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

Microsoft Exchange Integration

Sync calendar appointments with your sales team via our Exchange sync utility. No add-ons required!

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

Broadband Checker

Giacom and Gamma specific broadband checkers that logs the results against the parent record

Opportunity Mail Sweep

Ability to automatically attach email replies to originating opportunity.

Expiry Dates on Funds

Ability to set expiry date on funds

Quotation Templates / Branding Support

Create and manage branded quote templates per customer, vertical, or partner.

Dynamic Values

Dynamic values are a tool for customising calculations within your quotations and sales orders. By using dynamic values, you can tailor calculations or modify existing ones to align more closely with your specific requirements, and show these in supported areas in the UI.

Product specific PDFs and hyperlinks in quotes

Add custom hyperlinks and or PDF attachments for specific products and services to your quotes. Ideal if you want to share detailed product specifications with a customer but don’t want to clutter up your quote.

Delegated access to lead and customer records

Quickly provide colleagues with time restricted access to your lead and customer records. These records will then be visible and accessible for that period of time by both people. Ideal for holiday cover or escalations.

Quote Duplication

Quickly recreate multiple versions of a quote so that you can give the customer various options across the suppliers you can provide.

Packages

Create packages from the different products and services you provide and choose what items you want to  round up the costs for and then show on the quote and invoice.

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.

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