Sunday, July 9, 2017

15 Remarkable Integrations to Automate Documentation with Zapier

As consumer demands become more unique and varied, in order to keep up with big businesses, small businesses must change their back-end operations. With the accessibility and affordability of automated software solutions, this demand is not only possible, but it also saves time and money for small business owners.
Where do you start? That’s easy! Zapier and WebMerge.
Zapier provides businesses with the ability to sync any application they want. Based on the uniqueness of your operations, you could use Zapier to share new Tweets on Slack, send RSS feeds to Buffer, and more. With Zapier and WebMerge’s powers combined, you can automate your documentation process and eventually… rule the world!
Here are 20 ways you can use Zapier and WebMerge to automate your business:
  1. Create and Sign Real Estate Contracts with CudaSign
    Real Estate agents are always on the go.  From meeting with new clients, running around town showing homes, to closings, real estate agents are rarely in the office. Here’s how you can create quick contracts and save some energy.
  2. Create Contracts and Agreements from Nutshell CRM
    Managing your contacts, leads, and opportunities can be a daunting task, but with choosing the right CRM can be a life saver.  Nutshell is a great CRM and in combination with WebMerge you can save your sales team countless hours.  In this example we’re going to show you how you can create a contract from a lead in Nutshell and automatically send it to your customer.
  3. Generate Contracts from Opportunities in TrackVia
    Managing your workflow can be a daunting task, but with tools like TrackVia, you can keep track of everything from start to finish – all within a single platform.  From managing a projects to collecting data in the field, TrackVia is a great solution.
  4. Send a Letter of Engagement from Clio
    Document generation in the legal world is a must-have.  By auto-populating letters, contracts, and other types of legal documents, attorneys and paralegals can save countless hours.  Another way lawyers can save time (and their sanity) is by using a practice management system like Clio.
  5. Populate a PDF Receipt from a Formidable Order Form
    Formidable is a popular Wordpress form plugin for creating contact forms, order forms, registration forms and many more types of web forms.  But what if you want to take that information collected on the form and populate a Word document or PDF?  Your options are very limited.  Unless you haveWebMerge, of course! 
  6. Send an Order Invoice from Smartsheet
    Smartsheet is a pretty cool tool that allows you to easily collect data from customers and team members, plus offering an easy platform to manage that information.  It’s like Excel, but on steroids.  In this example, we’re going to show you how to send an invoice created with WebMerge directly from Smartsheet as a new order is entered into our sheet.
  7. Create and Send an NDA from Zoho CRM
    Keeping track of all your customer information can be difficult, but getting data out of your CRM can be an even bigger hassle.  Most often you end up re-typing information into other systems, documents, etc.  With Zoho CRM you can easily capture your leads, plus manage your customers, partners, and opportunities.
  8. Send Customized Invoices for Magento Orders
    Let’s face it – e-commerce is here to stay and is an important part of any business.  Today there are many services out there that can help you build and maintain an online store front without the need of expensive coding or customization.  One of the most popular services is called Magento and they offer a product that can fit your every need.
  9. Send Welcome Letters to Hubspot Form Leads
    You’ve jumped into the world of HubSpot marketing and sales tools, collecting all of this data on your website visitors, leads, and customers.  But, you don’t have an easy way to populate documents (letters, contracts, offers, etc) from that customer data.  Until now!  With the help of WebMerge (via Zapier) you can take your HubSpot data and populate documents on the fly.
  10. Create PDFs and Reports from Knack
    If you’re looking for an easy way to build an online database application without the need for programming, you need to check out Knack.  With Knack you can get rid of those clunky spreadsheets and build easy to use web applications such as a custom CRM, proposal tracker, order management, and more.  Knack allows you to build some pretty powerful apps and we’re going to show you how you can easily generate documents directly from Knack using WebMerge.
  11. Create Service Contracts from Batchbook
    If you’re looking for a great CRM to help you with organization and productivity, then we suggest you take a close look at Batchbook.  With Batchbook you can track your contacts, manage your deals, maintain your communication with customers, and more.  Let's take it one step further and generate documents from Batchbook using WebMerge.
  12. Create and Send Contracts from Solve CRM
    In today’s competitive landscape for the CRM space, it’s tough for services to stick out from the rest.  You have to fit the needs of specific verticals or use-cases and do that really well.  In the case of Solve CRM, they have wisely picked a deep integration with Google for Work and all the apps that come along with it.  From Calendar syncing, to Gmail integration, to managing Google Drive files, Solve integrates seamlessly.
  13. Create and Manage HR Documents from ZOHO Creator
    Managing your HR processes can be a daunting task.  From collecting new employee information, tracking time off, and handling payroll, there is a lot to keep track of and a lot of documentation to go along with it.  No sweat!  There’s a great tool called ZOHO Creator and you can build a customized HR app that allows you to manage all of your HR data across your entire business.  Then, combined with WebMerge you can generate employee contracts, insurance applications, state forms, and more.
  14. Create Custom Invoices and Letters from Harvest
    Managing projects, finances, timesheets, and deliverables can be a job in itself, but with Harvest you can make life a whole lot easier.  Harvest can track all your expenses throughout a project and make it easy to bill your customers when the project is complete.  Sounds great, right?  Well, we agree, but what if you want to customize the invoices or send letters to your new customers?  Your options are limited.
  15. Upload a TypeForm Medical Patient Intake Form to Box
    Have you ever thought filling out forms is a pain in the neck? TypeForm makes the experience of filling out forms fluid and fun. At the doctor’s office, filling out an intake form is often the first experience the patient has upon arriving for his or her appointment. If you have a medical practice, then you might be interested in improving your intake process. With TypeForm, in conjunction with WebMerge, you can merge the form submissions with a template document and automatically file them in your digital document storage system and/or as easily print them out as hard copies.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Automatically Save Documents in SharePoint with Microsoft Flow

