Contacts

Contacts Overview

The contacts module provides a simple Contact Relationship Management (CRM) like application for your website. It captures all forms submitted and creates a database of contacts that can be segmented by the campaign, product of interest and other tagging factors.

Navigate to the Contacts Module

STEP-BY-STEP
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    Go to Admin > Contacts > Contact Listing
    Company Modules

Search Contacts

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    You can search for contacts by entering part of their name, email address, phone or mobile into the keyword text box
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    You can also use it to search by entering part of your first and last name
    Company Modules
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    Matching contacts will start to appear as you type
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    Click any contact to jump directly to the contact
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    Or use the Search Button to display a listing of all matching contacts
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    Use other filters such as Company Types, Companies, suburbs, state
    Company Modules

Advanced Search

  • You can also search using the advanced search. This will display additional segmentation filters for your contacts
  • If you have set up campaign codes or products of interest in your forms, you can see the available options listed
STEP-BY-STEP
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    In the Search Contacts section, click the "Advanced Search" link on the bottom right, just above the Search/Clear buttons

    Company Modules
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    Upon clicking "Advanced Search", you are presented with additional filters you can use for searching. These filters are in use in the existing forms and will show the results of contacts who submitted the forms that use the corresponding filter selected.

    • Referred By
    • Products of Interest
    • Subscriber Types
    • Campaign Codes
    • Certifications
    • Interested in Owning
    Company Modules
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    For example, using "Products of Interest" as a filter:

    Select the specific Product of Interest you want to check from the options

    Company Modules
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    After choosing the Product of Interest from the options, click the "Search" button on the right

    Note: Product of Interest options will only be available once they have been set up on the "Product of Interest" module

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    The contacts for the selected "Products of Interest" should show on the grid below the search section

    Company Modules

Contact Note

Contact Note Overview

Contact Note record notes and interactions against individual contacts for easy recording of contact history. Each communication you have with a contact can be recorded and add to the company's knowledge about your key contacts and customers. You can use this feature to keep track of important information on contacts.

Creating a new Contact Note

  • Go to Contacts → Contact Listing
Contact Notes
  • On per row of the contact grid → click on the view sub-grid icon Contact Notes
Contact Notes
  • Enter the title, note → click Add Note
Contact Notes
  • On per row of the contact grid → click on the details iconContact Notes

Contact Notes
  • Navigate to the Notes tab

    Contact Notes
  • Click the Create button
Contact Notes
  • Enter the title, note → click Create
Contact Notes
  • On the note grid → click on the edit icon if you wanna edit the note Contact Notes
Contact Notes
  • Enter the title, note → click Save
Contact Notes

Contact Groups

To provide an easy way to work with multiple contacts at once, send an email for example, Contact Groups provide a fast way to quickly group contacts.

Contact Groups allow you to link like contacts together. They are most useful for sending email broadcasts. You could for example have a group for anyone who has expressed an interest in a type of product or responded to a particular campaign. You can then target this group with specific offers and email broadcasts.

STEP-BY-STEP

Building Your Database

Datasheeting Overview

Datasheeting is a technique where you swap the content for an email address. It is the perfect way to build your marketing database. A datasheet can be any type of privileged content. Brochures, Price Lists, and White papers are all good examples of datasheets. The visitor is prompted to swap their email address for access to the content protected by the datasheet.

Why you would use a Datasheet

The datasheet is useful if a user wants to swap content for the visitor's email address or any other information.

