OffersThe offer module in Verpura enables you to manage your offers easily, generate projects from offers and invoice the offered products and services directly.
You can find the offer overview under [Projects] – [Offers]. Every offer has a number, optional a additional number, a customer for which this offer is generated, an entry- and a valid date, a status as well as a short information about the offer. With the free text you can mark your offers for a better overview.
In addition you have on the right side the options to copy the offer, edit or delete it, print different views of the offer, as well as generating a purchase order from the offer. The difference between copy and edit an offer is, that when you copy it, customer data and offer number will disappear – this can be used when you want to make an similar offer for another contact. When you reproduce the offer, the offer number will be adopted and supplemented with /1, /2 and so on. This is a kind of versioning – this can be used when the hearing takes longer time and you will never loose the overview of the actual version.
Hint: Almost all tables in Verpura can be searched using search box. Note that also part terms will be found in Verpura, it means that when you have the term “Mustermann” in a row in the table and it will be found through the search keyword “Muster”, “mann” or “usterma”.
By clicking on “Extended search”you can limit Verpura only to search specific columns of the table in the opening box. You only need to select the columns. And using the Control-Key(Ctrl), a multiple selection is possible.
 Figure: Extended search
You can also sort the table by clicking one of the column headers. By first click the column will be sorted in ascending and with a second click it will be in descending.
 Figure: Column headers
At the end of the table, you also have the option to export the contents of the table as CVS, Excel, XML or PDF.You can export the data from a table in Verpura and then import into other programs or edit it in Excel, etc.
 Figure: Export data
Offer PDFThere are different ways to print an offer:
The first icon A (“Print offer”) shows a PDF file of the offer.
The second icon B (“Print offer confirmation”) creates an offer confirmation for the customer, if he accepts the offer.
The third icon E (“Print pricing”) delivers you a list of the single costs of all products and services from the offer.
And with the fourth button K (“Print cost report”) you can print a non binding cost report for the offer.
When you don't need these special features you can also bind different offer layouts for this functions.
Figure: Offer as PDF file
Tip: To adjust your documents to your corporate layout you can upload your company logo in preferences. If you wish to further individualize your PDF-Documents please contact us. You can also adjust your documents yourself. For this go to the menu [START] - [SETTINGS] and click on the button in the block [Edit default patterns] to open the administration for document templates:
You will find templates for all PDF-files generated by Verpura here. You can access the Verpura standard and the currently used template. The letter can be adjusted and tested here. Verpura generates PDF documents by performing an XSL transformation. The design is defined by so-called Formatting Objects (FO). Further information you will find here. Roughly, Verpura generates the PDF document from a XML file with the content and a stylesheet that defines the appearance. There are also proprietary editors for these stylesheets, eg. www.altova.com/XMLSpy.
An XML-File with content might look like that:
Figure: XML-File with content (partly)
The corresponding XSL File might look like the following. It contains like xsl:value-of that insert the content from the xml file above in the layout:
Figure: the corresponding XSL-File for the layout
The complete PDF file is generated from these two files. You can adjust and test the XSL file and submit the new XSL file with a click on the button “adopt your pattern“. Be sure to save your last working version of the XSL file before adjusting it so that you can revert to a working version if you made some faulty changes. Create and edit an offerTo create an offer you have to click at [Projects] – [Offers] on the button “New Offer”. For editing you can click on the desired offer in the overview table.
In both cases the detail view of the offer is opened. On the left side you can modify the base data like customer, information, valid date and much more. Don't forget to click on the “Save” button when you make changes!
Hint: Generally offers are numbered continuous. If you use a different number system for your offers we can provide this for you!
Select customer/contact personYou can select either a customer or a contact person for your offers. Therefor choose a customer or a contact person and click on the corresponding Button “Auto-fill block with customer data” or “Auto-fill block with contact person data”.