SharePoint is a great tool for keeping track of all business documents and integrating with Microsoft Office.  Easily share documents with your entire team and access them from any device.

With WebMerge, you can automatically create documents like contracts, invoices, reports, and more with the click of a button.  Integrate with your favorite CRM, billing system, or other data source and you’ll never have to copy and paste again.

In this example, we’re going to show you how to automatically generate an invoice from Microsoft Dynamics CRMand save the document in SharePoint using a great tool called Microsoft Flow.

To get started, we’re going to setup the template for our invoice using the online document builder in WebMerge.  From the Documents page in WebMerge, click the New Document button and enter a name.  On the next step, pick the Build Your Own document type and then continue.
 

Next, we’re going to setup our invoice template in the document builder.  We’re going to add our logo, contact information, and then for the spots that we want to insert our customer/invoice details, we’re going to use merge fields that look like {$CustomerName}, {$Address}, {$Amount}, etc.

Here’s what our invoice template looks like:
 

After we’re finished our template and saved it, we’re going to move on to the Settings tab where we can modify various options like the type of file that’s generated and the name of the file.  For this example, we’re going to produce a PDF version of the invoice and we’re going to include the name of our customer in the file name.
 

Next, we’re going to setup the delivery of our document so that it is automatically emailed to our customer (in addition to saving it in SharePoint which we’ll do in a little bit).  From the Deliver tab, click the Edit button on the default email delivery.

For the To address we’re going to use a merge field for the customer’s email address.  If you don’t have a merge field in your template, choose the <<Other>> option then enter something like {$EmailTo}.  Feel free to edit any of the other settings.
 

After we have saved our email delivery, we are done with the setup process inside WebMerge and we’re ready to integrate with Dynamics CRM using Microsoft Flow.

Inside Microsoft Flow, we’re going to create a New Flow.  For the Trigger, we’re going to choose Dynamics CRM and then the “When a record is created” option.
 

Once you have logged into your Dynamics account, Flow will have you pick your organization and then the object that you want to monitor.  We’re going to look for new Opportunities.
 

Next, we’re going to setup the action of our Flow.  We’re going to choose WebMerge then Merge Document as the action.
 

After we’ve authenticated our WebMerge account, Flow is going to load a list of the documents in our WebMerge account.  Go ahead and select the Invoice template that you just setup and then flow will load a list of the merge fields in your template.

For each merge field you need to pick the corresponding fields from Dynamics CRM.  This tells flow how to send the data over to WebMerge so that it gets populated in the correct spot on your template.
 

After you’ve matched up all of your merge fields, we’re going to add one more option so that the file is automatically saved in SharePoint.

Click the Add Action button and then choose SharePoint from the list.  After your authenticate your SharePoint account, you’ll have to pick the folder that you want to save your file in.
 

After you have saved your SharePoint action, go ahead and save your flow.  You’re ready for a test!  Login to Dynamics CRM and then add a new Opportunity.  Flow will detect this new opportunity and send the data over to WebMerge.  Your invoice will be generated and then saved in SharePoint.