Datasheet Requirements

  • A key aspect of building a database of contacts is collecting email addresses and other information
  • Swapping key content for email addresses supports this process
  • Key content can include items such as product brochures, specification documents, white papers and price lists
  • Any type of content can be referred to as key content

Datasheeting for Site Visitors

  • As a site visitor, I want to see some key content
  • When I click the link for the key content, I am prompted with a form to complete to access the key content
  • When I complete this form, I am redirected to the key content
    • The contact is saved in the contacts database
    • The product of Interest for the contact will be the endpoint of the key content
  • For any other key content in this session, I will not be prompted
  • On my next visit, I will be prompted again for the datasheet information so the session controls how long the data is persisted

Datasheeting for Content Administrators

  • As a content administrator, I want to decide what content is key and will use data sheeting
  • The way I can make datasheet content is by placing a link on a page to the key content
    • Example "Click here to see our specifications sheet for product Blah"
  • When I go to place a link on the key content, I can select either a page, PDF, image or any other kind of content at any time
  • Anything on the site can be accessed
  • Instead of a link direct to the content, I insert a link which is datasheet?formID=X&datasheet=EndPoint (or similar) which I use for the datasheet module
  • This is instead of using a normal hyperlink but it works the same way
  • I can make any link on my site a datasheet by replacing the href in this way
    • Example href="media/pdf/whitepaper.pdf" would become href="datasheet?formID=X&datasheet=media/pdf/whitepaper.pdf"
  • Now I have one step (after building the form) to make any datasheet active

Datasheeting for Contact Filtering

  • Each time a site visitor submits the datasheet form, a contact is created
  • Contacts are matched on matching rules as per the site settings - see How to Site Setting: Contact Matching Rule Setting
  • Contacts are tagged with the endpoint of the datasheet requested
    • Example href="datasheet?formID=X&datasheet=media/pdf/whitepaper.pdf" would record media/pdf/whitepaper.pdf as the product of interest

Creating new Asset Listing entry

  • Go to admin > Modules > Datasheet > Asset Listing and click Create New Asset

Build Your Database

  • Enter the details of asset management.
  • Name - The name of the asset or file
  • File: upload your data files, either pdf, word etc.

Build Your Database

  • Click Save

How to add Datasheet into forms

  • Go to admin > Modules
  • Select Forms and click Create New Form button

Build Your Database

  • Configure the form and fields you want

Build Your Database

  • Click Finish Build Form And Start Configuration button
  • On the configuration form page at the bottom section click Advance Option

Build Your Database

  • Check - Is Form DataSheet
  • On the Datasheet Setup grey box put the Asset Id

Build Your Database

  • Next check the Send Auto Response

Build Your Database

  • Auto response subject - the subject name of your autoresponse email
  • Auto response body - here you can put the message you want for the PDF or datasheet information like the PDF name or link
  • Setup the URL/link of your datasheet
  • Click on the link Icon

Build Your Database

  • Go back to your Datasheet Asset Listing
  • Copy the Url of your sheet

Build Your Database

  • Paste it on the Link toolbar dialogue box on the Auto response body

Build Your Database

  • Click OK button
  • Click Finish Configuration

Apply the form and datasheet on the pages

  • Create a form using a curly bracket on the editor's page. To add the form using a curly bracket click here for the documentation
  • Select the curly bracket on the page editor and search - Form

Build Your Database

  • Select the form you created with the datasheet from the auto-response email
  • Click Insert, then click the OK button.
  • Save the page

Build Your Database

  • Go to your page with the form
  • Try to fill up and submit a form.

Build Your Database

  • Then check your email if the auto-response is working including the datasheet link

Build Your Database

Connecting a Contact to a Company

Company Module Overview

This module is designed to support managing contacts by company. You can create a company, and company types and then add contacts to the company. You can also set permissions for secure areas by company and company type similar to managing user groups.

Navigating to Contacts

STEP-BY-STEP
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    Log in as an administrator and go to the Admin Dashboard.
    Learn how to log in here →
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    Go to Contacts
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    When the listing appears, search for the contact you wish to link to a company
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    Click the Edit icon
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    Select the company for this contact by starting to type the company name
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    If the company does not exist, you can create a new company
    Companies and Contacts

Managing Companies

Contacts are generally connected with Companies. See how to manage companies.

STEP-BY-STEP
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    Log in as an administrator and go to the Admin Dashboard.
    Learn how to log in here →
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    You click on Contacts -> Companies and create a new Company.
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    Input the Company Name in the textbox, choose Company Type in the drop-down list, and click the Create button.
    Companies and Contacts
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    The company was created successfully.
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    You can click on the Edit icon on the left to update the company.
    Companies and Contacts

Managing Company Types

Contacts are generally connected with Companies. See how to manage companies.

