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how to subscription pricing salesforce cpq

by Dr. Tremayne Bergstrom Published 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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In your org, click the App Launcher (), and then click the Salesforce CPQ tile. In the navigation bar, click Products, then choose the All Products list view. Click Password Manager License. Click Edit. For the Subscription Pricing field, choose Fixed Price.

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Which Salesforce CPQ is right for You?

Salesforce CPQ is (obviously) completely native to Salesforce and offers excellent speed and fantastic flexibility. It can handle large deals with ease and offers the ability to add on to existing contracts, upsell for the following year, offer multiple discount thresholds, and a lot more.

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  • Retrain existing staff as needed
  • Keep up with Salesforce upgrades and new releases
  • Update sales goals monthly, quarterly, and annually
  • Ensure system data is accurate and complete
  • Check in with clients for quote satisfaction
  • Run reports from the system
  • Do benchmark and strategic planning
  • Provide updates to senior management

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How are subscription created in Salesforce CPQ?

When you contract an opportunity or order with at least one subscription product under a contract-based renewal model, Salesforce CPQ creates a contract record. It then creates subscription records for your quote's subscription products and asset records for your quote's products with asset conversion.

What is subscription term in Salesforce CPQ?

A product's subscription term is the default amount of time that a subscription lasts. The CPQ package setting Subscription Term Unit controls whether the term is in months or days, and defaults to months. Note Daily subscription term units aren't available in Salesforce Billing.

Which is a Salesforce CPQ pricing method for products?

Salesforce CPQ uses the negotiated price on new quotes, renewal quotes, and amendment quotes. The quote line's effective quantity field represents the actual quantity that Salesforce uses while calculating prices for that quote line.

What is cost price in Salesforce CPQ?

To set up cost pricing on a product, set its Pricing Method field to Cost. You can then add cost values by currency in the Costs related list. Important. Salesforce CPQ can't evaluate more than 50,000 cost records at a time. Salesforce CPQ ignores the Special Price field for cost-priced products.

How do I make my product a subscription to CPQ?

Navigate to Setup > Installed Packages > Salesforce CPQ > Configure > Subscriptions and Renewals. Select Month as the value for Subscription Term Unit and Subscription Prorate Precision fields and click Save. To create Subscription Products, navigate to Products Tab and click New, set Active checkbox to True.

How is CPQ prorate multiplier calculated?

If your quote uses a start date and end date, the quote's term equals all the days in this period including the end date. 05/23/19 through 09/30/19 totals 131 days. Our prorate multiplier is (131/365) = 0.3589. Our prorated list price is $12000 * (131/365) = $4306.85.

What is MDQ in Salesforce CPQ?

We call these products multi-dimensional quoting (MDQ) products. They're useful if you want your sales reps to have detailed control over pricing specific units of time within one subscription.

What is overage rate in CPQ?

Overage rate is the rate you would charge a customer every time the quantity inside the bundle exceeds bundled amount. Overage rate is the rate you would charge a customer every time the quantity inside the bundle exceeds bundled amount. For example, you have 50 pcs in a pile and charge $100 for the whole heap.

Which is a salesforce CPQ pricing method for products quizlet?

Salesforce CPQ can determine price by the product cost plus a markup amount.

What is block price?

“Block pricing is the pricing strategy in which identical products are packaged together in order to enhance profits by forcing customers to make an all-or-none decision to purchase”. ●

What is a discount schedule?

Discount schedules provide tier-driven discounts to the list price of your quote lines. For example, you can sell routers for $25 each, but apply the following discounts based on how many routers a customer buys. In this case, you create a discount schedule with three tiers.

What is Salesforce billing?

Salesforce Billing is an add-on package that inherits key records and information from Salesforce CPQ. After a sales rep finalizes a quote and orders it within Salesforce CPQ, Salesforce Billing picks up the order record for invoicing, payment, and revenue recognition.

Choose the Right Term

Subscription products are special because they’re sold as a service that lasts for days, months, or years. Since time is involved, you must consider what unit of time you want to use when quoting subscription products.

Basic Anatomy of a Subscription

Good news—subscription products are just normal products with a little extra flair. With a few small changes, any product you already have in your org can be sold as a subscription.

Prorated Prices

If you looked closely at the prices in the Quote Line Editor, you may have noticed that List Unit Price stayed at $30 regardless of the Subscription Term value. It’s one of the pricing fields that isn’t prorated. Opening the Password Manager License Quote Line Drawer ( ) reveals more pricing fields.

Hands-on Challenge

You’ll be completing this challenge in your own hands-on org. Click Launch to get started, or click the name of your org to choose a different one.

Percent of Total Pricing

Most of the time, businesses have a fixed price in mind for their subscription products, such as $11.99 a month for a streaming service. But sometimes they want the price of a subscription to vary based on what else is on the quote. For example, your org has a subscription product named Accidental Damage Insurance.

Prorate the Additional Discount Amount

Salesforce CPQ is all about doing the math so that your sales reps don’t have to. When they include a discount for a line item, CPQ works out all affected prices automatically.

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What is Salesforce CPQ?

Salesforce CPQ has a lot to offer to anyone who is looking to complete the lead to cash flow from within Salesforce. The ability to set up Subscription products with a series of toggles is a great reason to look into CPQ if the standard products and pricebooks are not cutting it.

What are the benefits of using subscriptions in CPQ?

Another benefit of using Subscription Products in CPQ, is the expanded options for discounting. In addition to allowing users to apply the usual manual additional discounts, with Subscriptions, you have the ability to layer on Discount Schedules. There are two different types of Discount Schedules, Term and Volume. These Schedules usually apply to the list price (see more about the pricing waterfall to learn more). When applied to Term, it means that a discount based on the length of time the product is sold for will be applied, and similarly, for Volume, it is based on the quantity purchased that a discount will be applied. These two things can be applied together as well giving you a lot of power over the pricing model of the Subscription products.

Why is subscription important in Salesforce?

There are numerous benefits of using subscription products in Salesforce, the most important of all is that when Subscription products are used, they will be automatically created and related during the creation of the Renewal Opportunity and Renewal Quote. When used correctly, this allows companies to easily predict or forecast how much and of what products they will be selling in the future.

What is subscription product?

A subscription product is a product that has some recurring payment element to it, whether it be a monthly payment (think your Netflix subscription), or an annual subscription (think an Amazon Prime subscription). Tracking which customers have subscription-based products is one of the major highlights of Salesforce CPQ, ...

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Learning Objectives

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After completing this unit, you’ll be able to: 1. Configure a subscription to calculate its price based on the value of other quote lines. 2. Control when discount amounts scale to subscription length.
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Percent of Total Pricing

  • Most of the time, businesses have a fixed price in mind for their subscription products, such as $11.99 a month for a streaming service. But sometimes they want the price of a subscription to vary based on what else is on the quote. For example, your org has a subscription product named Accidental Damage Insurance. Its price is calculated by taking 10% of all the one-time products …
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Prorate The Additional Discount Amount

  • Salesforce CPQ is all about doing the math so that your sales reps don’t have to. When they include a discount for a line item, CPQ works out all affected prices automatically. When a manual discount is added to a subscription product, such as the Productivity Suite seen below, CPQ deducts the amount from Customer Unit Price, Net Unit Price, and Ne...
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Resources

  1. Salesforce Help: Percent of Total Pricing
  2. Knowledge Article: Prorate Additional Discount Amount in Salesforce CPQ
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