The Layer has a host of utilities which allows you to customise your instance to your organisation's needs, such as:
Settings Area ๐ป A comprehensive configuration area, as detailed below.
Data Manager ๐ฐ A powerful data management UI to import/export your data.
Custom Fields ๐ Create and manage fields against many system types.
Scriptable Functions ๐งต A middleware platform which allows developers to customise Layer functionality with code, unlocking unlimited potential for extending the system.
Integrations ๐ฑโ๐ Core integrations (such as Office 365, Sage) and custom integrations, via Scriptable Functions
Settings Area
Customisation points with our settings area are outlined below:
Affiliates | Create and manage third party relationships including business partner, referrals and more. |
Application Management | Create and manage API applications |
Appointment Types | Manage the types of appointments which can be booked by users and define whether the appointment type is included in statistics. These are used when creating appointments and opportunities. |
Approval Manager | Configure approvals for system objects |
Areas | Define custom areas which can be applied to leads in order to create and view stacks filtered by geographical area. |
Aside Widget Groups | Create groups of aside widgets to assign to new or existing users. |
Audit Trail | View an exportable history of all system activity, filterable by date, username, action type, record name and performed action. |
Billing Platforms | Manage billing platforms for cross-system change management |
Business Units | Business units which represent departments within your business. After creation, business units can be mapped to company functions within the Company profile. |
Cancellation Reasons | Configure the common reasons that customers cancel. |
Case Breach Reasons | Specify pre-defined reasons for case SLA breaches |
Case Categories | Create and define SLA-enabled case categories for your service team. |
Case On Hold Statuses | Specify on hold statuses which are exempt from case SLA calculations |
Case Status | Configure case sub status items. |
Check Types | View and configure order check types, such as credit & security checks |
Company Setup | The configuration hub of your organisation, incorporating general options, quotation & sales order settings, finance, mail, messaging, logo management, web lead and self-service integrations. |
Contact Custom Fields | Specify which custom created fields are shown in Contact records. Select included to show, priority to promote to the home screen. |
Contact Types | Manage Contact Types for Customer and Lead Contacts. |
Custom Field Groups | Custom field groups allow you to split up your custom fields for better organisation of data. |
Custom Fields | Custom fields can be created and groups using these categories and can include free text, drop down lists or check box lists. Custom fields can then be assigned to lead and customer records and selected fields can be promoted to display on the home screen. Custom fields can be filtered in lead and customer stacks. |
Custom Report Access Groups | Facilitates the definition of custom field access groups, providing granular access to custom reports within an instance. |
Customer Custom Fields | Specify which custom created fields are shows in customer records. Select included to show, priority to promote to the home screen. |
Customer Management | View & modify customer data (legacy) |
Dashboard Widget Groups | Create groups of dashboard widgets to assign to new or existing users. |
Data Schemas | Create file schemas for mapping to applications. |
Derivatives | Manage derivatives |
Expiring Contract Suppliers | Manage custom suppliers for expiring contracts. |
Expiry Custom Fields | Manage the custom fields for expiries. |
Forecast Categories | Set up forecast categories |
Forms | Build forms to capture key data during calls, as part of an on-boarding process or marketing activity. |
GDPR Landing Templates | Create custom lead and customer GDPR landing templates |
Industries | Manage industry classifications which can be used on lead and customer records. These can be filtered by creating custom work stacks. |
Intermediaries | Manage intermediaries in your supply chain. |
Inventory | Store and manage inventory |
Job Titles | Manage job titles which can be assigned to contacts. |
Lead Custom Fields | Specify which custom created fields are shows in lead records. Select included to show, priority to promote to the home screen. |
Lead Management | View & modify lead data (legacy) |
Lead Source | Manage custom lead sources for your company in order to establish the source of sales throughout the customer journey |
Lead Status | Configure lead sub status items |
Leasing Providers | Manage leasing providers |
Login History | View an exportable list of successful and failed logins, including source (web, API) and IP address for auditing and security purposes. |
Mail Agents | Configure SMTP or Microsoftยฎ Exchange agents to route mail from the accounts you already use. Mail agents can also be used to synchronise calendars. |
Mail Queue | A filterable list of all mail routed through mail agents for your company. Re-send and view the status of messages as well as viewing a history of all mail items across your company. |
Mail Templates | Create and store company wide email templates and optionally include hosted attachments. |
