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Smarter Self-Service: Updating Your Data in IdeaRoom

Learn today’s self-service features and get a sneak peek at tomorrow’s advanced editing.

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TL;DR

Learn how to manage and optimize your IdeaRoom configurator using the Sites menu in SalesView — customizing sales settings, branding, and customer communications to drive more leads and close deals faster. You’ll also explore Product Catalogs (View-Only and Editable), including how pricing, components, finishes, structural elements, and product rules work together—plus how SalesView Admins can make pricing updates directly, with view-only access available to all clients and limited editable access requiring training.

Intended Audience

Subscribed suppliers, subscribed dealers, and SalesView Admins.

Webinar Overview

Join us for a walkthrough of the data management tools already available in IdeaRoom today — from updating base prices to components to site branding directly in SalesView. We’ll also give a sneak preview of what’s next with advanced editing capabilities, so you can see where the platform is headed.

Key Takeaways/What You’ll Learn

  • Sites menu in SalesView: How the configurator site looks & behaves to generate leads and close deals.

  • Product Catalogs (View-Only and Editable): Comprehensive attributes, rules, and prices that fully describe the products available through IdeaRoom configurators.

Detailed Content Covered

  • Sites in SalesView:

    • Sales Operations: Customize how you market & sell your products (For example: banners for sales or pricing visibility for your site).

    • Appearance & Behavior: Configure your IdeaRoom site to align with your company branding.

    • Communications: Refine how and what you communicate to your customers about their design, quotes, and orders.

  • Product Catalogs:

    • Sales Operations: Apply pricing adjustments to the pricing data in your product catalog (for example: quick pricing adjustments like sales or temporary price increases).

    • Prices: Anyone with Admin SalesView permissions can adjust prices directly in the product catalog.

    • All of your data at your fingertips: View-Only or edit your entire product catalog which includes things like:

      • Structural Elements: What the building is.

      • Components: What gets added to the building.

      • Finishes: What the building and components look like.

      • Pricing: What the building and options cost.

      • Rules:

        • Available When (example: this door is available when a particular siding is selected).

        • Relationships (example: match door trim to the corner trim).

        • Default Designs (example: show an enclosed center section with storage and two open leans).

      • Text and Labels.

    • View-Only Product Catalogs are available to all IdeaRoom clients (request access from our Support team).

    • Editable Product Catalogs are very limited for the moment and require training.

Linked Resources

  • Webinar Recording - Link

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