Megaplan of CRM

Free products perfectly will be suitable for business process automation of numerous web studios and Internet agencies, associations of freelancers and startups, individual entrepreneurs and any small project collectives.

It is no secret that the vast majority of the companies of the Russian small business is in "Stone Age" in terms of business process automation. Management accounting is implemented on paper or in chaos of numerous spreadsheets, financial accounting – in ledgers. An important restraining factor for implementation of automation systems is their high cost, often very heavy for the small companies from 3-7 people and also difficult and opaque process of implementation and deployment of solutions on own servers.

The combination of SaaS model of distribution of products Megaplan and existence of a free line allows any company to begin instantly work in Megaplan, with zero costs for implementation and maintenance. For start of work in a system it is rather simple to be registered on the website www.megaplan.ru in one minute – and it is possible to get to work.

CRM Free will help to keep the customer accounting and to interact with them in a system, to configure the flexible scheme of sales and maintaining transactions, to build funnels of sales and other reports, to manage tasks and employees, to keep financial and managerial account.

Free products Megaplan have restrictions: in a system no more than 7 employees can be brought (apart from dismissed) and to be used no more than three licenses (simultaneous logins in a system). At achievement of limits users of a system always have a possibility of simple transition to paid versions.

Megaplan became one of the first Russian companies having serious weight in the market of automation, announcing a line of the free products available to mass use according to the SaaS model. This step will help huge to the number of the small companies to use the effective instruments of automation developed especially for realities of the Russian business.

2020: Start of free service for control of work of remote workers

On March 31, 2020 developers of the CRM system Megaplan announced start of free service for control of work of remote workers. The platform will help heads to configure safe exchange of documents of the company, to trace tasks, to control contractors and to communicate in the protected chat on the smartphone or the home computer.

According to a research of Megaplan, 16% of Russians for the end of March, 2020 switched over to a house operation mode because of threat of spread of a coronavirus. At the same time, the share of employees on an udalenka in Moscow and St. Petersburg makes about 63%. Transition to work from the house led to increase in traffic of messengers and services of video conferences, analysts of SimilarWeb note. At the same time the number of users of Megaplan on mobile devices in two weeks grew by 24%, at the same time time of a working session increased on average for 1.5 hours a day.

Business actively looks for tools to stay in touch with employees and to control execution of tasks. So, since March 16, 2020 the amount of requests for connection to Megaplan increased by 25%. And the main call for us was the fact that the main product of the company is much harder and harder than current demands of the market. Therefore we studied the most popular options which are looked for by our potential users, and integrated them in one completely free service, notes the CEO of Megaplan Sergey Kozlov

Megaplan offers business free of charge and without restrictions on the number of employees to use the manager of tasks with flexible configuration of access rights for employees, the corporate calendar and a chat and also an opportunity it is safe to exchange and store in a cloud of 10 GB of data. Users will be able to install free of charge on the smartphone mobile application for operating control behind accomplishment of tasks and results of employees. It is possible to be connected to free service on megaudalenka.ru.

We started a free product to help business which incurs huge losses because of a pandemic and its effects, as soon as possible to adjust work in the remote mode. It would be desirable that people on an udalenka continued to grow professionally and to work effectively, but to sit not thoughtlessly on the entertaining websites, explains a position of the company Sergey Kozlov

2019: Integration of Virtual PBX of Rostelecom

On August 6, 2019 Rostelecom reported that together with the developer of cloud services Megaplan signed the agreement on cooperation in the field of solutions for corporate clients. The companies intend to integrate Virtual PBX of Rostelecom into the CRM system (Customer Relationship Management is customer relationship management) Megaplan. Read more here.

2016: Upgrade of submission of the reporting

In 2016 clients of Megaplan company became: Crocus group, MGIMO, SPbSU, JSC ND Bank, network of quests Claustrophobia, network of sports clubs Fitness House, Verny retail network, "Federal Scientific Clinical Center of Physical and Chemical Medicine" Roszdrava and others.

In 2016 the company began to carry out redesign of CRM "Megaplan".

"We passed to new ReactJS technology which allowed a system to work much quicker — Sergey Kozlov tells. — Also the arrangement of elements of the interface changed, now each user of a system had an opportunity to select with what design of the interface it is more convenient to it to work. The arrangement of elements in a system can be provided both in the form of the list, and in the form of cards. Selecting design in the form of cards, the user has an opportunity to work in one window, it does not need to pass constantly from one page to another".

