Vtiger Customization: Efficiently Schedule Contractors and Workers

When you sell a product or service, you need a work process to get it out into the world.  We help improve your Vtiger and execute those work processes in the most efficient way.  Recently, we had the opportunity to help two clients with very different business models by creating similar tools for scheduling jobs with contractors […]

Vtiger 7.1 News: Continuously Improving + GA Release in Sight

Most of the bugs have been addressed in the past few weeks and the developers are finishing up on the remaining issues.  In the next week, Vtiger will be taking feedback from the community to plan for the 7.1 GA release.   Here are a few exciting updates announced today: Non-admin users can change the passwords […]

Vtiger Customization: Google Maps – Know Information About a Company in a Glance

We customized our client’s Vtiger Google Maps so the visual markers represent businesses by type and revenue. For example, the business is: Type = Manufacturer and appears as a Star marker Revenue = $ 500,000.00 and appears as a color orange marker At a glance, you can see that the orange star marker on your Google Maps […]

Vtiger App: Create a Credit Note PDF Directly in Vtiger

There are a variety of reasons your company may use credit notes, from damage in goods to delivery of the wrong product, but with the Credit Note app you do not have to create the note in an outside program. Where Can You Create a Credit Note in Vtiger? Using the Credit Notes extension and PDF Maker […]

Vtiger 7.1 News: 100+ Improvements

Thanks to the hard work of Vtiger’s developers, over one hundred issues have been fixed this week.  This post highlights some key improvements. New Vtiger 7 task management capability follows Vtiger standard permissions  UI percentage field type now accepts both positive and negative numbers Multiple ‘My Dashboard’ dashboards do not appear when you create new […]

Vtiger Extensions: Click to Call for Increased Productivity

You can make calls from your computer or hardware phones with Click to Call extensions, and you can make them directly in Vtiger.  Phone numbers are hot-linked in Vtiger records, Google, and Skype.   How Does this Improve Your Productivity? Click to Call saves the valuable time it takes to dial the phone and if […]

Vtiger Customization: Managing Backorders in Vtiger

Our client asked us to customize a backorder solution and we created an automatic shipment record function.  A shipment record is initially created when the Vtiger user converts a quote record to a sales order record. Shipment records keep track of the time each item was shipped, while the parent order shows the overall total. The sales order […]

Vtiger Integration: Dropbox and Google Drive – Document Synchronization

If you just read our post about a new Dropbox / Google Drive folder function here, our document synchronization option contains some similarity but may be a better option for you.  The main difference is: this option synchronizes links of your documents into Vtiger from your cloud system  Although it is called the Google Drive integration, this document […]