STEP-BY-STEP
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    Log in as an administrator and go to the Admin Dashboard.
    Learn how to log in here →
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    On the admin dashboard, click on Settings > Contacts Settings > Company Type
    Companies and Contacts
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    Input the Name and Description
    • Name - the name of company types
    • Description - the description of what kind of company type you are adding on
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    Order - the list and order from the grid display
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    Click Create once done
    Companies and Contacts

Linking Users with Logins to Secure Portals to a Company

After creating the Company you may want to give them access to a secure portal, this is optional

STEP-BY-STEP
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    Create the new User
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    We recommend using User Groups and limiting the permissions of the User.
    Companies and Contacts
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    On the left navigator, click on User Management > Users
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    Click Create New User button and input user information
    Companies and Contacts
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    Enter the user information under the Basic Info tab
    Companies and Contacts
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    Click the User Groups field and select the Group for this user in the options. The group controls the access for the user. Examples may be:
    • Sales
    • Service
    • Suppliers
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    Scroll down to the bottom then, click the Create button.
    Companies and Contacts
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    You should be able to see the newly created user in the User Management.
    Companies and Contacts

Merging Contacts

Merging Contacts Overview

At times within your system, you might come across multiple contacts that are duplicate entries. This could occur due to variations in email addresses, updates in contact information, or other factors. The following instructions demonstrate the process of consolidating duplicated contacts into a single record. If you have more than two contacts that need merging, start by merging the first two, and then proceed to merge additional contacts in pairs until all duplicated contacts are unified into a single record. All relevant information pertaining to the contact will be combined.

Why you would Merge Contacts

The merge contact can be useful if a user found a duplicate of multiple records with the same information. With this easy step of merging, it will combine all the contacts into a single record.

How to Merge Contacts

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    Go to Admin Dashboard > Contacts > Contact Listing

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    Search Contacts need to be merged, click Search

    Merge Contacts
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    Click on the Merge Contacts button to begin merging

    Merge Contacts
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    Read the instruction below the button

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    Checkboxes to the left of each contact will appear

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    Tick the boxes beside the contacts you want to merge

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    Select the Master Contact by clicking once on the check box

    Merge Contacts
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    Select the Slave Contact by clicking twice on the check box

    Merge Contacts
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    Click on the Merge Contacts button again >> redirect to the merging confirmation screen

    Merge Contacts
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    Go through each field and select the correct value for the final contact

    Merge Contacts
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    Click on the Merge button

    Merge Contacts
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    Redirect to contact detail pages of the Master Contact

    Merge Contacts
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    A successful message is displayed

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    Slave Contact is deleted

    Merge Contacts

Video for reference:

Linking Contacts to Companies

Linking Contacts to Companies Overview

When a user wants to add a company name to the contact list users

How to create a Company

STEP-BY-STEP
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    Go to Admin Dashboard → ContactsCompanies

    Contacts To Companies
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    Fill up the necessary fields

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    Click the Create button

    Contacts To Companies

How to Add a Company to a Contact

Adding a Company to a Contact using Contact listing

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    Go to Admin Dashboard → ContactsContact Listing

    Contacts To Companies
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    On any row, click the Edit icon to the left of the contact

    Contacts To Companies
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    In the Company field, enter the Company you wish to add to the contact

    Contacts To Companies
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    Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save button

Adding Company to a Contact using the Contact Detail page

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    Go to Admin Dashboard → ContactsContact Listing

    Contacts To Companies
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    On any row, click the icon "View details"

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    Details of contact will be shown, scroll down

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    Select the tag "Company"

    Contacts To Companies
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    Click "Add new Company" and a popup will be shown

    Contacts To Companies
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    Fill up the necessary fields

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    Click Add button

How to Edit a Company Contact

Editing a Company Contact on the Contact Detail page

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    Go to Admin Dashboard → ContactsContact Listing