Here’s what our invoice looked like:
 

Congrats, you’re all done!  You can now automatically generate all types of documents and save them in SharePoint.  Can you think of any other ways you can use WebMerge to simplify your paperwork process?

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Automatically Send Quotes for New Deals in OnePageCRM

Optimizing your sales process can have a drastic impact on your business.  With a tool like OnePageCRM, you can keep your entire sales team on the same page and focused on closing deals.  From communicating with new leads to tracking the progress of deals, OnePageCRM will keep your business moving forward.

Add WebMerge to your sales process and you can automatically generate all types of documents right from OnePageCRM.  You’ll never have to copy and paste again!

In this example, we’re going to show you how to automatically generate a quote when we add a new Deal to OnePageCRM.  We’ll automatically send this quote via email to our customer for their review.

To get started, we’re going to setup the template for our quote using a Word document.  Inside Word, we’re going to add our boilerplate quote information that never changes (like our logo, contact info, etc).  Then, for the spots that we want to insert our customer/deal information, we’re going to use merge fields that look like {$CustomerName}, {$ProjectName}, etc.

Here’s what our quote template looks like:
 


Once you have your quote template finished, we need to upload it to WebMerge.  From the Documents page in WebMerge, click the New Document button and enter a name.  On the next step, select Office Document as the document type then pick the file from your computer.
 


After you’ve uploaded your template, you’ll be taken to the Settings tab where you change various options like the type of file that is generated and the name of the file.  For this example, we’re going to generate a PDF and include the name of our customer in the name of the merged document.
 


Next, we’re going to setup the delivery of our document so that it is automatically emailed directly to our customer.  From the Deliver tab, go ahead and Edit the default email delivery.  For the To address, we’re going to choose the merge fields we used for the customer’s email address in our document. 

If you don’t have a merge field in the template, choose <<Other>> then enter a merge field like {$EmailTo}.   Feel free to customize any of the other email settings.
 


Once you have your email delivery saved, you’re done with the setup process inside WebMerge and you’re ready to integrate with OnePageCRM.  To help with this integration, we’re going to use our friends over at Zapier.

Inside Zapier, go ahead and create a New Zap.  For the Trigger, we’re going to choose OnePageCRM as the app, then New Pending Deal as the trigger.
 


Once you authenticate your OnePageCRM account, Zapier is going to load a test deal to make sure that everything is working correct.  Follow those steps and continue.

Next, we’re going to setup the Action of our Zap.  For the app, choose WebMerge and then Create Document Merge as the action.
 


Once you authenticate your WebMerge account, Zapier is going to load a list of all the documents in your WebMerge account.  Go ahead and pick the Quote document that you just setup and Zapier will load a list of the merge fields in your template.

For each merge field, you’ll need to pick the corresponding fields from OnePageCRM.  This tells Zapier how to send the deal info over to WebMerge so that it is populated in the correct spot in your template.
 


After you have matched up all of your merge fields, go ahead and save your Zap and turn it on.  We’re ready for a test!  Login to OnePageCRM and add a New Deal.  Zapier will detect the new deal and then send the info over to WebMerge.  Your quote will then be automatically emailed to the customer.

Here’s what our quote looked like ready for the customer:
 


Congrats, you’re all finished!  You can now generate all kinds of documents from your OnePageCRM account.  Can you think of any other ways that you can use WebMerge to simplify your paperwork process?

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Gravity Forms Dynamics CRM Addon


Gravity Forms Addon to connect CRM vTiger, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM 6 and 7, SuiteCRM, Odoo 8, ESPO CRM, VTE CRM, Zoho CRM, Salesforce, Bitrix24, HubSpot CRM and Solve360.

Gravity Forms CRM Addon allows you to connect different CRM and create new Leads as the forms are filled automatically.
Gravity Forms is the best way to use forms in your web, becouse it has much power, flexibilty and functionality than CRM HTML Forms. But with this plugin you can connect every entry that is filled directly to the CRM.
The plugin setup is very easy. Once you have uploaded the plugin, you configure the plugin in Gravity Forms Options > Settings > CRM, with the URL, user and password of the user that will create the entries in the CRM.
After that, you go to each form that you want to connect with the CRM. In the options CRM inside the form, you will see a mapping fields where you choose for every field, the equivalent for CRM software field.
The plugin connects with the CRM via webservice, a secure and best way to connect it.
At this time, CRM Software that are supported are: vTiger 6.x, SugarCRM, Microsoft Dynamics Online CRM 2015, SugarCRM Community Edition 6.4.x, 6.5.x, 6.6.x, 6.7.x, SugarCRM 7, SuiteCRM, Odoo 8, ESPO CRM, VTE CRM, Zoho CRM, Salesforce, Bitrix24, HubSpot CRM and Solve360.
You can only use one type of CRM in the web with this version.
We will support more CRM, you can comment which CRM you would like to use, and we will consider in next versions.
Translations: Spanish.

