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Getting Started

1. Introduction

Borneosoft CRM - Application Structure
Figure 1.1. Application Structure
BorneoCRM is Borneosoft on demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software delivered over the web. It provides professionals who are dealing with customers with the tools that help them to work effectively and efficiently.
BorneoCRM consists of:
  • Contact Management to manage customers' contacts and companies.
  • Calendar Management to manage tasks and events, set up reminder, arrange meeting and send RSVP to participants.
  • Product Management to store products information on offer to the customers.
  • Sales Management to manage sales process by creating leads from contacts. Qualified leads are turned into opportunities that include events, tasks, contacts, documents, notes, and products that are associated with the opportunities. Quotations are generated automatically from the information that has been kept in the opportunities.
  • Charts to analyze the customers profile and sales performance.
  • Integrated email with Spam and virus checking.
  • Blog that allows you to post your weblog about your product updates, feedback gathering or promotion.
  • Administration that includes user and team creation and role assignment.
BorneoCRM applications can be accessed from standard browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 and above or Mozilla Firefox version 3 and above.
The structure of the applications is shown in Figure 1.1: Application Structure. You start using the applications by adding your contacts by entering them manually or by uploading the file that you export from other applications. At the same time, you enter the details of your meetings, events, and tasks into the application. You can ask the application to send RSVP to the participants of your meeting. The participants can reply by just clicking a link in the email to indicate whether they want to attend or not. You can then check who will be attending your meeting. You can also ask the application to send email reminder to you before the meeting. You can set how early and the frequency the reminder to be sent.
You create leads by adding contacts with role for each contact, events that are related to the leads, and tasks that you need to do for the leads. You can set the rating of the lead as hot, warm or cold. This helps you to concentrate your effort to the leads that you think are more promising. You can set the status for each lead whether you are still prospecting the lead or the lead has reached a point where you want qualify the lead or disqualify the lead.
You can create opportunities from the leads. When you create new opportunity from the lead, the lead status is set to qualified automatically and the lead case is closed. You cannot make any further modification to the lead. The contacts, events and tasks related to the lead are also related to the new opportunity.
While opportunity is created, it will ask you to select the account to which the opportunity is related. Accounts are created from the companies that you have entered.
As the sales progresses, you can set the sales stage in the opportunity accordingly. Every sales stage corresponds to a probability to close the sales. Estimated revenue for a opportunity is calculated by multiplying the opportunity's sales value with the probability to close the sales. When the sales process ends with purchase order being raised, the estimated revenue equals to the opportunity's sales value.
You can enter pricing information and availability to the products. You can also enter pricing adjustment such as markup, discount, or profit margin to the products. It also allows you to enter volume pricing where the price is different for different number of unit. When you include the products into an opportunity, you can adjust the pricing differently from what is initially set for the products.
At any point of time, you can generate quotation easily from an opportunity. You do not need to enter again products information and their pricing. You can modify the quotation style-sheet to your liking.
Supporting applications such as emails, notes, documents and attachments are integrated with the rest of applications. You can send RSVP or reminder emails from an event. You set special dates in contact detail and attach emails that will be sent to your contact before the special dates. You can send, for example, happy birthday email automatically to your contact. If you want to add special notes, you can send the automated email to yourself instead to your contact.
You can add notes to leads and opportunities whenever you have something that you need to remember. Fast and easy search facility will help you to get the information back easily.
Charts can be generated from the information that is kept in the applications. There are many types of charts to assist you to understand your customers better. It also gives you a valuable insight into your sales process.
You can create teams that consist of your sales team members and team manager. You can specify access right for each team members. This will help in data sharing and minimizing data redundancies.
Most of the activities are recorded as part of the history. You can review what has been changed or what has happened to the data.

