With so many features available, we've categorised these by module to let you explore the benefits that our platform can have in your business. There's a lot here, so if you're interested in looking at this at a higher level, head over to our What We Do page, or click on the link below.
Set up multiple sub companies, allowing the use of different POs, Invoices and credit notes through out the sales and onboarding journey.
Attach emails to CRM records via our Outlook Add-In for Windows. Log in with your Layer ID to add notes to records directly within Outlook.
You can quickly and easily bring across your existing data from your current platforms.
Hundreds of customisable settings and options to configure.
Manage your phone calls, e-mails, text messages, appointments and reminders in once place.
No limits or charge for data storage in The Layer.
Send out alerts prior to appointments or to chase SLAs- it's your call.
See instant reporting results on your home screen and drill down for more details.
Have any widget sent to you at any time for your user account via our Mail Bots. Set and forget.
Very quickly see the availability and activity of you teams and individual including all appointments, appointment outcomes and phones call tasks.
Comply with regulations by subscribing to our integrated TPS service to prevent any prospects with these telephone numbers from being called. You can override the TPS list when you have permission to call the lead.
Keep engaged with prospects and customers by scheduling sales, order processing and service related call backs, which appear in users' work stacks as they fall due.
Create sales opportunities from within commonly used tasks. Update all opportunity specific tasks, notes, probability stages, quotes and close by dates in one easy to use screen.
Lead records automictically become customer records upon esign, saving time. All lead based notes and tasks will also visible against the customer record.
Manager can permanently or temporarily assign lead ownership and access to another member of the team.
Instantly delegate permanent or temporary access of a lead to another member of your team. Great for holiday cover or absences.
Real-time suggestions of who's in the area for appointment bookings.
The Layer provides agents with the facility to view availability and book appointments for sales representatives & integrate with Outlook or Office 365.
Instant feedback for management and the lead gen team on the quality of appointments and follow up tasks, allowing for accurate measurement on ROI of purchased data and marketing activity.
Dedicated widgets and work stacks for sales teams and management to keep track of any overdue appointment feedback to bring valuable data captured in the field back into the business.
Improved process and work flow for requesting, storing and managing additional funding and storing associated documents' with all funding requests report to chase up suppliers.
A view of the account balances against a customer account that can be hidden from select users - balances include e.g. HWF, subsidies, buy out, invoice and general.
Form results can be pushed to custom fields' for real time viewing and into a PDF which can be emailed to a notification group such as fact find sheets, site surveys etc.
The ability to receive notifications from customers who reply to closed cases so you can then reopen the case or create a new case.
Fully branded portal where selected customer contacts can log cases, view history, add notes, upload and browse files, provide feedback and access your knowledge base.
Replies to case emails from the customer are automatically added into the case notes with the ability to sweep for external contacts.
In The Layer you can create additional contacts that may not already be a contact on the fly directly from the email editor and case creation windows.
Ability to log both marketing and customer service contact preferences at contact level for GDPR compliance which will limit emails being sent to opted out contacts.
In The Layer you can create and define check list steps by case subcategory around your or supplier based processes for resolving customer service issues.
View full audit logs of the changes in case status, owner and on hold times, which are all stored against the case.
Customer integrated case management facilities.
You can create custom case breach reasons and then record them against an over due case and then report on them.
Sales can quickly see all campaigns received by that lead/customer to help spark up a conversation and reason to call.
Schedule multiple emails and follow up tasks, using trigger dates based on when you want that event to happen.
Simple easy to use interface to quickly build marketing campaigns.
Build targeted lead and customer data lists around specifics such as contract expiries and renewal dates, old products and services.
Built in tools for monitoring and reporting on campaign opens, links clicked on and email forwards.
Build staged campaigns to keep inform customers and keep them updated of any service outages and issues.
Log and track the costs of each element of a campaign so you know what resources to invest to get the maximum ROI.
Multiple Campaigns can be logged against an opportunity which is then visible in the sales reporting, giving you the ability to fully measure the success and ROI of you activity.
Manage contact preferences at the point of record creation and in life and from within the individual elements of your marketing campaigns.
Track the ROI and effectiveness of your marketing campaigns
Set up GoCardless mandates automatically during the quotation setup process
Export paid/settled invoices out of The Layer in a format that imports into Xero - manage invoices in The Layer
Abillity to disable/enable add-ins per sub-company
The Change Queue feature provides a way to quickly and easily set up tracking for changes to specific fields within asset records, where a direct API link doesn't exist.
Complete Abillity integrations, from customer and site creation to billing data transfer.
Easy access to and better visibility of all key financial details including quote and order stage finance reports, profit variance reports, PO's and invoices, account transactions with statement generator.
Save time and improve accuracy with integrated reconciliation of the Vodafone PPP with orders processed in The Layer and auto creation of query reports meaning quicker resolution and payback
Set up multiple sub companies, allowing the use of different POs, Invoices and credit notes through out the sales and onboarding journey.
Full integration with the finance platforms giving visibility of all account balances, credit limits, transactions and account statuses by sub company
Interactive dashboards with drilldown, filters, and auto-refresh updates.
Sales reporting data is driven from the sales orders which in turn comes directly from the price book items from within the quote. This means your financial and forecasting data is as accurate as it can be and doesn't rely on guesswork from sales.
Receive daily digest email for sales and service and the ability to create scheduled emails of your favourite work stacks.
Reduce the time taken to generate the reports for business intelligence and management reporting - bespoke forecasting report and data feed to generate your own reports.
Place individual items in stock on an allocation hold, excluding them from any allocation processes and the available stock. Ideal for any returns or fault stock and stock to be regraded.
Integrated stock module with stock take and value, multiple warehouse management for better control.
The Layer invoices can be set up to show serial numbers on them which cannot be done in SF and causes issues for finance
Ability to upload serial numbers and IMEI in bulk from the supplier via templates into stock session which is logged against the asset. Full serial and IMEI search to see related entities e.g. cases when booked in/out.
Dedicated tabs in the sales orders for cases and sales order documents and templates e.g. LOA, survey documents and forms
Improved process for authorising and rejecting sales orders and for sales to manage their rejected orders.
In The Layer you can process and convert parts of orders meaning you can then bill on that basis
Log and managed PAC codes and PAC Expiry dates in data capture which is then stored against the asset on order conversion.
The ability to manage and distribute stock in bulk and to multiple addresses.