Changelog

v2.6
  • Added support to HubSpot CRM.
v2.5
  • Emails to administrator when it cannot create the lead in CRM with error message.
v2.4.2
  • Fixed bugs with MSDynamics.
v2.4.1
  • Better debug messages for Bitrix.
v2.4
  • Fixed error with facturadirecta.
  • Better support for SuiteCRM (two libraries connection).
v2.3
  • Better manage multiselect and checkbox fields.
  • Internal better management of Libraries.
  • Fixed bug textarea with line breaks does not send to CRM.
  • Fixed bug Bitrix URL connection.
v2.2
  • Server check system.
  • Support to FacturaDirecta.
  • Support to Odoo 9.
  • Solved problems with vTiger description.
v2.1
  • Added connection with Solve360 CRM.
v2.0
  • Added connection with Bitrix24 CRM.
  • Minor fixes with SugarCRM7 not mandatory Teams.
v1.9
  • Added MS Dynamics on Premise. Use it if MS Dynamics Online does not work for you.
  • Solved fixes connection to SugarCRM 6.
  • Solved fixes with Odoo map function.
v1.8.1
  • Finally solved connection with MS Dynamics. Problems from MS Dynamics API library.
v1.8
  • Added connection with Salesforce.
v1.7
  • Added connection with Zoho CRM.
  • New debug mode to show vars and errors when Wordpress Debug mode is activated.
  • Added POT File for translations.
v1.6.1
  • Fixed connection with MS Dynamics.
v1.6
  • Added connection with ESPO CRM.
v1.5
  • Added connection with SugarCRM 7.
v1.4
  • Added connection with VTE CRM.
  • Cleaned methods for better support to CRMs.
  • Login issue with SugarCRM.
v1.3.1
  • Suite CRM Password issue.
v1.3
  • Added support for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015.
v1.2
  • Added support for SuiteCRM.
v1.1.2
  • Solving login problems with SugarCRM.
v1.1.1
  • Bugfixes.
v1.1
  • Support to Odoo 8.
  • Updated translation in Spanish.
  • Change Settings input depending of CRM.
v1.0.2
  • Handle vTiger errors
v1.0.1
  • Some fixes after submit form
  • WP Updates automatically

Friday, December 2, 2016

Automatically Generate Contracts and Agreements from Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Managing your sales process can be a difficult task unless you have the right tools in place.  With a CRM like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you can manage your leads, contacts, and opportunities from a single interface.  Plus, your whole team can always be in sync.

Another way you can improve your sales process is to add WebMerge to the mix to automatically generate documents like contracts, invoices, quotes and more.  You’ll never have to copy and paste again!

In this example, we’re going to show you how you can automatically generate NDA agreements for each new contact that we add to our CRM.  We’ll also automatically send out the contract for e-signature via DocuSign.  To help with the integration between Dynamics and WebMerge, we’ll be using our friends over at Zapier.

To get started, we’re going to setup the template for our NDA agreement using a Word document.  Inside the Word document, we’re going to add our boilerplate agreement terms, and then for the spots that we want our contact’s information to go, we’re going to use merge fields that look like {$FirstName}, {$LastName}, {$Address}, etc.

Here’s what our template looks like:
 

Since we’ll be collecting a signature using DocuSign, we need to add a signature tag to our document as well so that DocuSign knows where to embed the signature.  This signature tag is just like any other text in your document and looks like:  \s1\
 

Once we have our template all finished, we need to upload it to WebMerge.  From the Documents page in WebMerge, click the New Document button and then enter a name.  On the next step, select Office Document as the document type and then pick the file from your computer.
 

After you’ve uploaded your template, you’ll be taken to the Settings tab.  Here, you can update various options like the type of file that you want to generate and the name of the file.  For this example, we’re going to generate a PDF and include the name of our contact in the file name.
 

Next, we’re going to setup the integration with DocuSign so that our document is automatically delivered to DocuSign for signature.  Under the Deliver tab, click the New Delivery button and select DocuSign.