Verpura will fill automatic the address block with the data of your selected customer or contact person, but you can also modify the address or salutation manually. Text blocksOn the left side of the detail view you have the possibility to select text blocks for the header and the footer of the offer. This will be displayed before and after the offer articles in the PDF file. Some default texts already exist, but you can also add or modify your own text blocks in the menu [Start] – [Properties] in the tab “Edit Textblock”.
Choose a predefined text block from the selectbox and click on the green button aside. This will affect, that the text is inserted at the end of the textfield. Now you can also modify the text if you want. Add products / services / partslistsOn the right side you have the possibility to add products / services / partslists to your offer. You just have to enter the amount and click on the booking button (shopping cart).
In addition you can also add free products and tasks with the buttons “Add custom product” and “Add custom task”. This can be used when you want to book a product or service that you normally don't have in your assortment, it's just a “one-time good”. You also keep your inventory clean by this method.
Besides you can append free textlines with our without a subtotal in your offers. This is helpful when you want to group your products or want to have a small comment between the different articles.
Here you can see an Overview of some articles in an offer:
With a click on “Edit free text” on the left side of each row, you can add a short text to each article. You can use this for special requests or as a description of a product. In this textarea you can write bold letters and make enumerations. Above all you can change the discount, single price and so on directly in each line. Be aware to save each change with the save icon on the right side!
On the right side of each line you can also change the position of the article or delete it.
On the end of the page there are the totals. Here you can define a special discount for the offer, as example to round the total sum to an integer. Also here, don't forget to save the changes!
Payment conditions
You have different possibilities to manage the payment conditions like the due date of invoices, discounts or allowances.
Properties
The most general payment conditions can be managed in the menu [General] – [Properties] in the fieldset „Payment modalities“:
Contacts
Additionally you can define special payment conditions for every contact. To do this open the slidebox „payment conditions“ in the menu [Contacts] – [Overview].
In this slidebox you can also define that this contact gets a discount on a specific product category. Verpura takes the payment conditions you set in the properties as default payment conditions for new contacts.
Offers
You have the possibility to define the discount on the total sum of an offer at the bottom of the page in the fieldset “sums”:
Additionally you can define a discount for every offer line:
Do not forget to save your changes with the save button on the right side.
Projects
You can adjust the payment conditions for every project. Click on a project in the menu [Projects] – [Overview] and enter them in the fieldset „Payment conditions“:
Verpura takes the payment conditions you set for the contact as default payment conditions for new projects. These paymentconditions apply to the total sum of all invoices created for this project.
Project bookings
Additionally you have the possibility to define a discount for every product or service booked on this project.
You have the possibility to enter a fixed discount or a discount in percent. Do not forget to save your changes with the save button on the right side.
Invoices
When you create an invoice (LINK) you have the possibility to ultimately adjust the payment conditions. You can do this in the fieldset “limitations”:
The default payment conditions are taken from the project settings when you create an invoice from a project, from the contact settings when you create an customer invoice and from the properties when you create an invoice for a cashsale. Generate project or invoice from an offerIn the top of the offer detail view you can see buttons to generate a project or an invoice from an offer.
Therefor click on the relevant button and select the articles you want to adopt to a new project or an new invoice. The next step is to fill in the basic data. After saving this you have finished the creation of the project or accordingly the invoice.
StocksThe following diagram shows which modules of Verpura change the stock of products. In Verpura the stock of each storehouse is handled separately. As the stock of each product and storehouse is counted, the storehouse is the center of the diagram. If your company does not have different storehouses you can work with one central storehouse.
If you cancel a project-invoice the products are returned to the storehouse. Offer archiveOffers with the status “finished”, “invalid/out of date”, “replaced by alternative offer” or “rejected by customer” are moved to the offer archive. You can see all archived offers with a click on the button “Offer Archive”. If it is necessary you can also change the status from already archived offers to “in progress” or something else.
The structure of the offer archive is equal to the normal offer overview. Offer ReportThe offer report provides you a list with all open an all finished offers, on the one hand for the actual logged in user and on the other hand for all users of your Verpura account. If you only want to see the offers that you created, we can change it for you with the right management in Verpura.
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Figure: Edit offer
