Category: Sales Cloud

How I cleared Sales Cloud Consultant Certification

Happy Wednesday!! I am happy to announce that I have cleared my Sales Cloud Consultant certification exam last week and that is my 11th Salesforce certification. In this post, I am going share my study notes hoping that it will help others.Before going into more details, let’s quickly understand what this certification is all about. Here is what we have from the Salesforce Exam Guide -With that quickly review of the exam outline -My two highly recommended study guidesTrailheadThe first thing that you need to complete is this Trailhead trail. This is must as it covers everything is a very structured way. Below is the link of the Trailhead trail”Prepare for Your Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant Credential”Focus On ForceI highly recommend Focus On Force’s Sales Cloud Consultant Study Guide. They explained all the important concepts in a very easy way with lots of visuals. Visual representation always seems very helpful to me to understand the concept. You can go for their Sales Cloud Consultant Certification Practice Exams as well. The practice exams helps me to understand the sections where I need to put more focus while studying.My study notesSales ProcessRead it from here Common Sales Productivity featuresSalesforce from Microsoft or Google ApplicationsEmail Templates with Merge FieldsSalesforce AppDashboardNewsIncludes articles from last 30 days.Available on Business accounts, contacts, leads, and in the home page.Articles come from reputable english-language news sources.Lightning DialerEinstein Activity CaptureHigh Velocity Sales (https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/high-velocity-sales-for-sales-reps)Sales Cloud Add-ons...

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Product Schedule in Salesforce

In Sales Cloud, when companies are dealing with Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities and Products, one thing is very obvious who the company will get the money back from the Contacts for the Products sold to them. Are the contact/account going to pay all together in one shot or are they going to pay over the period of times(Equal Installments)? Salesforce has the answer to these questions. In Salesforce you can configure how your customer will pay you the money. Based on that configuration, you can run your business reports to track your sales matrices. The way you can configure this in Salesforce is known as Product Schedule. Product Schedule are the payment or delivery cycles for the products which will be either paid over time or delivered over time. In Salesforce we have three different types of schedules. Quantity Schedule: Choose this schedule when you want your products to be delivered over the period of time. Example – Consider your customer bought subscription of one magazine from you for the next 2 years. Now you need to courier the monthly subscription to your customer every month. So in this scenario, you will go for Quantity Schedule.Revenue Schedule: Choose this schedule when you want your customer to be billed over the period of time. Example – Consider you are selling House Insurance to your customer. The total cost is USD 1200 for one year....

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Relationship between Product, Price Book and PricebookEntry

In my previous post, I have explained the basic concepts about Products and PriceBooks. You can read the post here – Products and Price Books in Salesforce.Now in this post, I am going to explain the relationship between Product, Price Book and PricebookEntry. So let’s start with few basics.Basic:Products are represented by Standard Object – Product2.PriceBooks are represented by Standard Object – Pricebook2Each Pricebook can have zero or more entries. Each of these entries are stored inside the Standard Object – PricebookEntry. Each entry in PricebookEntry defines the cost of the products in a particular currency.These three objects – Product2, Pricebook2 and PricebookEntry will only be available if Product is enabled in the organization.Data Model:PricebookEntry is the junction object between Product and Price Book.OpportunityLineItem is the junction object between Opportunity and PricebookEntry.Below is the flow diagram depicting the process to load Products and setup PriceBook through API.I hope this post will help you to understand the relationships between these objects. Please provide your feedback....

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Products and Price Books in Salesforce

Define your Product:A Product is a service or item that the company sells to the customers. Once you have added the Products, you can set the price of the product per unit based on your business. In Salesforce, Product is a Standard object having standard fields and tabs. You can add your custom fields to customize Product object as per your business requirement. Products can be added to the Opportunity allowing you to have an correct inventory and also make your forecasting accurate.What is Price Book:The Price Book will provide the list of products and their prices per unit. You can create multiple price books to maintain different prices for the same product based on your business needs. Salesforce will always provide your a Standard Price Book. The moment you add a Product into Salesforce and set the price of the Product, that Product will go into Standard Price Book. But you can create Custom Price Book as well.Use case of Custom Price Book:Let’s say, the company “Universal Company” is selling the product – “Desktop Mouse” globally. The company is running it’s business from Canada. But company is selling products globally. Now when this company is selling “Desktop Mouse” within Canada, the price is USD 12.00, but when it is selling the same product in Europe, the price is USD 19.00 (due to extra shipping cost), similarly then the...

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