Mail Templates - Case Statuses | Create email templates which can be automatically or manually sent to customers during the case lifecycle. |
Mail Templates - Company | Map email templates to system generated emails |
Maintenance Plan Types | Ability to create Maintenance Plan Types |
Nominal Codes | Manage a list of sales and purchase nominal codes for exporting data to accounts packages such as Sage and Zero |
Notification Scheme Email Templates | Create email templates which will be used as part of the notification scheme process. |
Opportunity Classifications | Set up opportunity classifications to help you explicitly set the type of opportunity |
Opportunity Custom Fields | Specify which custom created fields are shown in Opportunity records. Select included to show, priority to promote to the home screen. |
Opportunity Loss Reasons | Set up opportunity loss reasons |
Order Profit Log | Showing all audit trail of sales order from profitability changes. |
Output Templates | Create templates for quotations and define pages, margin settings, styles, backgrounds. A test utility helps to trial new layouts. |
Page Snippets | View and manage page snippets for various types. |
Payment Methods | Ability to create Payment Methods to manage payment related information |
Payment Terms | Ability to modify Payment Terms to manage term related information |
Phone Call Outcomes | Phone Call Outcomes |
Product Bundles | Store and manage product bundles, in order to associate these with specific products or services within inventory. |
Product Categories | Store and manage product categories and define whether these should appear within the quotation builder. |
Product Classification | Store and manage product classifications |
Product Groups | Manage product groups, product group templates and user product group template mappings |
Product Manufacturers | Store and manage product manufacturers and define whether products should appear within the quotation builder. |
Product Opportunity Types | Manage the types of high level opportunities which can be created by the sales team e.g. Mobile, Fixed-Line, Broadband |
Product Suppliers | Store and manage product suppliers and define whether these should appear within the quotation builder. |
Product Text Links | Create regular expression links between your product sets. For advanced users only. |
Proof Groups | Create and manage proof groups by supplier and set requested documents by group. |
Purchase Order Statuses | Add and remove custom purchase order statuses for your company |
Quotation Authorisation Email Templates | Create email templates which can be sent to user during a quotation authorisation workflow. |
Rate Groups | Store company rate groups to enable the creation of comparisons for quotations. |
Role Groups | Creating role groups enables you to apply the same settings for new users performing a particular role quickly and easily. These can be applied within the "Roles" tab in the user profile for the selected user. |
Sage/Intacct | Manage Sage Platform integration. |
Sales Order Status Email Templates | Create email templates which can be automatically or manually sent to customers during the sales lifecycle. |
Sales Order Statuses | Add and remove custom sales order statuses for your company |
Sales Order Templates | Ability to create customisable, pre-filled Excel documents from sales order data. |
Scriptable Functions | Manage scriptable functions |
Shared Files (Locating...) | Upload public & private files for use throughout the application |
Shipping Methods | Specify delivery methods for order shipments |
Shortcuts | Ability to create lists of shortcuts, essentially URLs, which can be exposed in the UI to quotations, cases, opportunities, sales orders, customers and leads.. |
SMS Queue | A filterable list of all mail routed through mail agents for your company. Re-send and view the status of messages as well as viewing a history of all SMS items across your company. |
SMS Templates | Create and store company wide SMS templates for routing from customer and lead records. |
SQL Server API | Extension for SQL Server 2016+ |
Styles | Create custom parameterised content pages for inclusion in output templates. |
Sub Companies | Create and manage sub-companies. These can be used to offer selectable company profiles to users which offer default templates for invoices and purchase orders. |
Tags | Manage tags used to categorise and organise knowledgebase articles. |
Teams | View and configure groups of users for use throughout the system |
Token Management | Ability to view all active tokens and revoke them |
User Appointment Targets | Specify user targets for appointments booked by month and over time. These figures are reflected in many of the presales widgets available on the dashboard. |
Users | Comprehensive user management including the ability to specify roles, system settings, departments, contact preferences, signatures, telephony integration settings and widgets. |
Value Added Services | Manage the value added services able to be added to quotation templates |
Warehouses | Create virtual or physical warehouses. |
Whitelist | Restrict access to all of part of your Layer account by IP address. |
Widgets | View all available widgets and create duplicates where supported |
Workflow | Create and manage workflows for many system types, giving the ability to extend functionality to perform a variety of custom tasks and actions. |
Workflow Runs | Showing all workflow items which have executed from rules created in the workflow manager. |