Zilliant CPQ Features

Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique processes. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.

Automates a process that requires a series of steps that typically require intervention by a several different users. Administrators can write rules to determine who and when a user needs to complete a step. Also includes notification of users when they need to take action.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

Allows administrators to easily develop and test changes to the CRM deployment. After changes are made admins can easily migrate the changes into the "live" or "production" environment.

Allows consuming, publishing and editing content from a central interface. Content management for CRM systems might include presentations, documents, images and other related electronic files.

Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.

Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.

CRM integration is flexible and easy to maintain

System provides API's that can be used to easily integrate to financial and other 3rd party systems

System support multiple currencies and languages to enable business in multiple countries

Provides ability for very large quotes, number of products, users, rules, required by enterprise level customers

Easily generate desired reports and dashboard on configurations, pricing, and quoting

ERP integration is flexible and easy to maintain

System provides well documented API's that can be used to integrate to any 3rd Party or internal system.

Product provides tools to customize web store front, business process, etc. to meet unique business needs.

Is easy to integrate to or has pre-packaged integrations to a wide variety of leading add on tools/software.

Enables customers to update their own user information, settings and preferences.

Provides standard and ad-hoc reporting ability to meet business requirements

Software provides appropriate tools and certifications to protect against fraud and malicious attacks

Provides ability to control editing rights by product category, geography etc.

Functionality that enables administrators to test changes to products, store design, work flows etc in a test environment and schedule the changes to be migrated to the production version of the site

Provides features that enable business transactions throughout the world. Typical features are multi-language, multi-currency and taxation

Enables store or site to provide the same user experience in all browsers and browser versions.

Software performs well and runs with minimal unscheduled downtime

Store and retrieve information associated to customer contacts and accounts. Track company-wide communication and information about contacts and accounts.

Manage partners by tracking channel partner leads and sales opportunities. Provide a partner portal to collaborate with channels on sales opportunities and to share product, pricing, quoting, ordering, and training information

Manage sales opportunities through their lifecycle from lead to order. Track stages, values, and probabilities of close. Manage sales pipelines by individual sales rep, team, region, and company-wide.

Manage and track tasks and activities. Assign due dates and integrate to calendars to manage daily schedules and priorities.

Assign and manage sales quotas and territories. Track progress against quotas. Change as needed.

Allows users to sync their Email, Calendar and Contact tools with their CRM system. Includes Microsoft Outlook and Google integration.

Enter product/part numbers and manage the prices associated with them. Typically functionality allows users to add products and prices to opportunities and quotes if these modules are provided within the same system.

Allows users to create a quote to be provided to a customer that contain at least products, prices and associated discounts. Order management allows users to process orders that contain products, prices and associated discounts.

Management of contracts made with customers. Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing on any changes or amendments that may arise during its implementation or execution.

Allows users to send email to contacts in bulk. Common features include: Built in Email templates, social media integration, Subscriber list management, sign up forms, success rate reports, AB testing and auto-responders.

Allows users to manage and track leads though a process. The lead process typically involves steps such as: 1. Lead Generation, 2. Customer Inquiry, Inquiry Capture, Lead Filtering, Lead Grading, Lead Distribution and Lead Qualification.

Enables analysis of effectiveness of an organizations various marketing activities

Tracks issues/help requests reported by customers through the resolution process.

Provides a convenient way for customers to get answers to inquiries, post service issues, place orders, view order histories, and gain access to other information contained in the knowledge base.

Information repository that provides a means for information to be collected, organized, shared, searched and utilized. Allows customers to get answers to common questions.

Enables analysis of customer support activities to optimize customer support professionals, processes and tools.

Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

To what extent are there partner applications readily available for integrating into this product? Partner applications typically provide complementary, best of breed functionality not offered natively in this product.

Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.

Enables reporting of all data contained within the system. Typically contains standard reports as well as the ability to create ad-hoc reports.

An easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance

Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.

Allows users to search, filter, sort and select items to be added to quote

Based on answering questions about customers the configurator automatically selects the best fit products

Rules ensure that users select only compatible options and that all required items are included

Pricing is displayed during configuration process so that users can quickly see how configuration changes impact the price

Images can be displayed of options to enable users to visualize product options as it is being configured

Ability to support multiple pricing models for one-time, recurring, and other items

Ability to manage discounts at quote and line level; ability manage discounts based on volume and customer agreements

Allows rules to be written in commercial process so that users don't make errors in pricing, terms, and other commercial considerations

Ensure that users automatically include the right terms based on items being quoted

Users can submit quotes, contracts, etc for approval and obtain appropriate approvals quickly

Allows users to renew existing contracts based on contracted pricing and existing assets already owned

Ability to easily group items on quotes; apply and manage discounts and pricing by group

Provides abilty for versions to expire, allows users to create new versions, revert to old versions and track changes from version to version

Generate professional proposals with desired branding, product descriptions, pricing, terms, and visuals in desired format (pdf, xls, word)

Enables users to seemlessly convert quotes to orders with appropriate validations, workflow, and integration

Ability to convert accepted quotes into contracts; set up of required assets and contracts

Easily build and maintain configurator; flexibility to easily embed all desired business logic