2. Familiarizing With The Application

2.1. Starting The Application

Users access the application at http://www.borneosoft.com by entering logon name and password at the 'Logon to your account' box (see Figure 2.1: Front Page with Logon Box). The logon name and password will be transmitted in secured connection. Or you can click the (+) sign to open up the secure logon page https://www.borneosoft.com/Borneosoft/logon.jsp where you need to enter your username (e.g.john@doe.borneosoft.com) and password (see Figure 2.2: Logon Page).
Borneosoft CRM - Front Page with Login Box
Figure 2.1. Front Page with Login Box
Borneosoft CRM - Logon Page
Figure 2.2. Logon Page
At the logon box, you can select 'Remember Me' if you want to subsequently access the application without logging on. You can use this facility when you are sure that your computer is not accessible by anyone else. Please do not select 'Remember Me' if you are using public computer or shared computer. It is not selected by default.
When you click button, you will be brought to the main page of the application as it is shown in Figure 2.3: Main Page. The main page consists of 3 panels, the folder panel, the list panel and the detail/chart panel (see Figure 2.4: Main Page Layout). The folder's content will be shown in the list panel every time a folder is clicked in the folder panel. The item detail will be shown in the detail panel every time a list item is clicked.
Borneosoft CRM - Main Page
Figure 2.3. Main Page
Borneosoft CRM - Main Page Layout
Figure 2.4. Main Page Layout
You can logout by clicking 'Logout' button at the top-right corner or by clicking the menu: File, Logout. If you select 'Remember Me' before, it will be reset and you have to logon again the next time you want to access the application.

2.2. Common Tasks

There are some common tasks that applies to all type of folders. They are related to managing folders and common tasks related to list of items inside the folders.

2.2.1. Common Tasks Related to Folders

You can create new folders, copy, move, rename and trash folders. Trashing folders do not remove them from the storage, you can move the folders out of the Trash folder again. By emptying Trash folder, any folders inside the Trash folder will be removed from the storage permanently.

Creating New Folders

  1. Click the folder where you want to put your new folder is.
  2. Click the menu: Edit, 'New Folder...'. A dialog box will appear (Figure 2.5: Creating New Folder). You can add more than one folder by clicking 'More Entries'.
  3. Click 'Add' to add the folders (Figure 2.6: Added Folders).
Borneosoft CRM - Creating New Folder
Figure 2.5. Creating New Folder
Borneosoft CRM - Added Folders
Figure 2.6. Added Folders

Copying Folder

  1. Click the folder that you want to copy.
  2. Click the menu: Edit, 'Copy Folder...'. A dialog box will appear (Figure 2.7: Copying Folder).
  3. You can modify the name of the folder for the new copy.
  4. Click one of the folders under 'Destination:' where you want to put the copy of the folders (Figure 2.7: Copying Folder).
  5. Click 'Paste' to paste the new folders into the destination folder (Figure 2.8: Copied Folder).
Borneosoft CRM - Copying Folder
Figure 2.7. Copying Folder
Borneosoft CRM - Copied Folders
Figure 2.8. Copied Folders

Moving Folder

  1. Click the folder you want to move.
  2. Click the menu: Edit, 'Move Folder...'. A dialog box will appear (Figure 2.9: Moving Folder).
  3. You can modify the name of the folder that you are going to move.
  4. Click one of the folders under 'Destination:' where you want to move the folder to (Figure 2.9: Moving Folder).
  5. Click 'Paste' to move the folder to the new location (Figure 2.10: Moved Folder).
Borneosoft CRM - Moving Folder
Figure 2.9. Moving Folder
Borneosoft CRM - Moved Folders
Figure 2.10. Moved Folders

Renaming Folder

  1. Click the folder that you want to rename.
  2. Click the menu: Edit, 'Rename Folder...'. A dialog box will appear (Figure 2.11: Renaming Folder).
  3. Rename the folder.
  4. Click 'Update' (Figure 2.12: Renamed Folder).
Borneosoft CRM - Renaming Folder
Figure 2.9. Renaming Folder
Borneosoft CRM - Renamed Folders
Figure 2.10. Renamed Folders

Trashing Folder

  1. Click the folder that you want to move to Trash folder.
  2. Click the menu: Edit, 'Trash Folder …'. A dialog box will appear (Figure 2.13: Trashing Folder).
  3. Click 'Trash' (Figure 2.14: Trashed Folder).
Borneosoft CRM - Trashing Folder
Figure 2.13. Trashing Folder
Borneosoft CRM - Trashed Folders
Figure 2.14. Trashed Folders

2.2.2. Common Tasks Related to Items

Borneosoft CRM - Contacts
Figure 2.15. Contacts
For common tasks involving items, we will use Contacts as illustration purpose, see Figure 2.15: Contacts.

