A wealth of features under the hood


With so many features available, we've categorised these by module to let you explore the benefits that our platform can have in your business. There's a lot here, so if you're interested in looking at this at a higher level, head over to our What We Do page, or click on the link below.

Core Platform Features

Global Search

Search for records by any system type, including company & contact names, asset references (IMEI, serial), post code and account number.

Modern User Interface

Our fluid user interface fits to your browser window so you don't have to squeeze all that data into a fixed width frame.

Single Sign On

Use a single set of credentials to log on to all Layer platforms, and securely generate API keys assocaited with these.

Two Factor Authentication

Optionally set two-factor authentication to ensure your user logins are valid.

Work Stacks

Commonly used records can be loaded into real-time, customisable stacks for easy browsing in grids or detail.

Live Support

Chat to our service teams within the platform for quicker resolutions to team issues.

Scriptable Functions

Our middleware platform, which allows developers to customise Layer functionality with code, unlocking unlimited potential for extending the system.

Sub Company Management

Set up multiple sub companies, allowing the use of different POs, Invoices and credit notes through out the sales and onboarding journey.

Outlook Add-In

Attach emails to CRM records via our Outlook Add-In for Windows. Log in with your Layer ID to add notes to records directly within Outlook.

Presales Features

Team Resource Planner

Very quickly see the availability and activity of you teams and individual including all appointments, appointment outcomes and phones call tasks.

Telephone Preference List (TPS)

Comply with regulations by subscribing to our integrated TPS service to prevent any prospects with these telephone numbers from being called. You can override the TPS list when you have permission to call the lead.

Scheduled Call Backs

Keep engaged with prospects and customers by scheduling sales, order processing and service related call backs, which appear in users' work stacks as they fall due.

Opportunity Management

Create sales opportunities from within commonly used tasks. Update all opportunity specific tasks, notes, probability stages, quotes and close by dates in one easy to use screen.

Lead to Customer Conversion

Lead records automictically become customer records upon esign, saving time. All lead based notes and tasks will also visible against the customer record.

Lead Reassignment

Manager can permanently or temporarily assign lead ownership and access to another member of the team.

Lead Delegation

Instantly delegate permanent or temporary access of a lead to another member of your team. Great for holiday cover or absences.

Appointment Candidates

Real-time suggestions of who's in the area for appointment bookings.

Appointment Booking

The Layer provides agents with the facility to view availability and book appointments for sales representatives & integrate with Outlook or Office 365.

Sales Features

Discounting Hardware

Simpler process in The Layer and no need to create negative lines, which then pulls into the quote and through to the sales order for finance.

Customisable Lead Sub Statuses

Ability to filter and create work stacks by bespoke lead sub status e.g. Contacted - With Gatekeeper, Qualified - Expiries Captured.

Customer Base Management

Single view of all customer related information. Increase renewals and retention by seeing base product mix and non managed assets, creating existing assets and renewal stacks for customer owner and or/asset owner teams by product category.

Opportunity Creation With Appointment

No need to work between multiple screens/browsers which is ideal for both telemarketers and self gen speeding up the time taken between calls.

Quotation Changes

Every so often commercials, tariffs and products change. Our Changed Quotations work stack enables sales people to view any changes quickly. Quotes can be instantly updated in bulk and customers actively contacted about any changes.

Check Lists

Set check list steps by opportunity type to help drive good behaviour and practice to reduce the number of rejected orders and with training new staff.

Bill Cap Compatibility

Bill cap is enabled at price book level and is added at quote stage and pulls through to the quote esign screen and visible in the sales order.

Forecast Categories

You can create your own forecast categories and then run reporting by your different sales teams to automate pipelines and manage sales performance and KPI.

Automated Account Reviews

Maintain contact with your customers within predetermined date periods, making it easier to renew customers and reduce churn.

Service Features

Customer & Team Case Updates

Replies to case emails from the customer are automatically added into the case notes with the ability to sweep for external contacts.

