Automate quotes with Salesforce CPQ. Configure products, price orders, and generate quotes, all with simple clicks. Utilize Guided Selling help sales reps identify the best matched solution to customer needs. Use the Product Configurator to define product bundles, dependencies and exclusions. Identify cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and utilize your Salesforce Product Catalog within Salesforce.
With Salesforce CPQ you can build quotes, proposals, and contracts to meet the requirements of any number of situations—set your terms and conditions to static or dynamic, attach datasheets, add a partner to a sale, show or hide component pricing, or group products by family. All quote documents are created in PDF format so they can be attached to emails with the click of a button. Quotes can also be produced in Microsoft Word and Salesforce CPQ will automatically convert them. All documents you create are stored and tracked for audit logs.
Furthermore, Salesforce CPQ automatically generates renewal quotes based on original quotes and add-on quotes. All renewals are automated from within the Salesforce platform, ensuring you never miss a renewal. The software also provides reporting and dashboards to garner further insight into your CPQ process.
Salesforce CPQ is fully native to the Salesforce platform. Unlike other CPQ apps built on Salesforce, we largely use standard objects and offer a plethora of prebuilt features, ensuring easy scale as your sales processes evolve.
Create internal/operational efficiencies
Improve business process agility
Improve business process outcomes
Avantages
The application provides rich functionality in product catalogs, commerce and report generation and is scalable to support future organizational growth. The user on boarding is easy due to cloud based solution. Support of solution to run on Mobile platform and channels drives high adoption
Inconvénients
Lack of maturity of pre-built integration APIs or adapters with other products / applications which can be improved further.
I have been using Steelbrick CPQ for over a year and I love this product, it allows me to create orders and renewals for my customers all at a click of a button.
Avantages
Being able to easily create quote and send to my customers
Inconvénients
doesn't always work the way i want
Ultimately we received no benefit
Avantages
Lots of customization options and flexibility. Native to the SalesForce environment. Pricing on a per user basis.
Inconvénients
We spent over 9 months planning and working with a Systems Integration Partner (SIP) recommended by SalesForce. The project involved an Executive sponsor, various team members from different departments, a Project Leader, and our SalesForce Admin. We carefully planned the design of the system and each step of the way worked closely with the SIP but we couldn't get it to work. To many options, rules, settings, etc. We were promised that it wouldn't be hard. WRONG!!!!
WE WASTED VALUABLE STAFF RESOURCES FOR NOTHING! We advised SalesForce of this and they still won't let us out of our 3 year contract even after paying for 1 year of development that netting bupkis. This Software is lots of promises with no ROI.
My involvement with SteelBrick was working on setting up the SKUs with the configurations that were set up by the IT team. Most of the training and knowledge transfer time with Etherios was designated to the configuration set up, but no time was allocated to showing us how to upload new SKUs moving forward. Templates or configuration names and fields were not provided. When asking Etherios for the documentation multiple times, they had said they would not leave us high and dry. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened. It took our project manager to reach out to SteelBrick directly to request this documentation. It would be very difficult for any company to continue managing their system with this software without instruction on how to maintain new information moving forward. With regards to the set up that was done by SteelBrick for the quoting portion of the software, it seems that Sales is efficiently and effectively using it.
Contact sales for pricing information.
Multiple pricing options - Ensure pricing consistency by setting rules and discounts. Salesforce CPQ can handle volume discounts, percent-of-total subscriptions, pre-negotiated contract pricing, and channel and partner pricing.
100% native app on Salesforce - Built on the Salesforce platform, including the same look, feel, and features as your Salesforce instance; leveraging standard objects and prebuilt features so the solution scales as your business does as opposed to highly customized, hard coded solutions.
Create volume discount schedules - The software automatically calculates the amount of discount to meet the product quantity.
Audit trail - The system automatically keeps a log of who sent what and when for auditing, tracking, and compliance.
Create branded documents - Quote templates are fully customizable and come with a multitude of options.
Export quotes - Export your quote from Salesforce CPQ in PDF format and attach to emails. Or produce them in Microsoft Word.
Electronic signature - The software offers easy integration with a number of e-signature partners.
Automatic order renewal - Renewal opportunities and quotes are automatically generated based on previously validated data.
Reports and dashboards - Salesforce offers reporting in all generated quotes, follow-up quotes, and expired quotes.
Voici quelques-unes des questions fréquentes sur Salesforce CPQ.
Types de licences disponibles pour Salesforce CPQ :
Type de licence: Abonnement
version d'essai gratuite: Non disponible
Contact sales for pricing information.
Fonctionnalités du logiciel Salesforce CPQ :
Utilisateurs habituels du logiciel Salesforce CPQ :
Grandes entreprises, Entreprises de taille moyenne, PME
Langues dans lesquelles Salesforce CPQ est disponible :
anglais
Types de licences disponibles pour Salesforce CPQ:
Abonnement
Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur les appareils pris en charge par Salesforce CPQ.
Applications s'intégrant à Salesforce CPQ :
Adobe Document Cloud, Octiv, SpringCM, Workato
Ressources d'aide disponibles pour Salesforce CPQ :
Base de connaissances, Support téléphonique
We looked at a few CPQ tools to help us automate a few obstacles in our (complicated) SaaS model. Steelbrick was the best solution out there for your buck.
Pros:
We were in a situation where our current (custom) CPQ solution did not allow the flexibility to add new products, adjust order forms, support local currencies (without an expensive developer resource) and it really empowered out business to address new opportunities by being able to do these things.
There are a lot of objects and we needed to use them all to make our multi-year product model work and it seemed daunting, but really, I was able to pick up how everything fit together after a few days of diving in and playing around.
The support and customer service team are absolutely amazing. Special shoutout to my CSM (Kelly Wilson) who responds day and night to emails and is always willing to find time to get on a call. Our primary support agent (ChrisL) is also really smart and easy to work with.
No implementation of CPQ goes perfect, but we had great implementation engineer (ChrisT) and implementation consultant (ChrisH) who really PARTNERED with us to make sure the tool was what we needed to accomplish our goals.
You can trust the product management team. We have already seen features that they have promised to us (contract amendments, for example).
Cons:
- We did not realize this until after implementation (and product management has promised us that it is a high priority), but the CPQ tool will only work in full data replica sandboxes. Partial and dev sandboxes do not bring over the 20+ object records that come with Steelbrick. You will need to make sure you also consider some data migration solution between environments. You can do this yourself. I did it once successfully and it took 4 hours. :(
- CPU timeout errors. If you have complicated pricing on multi-year products and you make changes to those quotes (for example changing a 5 year deal to a 3 year deal), we often get a "CPU timeout" error. We can't ever get beyond this. We need to build a new quote. :( Again, Steelbrick product management has assured us that this will be addressed in future releases with more precise code.