Creating New Item

  1. Click the folder where you want the item to be put into.
  2. Click the 'New' button on the toolbar (Figure 2.15: Contacts), or click the menu: Edit, 'New Item'.
  3. A dialog box will appear for you to enter the contact details.
  4. Click 'Save' button on the toolbar to save the contact details (Figure 2.16: Saving Contact).
  5. Click the browser close button, or click the menu: File, 'Close Window'.
  6. The new contact will appear on top of the list (Figure 2.17: Saved Contact). If the new contact is not in the list, click the folder you selected in step 1 again to refresh the list. If the new contact is in another page, search the new item using the name.
Borneosoft CRM - Saving Contact
Figure 2.16. Saving Contact
Borneosoft CRM - Saved Contact
Figure 2.17. Saved Contact

Copying Item

Borneosoft CRM - Selecting Contact
Figure 2.18. Selecting Contact
  1. Select the contact that you want to copy in the list by clicking the check-box at left most position of the list item (Figure 2.18: Selecting Contact).
  2. Click 'Copy' button on the toolbar or click the menu: Edit, 'Copy Item...'. A dialog box will appear (Figure 2.19: Copying Contact).
  3. Select the destination of the folder where you want the new copy to be put into (Figure 2.19: Copying Contact).
  4. Click 'Paste'.
  5. The new contact will be added to the list. If the new contact is not in the list, click the folder you selected in step 1 again to refresh the list. If the new contact is in another page, search the new item using, for example, the name (Figure 2.20: Copied Contact).
Borneosoft CRM - Copying Contact
Figure 2.19. Copying Contact
Borneosoft CRM - Copied Contact
Figure 2.20. Copied Contact

Moving Item

Borneosoft CRM - Selecting Contact to be moved
Figure 2.21. Selecting Contact to be moved
  1. Select the contact that you want to move in the list by clicking the check-box at left most position of the list item (Figure 2.21: Selecting Contact to be moved).
  2. Click 'Move' button on the toolbar or click the menu: Edit, 'Move Item...'. A dialog box will appear (Figure 2.22: Moving Contact).
  3. Select the destination of the folder where you want the contact to be moved into (Figure 2.22: Moving Contact).
  4. Click 'Paste'.
  5. Click the destination folder, you will see the contact is moved to the destination folder (Figure 2.23: Moved Contact).
Borneosoft CRM - Moving Contact
Figure 2.22. Moving Contact
Borneosoft CRM - Moved Contact
Figure 2.23. Moved Contact

Trashing Item

  1. Select the contact in the list that you want to put into Trash folder by clicking the check-box at left most position of the list item (Figure 2.24: Selecting Contact to put into Trash folder).
  2. Click 'Trash' button on the toolbar or click the menu: Edit, 'Trash Item'.
  3. The selected contact is moved into Trash folder (Figure 2.25: Contact put into Trash Folder).
Borneosoft CRM - Selecting Contact to put into Trash folder
Figure 2.24. Selecting Contact to put into Trash folder
Borneosoft CRM - Contact put into Trash Folder
Figure 2.25. Contact put into Trash Folder

Restoring Trashed Item

  1. Select the contact in the list that you want to restore from Trash folder by clicking the check-box at left most position of the list item (Figure 2.26: Restoring Contact from Trash folder).
  2. Click 'Move' button on the toolbar or click the menu: Edit, 'Move Item...'. A dialog box will appear (Figure 2.22: Moving Contact).
  3. Select the destination of the folder where you want the contact to be moved into (Figure 2.22: Moving Contact).
  4. Click 'Paste'.
  5. Click the destination folder, you will see the contact is moved from the Trash folder to the destination folder (Figure 2.27: Restored Contact).
Borneosoft CRM - Restoring Contact from Trash folder
Figure 2.26. Restoring Contact from Trash folder
Borneosoft CRM - Restored Contact
Figure 2.27. Restored Contact

Deleting Selected Item

(Note: Item will be deleted permanently. It cannot be restored)
  1. Select the contact in the list that you want to delete permanently by clicking the check-box at left most position of the list item (Figure 2.28: Deleting Contact Permanently).
  2. Click 'Delete' button on the toolbar or click the menu: Edit, 'Delete Selected Item'. It will show an alert to remind that the deletion cannot be restored (Figure 2.29: Deleting Contact Alert).
  3. Click 'OK'. The contact is deleted permanently.
Borneosoft CRM - Deleting Contact Permanently
Figure 2.28. Deleting Contact Permanently
Borneosoft CRM - Deleting Contact Alert
Figure 2.29. Deleting Contact Alert

Deleting All Item in a Folder Permanently

Borneosoft CRM - Selecting Folder to Delete All Item inside the Folder
Figure 2.30. Selecting Folder to Delete
All Item inside the Folder
(Note: ALL Item will be deleted permanently. They cannot be restored)
  1. Select the folder where you want all item and folders inside it will be deleted permanently (Figure 2.30: Selecting Folder to Delete All Item inside the Folder).