Create Contacts Inline

In The Layer you can create additional contacts that may not already be a contact on the fly directly from the email editor and case creation windows.

GDPR Contact prference for Support and marketing

Ability to log both marketing and customer service contact preferences at contact level for GDPR compliance which will limit emails being sent to opted out contacts.

Provisioning Check Lists

In The Layer you can create and define check list steps by case subcategory around your or supplier based processes for resolving customer service issues.

Case Audit Logs

View full audit logs of the changes in case status, owner and on hold times, which are all stored against the case.

Case Management

Customer integrated case management facilities.

Case Breach Reasons

You can create custom case breach reasons and then record them against an over due case and then report on them.

Knowledgebase

Create your own searchable internal or external articles using videos, PDFs and documents which can be added to emails vie the email editor to help with cases and sales.

Auto Create Cases from Emails

Cases can automatically be created from inbound emails and then auto allocated to a category and sub category and a team or user.

Marketing Features

See Campaign Activity Against Lead or Customer

Sales can quickly see all campaigns received by that lead/customer to help spark up a conversation and reason to call.

Multi-Stage Campaigns

Schedule multiple emails and follow up tasks, using trigger dates based on when you want that event to happen.

HTML email campaigns and templates

Simple easy to use interface to quickly build marketing campaigns.

Bespoke targeted campaign data

Build targeted lead and customer data lists around specifics such as contract expiries and renewal dates, old products and services.

Track campaigns and monitor success

Built in tools for monitoring and reporting on campaign opens, links clicked on and email forwards.

Trigger Service Updates from Work Stacks

Build staged campaigns to keep inform customers and keep them updated of any service outages and issues.

Manage campaign element costs

Log and track the costs of each element of a campaign so you know what resources to invest to get the maximum ROI.

Measure ROI on your marketing campaigns

Multiple Campaigns can be logged against an opportunity which is then visible in the sales reporting, giving you the ability to fully measure the success and ROI of you activity.

Stay GDPR compliant

Manage contact preferences at the point of record creation and in life and from within the individual elements of your marketing campaigns.

Finance Features

Hardware Fund Management

Improved hardware fund management and visibility with premature application to sales invoices - HWF anomalies, have to go back to the original SO and update invoice to ensure correct.

Balance and Account On Hold

Warnings are displayed in the record, opportunities and sales orders when the customer has a zero or negative available balance or if the account has been placed on hold.

Reporting Features

Reporting

Sales reporting data is driven from the sales orders which in turn comes directly from the price book items from within the quote. This means your financial and forecasting data is as accurate as it can be and doesn't rely on guesswork from sales.

Daily Updates

Receive daily digest email for sales and service and the ability to create scheduled emails of your favourite work stacks.

Forecasting Reporting

Reduce the time taken to generate the reports for business intelligence and management reporting - bespoke forecasting report and data feed to generate your own reports.

Stock & Ordering Features

Stock Allocation Hold

Place individual items in stock on an allocation hold, excluding them from any allocation processes and the available stock. Ideal for any returns or fault stock and stock to be regraded.

Stock Management

Integrated stock module with stock take and value, multiple warehouse management for better control.

Serial Numbers on Invoices

The Layer invoices can be set up to show serial numbers on them which cannot be done in SF and causes issues for finance

Serial & IMEI Search

Ability to upload serial numbers and IMEI in bulk from the supplier via templates into stock session which is logged against the asset. Full serial and IMEI search to see related entities e.g. cases when booked in/out.

Cases in Sales Orders

Dedicated tabs in the sales orders for cases and sales order documents and templates e.g. LOA, survey documents and forms

Sales Order Approval Workflow

Improved process for authorising and rejecting sales orders and for sales to manage their rejected orders.

Part Process & Bill Orders

In The Layer you can process and convert parts of orders meaning you can then bill on that basis

PAC Code management

Log and managed PAC codes and PAC Expiry dates in data capture which is then stored against the asset on order conversion.

Multiple Shipping Addresses

The ability to manage and distribute stock in bulk and to multiple addresses.

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