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Tamara Hay
Linking products to line items as additional products
Hoping someone can help me.
I need to find a way to add products to other line items without creating them as seperate products.
What I mean, we have products that get added to line items as the primary products. Often, we need to add other products related to these line items, such as install fee's and additional products (almost like a bundle situation).
Currently, we add all of these as individual line items, but this causes issues further down our sales process.
Ive tried creating a Junction object, related lists, lookup fields etc but I cant find anything that works.
We have a visualforce page to select initial product, and we have a custom object called "Provisioning Details" that we use to add all the technical requirements related to a line item.
Ideally, id like either a opplineitem related list within the provisioning detail object, or a way to add a secondary product line item to the primary line item.
Anyone have any suggestions on the best way to do this?
I need to find a way to add products to other line items without creating them as seperate products.
What I mean, we have products that get added to line items as the primary products. Often, we need to add other products related to these line items, such as install fee's and additional products (almost like a bundle situation).
Currently, we add all of these as individual line items, but this causes issues further down our sales process.
Ive tried creating a Junction object, related lists, lookup fields etc but I cant find anything that works.
We have a visualforce page to select initial product, and we have a custom object called "Provisioning Details" that we use to add all the technical requirements related to a line item.
Ideally, id like either a opplineitem related list within the provisioning detail object, or a way to add a secondary product line item to the primary line item.
Anyone have any suggestions on the best way to do this?
With Salesforce out-of-the-box functionalities, what you want to do is quite challenging. The way Salesforce structures the line item object makes it harder to implement the solutions (e.g. can't create a lookup to the line item object). So this will give you two options:
1. Create a totally new Quote and Quote Line objects and sync them with Salesforce Opportunity and Opportunity Line. By doing this, you will have full control over the quote line object and can link the lines to each other easily. Synching to opportunity will enable you to still use many Sales Cloud features and reports. You will probably have to also create a junction object to link the product dependencies.
2. Buy a CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) package from the AppExchange. They have created all the things above for you (of course, with a price).
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With Salesforce out-of-the-box functionalities, what you want to do is quite challenging. The way Salesforce structures the line item object makes it harder to implement the solutions (e.g. can't create a lookup to the line item object). So this will give you two options:
1. Create a totally new Quote and Quote Line objects and sync them with Salesforce Opportunity and Opportunity Line. By doing this, you will have full control over the quote line object and can link the lines to each other easily. Synching to opportunity will enable you to still use many Sales Cloud features and reports. You will probably have to also create a junction object to link the product dependencies.
2. Buy a CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) package from the AppExchange. They have created all the things above for you (of course, with a price).