New Features

The following features are new to CPQ in this release.

New Enhanced CPQ User Interface (Beta)

The CPQ August 2015 version has a new user interface (UI) designed with the AngularJS framework and leading to a better and faster user experience. The new UI will be supported alongside the previous one and can be turned on with minimal configuration.

Asset Based Ordering

Asset Based Ordering (ABO) simplifies management of your asset lifecycle. The latest version of ABO provides a user-friendly, intuitive interface that allows users to perform multiple asset based actions. With ABO, you can now change the quantity, duration, price, billing rules, and attributes of an existing asset. You can then terminate an asset or swap it with another product.
This version of the product puts the user in charge by allowing them to specify an effective date for any transaction and to change quantities and duration during a swap, thereby maximizing the value of the quote.

Promotions Management

Apttus Promotions Management application provides the comprehensive solution that transforms your marketing team's ability to manage, execute, and analyze marketing incentives for products and services across sales channels.
Built on world's most scalable and secure Salesforce platform, Apttus Promotions Management helps you incentivize consumers, corporate customers, and partners to buy, buy more, and buy more often. Apttus Promotions Management helps you increase your market share, improve margins, and increase lifetime customer value by increasing the effectiveness of your marketing incentives. It also provides you the ability to quickly respond to changing marketing conditions and competitive situations by overcoming limitations of excel based and home grown point solutions.
Apttus Promotions Management is fully integrated with Apttus Quote-to-Cash solution and allows you to manage marketing incentives for Direct Sales, B2B eCommerce, B2C eCommerce, and Partner Commerce sales channels.

Visibility Rules Enhancements

A Callback class has been introduced to control the Product visibility on the Catalog and Bundle page. Apart from using Search Filter (CPQ) and Refine your Search, you can control the visibility of products on the Catalog and Bundle page using the Callback classes. This enhancement is useful when you want to apply a custom logic to hide certain products for a specific customer on the Catalog page. You can add your custom logic in a new Apex class and specify the same class in the Custom Settings > Custom Callback Classes for implementation.

Access the Config Setting page from the Sprint CPQ Console

The administrator functions are more accessible on the Sprint CPQ Console. You can directly go to the Config Settings page from the Admin Console.
Simply click Settings and on the top right corner of the Manage Application Settings page, click Advanced and you can edit the Config Settings.

Access Deal Approvals and Price Rulesets from the Sprint CPQ Console

You can now access Deal Approvals and Price Rules from the Admin Console. Click Price Rules to see the list of Price Rulesets and click Deal Approvals to see the Approval Process page.

Hide options from the QuickAdd page

You can hide those bundle options from the product catalog page that are not compatible with the customer's original purchase. To enable the Hide Options in Quick Add Mode feature:

  1. Click Config Settings > Catalog Page settings.
  2. In the Product List Settings section, select the Hide Options in Quick Add Mode check box.
  3. Click Save.

Configure bundle products on the Quick Add page

You can now configure a Bundle Product on the Quick Add or Catalog page.
Sprint CPQ now has the Configure button next to each bundle product listed on the catalog page.To configure a bundle product on the Quick Add page, click the Configure button.

Save Button on Bundle and Cart Page

You can save your configurations on the Catalog page and Bundle page using the new SAVE button. When a saved configuration is re-launched, the status remains SAVED even if the user clears the browser.

Hiding Add to Cart and Configure buttons for Options Products

To avoid your sales representative mistakenly selling the option products without a bundle, you can now hide the Add to Cart and Configure buttons from the Catalog and Bundle pages.
This enhancement is also useful when your customer searches for an option product using the Global search and tries to add it to the cart without buying its associated bundle product. This creates a clear difference between the standalone and option product on the Catalog page.