PSA – Complete Guide
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Recently I’ve been creating a series of blog posts that describe the features of Project Service Automation (PSA) for Microsoft’s Dynamics 365. In this post, I will list all of my posts, eventually creating a complete guide to PSA. (So please check back as I will continue to add to this collection!)
Introduction
Item | Details |
PSA Overview | An overview of PSA. |
The Sales Cycle | An overview of the sales cycle for PSA, including the importance of opportunities and quotes. |
Sales Cycle Detail
Item | Details |
Opportunities | In this post, I explain the role of the opportunity entity in a PSA project and also how it relates to cost and sales price lists. |
Quotes (High Level Estimates) | A description of how quotes are created from opportunities. And also, how quote lines are used to enter the customer budget and then how details can be associated to build a high-level estimate. |
Quotes (Estimates Projects) | How to create a project to build a detailed estimate. |
Project Contract | A description of how we create a project contract from a quotation and progress the draft contract to a confirmed contract. |
Cost Price Lists | An explanation of cost price lists in PSA. (Including organizational units.) |
Sales Price Lists | An explanation of sales price lists in PSA. |
Quantity Factors | Quantity factors can be used in the product catalog to define properties that impact the total quantity. |
Resource Management
Item | Details |
Resource Management | How to find and book resources for a project. |
Centralised Resource Management | How to utilise resource management in a centralised scenario when the Project Manager will need to request resources from a Resource Manager. |
Team Concepts | An overview of the concepts behind project teams. |
Generate Project Teams | How to automatically get PSA to show how many resources and of what roles are needed to deliver the project. |
Resource Utilization | How to set targets and report on resource utilization. |
Project Finder | A description of how resources can use the project finder app to search for and apply for work. |
Project Management
Item | Details |
MS Project and PSA | Details on how MSProject integrations with Project Service Automation. |
Timesheets | How to enter timesheets and approve to update project actuals. |
Filed under: Project Service Automation (PSA) Tagged: Dynamics 365, Project Service Automation

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