Hi All - Automatic Opportunity Creation on Inbound Outlook Email

With SugarCRM Enterprise out of the box abilities you can work with email auto import for cases to import the email into SugarCRM automatically.

1. Import emails into case module (the case can be used as a kind of request to handle the communication): https://support.sugarcrm.com/Knowledge_Base/Email/Automatically_Creating_Cases_From_Inbound_Emails/ 

2. Add a SugarBPM (formerly advanced workflow) to create an Opportunity automatically once a case is created https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Versions/8.0/Ent/Administration_Guide/Advanced_Workflow/Process_Definit…  . You can link this Opportunity to random modules with SugarBMP and add further followup rules etc.

Bests

Björn Canales Pfisterer

Technical Support Manager

provalida GmbH

Assuming there could be more than one site per account the possibilities of picking the right site are limited here for a full automatisation. Also getting customer related information from the mail to work with seems to be limited (what about subject? from adress?)

Anyway opening an opp is possible and saves some clicks for the users but the manual review is needed anyway. Might be possible that logic builder from Dmytro Chupylka can assist here alot but this requires a deeper look into the details.

Bests

Björn Canales Pfisterer

Technical Support Manager

provalida GmbH

Hi Bjorn and Dmytro,

The emails are not formatted in any way to easily identify the site against which the opportunity is to be opened.  As Bjorn quite rightly pointed out there will be some need for manual intervention.  I am thinking if I create a generic site such as "Company_Opportunity", for example, I can still automate the creation of the opportunity. At least the more tedious task of physically creating the opportunity is automated.  My estimator then simply has to assign it to the correct site.  I at least then minimise the chance of an opportunity being missed in email. 

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts, experience and insights.

Best Regards

Malcolm. 

Hi Bjorn and Dmytro,

The emails are not formatted in any way to easily identify the site against which the opportunity is to be opened.  As Bjorn quite rightly pointed out there will be some need for manual intervention.  I am thinking if I create a generic site such as "Company_Opportunity", for example, I can still automate the creation of the opportunity. At least the more tedious task of physically creating the opportunity is automated.  My estimator then simply has to assign it to the correct site.  I at least then minimise the chance of an opportunity being missed in email. 

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts, experience and insights.

Best Regards

Malcolm. 

Hello! Excuse me, I can't help noticing such an interesting case
Well, if a human can somehow identify to which site the opportunity must be related, this knowledge may be shared to a system as well

In overall, I suppose this task may be implemented in the following way:

• to create an inbound email account in Sugar
• to use Logic Builder to implement the following algorithm:
  Create Opportunity when a new email comes to a particular address.
  Then identify to which Site this Opportunity must be related, by checking if there is a site in the text (or probably subject) of the email that is like a Site record in the Sugar (for example, if value in the field Name of record Site is the same as this site is defined in the email subject or text). What I mean that an email body could be parsed if there is a text like http://somesite and matched site record in Sugar.
  If the matched Site was found – relate Opportunity to Site.
• Otherwise (here SugarBPM process must be created) to assign to an entitled user Activity of manually relating Opportunity to the site.

However it will work if there is no huge number of Sites... What I mean if there is a lot of data, this scenario will cause performance issues.

You know, we are conducting webinars of how to apply advanced Sugar configuration to address different business challenges. May we take your example for the next webinar? So you could see in the action how this task could be solved and implement this solution in your system in case you find it suitable.

Hi Anastasiia,

Yes please. You are most welcome to take my example for your next seminar.  I am very interested to learn how this may be solved.  Please let me know if there is anything further information you require from me.

Best Regards

Malcolm