  2. Click the menu: Edit, 'Delete All Item'. An alert will pop up to remind that the deletion cannot be restored (Figure 2.31: Alert to Remind that All Items will be Deleted Permanently).

  3. Click 'OK'. All contacts under the selected folder are deleted permanently (Figure 2.32: All Items inside Selected Folder are Deleted Permanently).

Borneosoft CRM - Alert to Remind that All Items will be Deleted Permanently
Figure 2.31. Alert to Remind that All
Items will be Deleted Permanently
Borneosoft CRM - All Items inside Selected Folder are Deleted Permanently
Figure 2.32. All Items inside Selected
Folder are Deleted Permanently

Emptying Trash Folder

(Note: ALL Item in the Trash folder will be deleted permanently. They cannot be restored)
  1. Click the top folder or any sub folder of the folder type you want to empty the trash folder (Figure 2.33: Emptying Trash Folder).
  2. Click 'Empty' button at the toolbar or click the menu: Edit, 'Empty Trash'. It will only empty the Trash folder of the selected folder type, in this example, it will only empty Contact Trash folder. An alert to remind that the deletion cannot be restored is shown (Figure 2.34: Alert before Emptying Trash Folder).
  3. Click 'OK'. All items in the Trash folder are deleted permanently.
Borneosoft CRM - Emptying Trash Folder
Figure 2.33. Emptying Trash Folder
Borneosoft CRM - Alert before Emptying Trash Folder
Figure 2.34. Alert before Emptying
Trash Folder

2.3. Navigating the Item List

Each folder type has different kind of columns in its item list. For example, item list for Mail folder type has: flags column (mail priority flag, attachment flag, and follow flag), From, Subject, and Date (received date) column; item list for Contact folder type has: flags column (priority flag), Name, Email, Work telephone, Mobile phone, and Company column.
You can sort the column by clicking the column header. Clicking again the column header will sort the column in the opposite direction (Figure 2.35: Sorting Contact Item List by Name in Descending Order and Figure 37: Sorting Contact Item List by Name in Ascending Order).
Borneosoft CRM - Sorting Contact Item List by Name in Descending Order
Figure 2.35. Sorting Contact Item List by
Name in Descending Order
Borneosoft CRM - Sorting Contact Item List by Name in Ascending Order
Figure 37. Sorting Contact Item List by
Name in Ascending Order
You can also sort the column by accessing the Sort menu, see Figure 2.37: Sorting using Menu.
The item list will show 50 items per page. If there are many items in the list, you can browse through the list by clicking the the left and right arrow at the top right corner of the item list panel. You can also go to the first page or last page by clicking the first and last arrow, see Figure 2.36: Paging the Item List.
Borneosoft CRM - Sorting using Menu
Figure 2.37. Sorting using Menu
Borneosoft CRM - Paging the Item List
Figure 2.36. Paging the Item List

