A wealth of features under the hood


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.

Core Platform Features

AI-Powered Ask Notes

Use AI to query or summarise notes

EECC Support

Support for EECC including pre-contract summaries and templates

Global Search

Search for records by any system type, including company & contact names, asset references (IMEI, serial), post code and account number.

Modern User Interface

Our fluid user interface fits to your browser window so you don't have to squeeze all that data into a fixed width frame.

Single Sign On

Use a single set of credentials to log on to all Layer platforms, and securely generate API keys assocaited with these.

Two Factor Authentication

Optionally set two-factor authentication to ensure your user logins are valid.

Work Stacks

Commonly used records can be loaded into real-time, customisable stacks for easy browsing in grids or detail.

Live Support

Chat to our service teams within the platform for quicker resolutions to team issues.

Scriptable Functions

Our middleware platform, which allows developers to customise Layer functionality with code, unlocking unlimited potential for extending the system.

Presales Features

Team Resource Planner

Very quickly see the availability and activity of you teams and individual including all appointments, appointment outcomes and phones call tasks.

Telephone Preference List (TPS)

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.

Scheduled Call Backs

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.

Opportunity Management

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 to Customer Conversion

Lead records automictically become customer records upon esign, saving time. All lead based notes and tasks will also visible against the customer record.

Lead Reassignment

Manager can permanently or temporarily assign lead ownership and access to another member of the team.

Lead Delegation

Instantly delegate permanent or temporary access of a lead to another member of your team. Great for holiday cover or absences.

Appointment Candidates

Real-time suggestions of who's in the area for appointment bookings.

Appointment Booking

The Layer provides agents with the facility to view availability and book appointments for sales representatives & integrate with Outlook or Office 365.

Sales Features

Sales Profit Accuracy

Choose the profit sources that you use to report on depending on the stage in the sales process. This can be a manual value where there no quote, the actual quote profit or the true final sales order value.

Sales Orders

The sales team can see how their orders are progressing and if there is a blocker i.e. stuck at credit check stage or stock issues and keep the customers updated.

Real-time Performance

Sales people and their managers can see their performance in real time. Knowing which stage a sale is at I.e. verbal agreement or connected and processed is important. Our performance widgets keep sales people motivated by providing them with key stats on their performance including turnover/ profit/ conversion.

Quotation Tool with E-Sign

Create and send beautiful electronically signable PDF based quotes and version control and storage using our industry specific CPQ tool to speed up and automate sales process.

Fast Quote Creation

Advanced searching of products and services price books, products and services bundle creation, approval manager, Hardware funds and subsidies, Quote Parameters for customer, sales person and quote expiry date.

Quick Sales Process

Signed quotes for hardware only deals go straight to an order and picked up by the processing team.

Qualified Opportunities

Opportunities at 30% probability are automatically marked as qualified enabling easy pipeline management and business reporting.

Pipeline Management

Our pipeline update facility means updating your pipeline in under 60 seconds. Making it easy for sales people means they're happy to do and the business has the most accurate forecast of performance.

Opportunity Management

Update all opportunity specific tasks, notes, probability stages, quotes and close by dates in one easy to use screen.

Service Features

AI-Powered Case Categorisations

Use AI to automatically categorise cases

AI-Powered Suggested Replies (via Mark As Answer & KB)

Use AI to recommend responses based on past interactions, knowledgebase articles or similar cases.

Custom Tables

Create custom tables to store unique data at customer and case level.

Password Management

Securely store customer credentials at customer level and access them directly from the case. You can even auto-link TeamViewer for remote access – no more digging around for passwords.

Multiple Contacts on Cases

Collaborate better by adding multiple contacts to cases. Replies are tracked, and it even works with Mail Triage – perfect for involving suppliers, partners, and more.

Customer Portal

Clients can now track order progress, invoices, assets, and case updates in real time – all wrapped in a secure, access-controlled experience.

SLA Profiles

Get total control over your SLAs with the ability to assign them by customer, site, asset, or contact. Set custom rules and precedents to make sure the right SLA kicks in, every time.

Multiple Contacts on Cases

Allow multiple customer contacts to be linked to a single case with roles or labels.

Internal Notes with @Mentions

Notify colleagues inside internal case notes using @mentions. ---- Bring colleagues into conversations and collaborate with them using @mentions

Marketing Features

See Campaign Activity Against Lead or Customer

Sales can quickly see all campaigns received by that lead/customer to help spark up a conversation and reason to call.

Multi-Stage Campaigns

Schedule multiple emails and follow up tasks, using trigger dates based on when you want that event to happen.

HTML email campaigns and templates

Simple easy to use interface to quickly build marketing campaigns.

Bespoke targeted campaign data

Build targeted lead and customer data lists around specifics such as contract expiries and renewal dates, old products and services.

Track campaigns and monitor success

Built in tools for monitoring and reporting on campaign opens, links clicked on and email forwards.

Trigger Service Updates from Work Stacks

Build staged campaigns to keep inform customers and keep them updated of any service outages and issues.

Manage campaign element costs

Log and track the costs of each element of a campaign so you know what resources to invest to get the maximum ROI.

Measure ROI on your marketing campaigns

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.

Stay GDPR compliant

Manage contact preferences at the point of record creation and in life and from within the individual elements of your marketing campaigns.

Marketing Opportunity Tracking

Track the ROI and effectiveness of your marketing campaigns

Finance Features

Reporting Features

Report Powered Widgets

Interactive dashboards with drilldown, filters, and auto-refresh updates.

Reporting

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.

Daily Updates

Receive daily digest email for sales and service and the ability to create scheduled emails of your favourite work stacks.

Forecasting Reporting

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.

Stock & Ordering Features

Stock Allocation Hold

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.

Stock Management

Integrated stock module with stock take and value, multiple warehouse management for better control.

Serial Numbers on Invoices

The Layer invoices can be set up to show serial numbers on them which cannot be done in SF and causes issues for finance

Serial & IMEI Search

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.

Cases in Sales Orders

Dedicated tabs in the sales orders for cases and sales order documents and templates e.g. LOA, survey documents and forms

Sales Order Approval Workflow

Improved process for authorising and rejecting sales orders and for sales to manage their rejected orders.

Part Process & Bill Orders

In The Layer you can process and convert parts of orders meaning you can then bill on that basis

PAC Code management

Log and managed PAC codes and PAC Expiry dates in data capture which is then stored against the asset on order conversion.

Multiple Shipping Addresses

The ability to manage and distribute stock in bulk and to multiple addresses.

View some of our recent customer case studies