After you authenticate your DocuSign account, you’ll need to define the signers using merge fields.  If you don’t have these merge fields in your document, simply select <<Other>> from the dropdown and then type in new merge fields.
 

After we’ve finished up the Docusign delivery, we’re done with the setup inside WebMerge and we’re ready to setup the integration with Zapier.

Inside Zapier, we’re going to create a New Zap.  For the Trigger, we’re going to choose Microsoft Dynamics CRM as the service and then New Contact as the trigger.
 

After you authenticate your Dynamics CRM account, Zapier will load a test contact to make sure everything is working correctly.

Next, we’re going to setup and Action of the Zap.  We’re going to pick WebMerge as the service and then Create Document Merge as the action.
 

After you authenticate your WebMerge account, Zapier is going to load a list of all the documents in your WebMerge account.  Go ahead and pick the NDA template that you just setup.  Once you pick the document, Zapier will load a list of all the merge fields in your document.

For each of the merge fields, you need to pick the corresponding fields from Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  This tells Zapier how to send data over WebMerge so that it gets populated in the correct spot in your template.
 

After you have matched up all of your merge fields, go ahead and save your Zap and turn it on.  It’s time to run a test to make sure everything is working correctly.  Login to Dynamics CRM and add a new contact.  Zapier will detect this new contact, send the data over to WebMerge, and your contract will be generated and sent over to DocuSign.

Here’s what our NDA looked like ready for signature:
 

Congrats, you’re all done!  You can now automatically generate all types of documents from Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  Can you think of any other ways that you can use WebMerge to simplify your paperwork process?
 


Thursday, December 1, 2016

Instantly Send Proposals for New Opportunities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Streamlining your sales process can have huge benefits to both your customers and your sales team.  From helping your sales team track leads to closing deals faster, with a tool like Microsoft Dynamics CRM you can put your best foot forward.

Along with the sales process comes the paperwork and with a tool like WebMerge, you can automatically generate all kinds of documents like invoices, quotes, contracts, and more.  In this example, we’re going to show you how to automatically generate a proposal for new opportunities that are added to Dynamics CRM.

To get started, we’re going to setup the template for our proposal using a Word document.  Inside our Word document, we’re going to include our boilerplate proposal information, and then for the spots that we want data from our opportunity to be inserted, we’re going to add merge fields like {$FirstName}, {$OpportunityName}, etc.

Here’s what our proposal template looks like:
 

Once you have your template ready, we need to upload it to WebMerge.  Form the Documents page in WebMerge, click the New Document button and then enter a name.  On the next step, pick Office Document as the document type and then select the file from your computer.
 

After you upload your template, you’re going to be taken to the Settings tab where you can update various settings like the type of file that is generated and the name of the file.  For this example, we’re going to generate a PDF and include the name of our opportunity in the name of the file.
 

Next, we’re going to setup the Email delivery so that our proposal is automatically emailed to our client when it is generated.  Under the Deliver tab, go ahead and Edit the default email delivery.  For the “To” address, we’re going to change that to the merge field for our contact’s email address.  Feel free to change any of the other settings for the email.
 

After we have our email delivery saved, we’re ready to integrate our proposal template with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  To help with the integration, we’re going to use our friends over at Zapier.

Inside Zapier, go ahead and create a New Zap.  For the Trigger, we’re going to choose Microsoft Dynamics CRM as the service and then New Opportunity as the trigger.
 

After you authenticate your Dynamics CRM account, Zapier is going to load a test opportunity from Dynamics CRM to make sure everything works correctly.  Follow those steps and move on.

Next, we’re going to setup the Action of our Zap.  For the service, select WebMerge and then Create Document Merge as the action.
 

Once you authenticate your WebMerge account, Zapier is going to load a list of the documents in your account.  Go ahead and pick the proposal template that you just setup in WebMerge.  Once you pick the template, Zapier will load a list of all the merge fields in your template.

For each of the merge fields you need to pick the corresponding field from Dynamics CRM.  This tells Zapier how to send the data over to WebMerge so that it gets populated in the correct spot on your template.
 

Once you have matched up all of your merge fields, go ahead and save your zap and then turn it on.  We’re ready for a test! Login to Dynamics CRM and create a new opportunity.  Zapier will detect this new opportunity and send the data over to WebMerge.

Here’s what our proposal looked like:
 

Congrats, you’re all finished!  You can now automatically generate all kinds of documents from Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  Can you think of any other ways that you could use WebMerge to simplify your paperwork process?

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