2.4. Searching and Filtering Item List

Borneosoft CRM - Searching Contact with Phrase Agustin
Figure 2.39. Searching Contact with Phrase Agustin
You can find the item efficiently by searching it. You can type any phrase into the search field and press 'Enter' or click the search button. For example, you can search your contact with the phrase Agustin. Any item that contains Agustin will be shown, see Figure 2.39: Searching Contact with Phrase Agustin. If you add another phrase, more result that matches the phrases will be shown. For example, when you enter phrases: Agustin Washington, all items that contains in any field Agustin or Washington will be shown, see Figure 2.40: Searching with More Phrases: Agustin Washington. However, if BOTH phrases MUST exist in any of the field, you need to start each phrase with plus sign, i.e., +Agustin +Linfeild, see Figure 2.41: Searching with BOTH phrases MUST exist in Any Field.
Borneosoft CRM - Searching with More Phrases: Agustin Washington
Figure 2.40. Searching with More
Phrases: Agustin Washington
Borneosoft CRM - Searching with BOTH phrases MUST exist in Any Field
Figure 2.41. Searching with BOTH
phrases MUST exist in Any Field
To search two words from two field which both must exist, use the field name with the plus sign in front of the field name. For example, searching +firstname:Agustin +companyname:Juneau returns only one item, see Figure 2.42: Searching with Specified Field Name. The field name you use to search is listed in the pull down selection of the search field. Click the search field to see all the available fields for the selected folder type, see Figure 2.43: Available Search Field Names.
Borneosoft CRM - Searching with Specified Field Name
Figure 2.42. Searching with Specified
Field Name
Borneosoft CRM - Available Search Field Names
Figure 2.43. Available Search Field
Names
Borneosoft CRM - Search Item that Contains Phrase 'Washington'
Figure 2.44. Search Item that Contains
Phrase 'Washington'
You can also filter your search result by clicking the Filter menu and select any of the available filter menu item. For example, if you search phrase: Washington, on the Contact you get 25 items (Figure 2.44: Search Item that Contains Phrase 'Washington'). Please take note, that although what is shown on the list may not contain the phrase 'Washington', but other field in the item detail may contain the phrase. If you further filter by clicking the menu: Filter, Importance, Most Important (Figure 2.45: Available Filters in the Filter Menu), it will only show items with 'Most Important' flag (Figure 2.46: Filtering Search Result).
Borneosoft CRM - Available Filters in the Filter Menu
Figure 2.45. Available Filters in the Filter Menu
Borneosoft CRM - Filtering Search Result
Figure 2.46. Filtering Search Result
Borneosoft CRM - Removing the Filter
Figure 2.47. Removing the Filter
You can remove the filter by clicking the menu: Filter, 'Don't Filter' (Figure 2.47: Removing the Filter), it will show the previous search without filtering (Figure 2.44: Search Item that Contains Phrase 'Washington').
You can also show all items including those in the sub folders by clicking the menu: Filter, All. This filter does not affect the search result since the search also includes all items in the sub folders.

2.5. Marking Items

You can change some attributes of the item such as Contact, Company, etc. by using the 'Mark' menu. You can change several items attributes at the same time by selecting the items in the list. For example, if you want to set the industry type of some companies to 'Consumer Goods', you need to select the companies that you want to set the industry type and click menu: Mark, 'Industry Type', and then 'Consumer Goods' (Figure 2.48: Marking Items). The selected items' industry type will be set accordingly, see Figure 2.49: Marked Items.
Borneosoft CRM - Marking Items
Figure 2.48. Marking Items
Borneosoft CRM - Marked Items
Figure 2.49. Marked Items

3. Administration

When you subscribe the application, you entered your Country and Timezone. The country will set the format of currency, date and time. The date and time are based on your timezone. The current time based on your timezone is shown at the top-right corner of the main page. Your name is also shown next to the current time. If you are superuser, there is an icon next to your name to indicate that. Your current storage usage is shown at the bottom-left corner of the main page. When you exceed your storage limit, you cannot receive email, create new items or other tasks that requires storage. Please send us an email to sales@borneosoft.com to upgrade your storage size.

3.1. Updating Your Profile

You need to click your name at the top-right corner of the main page (Figure 3.1: User Related Information on the Main Page). A dialog box will appear where you can update your profile (Figure 3.2: User Profile Page). You can also upload your photo to your profile.
Borneosoft CRM - User Related Information on the Main Page
Figure 3.1. User Related Information
on the Main Page
Borneosoft CRM - User Profile Page
Figure 3.2. User Profile Page
Your timezone will follow your company timezone by default, i.e., 'Use the organization timezone' is selected. If you need to set your timezone differently from your company timezone, you need to choose your timezone from the timezone selection and deselect 'Use the organization timezone'. By default, the timezone is displayed together with the dates, you can stop the timezone being displayed by deselecting 'Show the timezone for dates'.

3.2. Changing Your Password

To change your password, click the menu: Edit, Preferences, 'Change My Password' (see Figure 3.3: Change My Password Menu). A dialog box will appear for you to enter your old password and new password (Figure 3.4: Change My Password).
Borneosoft CRM - Change My Password Menu
Figure 3.3. Change My Password Menu
Borneosoft CRM - Change My Password
Figure 3.4. Change My Password