WProposal

How to fix your proposal creation and tracking process

When your proposal process is split between spreadsheets, documents and chat, you don't just lose time — you lose deals you never saw waiting. This page walks through the cost of a fragmented proposal process and the target workflow inside the WApps business management ecosystem.

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Proposals

Prepare drafts, send them, and follow acceptance.

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What is proposal creation and tracking?

The proposal process covers every step from pricing a service request to recording its outcome: defining scope, pricing, producing the document, sending it, handling revisions and following approval. When those steps are split across spreadsheets, email and chat, it becomes invisible which proposal is waiting on whom — and deals are usually lost to lack of follow-up rather than slowness.

Problem and approach

The hidden cost of a fragmented proposal process

With pricing in a spreadsheet, the document in a word processor and approval waiting in chat, three things keep repeating: the same service gets different prices in different proposals; a promised revision is forgotten; and after a proposal is sent, the process goes dark. Nobody owns following up on unanswered proposals because there is no 'waiting for reply' list anywhere. Most deals aren't lost to a bad proposal — they're lost to no follow-up.

Target flow: from catalog to proposalTarget flow: send via link, track by statusTarget flow: revisions managed by versions

Impact on the workflow

Target flow: from catalog to proposal

Services and prices live in one catalog; proposals are assembled from it. Price consistency happens by default.

Target flow: send via link, track by status

Proposals go out via a share link; draft, sent and approved stages live in the panel. 'Waiting for reply' becomes a list, not a memory exercise.

Target flow: revisions managed by versions

Every revision is versioned automatically; the version your client saw never gets mixed up with the current draft.

Target flow: in sync with your sales chain

Implementation notes

WProposal is built for this flow

Service catalog, automatic version history, share links and stage tracking are built into WProposal; the WLeads integration works in one click.

What should you measure?

Four numbers are worth tracking in this flow: how long a proposal takes to prepare from request to send, how long from sending to the first view, the average number of revisions per proposal, and the acceptance rate of what you send. All four accumulate on the proposal record, so you keep no separate report.

Work it out with your own numbers

Try it with your figures: if you prepare N proposals a month and each takes M minutes on average, proposal preparation costs N×M minutes a month. To measure how much a catalog and templates shorten that, record your current M first — you can only see improvement against a starting point.

What setup this runs on

This flow is built with WProposal. If you also track a sales pipeline, adding WLeads turns opportunity-to-proposal into one click and updates the lead stage on send. Once a proposal is accepted, WFinance takes over for tracking its collection.

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