Besides, in 2016 CRM "Megaplan" turned into the complex platform where the different services and applications for data exchange with other systems increasing its efficiency and convenience to users can be added. An opportunity to create such applications appeared both at third-party developers, and at users of a system. Data from Megaplan can be integrated with other systems of customers performing, for example, access control at the enterprise, accounting calculations and postings, accounting of warehouse stocks, management of the prices and efficiency evaluation of different sales channels and also with mail services, uniform base of contacts, digital telephone exchange, etc. Opening of the CRM system for integration into third-party applications will give the chance to users to adjust permanent synchronization of data of Megaplan with other information systems and also to use data of these systems in Megaplan.

On February 15, 2016 the Megaplan company announced upgrade of the module of reports of a system: these systems can be transformed to color diagrams and charts now^[1].

In the upgraded module Reports the filter of data and the toolbar is changed, four browse modes are added. As a part of the version 10 reports which will show how many tasks in work at each department how many transactions are closed, total revenue last month are by default included.

Reports can be copied, printed, transferred to the MS Excel or to delete directly from the list - they are selected in in bold.

Screenshot of the program window, 2015

In a system the testing tool appeared, it will help to check the employees for knowledge of a system and to increase efficiency. Tests are separated into 2 groups: Joint work and CRM: Clients and sales. In each group — three levels of complexity. The test consists of 15-20 questions, each of which contains 4 answer options and only one of them correct. After successful testing the user can receive the registered certificate which authenticity can be verified on a developer's site.

The calls all entering, proceeding, missed remain in Megaplan in a card of the client and the calendar responsible for the client. In this version there was a setup allowing not to fix calls without conversation. Connection of mail became simpler: hints will carry out on all stages of setup. Connection is possible from any place of the program.

2013: Oktell was integrated into Megaplan

The business application Megaplan integrates Oktell as the module for commission of voice calls. Integration of Megaplan with Oktell will allow users to make internal and external calls directly in the software client. In a profile of each user (the client, the partner or the colleague) the Call button appears. By its clicking there is an automatic connection with the subscriber. At an incoming call number to be automatically determined, in a pop-up window all information on calling appears. If the contact took place for the first time, the window for creation of the new card opens. All talk can register with preserving on own server. The headset or the built-in microphone is necessary for implementation of calls.

2012

For June, 2012 more than 12,000 companies with the total state strongly for hundred thousand people who created more than two million tasks in a system use Megaplan.

2011: Megaplan Free Task manager

For 2011 more than 7,500 orders for payment were implemented. The size of the customer base (active paid clients) increased more than by 2.5 times to an indicator of 2,400 clients. The volume of the customer base on free products was 9,600 companies

Free products perfectly will be suitable for business process automation of numerous web studios and Internet agencies, associations of freelancers and startups, individual entrepreneurs and any small project collectives.

It is no secret that the vast majority of the companies of the Russian small business is in "Stone Age" in terms of business process automation. Management accounting is implemented on paper or in chaos of numerous spreadsheets, financial accounting – in ledgers. An important restraining factor for implementation of automation systems is their high cost, often very heavy for the small companies from 3-7 people and also difficult and opaque process of implementation and deployment of solutions on own servers.

The combination of SaaS model of distribution of products Megaplan and existence of a free line allows any company to begin instantly work in Megaplan, with zero costs for implementation and maintenance. For start of work in a system it is rather simple to be registered on the website www.megaplan.ru in one minute – and it is possible to get to work.

The task manager of Free allows to organize effectively joint work in the company, to organize setting and control of execution of tasks and projects, to plan and keep the calendar of daily affairs, to systematize work with remote workers.

Free products Megaplan have restrictions: in a system no more than 7 employees can be brought (apart from dismissed) and to be used no more than three licenses (simultaneous logins in a system). At achievement of limits users of a system always have a possibility of simple transition to paid versions.

Megaplan became one of the first Russian companies having serious weight in the market of automation, announcing a line of the free products available to mass use according to the SaaS model. This step will help huge to the number of the small companies to use the effective instruments of automation developed especially for realities of the Russian business.

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