Can easily build and maintain pricing logic required by business

Easily build and maintain workflows, misc commercial fields, commercial rules

Ability to easily build, update, customize, and maintain quotes, contracts, and other document outputs

Supports users working on a mobile devide (phone and/or tablet)

Provides functionality for channel partners to configure, price, quote and buy products in a self service environment

End customer users can configure, price, and buy products in a self service environment online

Provides standard templates with an easy to use tool set to customize the templates to showcase the stores brand and optimize the users experience

Ability to display and manage photos, 3D views, videos etc for each product

Personalize the buyers experience by displaying the most relevant products to the consumer and increase conversions using past buyer behavior and merchant-driven rules. Tools may include such as cross-sell/up sell, promotions, recommendations, guided selling, etc

Contains features that allow administrators to set up promotions on site, provide time based discounts, and enter coupon codes.

Provide tools to help convert abandoned carts into sales. Saves items in shopping cart if a users does not complete the purchase. Allows users to continue order process in a future session. Emails users to remind them they have items in their cart.

Provides tools to drive traffic to pages via organic search

Ability to add/update products, product pricing, product information and other content included on eCommerce site.

Ability to all users select options to configure the product or select product options. For example, color, size, etc.

Provides rich user experience to find products on site through site wide search, faceted navigation, product filtering and sorting

Provides functionality specific to selling intangible products such as: Subscriptions, Trials, Perpetual Licencing, Downloads, Free Trials, etc.

Includes features that optimize user check out experience such as Shopping carts and Single Click Checkout, order summaries, receipts.

Functionality that allows users to select shipping options based on price and delivery time. May integrate to 3rd Party shipping/fulfillment companies.

Displays appropriate tax to user based on local laws. Contains functionality to process tax in back end systems. May integrate to 3rd Party tax solutions.

Supports required payment methods including credit card processing, purchase orders, paypal, etc. Contains appropriate fraud management functionality.

Contains tools that enable administrators to manage placed orders to ensure all customer orders are processed correctly and on time.

Functionality to allow users to process returns/refunds either via self service or contacting customer service.

Displays inventory levels of products in real time. Displays inventory by location if required.

Contains distributed order management functionality so that an order can be fulfilled from a warehouse, a store, a vendor drop ship or an in store pick up.

Provides seamless approach to the consumer experience through all available shopping channels (Mobile, Social, Web, Point of Sale, catalog). Some times referred to Omni-Channel.

Features that enable customers to easily to shop for products using a mobile device.

Provides features that enable customer services teams to interact with customers. Features may include chat and and phone support.

Includes features that that are valuable to B2B transactions. For example partner management, contract pricing, invoicing, product entitlement, contract management etc.

Define fields to pull in dynamic information.

Easily assemble custom fields and variables into reusable templates to automate the proposal creation process.

How well the platform supports images, audio, and video in proposals.

Create adaptive online documents for view via browser or mobile device.

Create attractive PDF versions of proposals.

Brand proposals and the application's portal with your company's logos and branding.

Easily search for and add elements to a proposal.

Automate workflows by routing documents to the correct individuals for adding content and approval.

Track who is looking at proposals and how often or for how long.

Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards on proposal volume and acceptance.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Program in-app and email notifications for approval milestones or actions.

Push and pull data from CRM to build proposals and update statuses with clients.

Couple accepting proposals and signing contracts together in one workflow.

Push and pull data from quote applications to build proposals.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.

Enables products to be viewed and configured in two-dimensions.

Enables products to be viewed, configured and interacted with in three-dimensions.

Generate a CAD diagram using the features selected in a product configuration.

Overlays a 3D representation of the product being configured onto a background captured live by the camera of a phone or tablet.

Places the product inside a computer-generated 3D scene where they can see a 360-degree of the product in its surroundings.

Allows sales representatives and customers to drag features from a menu onto the visualization of the product.

Visual configuration tools often integrate with other tools, most prominently CPQ solutions.

Create sales proposals based on the visual product configurations.

Mapping between the attributes and actions in the nonvisual configuration engine and the attributes of the visualization.

Ability to create custom quotes based on customer requirements.

Allows users to configure products and revise quotes accordingly.

Provide standard pricing options that can be customized by customer.

Deliver standard contract templates that can be modified by users.

Track contract changes made by all parties during negotiation.

Implement the final version of the contract, including SLAs.

Monitor invoices and payments per product, customer, or contract.

Perform revenue recognition to ensure that pricing or payment terms are accurate.

Ability to disconnect the front office from the back office of an e-commerce platform

Provide APIs that allow for interaction with RESTful web services

Capture and manage data from multiple sources and syncronize it with the front end and back end

Allows developers to customize the platform using multiple programming languages

Include prebuilt integrations with multiple systems such as ERP and CRM

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Provides the ability to generate images from a text prompt.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Generate personalized quotes and proposals that corresponds with each customer's tailored preferences and buying behavior

Analyzes data to suggest price adjustments instantly based on competitor pricing, demand, market prices, production costs, and other factors

Enhances guided selling by learning customer preferences and suggesting the most suitable products and services based on their individual needs

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives