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Salesforce Revenue Cloud

UFOs, Kanban, and Creating a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Bundle in Salesforce CPQ 2

John Garvens · January 26, 2024 ·

Contents

  • 00:00 Do UFOs exist?
  • 01:00 Running Salesforce Revenue Cloud Office Hours topics as a project via Kanban
  • 03:25 An overview of the Garvens Consulting project template
  • 09:50 A review of the Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich bundle
  • 12:25 The key fields on product records that drive Salesforce CPQ behavior
  • 21:55 Enabling the “Clone with Related” function on the Product object
  • 25:32 Creating ingredient products for the Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich bundle
  • 28:22 A review of products created for the Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich bundle
  • 32:00 An overview of CPQ-related lists on the Product object
  • 33:35 Creating test data for demonstrations of Salesforce CPQ features and functions
  • 37:06 Assigning the CPQ Opportunity Layout to profiles
  • 38:15 Creating a new quote in Salesforce CPQ
  • 39:15 Why you should never touch the Type picklist field on the Quote object
  • 42:13 Selecting a price book for your new quote and troubleshooting product availability
  • 45:35 Identifying a fake “standard price book”
  • 47:30 What to do when you choose the wrong price book or currency on the opportunity and quote
  • 51:06 Why you should create an action to create new quotes
  • 52:27 Deactivating irrelevant products in Salesforce CPQ

Resources

  • Trello for Project Management

Salesforce for Veterans and Milspouses, Creating a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Bundle in CPQ 1

John Garvens · January 12, 2024 ·

Contents

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 10:28 Vetforce, Salesforce Military & Veterati
  • 11:17 Building a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in Salesforce CPQ
  • 12:25 Use Case: PB&J Enterprises
  • 18:55 Whiteboarding the architecture of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
  • 19:30 How many products are in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
  • 25:24 How can we reduce the number of products needed to use Salesforce CPQ?
  • 26:54 How will we architect our peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
  • 29:24 What questions are we answering with product configuration?
  • 31:27 Should this be a product or an attribute? Or both?
  • 35:14 Why are there so many fields in Salesforce CPQ?
  • 36:41 Why do CPQ implementation projects take so long?
  • 37:41 Why did you architect the peanut butter and jelly sandwich this way?
  • 39:04 The two approaches to product configuration, plus a configuration quadrant
  • 41:38 As many as needed, as few as possible
  • 43:01 How many peanut butter and jelly sandwich bundles do we need to create?
  • 45:38 The customer is not always right, neither am I
  • 47:16 Creating the Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich bundle
  • 48:34 Can I sell this product in Salesforce CPQ?
  • 50:36 Assigning the CPQ Product Layout page layout to all profiles
  • 53:28 How do you manage custom fields on page layouts?
  • 55:05 How to identify managed metadata and why it matters when deploying Salesforce CPQ
  • 56:18 Document the living hell out of everything

Create Salesforce Revenue Cloud Playgrounds for Exam Preparation and Experimentation

John Garvens · January 5, 2024 ·

Contents

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 01:52 Two ways to create playgrounds for Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce Billing
  • 03:11 Is there a limit to how many playgrounds or Developer Edition orgs I can create?
  • 05:16 Installing Salesforce CPQ in a Developer Edition org
  • 08:13 Creating a Trailhead Playground with Salesforce CPQ
  • 11:03 A brief history of installing Salesforce CPQ
  • 13:41 Comparing Salesforce CPQ and Service Cloud for Salesforce CPQ
  • 16:10 Why is Salesforce CPQ not already installed in a Developer Edition org?
  • 17:34 How is the CPQ playground on Trailhead different from a Developer Edition org?
  • 20:12 Viewing installed packages in your Salesforce org
  • 21:15 Prerequisites for installing Salesforce CPQ
  • 23:00 Installing Salesforce CPQ for System Administrator profiles only
  • 32:52 Enabling multiple currencies in your Salesforce org
  • 34:45 A BIG SCARING WARNING for enabling multiple currencies in your Salesforce org
  • 35:38 What happens when you enable multiple currencies?
  • 36:52 Enabling Advanced Currency Management in your Salesforce org
  • 37:32 Enabling multiple currencies for USD and CAD
  • 38:38 Using multiple currencies when Advanced Currency Management is DISABLED
  • 42:02 An introduction to Salesforce CPQ managed package settings

Resources

  • Free Salesforce Developer Edition
  • Install Salesforce CPQ
  • Install Salesforce Advanced Approvals
  • Install Salesforce Billing
  • Developer Edition with Salesforce CPQ
  • Developer Edition Org with Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce Billing

Productizing and Pricing Consulting Services, There Is No Right Answer, and Operating in Ambiguity

John Garvens · December 8, 2023 ·

Contents

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 00:15 How should I configure additional fees for consulting services?
  • 04:25 How to think about consulting services and additional fees
  • 13:35 What is the minimum you can do and build to achieve the desired outcome?
  • 16:13 When in doubt . . .
  • 18:47 How to productize your consulting services
  • 23:22 How to start thinking in terms of price and value
  • 26:00 There is no right answer, but there are wrong answers
  • 26:55 Learn to operate in the world of ambiguity

Salesforce Deep Dive: Products, Price Books, and Price Book Entries

John Garvens · December 1, 2023 ·

Contents

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 01:55 Deep Dive: Products, Price Books & Price Book Entries
  • 03:55 Why do companies start using products, price books, and price book entries?
  • 04:50 How do products, price books, and price book entries relate to one another?
  • 08:50 Do I need to use products, price books, and price book entries to use Salesforce CPQ?
  • 10:10 How do opportunity products fit into the data model?
  • 12:22 What are price books?
  • 13:30 A simple example using products, price books, and price book entries
  • 20:25 Now, with two currencies
  • 22:10 Now, with two price books
  • 25:28 An extreme example from an enterprise manufacturing client
  • 27:15 What is the difference between a price book and a price book entry?
  • 28:00 What are common mistakes with products, price books, and price book entries?
  • 30:00 What is an opportunity product?
  • 31:00 How many price books should I create?
  • 32:25 What about customer-specific price books for special customers?
  • 35:52 What other scenarios potentially require multiple price books?
  • 36:40 How many price books can I use on an opportunity and quote?
  • 39:10 Should I consolidate products, price books, and price book entries?
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