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FEATURES

Everything you need to manage and grow your agency

Synergist comes with hundreds of features that can be customised to how your agency works and give you the functionality you need as you grow.

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CRM & pipeline

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Unlimited clients, prospects, leads, suppliers, opportunities and jobs
Link contacts to company/jobs
Multiple addresses per company
Unlimited custom fields
Task setting and reminders
Record comms history
Unlimited file storage
Create templates such as scope of work, briefs, contracts or letters
% weightings/probability of converting
Track lead progression
Jobs and invoices stored against client and contact
Client-specific rate cards, markups or discounts and invoicing terms
Client reporting dashboards
Sales/pipeline dashboard and reports
Target setting and tracking
Batch updates and activities to simplify data maintenance
Data import/export
GDPR management 
Email integration to centrally record all key communications Add on Add on
Integration with HubSpot and Salesforce CRM Add on Add on Add on

Estimating & quoting

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Unlimited opportunities and jobs
Job and quote numbers
Chargable and non-chargable jobs
Breakdown into multiple phases/stages per job
Add % weightings/probability of converting
Estimate time by role/charge code 
Add purchases/costs with pre-defined markups (see purchasing)
Calculates estimated profitability vs target
Client-specific rates cards, mark-ups, discounts and invoicing terms
New, duplicate or quoting templates
See each client's financial investment/recovery to date
Store documents and communications
Job type templates
Create common document templates e.g. Statement of work
Quote by: time and materials, fixed fee or fixed fee and expenses
Customisable client-facing quotes
Multiple currencies
Store quote revisions
Sales reporting dashboard
Pipeline forecasting
Email branded quotes to clients
Quote option lines x
Multi-job quoting Add on

Project planning & tracking

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Breakdown job into phases and stages of work
Estimate, plan and track at the phase/stage level
Add details, documents, links, activities and comms to each phase or stage
Assign and schedule from the job 
List or Gantt timeline views
Drag and drop to adjust timelines
Add dependencies and milestones
Download client-friendly project plans - PDF, image or XML for MS project
Multi-job Gantt charts
Planned vs actual timelines
Job status, progress, deadlines, estimated vs actual cost/time
Budget and profit tracking
Project plan templates
Job dashboards and reporting
Kanban boards (see task management)

Task & workflow management

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Unlimited activities/tasks
Add tasks/activities to client, job or phase
Custom activity types e.g. requisitions, calls, emails, tasks
Checklists - build new or create templates
Custom fields
Assignee, start/due date, priority and colour coding
Alerts, reminders and follow-ups
Threaded comments and history
List or a kanban board - customisable lists and filtered views
Unlimited boards/lists
Unlimited attachments
Create templates such as briefs, contracts or letters
Timesheet against task
File management: OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox Add on Add on Add on

Resource scheduling & capacity

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Unlimited resources and teams
Resource management & skill database
Permissions: view, request, draft only or full bookings
Add notes, colour code, attachments, checklists
Holidays, absences and special events
View day, week and month - up to 12 weeks ahead
Customise calendar views and filters
Client and project views
Flexible booking: based on estimated hours or requisitions
Drag and drop calendar booking
See estimated vs remaining time
Bookings created from work requests, estimates or manually
Tentative / draft bookings
Schedule time slots or hours/days
Spread loading time across a date range
Recurring bookings
Overbooking/availability view
Freelancer bookings
Personal calendar/schedule. Add feedback and timesheet
Capacity dashboard and reporting
Utilisation dashboard and reporting by person, team and project

Timesheets & expenses

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Timesheets from browser or mobile app
Personal time and expense dashboard
Time recording by role/rate card
Multiple time entries per day or job
Timesheet from schedule or task
Time tracking stopwatch
Timesheets approval workflows (optional)
Manage company credit card expenses
Log expenses against a client/job or internal
Upload and store digital receipts - from a browser or mobile app
Mileage calculator
Expense approval workflows. Ability to query, hold or reject. 
Utilisation reporting dashboard
Freelancers timesheeting
Missing timesheet report
Timesheet reporting by person, team and project
Internal and non-chargeable time tracking

Purchasing

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Create purchase estimates against a job/phase
Pre-defined markup by supplier or client
Optional discounts/markup
Define spend limits by user
Approval workflows optional
Email PDF orders to supplier
Supplier CRM
Option to exclude items from quote (non-chargeable)
Reconcile purchase invoices
Upload documents and link attachments
Purchase invoices and export to your accounts package
Tender management x
Raise freelancer POs against a job/phase or consolidate against multiple jobs x Add on

Invoicing & revenue management

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Billing/payment plans based on start, finish or fixed date, % or set value
Recurring billings
Invoice approval workflow
Invoice multiple phases or jobs in one invoice
Invoice based on quote, actual costs or bespoke
Time and cost allocation to invoice
Customise invoices
Client VAT and payment terms
Credit notes and write-offs
Managed client sales orders - allocate to multiple jobs
Accounting software integration
Planned vs invoiced report
Revenue and profit forecasting
Financial management dashboard and reporting
Revenue management/recognition x Add on
Multi-job revenue management (Managed sales orders) x x
Multiple trading companies x Add on

Integrations

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Accounting software: ​Xero, Kashflow, MYOB, Access and Sage, Sage 50 Direct Interface, Quickbooks and Exchequer.
File management: OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox
Microsoft single sign-on (SSO)
Auto-filing of emails and attachments against jobs and organisations Add on Add on
MS Teams and Slack
HubSpot and Salesforce Add on Add on Add on

Mobile app

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Track time 
Capture expense receipts and mileage
Access contact info
See jobs and opportunity status
Manage activities
See work schedule

Reporting

Foundation

Professional

Enterprise

Customisable dashboards
Financial dashboard and reports
Utilisation dashboard and reports
Sales dashboard and reports
Capacity reporting dashboard
Client dashboards and reports
Job dashboards and reports
Job budget/profit tracking
Custom alert emails
Download graphs
Data exports
Schedule and email reports 
Custom reports
Custom business dashboard
Integrated analytics

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