    Contacts To Companies
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    On any row, click the icon "View details"

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    Details of contact will be shown, scroll down

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    Select the tag "Contacts"

  • Contacts To Companies
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    Click "Edit"

    Contacts To Companies
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    Change information as needed

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    Click "Save"

Editing a Company Contact on the Company Detail page

STEP-BY-STEP
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    Go to Admin Dashboard → ContactsCompanies

    Contacts To Companies
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    On any row, click icon "View details"

    Contacts To Companies
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    Choose the contact you wanna edit

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    Click Edit

    Contacts To Companies
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    Change the value that you wish to update

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    Click "Save"

How to remove a Company Contact

Removing a Company Contact on the Contact Detail page

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    On the Contact detail page, you scroll down

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    Select the tag "Company"

    Contacts To Companies
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    Click the icon "Remove company of contact"

    Contacts To Companies
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    Click "Ok" to remove

Removing a Company Contact on the Company Detail page

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    On company details page, you scroll down

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    Select the tag "Contact"

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    Click the icon "Remove Contact"

    Contacts To Companies
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    Click "OK" to remove

    Contacts To Companies

Using Products of Interest in Advanced Search

Advanced Search Overview

The contacts module provides a simple Contact Relationship Management (CRM) like application for your website. It captures all forms submitted and creates a database of contacts that can be segmented by the campaign, product of interest and other tagging factors.

How Navigate to Contacts

  • Go to Admin > Contacts > Contact Listing

Searching Products

Advanced Search Contacts

  • In the Search Contacts section, click the "Advanced Search" link on the bottom right
Searching Products
  • This will display additional segmentation filters for your contacts
  • You can now see the "Products of Interest" filter
Searching Products
  • Select the specific Product of Interest you want to check from the options
Searching Products
  • After choosing the Product of Interest from the options, click the "Search" button on the right
    • Note: Product of Interest options will only be available once they have been set up on the "Product of Interest" module
  • The contacts for the selected "Products of Interest" should show on the grid below the search section
Searching Products

Sending an Email to an Individual Contact

Why you would Send an Email to an Individual Contact

This is useful if you will send a notification, information and private messages to another user within WebEd 9 CMS.

How to send an email to individual contacts from listing

Users can send an Adhoc email to individual contacts from contact listing

STEP-BY-STEP
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    Go to Admin Dashboard > Contacts > Contact Listing

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    All contacts with an icon can send Adhoc email in the grid

    Sending email to individual contact Sending email to individual contact
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    Click the Adhoc Email icon to send emails to individual contacts

    Sending email to individual contact
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    The Contact Management window will pop up

    Sending email to individual contact
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    The email address of the currently logged-in user will be pre-populated in the Email From field

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    The email address of the selected contact will be populated in the Email To field

    Sending email to individual contact
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    Input the subject and body to send an email. These fields are required.

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    If you want to use an existing template, please choose it from the Template list box (a list of all email templates has the type "Adhoc Email To Contact" in the system ).

    • When choosing an existing template, your Subject and Body can be overridden. A popup will be displayed to warn about this.
    • Click OK to confirm you want to use the existing template.
    Sending email to individual contact
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    In case you want to save your Subject and body as a new template, please check "Save As A New Template"

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    Then input your template name to save (This textbox only appears once you check "Save As A New Template")

    Sending email to individual contact
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    Click the Send button to send the email

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    Once an email is sent, it will be logged against the contact record

How to send an email to a contact from the details page

Users can send an Adhoc email to individual contacts from their details page

STEP-BY-STEP
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    Go to Business Dashboard >> Contacts >> Contact Listing

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    Click the View Details icon to go to the details page of a contact.

    Sending email to individual contact
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    Click the "Adhoc Email" button in the button group on the top right-hand side

    Sending email to individual contact
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    A popup to send the email will be displayed

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    The email of the selected contact will be populated in Email To.

