Document generation based on Bitrix24 data

automation of document management with bitrix24

Nowadays, companies work with a large number of documents - delivery and acceptance certificates, invoices, powers of attorney, contracts, reports. Developing solutions to facilitate work with documents is one of the priority tasks when automating processes in any company. Currently, there are a lot of tools on the market that can automate document management in the company. However, choosing the optimal tool and its integration into the company’s processes is not a trivial task. To solve it, it is better to turn to professionals who will be able to find the best option for your company.

One of such optimal options may become Bitrix24 CRM. Bitrix24 CRM allows not only to automate the main processes in the company but also to automate work with documents.

There are 3 main types of work with documents in Bitrix24:

Standard work with documents in Bitrix24

Bitrix24 CRM has its own functionality to generate documents based on templates

Partner applications 

in Bitrix24

Bitrix24 Market offers several applications for document management developed by Bitrix24 partners

Development of a custom solution for the Client

Bitrix24 REST API contains a full selection of methods for standard work with documents, as well as for the work based on data

standard work with document in bitrix24 CRM

In the 2018 update, Bitrix24 added standard functionality to generate various documents based on pre-created templates: invoices, delivery and acceptance certificates, contracts, offers, etc.

pluses of standard generator

✓  Available in all Bitrix24 plans
✓  Signature/stamp can be added
✓  Standard activities in robots and business processes
✓  Ability to work with document generator via Bitrix24 REST API

minuses

  Free plan offers only 100 documents
  Non-standard elements, such as images and graphs, cannot be embedded
  Limited standard activities for robots and business processes
✓  Limited access rights management
  Unable to create custom numbering in a document 
  If a company has several types of company details, the first by priority are taken, no possibility to choose

bitrix24 market - applications for document generation

Bitrix24 Market offers several applications for document management. For example, "Document Builder" by HTMLStudio, "Document generator" by M.C. Art, etc.

These apps allows to expand basic features of standard document generator and avoid a number of limitations. At the same time, the partner applications have the following disadvantages in common:

subscription fee for useing the application

Every application requires payment for the use period.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS TO DATA FROM LINKED ENTITIES

Significant limitation, heavily reduces flexibility and functionality of a solution.

inability to include additional data

Lack of ability to insert additional data not contained in the entities, as well as of ability to perform calculations before generating documents.

setup of custom (individual) document generation

Developing a customized document generator tailored to the needs of the client can extend the basic capabilities of the standard document builder, overcome its limitations and solve the client's task of generating the necessary documents in accordance with the technical requirements.

Our company has extensive experience in this type of tasks.

examples of problems and solution

holding company REAL

Tasks for document generation application:

✓  Create a presentation of the property based on the data received from the catalog of real estate,
✓  Automatically send the presentation to the client,
✓  Automatically draw up a financial report on the property for the landlord in Google Sheets,
✓  Set access permissions (access to the report by authorization in Google Sheets).

textile and technologies company

Tasks for document generation application:

✓  A service engineer visits a customer on request,  
✓  Upon completion of the service, a request report form is filled out
✓  The customer signs a delivery and acceptance certificate in the mobile app
✓  The act of service work is generated and signed by the customer,
✓  A copy of the act is sent to the customer's address.

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Tasks for document generation application:

✓  Generate a work contract based on a sample in Google Sheets, 
✓  Set access permissions and rights: edit rights are only granted to the company's lawyers, by authorization in Google Sheets, 
✓  Approve the version of the contract by the lawyer,
✓  Generate a PDF version of the approved contract with signature and stamp, 
✓  Automatically send the contract to the client.

PRIMO SENTIMENTO

Tasks for document generation application:

✓  Generate contracts, invoices, waybills for dispatch of goods from a warehouse, 
✓  Send documents to the postal address of the accounting, 
✓  Generate delivery reports in PDF format.

conclusion

Drawing on our experience, we see that the client's tasks do not always fit into the capabilities of the Bitrix24 standard document builder. In this case you can always find a suitable tool to solve the problem and integrate with the Bitrix24 CRM.

We will find the best solution for your task and take care of setting up a workflow.