We’re proud to announce today the launch of Sales Cycle Manager On Demand 2.0. Version 2.0 is an exciting milestone for us here at SalesWays! We’ve been working hard building many new features in response to your feedback.

Sales Cycle Manager On Demand is now faster and more user-friendly than ever.

In version 2.0, you can configure the Products setup in a number of ways depending on your needs. There are several options that allow you to make entering product information for sales opportunities as simple or as detailed as needed.

There’s also a new custom IBO field that can be used to add any kind of information to each sales opportunity, for example an internal reference number or commission-tracking code.

New data export formats give you greater flexibility in how you pull and use data, and a new analytics section for administrators adds a new dimension of reporting for your organization.

Below is a list of all major feature updates in Sales Cycle Manager version 2.0.

New features and enhancements

User Features

• Improved speed and performance
• Improved flow – column sorting and page settings are preserved as you navigate through the application. When you come back to the planner view from another screen it remembers which priority tab you were looking at previously.
• Search by country is now available in the IBO list in version 2.0.

Administrator Features

Export Options

• New Export Formats – You can now export to CSV, XLS or HTML formats. These options are helpful to accommodate a wider range of spreadsheet programs.

Users

• Ignore IP Whitelist – Enable a user to have access to Sales Cycle Manager from anywhere, regardless of your IP Whitelist settings.

• Export User List – This is handy is you want to export your list of users for use in an external emailing tool, for example.

Roles

• Assign Roles – If a user is removed from an assigned role where they own any open IBOs, a toolbox will open that prompts you to re-assign the open IBOs to another user and role. This ensures that all open IBOs are being looked after even when there changes in your organization.

IBO Form

• Default Expert Mode – Enable this option to automatically open the Expert Mode in the Sales Cycle Dashboard for new IBOs.

• Advanced IBO Role Filter – If enabled, a user who has multiple roles can choose which role(s) an IBO should belong under. This can be set to ‘required’ to force each IBO to belong under at least one of the user’s roles.

• Attachments – Option to disable attachments for IBOs and Interactions

• Custom Field - Add an extra field to the opportunity form. This is a text field and can be used to store information about an IBO such as a reference number.

Product Setup

• Hide Product Groups, Hide Product Number, Hide Qty & Unit Price – Options to simplify adding products to IBOs if desired.

• Custom Product Information Fields – Administrators can add custom fields for Products. The custom fields can be text input fields or selection boxes. Administrators can define the name of the custom field and its options that are available to users in the IBO form Product Information section.

Analytics

• Login Activity – Administrators can view a log of users and their login activity. Can be exported.

• IBO Activity – Administrators can view a log of IBO activity including user, IBO number, time-stamp and actions (save or delete). Can be exported.

It just keeps getting better!

Sales Cycle Manger On Demand Private Release version 1.6 rolled out this morning and offers some exciting new features and enhancements that make this Web-based sales opportunity management application even more powerful and easy-to-use.

Here’s a quick run-down of what’s been added. We’re already working on PR1.7, so there’s more great stuff to come.

Bonus: We are offering a special discount  to all early-adopters who join during the Private Release phase. Interested? click here.

Help and Documentation

We’ve added help pages and a documentation website to make life with Sales Cycle Manager even better. Have a look at http://help.salesways.com for instructions and more. Available today in English. Portuguese and German coming soon.

General User Guide
Admin & Setup Guide

Add Custom Products

If your organization offers consulting, project-based work, or custom services you can now quote each sales opportunity with a unique name, price and description, rather than choosing products from a set product list.

Document Management

You can now attach up to 10MB of files to each sales opportunity you are tracking. You can even upload files for each critical interaction that you record for your opportunities.
Add quotes, specifications, presentations, reports, anything you need. They are stored securely in encrypted format.

New Security Feature: Session Timeout

Left your computer on at the office? No problem. Your account is safe. Your session will automatically be logged out after a set amount of time. This option is configurable.

Enhanced Export

Export performance has been improved. It now takes less time than ever to pull a .csv file from your sales cycle planner view, forecast view or opportunities view (IBO List), or to export all of your data in one go.

User Roles

User roles are now displayed in each user profile. This helps managers and admins see who belongs to which team, division, territory or any other role you’ve set up for your organization.

Number Formats and Currencies

We’ve made it easier to choose the currency display and number formatting for your organization, as well as customized number formatting for each user in your account.

For more information, you can find a product description and data sheet here or contact SalesWays for a free live demo.