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    The email of the currently logged-in user will be pre-populated in Email From

    Sending email to individual contact
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    Input the subject and body to send an email. These fields are required.

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    If you want to use an existing template, please choose it from the Template list box (a list of all email templates has the type "Adhoc Email To Contact" in the system ).

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    When choosing an existing template, your Subject and Body can be overridden. A popup will be displayed with a warning about this.

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    Click OK to confirm if you want to use the existing template.

    Sending email to individual contact
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    In case you want to save your Subject and body as a new template, please check "Save As A New Template"

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    Then input your template name to save (This textbox only appears once you check "Save As A New Template")

    Sending email to individual contact
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    Click the Send button to send an email

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    Once an email is sent it is logged against the contact record

Edit Company Details via Company Setup

Company Set Up Site Setting Overview

This allows dealers to update and make changes on the company details of their website.

Updating the Company Set Up Site Setting

STEP-BY-STEP
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    On the vehicle details, we can update the dealer contact information section (website, address, phone, email etc....) via the Company Setup page inside the admin panel.

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    Log in and go to the Admin dashboard

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    Click SettingsSite Settings

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    In the Site Setting Management page, under Search Curly Brackets, enter "company" and click Search

    Company Setup
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    Click the Edit icon to the left of Company Setup

    Company Setup
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    Make the necessary changes

    Company Setup
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    Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save button

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    A notification on top will show that you've successfully updated the site setting

    Company Setup

Attaining Lead Reports

How to Merge Contacts

STEP-BY-STEP
  • 1

    Go to Admin Dashboard > Contacts > Contact Listing

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    Search Contacts need to be merged, click Search

    Merge Contacts
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    Click on the Merge Contacts button to begin merging

    Merge Contacts
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    Read the instruction below the button

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    Checkboxes to the left of each contact will appear

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    Tick the boxes beside the contacts you want to merge

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    Select the Master Contact by clicking once on the check box

    Merge Contacts
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    Select the Slave Contact by clicking twice on the check box

    Merge Contacts
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    Click on the Merge Contacts button again >> redirect to the merging confirmation screen

    Merge Contacts
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    Go through each field and select the correct value for the final contact

    Merge Contacts
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    Click on the Merge button

    Merge Contacts
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    Redirect to contact detail pages of the Master Contact

    Merge Contacts
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    A successful message is displayed

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    Slave Contact is deleted

    Merge Contacts

Video for reference:

Company Set Up Site Setting Overview

This allows dealers to update and make changes on the company details of their website.

Updating the Company Set Up Site Setting

STEP-BY-STEP
  • 1

    On the vehicle details, we can update the dealer contact information section (website, address, phone, email etc....) via the Company Setup page inside the admin panel.

  • 2

    Log in and go to the Admin dashboard

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    Click SettingsSite Settings

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    In the Site Setting Management page, under Search Curly Brackets, enter "company" and click Search

    Company Setup
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    Click the Edit icon to the left of Company Setup

    Company Setup
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    Make the necessary changes

    Company Setup
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    Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save button

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    A notification on top will show that you've successfully updated the site setting

    Company Setup

Company Module Overview

This module is designed to support managing contacts by company. You can create a company, and company types and then add contacts to the company. You can also set permissions for secure areas by company and company type similar to managing user groups.

Navigating to Contacts

STEP-BY-STEP
  • 1
    Log in as an administrator and go to the Admin Dashboard.
    Learn how to log in here →
  • 2
    Go to Contacts
  • 3
    When the listing appears, search for the contact you wish to link to a company
  • 4
    Click the Edit icon
  • 5
    Select the company for this contact by starting to type the company name
  • 6
    If the company does not exist, you can create a new company
    Companies and Contacts

Managing Companies

Contacts are generally connected with Companies. See how to manage companies.

