the account the order will be created under
Create a new order under the account
Make sure that the Order Currency matches that of the Account Currency
Set the order Status to Draft‘Draft’
Enter values for any other native or custom fields that your organization has put in place
Click Save
Add Products to the Order using the LogiSense Pirce Price Book
You can enter a quantity Quantity for each order product but do not change the Unit Price. This field is now a calculated field and will be explained in the next section.
Once you are done adding all your order products you can now customize pricing or sync the order as is if no pricing changes are required.
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While on an Order, click on the Order Product Name
You’ll notice that the standard order product screen has been slightly modified and include a custom field called Rate Plan. This is a picklist field that allows you to select a different rate plan (usage rates) for the order product than the one currently associated with it (if any).Click on the Service name within the Product Services section for the one you would like to adjust pricing on. The pricing screen is broken into a few sections.
Order Product Service Detail - lists the order Name, Order Product, Quantity or number of this service under the product and the Order Product Service you are currently viewing.
Recurring Charges - allows the user to override the list price for each status
Transition Charges - allows the user to override the list price for each transition charge associated with the product service.
Rate Charges - List of all the rate charges associated with the service.
Click Save once all edits are complete
Repeat step 2-3 above for any other product services you would like to adjust pricing for
Proceed throughout your regular process of advancing the Order through it’s its stages.
Syncing Orders to LogiSense
Once your order has gone through all internal milestones it can now be synced with LogiSense.
Set the Order stage to Activated‘Activated’
Click on the Sync With LogiSense button
Confirm the sync but clicking YES Yes