{"id":3049,"date":"2020-09-18T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:29:35","slug":"vendor-business-contact-system-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/18\/vendor-business-contact-system-huge\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendor Business Contact System &#8211; Huge!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there is one module that is often ignored in HeavyBid setup it is the Vendor Contact System. A little quirky (where is the save button!) and I think it needs some updating but the benefits are huge in getting this setup and setup correctly. Here is what this module can do for your team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gives a common contact system that all the estimating team uses and updates. If everyone is diligent in keeping this updated it is the go-to source for phone numbers and names. <\/li><li>Connects to the Quote Folders in HeavyBid and if set up correctly can quickly populate the folders with vendors or subs. <\/li><li>Connects to the fairly new vendor solicitation module. You can send out a notice to everyone or a filtered list that you are going to be bidding a project. <\/li><li>The HCSS HeavyBid team is working on a web-based quote system that will connect to this list of contacts and you want to be ready for this knockout feature. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image.jpg 764w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><figcaption>I<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My company can take your Excel export for your contacts, revise it and import it into HeavyBid. Contact us if you want a quote for this service but this way you get it designed correctly so that the product codes and vendor types work as intended. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one module that is often ignored in HeavyBid setup it is the Vendor Contact System. A little quirky (where is the save button!) and I think it needs some updating but the benefits are huge in getting this setup and setup correctly&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-setup-heavybid","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}