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Salesforce for Beginners - Second Edition

By : Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer
Book Image

Salesforce for Beginners - Second Edition

By: Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer

Overview of this book

Salesforce is the world's leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, helping businesses connect with their constituents and partners. This book will give you a comprehensive introduction to managing sales, marketing, customer relationships, and overall administration for your organization. You'll learn how to configure and use Salesforce for maximum efficiency and return on investment This book will teach you how to create activities, manage leads, manage users, set up security, customize your UX, work with third-party applications, build flows, develop your prospects and sales pipeline using opportunities and accounts, understand how you can enhance marketing activities using campaigns and much more. Packed with real-world business use cases, this Salesforce book will show you how to analyze your business information accurately to make productive decisions for your business. As you advance, you'll learn how to build various reports and dashboards in Salesforce to derive valuable business insights. Finally, you'll explore tools such as Salesforce Flows, approval processes, and assignment rules to achieve business process automation and set out on the path to becoming a successful Salesforce administrator By the end of the book, you will know how to manipulate Salesforce to achieve your business goals
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
21
Assessment
22
Other Books You May Enjoy
23
Index

Creating quotes

Quotes are an integral part of the sales process and allow you to send pricing details to your clients. You can create multiple quotes as you work to close a deal. In this section we will see how to create quotes.

The following screenshot shows you how to create a quote from an opportunity:

Figure 5.18: Option for creating a quote from the Quotes section of the opportunity page

Navigate to the Quotes section of the Opportunity and click on New Quote. The following screenshot shows the quote creation page:

Figure 5.19: Fields found on the New Quote page

Then, fill in the Expiration Date field for the quote and set Status to Approved so that the quote can be used.

The following screenshot shows you how to generate a PDF of the quote by choosing Create PDF from the drop-down menu. Creating a PDF of the quote makes it easy to share the quote with a client:

Figure 5.20: Option to create a quote PDF from the top-right drop-down menu

The following screenshot shows you how...