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Sales Automation Suite

A set of Salesforce automations that reduced post-call admin, improved CRM context and gave sales reps more time for customer conversations.

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Greenfield Retail Group
Retail · 3 Locations · Melbourne, AU
Prospecting
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Discovery — payment setup & reporting pain
Apr 28, 2026 · 2:15 PM · Sarah Chen
Discussed current payment setup — using a legacy terminal provider, contract ends in July. Main pain point is reporting: takes 2 hrs/week to reconcile manually. Interested in integrated reporting. Decision maker is the ops director (Michael). Next step: send comparison doc and book follow-up with Michael for mid-May.
Follow-up — volume confirmation & competitor eval
Apr 22, 2026 · 10:30 AM · Sarah Chen
Quick check-in after initial outreach. Confirmed they process ~$180k/mo across 3 locations. Currently evaluating two other providers. Timeline is Q3 switch. Asked for a feature comparison — particularly around multi-location reporting.
Demo — POS integration & data migration concern
Apr 15, 2026 · 3:45 PM · James Liu
Full product demo with James (owner) and two store managers. Strong interest in the POS integration and inventory sync. Concern raised about data migration from current system — needs to be addressed in proposal. James wants to loop in their accountant before any commitment.
Record Details
Account OwnerYou
StageProposal
Amount$180,000 /mo
Close DateJul 2026
Primary ContactSarah Chen
Decision MakerMichael Torres
Locations3
Next StepFollow-up mid-May
Related Contacts
SC
Sarah Chen
Store Manager
JL
James Liu
Owner
MT
Michael Torres
Ops Director

CRM admin around every sales conversation

Every good sales conversation created a trail of admin: notes to write, fields to update and records to keep clean. The detail mattered, but too much of the process was landing back on the rep after every call.

After each call, reps manually typed up notes and logged them in Salesforce. Before follow-ups, they scrolled through long activity histories to work out what had happened. Before pitches, they pulled context from the CRM, email and personal notes.

No single task was the whole problem. The issue was the compound effect of small, repetitive actions happening dozens of times a day.

Our approach

We did not try to redesign the whole sales process. We started with the small jobs that kept showing up after every call and built a set of focused Salesforce automations around them.

Calls were transcribed and summarised automatically, then logged directly into the right Salesforce record. The rep finished a call and the notes were already there: structured, timestamped and linked to the right contact.

We added one-click record summaries so a rep could quickly see the last contact, key discussion points, current status and next steps without reading through months of activity. Call logs, emails and notes were also organised into a cleaner timeline on each record, keeping the context ready for the next conversation.

Each automation was small on its own. The value came from stacking them together across the daily sales workflow.

Rollout

We started with call notes for a small group of reps and shaped the workflow around how they already used Salesforce. Once manual logging disappeared, the time saving was obvious and the rest of the team asked for it within a week.

Record summaries came next. The pattern was the same: build one useful feature, put it in front of a few people and let the result speak. No large training deck. Just a button that saved time in a workflow reps already used.

The result

Reps spent more time in customer conversations and less time filling fields. Call prep dropped from 10-15 minutes of digging to a quick glance at a summary. Post-call admin moved from a manual task to something that happened in the background.

The team did not need another tool to learn. Notes landed where they should, records stayed cleaner and reps had more room for the customer work they were there to do.