Account and contact structure
Agree the information needed to understand a customer relationship. Keep required fields purposeful and define how the team maintains accurate records.
The business perspective
When contacts and follow-ups live in separate places, opportunities are easy to miss. Give your team a shared place to manage customer relationships.
A CRM succeeds when people can see its usefulness in their daily work. For a team moving from spreadsheets or disconnected tools, the first priority may be a consistent customer record, clear opportunity ownership and dependable follow-up. Our Simple CRM conversations begin with that essential scope. We help identify the experience, Microsoft capabilities and implementation approach that fit the team, while keeping room for the additional processes the business may need later.
Explore the possibilities
A closer look at the capabilities and decisions that shape a useful solution.
Agree the information needed to understand a customer relationship. Keep required fields purposeful and define how the team maintains accurate records.
Create a clear view of active work, stage and ownership. Connect each opportunity to the next action the team needs to take.
Make meetings, calls and commitments easier to track. Reduce dependence on a single person’s inbox for the context behind a relationship.
Select a small set of useful pipeline and activity views. Use common definitions so managers and sellers can discuss the same information.
Review where a sale creates work for another team. Design the essential handover before introducing additional automation or more complex integrations.
Assess requirements against suitable Dynamics 365 and Power Platform capabilities. Confirm the platform, scope and commercial model for your specific needs.
From capability to everyday value
Explore possible starting points for your organisation. Each scenario connects a business need with work to consider and measures to review.
First CRM · Illustrative scenario
Contacts are held in personal spreadsheets and the same organisation appears several times. Agree a common structure, clean the source records and define ownership. Start with the information the team will actually use rather than importing every historic field.
Sales follow-through · Illustrative scenario
An opportunity stalls because the last customer commitment was never recorded. Define a simple process for stage, owner and next action. Review it with the sales team and use the first rollout to remove friction from the experience.
Team growth · Illustrative scenario
A new colleague inherits accounts with limited context. Define the minimum record needed for a useful handover, including current opportunities and commitments. Use shared views and guidance to help the person become effective without reconstructing the history from email.
The Defacto approach
We review your sales process, identify essential data and design a CRM approach that supports everyday adoption. Discuss your requirements with our team to find the right fit.
Explore our approachMap the sales journey and identify the records, views and tasks the first release must support. Discuss the appropriate underlying Microsoft platform.
Review duplicate handling, ownership and migration. Test the proposed experience using active accounts and realistic sales scenarios.
Provide task-focused guidance and review early usage. Introduce additional fields, reporting or automation only when they support an identified need.
A useful first conversation
A few examples of your current work will make the discussion more specific.
Experience you can explore
Customer experienceSouthland Stone
Southland Stone streamlined its sales processes with Dynamics 365 Sales, ensuring all customer interactions are recorded and accessible in real-time.
Explore the customer storyMake an informed decision
The right scope starts with a clear understanding of your business, the platform and the work ahead.
It is the name of Defacto’s focused CRM offering. The underlying platform, included capabilities, licensing and implementation scope should be confirmed for your requirements. This page describes the business needs to discuss, rather than a fixed software package or price.
Yes. A focused release can help establish good data and working habits. Choose a complete but manageable sales journey, give users practical support and review adoption before expanding the solution with more fields, workflows or integrations.
Compare your needs for account structures, forecasting, automation, integration and seller support with the available options. We can help distinguish immediate requirements from future ambitions and identify which platform provides a suitable foundation for both.
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