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Creating a Sales quotation from a template

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We have been creating sales quotations from a Word template.

Example: we maintain template for each system that the company sells.  There are a dozen systems.

The Word document has three pages.

   (1) First page has the Customer/Contact information and the  system information (narrative).

   (2) The second page has the System components. A system is a group of items that are together configured.  Each item has a list price and each customer has a discount that applied to each line item.  The Second page of Word imports the data from an Excel that contains the price list from each component.  There are approx 20 lines available for each system. Only approx. ten are selected by entering a Qty for each line for each line selected.  The prices used in the Page 2  Excel come from another Master Excel Price List. The unused rows are hidden in Excel. 

   (3) The third page has the Terms and conditions, Payment terms, Delivery estimate.

The benefit of this approach has been that the Sales coordinator only has to select the system, enter the quantities into the Excel.  The prices are calculations are imported via Index and VLooup formulas.  The use of the templates saves time by not having to type in the Item number one at a time.

What we would like to do is the same with NAV.   Can NAV use price templates for systems to avoid having to enter Item numbers.  Basically a system template would show the list of line items available for the selection by the Sales Coordinator.  Lines needed would be have quantities. Lines not needed would be deleted.  Price and discounts would come from NAV.

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    Jun Wang Profile Picture
    7,624 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    RE: Creating a Sales quotation from a template

    user can use copy document when creating a new sales order. then user can choose from the below options. This seems to be an under utilized feature, but could serve as a template in your situation. the prices could be managed using the standard price management feature in NAV as well

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  • Mike.p Profile Picture
    53 on at
    RE: Creating a Sales quotation from a template

    I think that the Sales Quote template approach can be done using the Copy Document command.

    I found the answer from Jim ONeil  (Jan 24, 2020) that gives part of the answer:

    correct that converting a Quote to an Order will do all lines in standard NAV. You can use Copy Document from a blank Sales Order, that would copy all the lines but leave the Quote intact so you can delete the lines you don't want and copy them to a different Sales Order at another time if needed.

    Alternatively you can look at Blanket Sales Orders. Create a blank one, use Copy Document to get a copy of the Sales Quote. Then you Make Order(s) from the Blanket Order but you specify the lines and even the quantities of each line that you want each time (by setting the appropriate qty in the Qty. to Ship column. If your Quote and therefore Blanket Order for one line is for a quantity of say 5 then NAV will only let you put a total of 5 on to Sales Orders so you could create an order for 3 then a second order for 2 but if you tried to make the second 3 also it would prevent you doing so unless you changed the overall quantity on that line to 6 first. Note your Sales Quote would remain in place because you copied it rather than converted it to a sales order, so you could create a second and subsequent Blanket Sales Order(s). That's either a good thing or bad thing depending on your business needs.

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    NAV_with_Narang Profile Picture
    2,238 Moderator on at
    RE: Creating a Sales quotation from a template

    Hi Mike - I understand what you're saying

    1) On a Sales Quote, if you select the customer number from the drop down, the customer details are auto-populated anyways, so you have a template-kindof system already there

    2) You can use the Sales Prices for this point, but if you're expecting that these 20 items should be pulled in when a customer is selected, I don't think so that's possible as a Standard Configuration

    3) These details already pulled in when you select the customer on 1, you can however change them on the quote level

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