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The Contact Manager initially opens as a search window for filtering and finding to find specific Contact entries in the system. You can also create new Contact entries contacts and run sales campaigns from here as well as run sale campaigns.

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Important: As a user, you can only see those Contacts that are assigned to you. If you manage Contacts for several Sales Representatives, select one, several, or all of them from the Contact Manager for Employee dropdown at the top of the window.

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  • To generate a list of existing Contacts, enter search terms or select values from dropdowns to narrow your results and click the Filter (A) button.

  • To delete all values from the search fields, click the Clear (B) button.

  • To view the details about a specific Contact, select it and click the Detail (C) button. The system opens the Contact Detailwindow.

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Tip: Alternatively, you can double-click on a Contact entry in the results list to view its details.

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To search for specific Contacts, use any of the available corresponding search tabstab:

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titleClients/Prospects

In the Clients/Prospects tab, you can find contact entries for individuals who are customers of your company. To add a new individual entry, click ADD CONTACT (E).When filtering the list of entries, note that if you manage Contacts for several Sales Representatives, select the corresponding Rep or Reps from the Contact Manager for Employee (A) dropdown at the top of the window.

Enter the search criteria in any of the search fields (B) and click Filter (C).

The list of corresponding entries appears in the results table (D).

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This tab shows those search fields (B) that are used most often:

  • Last Name - person’s last name

  • Tax ID - SSN for a person or EIN for an entity

  • Company - employer of the customer as a linked entity defined in jCore

  • Location - list of your company locations

  • Type / Status - Client (statuses A-D) or Prospect (statuses Cold, Warm, Hot)

  • Attributes - click the Magnifier icon to see additional attributes defined for your company

  • By Household - group results by household ID

  • Contact GID - internal system ID for the contact entry

  • First Name - person’s first name

  • Category - list of pre-defined search categories. To create a new category, click the plus + icon. Alternatively click the Add Relationship button to run a group search and save it as a new category.

  • Last Contact From / To - when was the last interaction with the client

  • Birth Month - person’s birth month

  • Employer - person’s employer

  • Household ID - ID for the persons grouped under one household

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titleAgent/Rep

In the Agent/Rep tab you can find potential agents or representatives to expand your network. This is an address book of people who may become employees of your company in the future. To add a new Agent/Rep entry, click ADD (E).

Enter the Employer (B) and click Filter (C).

The list of corresponding entries appears in the results table (D).

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titleSystem

In the System tab, you can find Bank Contact entries defined in the system. This is an address book of persons or businesses that do not have accounts with your company, but whom you need to contact. To add a new Bank Contact entry, click ADD (E).

Enter the Employer (B) and click Filter (C).

The list of corresponding entries appears in the results table (D).

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titleCompanies

In the Companies tab you can find entities that are customers of your company or that employ your customers. To add a new Company entry, click ADD (E).When filtering the list of entries, note that if you manage Contacts for several Sales Representatives, select the corresponding Rep or Reps from the Contact Manager for Employee (A) dropdown at the top of the window.

Enter the search criteria in any of the search fields (B) and click Filter (C).

The list of corresponding entries appears in the results table (D).

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This tab shows displays the most common search fields (B) that are used most often:

  • Type / Status - Client (statuses A-D) or Prospect (statuses Cold, Warm, Hot)

  • Category - list of pre-defined search categories. To create a new category, click the plus + icon. Alternatively, click the Add Relationship button to run a group search and save it as a new category.

  • Name - the name of the entity

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Using the advanced search functionality, you can find assign a group of Contacts or an individual Contact entry and assign it to an another employee. This will create a Bank Relationship with the type Prospect and status Cold.

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  • To substitute a co-worker - when one Representative (Employee) is away on vacation, another Rep may need to take on the first one's customers. The action will add this Employee as a second Bank Relationship to the customer (Contact).

  • To run a sales campaign - look for a specific group of prospects, then run a mail merge campaign or make cold calls directly. You can save the search criteria and the actual group of contacts by creating a Search Category.

  • To visit neighboring clients - find existing customers that live in the same area. Schedule in-person meetings and visit several clients in nearby locations.

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In the main Contact Manager window, click the Add Relationship button.

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Select the SINGLE Search - by SSN, Name, etc. option and click OK.

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Note. If you are in the Clients/Prospects tab, the Contact Search dialog will appear. If you are in the Companies tab, the Company Monitor dialog will appear.

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Fill out the search criteria in the Contact Search window and click FILTER.

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The system will show the list of matching Contacts. Click on the necessary entry and click SELECT in the top-right corner.

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This creates a Bank Relationship with the type Prospect and status Cold. You can open the Contact Details to change the type and status as appropriate.

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In the main Contact Manager window, click the Add Relationship button.

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Select the GROUP Search - by sales characteristics option and click OK.

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Note. If you are in the Clients/Prospects tab, the Client Cross Seller dialog will appear. If you are in the Companies tab, the Companies Search Criteria dialog will appear.

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Fill out the search criteria in the Client Cross Seller window. Select the checkboxes to define which criteria will be used in the search.

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Tip: Learn how to use the field controls for entering search criteria in the Navigating jCore > Entering Field Values section of the guide.

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Deselect the Process this request in the background job queue, and notify me upon completion option to see the results immediately. Or select this option to get the search list as a separate report.

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Click SEARCH in the top-right corner.

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jCore will show displays a list of Contacts that match the search criteriayour query.

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Select which Contacts you would like to assign to the current Rep.

Note. Rep’s name is shown in triangular angle brackets: “Assign Contacts to <Last name, Name> using Category Name:”.

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Tip. Click in the first column to turn toggle the selection on (Yes) or off (No). Alternatively, use Select All/Deselect All buttons for the entire group of contacts.

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Specify a new Category Name and Description and click ADD CONACTCONTACT.

Alternatively, to save the search results for future reference, click SAVE.

In the Save Options window, select one of two choices:

  • Save Search Criteria Only - you will be able to open the list later, but the Contacts will not be assigned to the Rep.

  • Save Category, Add Selected Contacts to Manager Contact and Save Search Criteria - all selected Contacts the new Rep will be assigned the new Rep as the Bank Relationship for all the selected Contacts, and they the Contacts will be marked with the new Search Category.

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This will add the current Rep as a Bank Relationship with the type Prospect and status Cold to all the selected Contacts.

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In the future, you can use the Category filter in the Contact Manager to find this specific group of customers.

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As described in the previous section, you can find a group of Contacts and save the criteria as a search category using the advanced search functionality. Alternatively, you can create a new empty Search Category and then manually add specific contacts to it one by one.

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Example. You may wish to categorize your contacts by their hobbies, interests, or other relevant conversational topics.

Category Setup

Using the Category Setup feature, you can reassign contacts between existing categories.

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In the Contact Manager window, click the plus + icon next to the Category field.

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Select any of the existing categories in the Defined Categories list.

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You may edit the Category Name.

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Select the Display Unassigned/Assigned List checkbox. You will see which entries are already included in this category.

Use ADD, ADD ALL, REMOVE, and REMOVE ALL to reassign contact entries to this category.

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Click SAVE when done.

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In the Category Setupdialog, click ADD.

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Enter the new Category Name and select category type from the Applies To dropdown.

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Select Manual Manually to assign contacts to the category one - by - one. Alternatively, select Using Search to run the advanced search for a group of entries.

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Select Common Category to make the category visible to all users in your company.

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Click OK to create the category.

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Use ADD and ADD ALL buttons to assign contact entries to the new category.

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Click SAVE when done.

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In the Category Setupdialog, click ADD.

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Confirm that you wish to delete the category.

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Click SAVE when done.