Getting Started

Your log-in screen for OpenCRM looks like this If you have forgotten your User Name or Password, clicking on the green bar beneath the Login button will take you to this screen: Once you have entered your User Name or Email Address the window will...

As a NON UK customer, there are a few things that you will probably want to change. Some of these things you can do yourself, others will need the help of our support team. Time Zone You will need to change the time zone offset for each user recor...

There are two ways you can add new users to your system: 1. The first time you login to your system, you will be greeted with the Set up Wizard that will walk you through the process. 2. If you do not want to set up your users in this first stage ...

Company Information The first time an administrator signs into their OpenCRM, they will be guided through setting up those essential bits of their company information. If you need to edit this information at any time, see below for instructions on...

Every web browser stores a cache of pages you visit (e.g. HTML pages, images, scripts that run on these pages) to reduce bandwidth usage and server load. This is called the browser's cache. This is done to help speed up your access to commonly vie...

Within OpenCRM we have a feature that allows you to use RTF / ODT / DOCX documents (from Word or Open Office) as merge templates. Within OpenCRM traditionally users have had the option to create templates and merge with these templates, using the ...

There are a number of ways in which a data import can be unsuccessful. Here are some typical scenarios you may encounter and how you can resolve the problems. Fields are incorrectly mapped and cause a conflict  If this is the case, the whole impor...

We are often asked, "What does OpenCRM do?" The answer is that, because of the wide range of customisation options, OpenCRM does a lot of different things for a lot of different companies and users.  If you'd like a quick overview of our features,...

The "Complete" button is a very useful tool which enables you to progress a job to do such as a Call. Clicking on this button takes you to the Activity Edit screen. From here you can access a multitude of other modules and information without havi...

Custom views are a way of filtering data on the Home pages of all the entities. These are useful in two ways: 1. They allow you to add alternative columns in a view     e.g. instead of displaying Company Name, City & Phone etc. you might want to d...

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There are a number of resources that you can use to help get underway with your OpenCRM journey, however, as a first pass there are three documents that are worth taking a look at, these are listed below. New System Tips will walk you through the ...

Yes, this is managed through the My Account Setting, follow these steps; Select  My Account  on the dropdown menu beneath your Username in the top right corner Select Edit Scroll down to Interface Settings Select the  Default Module picklist an...

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There will be occasions when you need to send us files. This might be copies of document layouts or data you need our help importing. Our email services reject any emails with higher-risk file attachments, including any data attachments. This incl...