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Contacts Manager Overview

Using a Purchaser Organization?

Some customers choose to use an external organization (a “Purchaser“) to manage payments of and/or contracts for QuantityWare BCS. In these cases, the Portal – and the Contacts Manager – extends functionality to support this.

If your organization uses a purchaser organization for either of the above matters, please read our specific Contacts Manager (for Purchasers) guide.

The Contacts Manager provides your organization’s management and customer administration team members with a method to grant or revoke roles to other team members within your organization.

When your organization’s customer record is first created in the Portal, only those individuals requested as per the TUKR (or via discussions with QuantityWare) are granted roles in the Portal. This screen allows those with “Management” or “Cust. Admin.” Roles to delegate roles to other trusted team members (and revoke roles from team members no longer requiring access).

Accessing the Contacts Manager

You can access the Contacts Manager as follows:

  • Click “Customer” in the navigation menu
  • Select “Contacts Manager”

The screen is loaded and is displayed as shown as below:

Each “Contact” (team member) within your organization, which currently has one or more Roles within the Portal is shown on this screen, along with the Roles they have been granted on the Portal.

Clicking on any of the Contacts’ names will display the Contact’s Customer details, including email address and phone number, and provide more details on the Roles that are available:

Making Changes

When using the Contacts Manager, you can make the following changes:

  • Edit contact details of the Contacts for your organization
  • Edit contact roles assigned to Contacts for your organization
  • Add Contacts for your organization
  • Remove Contacts from your organization

Saving Changes

You must click the “Request Changes” button in the Action Bar to apply your changes.

This will send your changes will be sent to QuantityWare for review – see Saving Changes below.

Edit Contact Details

Each Contact has a specific set of Contact details for the Customer, which can be viewed / edited within the Contacts Manager by expanding a Contact and viewing / editing the appropriate fields below.

Click “Request Changes” in the Action Bar when all required changes have been made.

Edit Contact Roles

Each Role grants a set of permissions related to a job role within an organization.

Roles are added to / removed  from Contacts by simply clicking the relevant check box, either in the Contact summary:

Or in the Contact expanded details:

Multiple Roles can be assigned to one Contact, although we recommend maintaining a clear separation of duties within your organization.

Further details on Portal roles and the access provided for each are shown in Portal Roles.

Click “Request Changes” in the Action Bar when all required changes have been made.

Role information

Each Role has the following key properties:

  • Who the Role is for
  • The permissions it grants a Contact assigned the Role
  • The automated emails a Contact assigned the Role will receive

To view the above details of each Role by clicking the information icon above each Role column:

To view a list of all Roles’ information, select the “All Roles…” button above or, from a Contact’s details, click the information icon:

Learn more about Roles on the Portal Roles page.

Required Roles

  • Your organization must always have at least one team member assigned to certain roles. This is to ensure all key functions within the Portal can be performed by team members within your organization.
  • Required roles are highlighted in the role columns, and shown at the top of the roles list within each Contact’s details panel.
  • You will not be able to request changes unless each required role has been assigned to at least one Contact.

Adding a Contact

To add a Contact to a Customer, click “Add Contact”, enter their details, and select at least one Role.

Click “Request Changes” in the Action Bar when all required changes have been made.

New Contact Email Address

  • The email address of the first role added for this new contact will be used as their primary email address / username.
  • Take care to ensure this email address is accurate, as otherwise the user will not receive an account activation email once your request has been processed.

Removing a Contact

To remove a Contact from a Customer, click on the Contact in the list to view its details, and click the “Delete” button. This will flag the Contact for removal.

Click “Request Changes” in the Action Bar when all required changes have been made.

Contact Data Deletion

  • When a request containing contacts flagged for deletion is processed, the contact’s user record is archived in the Portal and all personal data for the contact is deleted from the Portal database (name, email, job title, contact info etc.).

Saving Changes

The Contacts Manager allows you with the flexibility to request any changes to your organization’s contact roles – from editing existing contact roles to adding new team members and removing team members form the Portal.

Once you have made all required changes to the contact roles for your organization:

  • Click “Request Changes” in the Action Bar

Your Contact changes will be validated and, if there are no issues, a ticket will be automatically raised with the QuantityWare team requesting your changes.

After a few moments the page will refresh, and you’ll see a message to confirm that your request has been sent, along with a link to the Ticket itself (should you wish to add any further comments).

Additionally, you will receive an email to confirm that your ticket has been raised with the QuantityWare team. You can view the ticket at any time via the SupportCentre.

Request Processing

Whilst waiting for the request to be confirmed, the Contacts Manager will show a read-only list of the existing, active contact roles and the requested contact roles:

In the example above, we performed the following request:

  • Change Mr Derek Emonstration’s phone number
  • Delete Mr Timothy Ester
  • Add a Cust Admin role to, and remove a Financial role from, Mrs Teresa Echie
  • Add a new contact, Ms Annabelle Greement with an Agreement role

The QuantityWare team may have queries relating to your request. If they do, they will reply to your ticket and you’ll receive an email notification. You can reply to the ticket via the SupportCentre to respond to any queries. After any queries are resolved, the QuantityWare team will confirm the implementation of the request.

You’ll receive a confirmation email when the contact roles change request has been implemented. Any new team members included in your request will have Portal user accounts created, and a “welcome” email will be sent to their email address (with a link to activate their account).

Canceling the Request

If you made an error in your original request, you can either add a comment to the ticket to explain the error and request a change or cancel the request before raising a new one. To cancel the request:

  • Open your Contact Changes ticket (see SupportCentre for details on opening tickets)

The Contact Changes ticket will be displayed.

  • Click “Cancel Request” in the Action Bar

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