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Tax Rates | Platform | Tax rates provide all the applicable tax and VAT rates for the product. |
Price Plans | Price Plans | Price plans are the price catalogs that provide the rates by which is product will be sold applicable to all types of services except from usage services. |
Usage Service Catalogs | Usage Service CatalogsCatalogues | Usage service catalogs provide a list of usage services available to customers along with their rates. |
Subscription Types | Subscriptions | Subscription offerings available to be added to a subscription |
Billing Term Schemes | Subscriptions | Defines the billing rules by which the product will be billed. |
Activity Types | Activities | Activity types provide the overall behaviour rules of an activity. Products added to the activity type are one-time services, such as Installation service which will be added to activities of the type |
Job Types | Jobs | Job types provide the overall behaviour rules of a job. Products added to the job type are expenses such as installation service or physical goods either traceable or not traceable such as a roku box or an antenna |
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Main Information | Available for products of classification | |
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Code: A unique code used to identify the product across the system Type: The type of the product will determine its overall behaviour. Once type is selected, the characteristics tab is populated with information related to the characteristics that will be inherited by the selected Product Type. Click on ' Create New Product Type' to create a new one directly through the product's screen. Brand & Family: Add brand and family to products to categorise them accordingly. Alternative Code: Provide an alternative code which can be used as an alternative to identifying the product across the system. Description: Use the description field to provide a marketing description for your product which can differ from the code. | All | |
Product Performance | By clicking CALCULATE , view valuable financial information related to the sales of the product in the last 12 months
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Type Characteristics | The characteristics of the product based on the selected type. | All |
Categories | The categories that the product is part of based on specific shared attributes. | All |
Product Validity | Defines the period for which the product is available to be used for new business transactions and which can be always, for a user defined period or from a date onward. | All |
Components Available only if the selected Type has a composition set to Flexible or Fixed Bundle. | ||
Bundle Components | For Flexible Bundle product type: Define products or product types and/or families from which products can be selected to be added to the bundle by the user on adding the bundle to a subscription. Refer to Setting up Flexible Product Bundles
For Fixed Bundle product type: Define products that are added when the bundle is added to either a subscription or job. Refer to Allowed Components for Fixed Product Bundles. Quantity: Provide the quantity of the product added to the fixed bundle. (Available for Fixed Bundles only.) | Termed services and physical goods |
Bundle Restrictions | Only available for products of Flexible Bundle type Define restrictions on the number of different families or types of the components of the product source; Use Products from only X Product Families: Specify the number of families that can be used. For example, if this is set to 1, then all the products that can be selected as components must belong to the same product family. Use Products from only X Product Types: Specify the number of types that can be used. For example, if this is set to 1, then all the products that can be selected as components must belong to the same product type. | Termed services and physical goods |
Pricing and Billing | ||
Tax Rates | The tax and VAT rates applicable for the product which will be used during billing, to decide which one to apply based on pre-configured rules location rules. Refer to Platform for more information | All |
Billing Term Schemes | Billing terms are directly related to subscriptions and provide information on how a product added to a subscription should be billed, for example, before or after its usage. Through this section you can see the billing term schemes that already include the specific product and add the product to the ones that don't include it. Refer to Subscriptions for more information. | Termed services and expenses |
Subscription Types | Subscription types define your subscription offerings, thus once products are created they must be added to the subscription type. Through this section you can see the types that the product already belongs to and add to the ones that it doesn't. If you add to a subscription type, that includes billing term schemes that do not have the product, then those billing term schemes will be automatically added. | Termed services, expenses and physical goods |
Price Plans | Through price plans you provide the rates with which the product is billed. Through this section you can see all the price plans the product is included and add it to ones that is not included along with information required by the price plan such as the rate model the rate and whether the defined rate should be applied to product of it is a component of a product bundle. Refer to Price Plans for more information | All product classification except usage services |
Usage Service Catalogs | Usage service catalogs include information and rates for usage service products. Through this section you can see all the usage service catalogs the usage service is included. | Usage services |
Discounts | The additive discounts are used to apply discounts to products after any discounts applied through price plans or usage service catalogs. Through this section you can see the additive discounts applicable to the product (i.e. the discounts that have the products in its Discounted Products section) for the current period, add to new discounts that it doesn't already belong to or create new discounts through which the product will be discounted. | All |
Providers | Providers are third party systems which CRM integrates with and are needed in case that a product must be provisioned through them, i.e. a roku box or a tv channel. Through this section you can see the providers the product already is provisioned for and add it to ones that it is not yet provisioned along with a unique id used by the provider to identify the product. | Termed services and Physical goods |
Job Types | The job types provide the overall behaviour of jobs. Products added to the job type can be sold or given through jobs of that type. Through this section you can see the jobs that include the product and add it to the ones that is not and define whether it is mandatory to add the product to jobs of the type or not by selecting the applicable classification. | Expenses and physical goods |
Activity Types | Activity types provide the overall behaviour of activities. One time services added to the activity type can be used by activities of that type. Through this section you can see all activity types that already include the product and add it to the ones that don't along with the minimum time allowed to be spent for delivering the service whether the time can be changed or is fixed and well as whether it is optional or mandatory to add this service to activities of this type. | One off |
Stock Balance | ||
View the stock balance of the product across all the warehouses along with analytic view of stock per warehouse. If the product is also a part of a product bundle then the number of bundles it belongs to are also available. | Physical goods | |
Images & Attachments | ||
Product Image: You can add up to 4 images for the product and define one as a default along with a product alt text available in case the image is not shown. Files & URL: The attachments associated with the Product. | All |
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Scenario 1. Company ZX has introduced a new series of products through its new Streaming TV campaign. Subscribers require to have a streaming device which is offered by Company ZX, for streaming content. Subscribers that wish to switch to streaming will be charged with a switch fee and if they require installation an extra charge is imposed . Solution Assuming that you already have set up in the system your subscription type, billing term schemes, price plans, disoucnts, provisioning provider you can proceed with directly creating your new products. Products
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Glossary
CRM.COM Term | Definition |
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Job | Small project initiated by the operator for customers, involving the delivery and billing of services and products, as well as activities. Customer requests and orders, such as that for a new subscription, can be initiated and registered through a job. |
Subscription | A collection of services which is provided to customers and billed on a recurring, usage or One-Time basis. |
Activity | Small task or action that is either stand-alone or must be completed as part of a larger project. |
Communication | Used to log bidirectional interaction between customers and agents conducted through email, SMS, telephony, letters or face to face interaction. |
Provisioning Distributor | Distributors are used to relate subscription services and subscription associated devices to a specific Provisioning Provider as well as define what services will be available from each device, if more than one device is available on a single subscription. CRM.COM offers integration with several providers. |
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