This section outlines how to install the sales app on your system, how to set up users and security roles, and how to manage the various settings and configuration data that drive the sales process. Guidance on how to enable dual-write integration and mobile offline synchronization is also provided.
Set up businesses, business facilities and business operations.
Set up device states, device types and device styles.
Set up branding hierarchy in terms of brands, classes, models, optional model generations, and last but not least model codes and variants.
Set up warranty types and warranties, including warranty terms and limits as applicable.
Annata 365 Sales extends the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales app with advanced automotive and equipment industry capabilities. The automotive and equipment sales process still relies on various core settings to be configured, such as:
Annata 365 for Sales comes with an interactive map experience. This way users, who interact with data in the app (e.g. book a test drive), can perform the task of selecting a location of a business operation in an alternative way than through the use of traditional input fields in Dynamics 365. That is by selecting it from a map.
To enable this feature in Annata 365 for Sales you must provide a Bing Maps key. See Getting a Bings Maps Key on Microsoft Docs for more information. Subsequently, follow the below procedure to add the Bings Maps Key to Annata 365 for Sales:
Functional integration of the Annata 365 Sales app into the Annata 365 Finance and Operations solution is not officially released yet (end of 2020). However, dual-write entity map templates for sales and inspections related information are in development and can be enabled as outlined below:
Please refer to Dual-write integration documentation in our Technical Reference section for more information on this topic.
Because Annata 365 mobile apps are model-driven apps built on the Dataverse platform, they can be enabled for mobile offline synchronization. For example, trade-in and PDI inspections can be carried out in the Annata 365 Mobile Inspections app. Please refer to Annata 365 Inspections offline profile for more details on how to set that up.