STEP-BY-STEP
  • 1
    Log in as an administrator and go to the Admin Dashboard.
    Learn how to log in here →
  • 2
    You click on Contacts -> Companies and create a new Company.
  • 3
    Input the Company Name in the textbox, choose Company Type in the drop-down list, and click the Create button.
    Companies and Contacts
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    The company was created successfully.
  • 5
    You can click on the Edit icon on the left to update the company.
    Companies and Contacts

Contact Matching Rule Site Setting

Contact Matching Rule Site Setting Overview

When new contacts are created using the form or the admin interface, contacts are matched using one of the available rules. If an existing contact is found the contact will be updated with the new information. Contacts can be matched by any one rule or multiple rules attempting to match in order:

  • First name, Last name, Mobile
  • First name, Last name, Email
  • Mobile number
  • Email Address

Admin can change the Contact Matching Rule using the site set to define the rules.

This setting defines the rule to match the contacts. The rule with the highest priority is used first and then the rules are matched in order of priority. Any disabled rules are ignored. Every rule must have a different priority.

You can see more at /wiki/spaces/ANFBMS/pages/51380409

The Email rule should NEVER be disabled. We use the contact email field as a unique property to identify the contact at many places in the system. Therefore if there are more than one contact has the same email address, it can cause the system to get an error.

How to change the Contact Matching Rule site setting

STEP-BY-STEP
  • 1

    Go to Business Dashboard >> Settings >> Site Settings

    Match Rule Setting
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    Click on Edit Button to go to the Edit Site Setting page

    Match Rule Setting
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    Set a different priority for each rule and disable rules not used

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    Click the Save button when done

    Match Rule Setting
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    The Site Setting is updated successfully

    Match Rule Setting

Export Form Data

Export Form Data Overview

Users can search data entered into forms and export them.

Navigating through the Contacts Module

  • Go to Admin > Contacts >Contact Listing
Export From Data

Search Contacts

  • You can search for contacts by entering part of their name, email address, phone or mobile into the Name field
Export From Data
  • Matching contacts will start to appear as you type
  • Click any contact to jump directly to the contact
Export From Data
  • Or use the Search Button to display a listing of all matching contacts
  • You can use the other filters such as Company Types, Companies, suburb, state, etc, then click the Search button
Export From Data

Advanced Search

  • You can also search using the advanced search. This will display additional
  • If you have setup campaign codes or products of interest in your forms, you can see the available options listed
  • In the Search Contacts section, click the "Advanced Search" link on the bottom right, just above the Search/Clear buttons
Export From Data
  • Upon clicking on the "Advanced Search" link, you are presented with additional filters you can use for searching
  • Note: These filters are in use in the existing forms and will show the results of contacts who submitted the forms that use the corresponding filter selected.
Export From Data

Using Referred By

  • For example, using "Referred By" as a filter:
  • Select the specific Referred URL/page you want to check from the options
Export From Data
  • After choosing the Referred by URL/page from the options, click the "Search" button on the right
  • Note: Referred by options will only be available once the form has been set up on the pages and customers submitted the form
  • The contacts for the selected "Referred by" should show on the grid below the search section
Export From Data

Using Product of Interest

  • For example, using "Products of Interest" as a filter:
  • Select the specific Product of Interest you want to check from the options
Export From Data
  • After choosing the Product of Interest from the options, click the "Search" button on the right
    • Note: Product of Interest options will only be available once they have been set up on the "Product of Interest" module
  • The contacts for the selected "Products of Interest" should show on the grid below the search section
Export From Data

Using Campaign Codes

  • For example, using "Campaign Codes" as a filter:
  • Select the specific Campaign Code you want to check from the options
Export From Data
  • After choosing the Campaign Code from the options, click the "Search" button on the right
    • Note: Campaign Code options will only be available once they have been set up on the "Campaign Code" module
  • The contacts for the selected "Campaign Code" should show on the grid below the search section
Export From Data

Export Data

  • Once the search results have appeared, you can now export the data into XLS.
  • Click the 'Export' or 'Export with Communications' button to export the data into XLS
  • During import of contact(s) using a CSV file, you will now see that this mapping screen is grouped according to its related data: Export DataExport DataExport Data
  • The Unsubscribed column is also present:Export DataExport Data
Export From Data