📄 Documents in Tenziv CRM
Tenziv CRM lets you build, manage, and send professional documents—proposals, quotes, contracts, NDAs, and more—with optional e-signatures, rich content, live tracking, and visual editing.
⚙️ Document Settings
Manage how your team creates, categorizes, and controls access to documents in one unified place.
📌 Default Document Type
Set a default document type (e.g., Proposal, Quote) to streamline workflows.
Helpful for pre-selecting the most frequently used type across your team.
🗂️ Document Types
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Built-in Types: Contract, Proposal, Quote (cannot be deleted or heavily renamed)
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Custom Types: Add new types like NDA, Brochure, Agreement, Case Study, etc.
Use labels to quickly identify document types and maintain consistency.
🔐 Document Type Visibility
Control access to specific document types:
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By default, all users can see all types.
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Restrict visibility to certain roles or teams (e.g., only HR sees “NDA” type).
📝 Creating a Document
From the sidebar:
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Go to Documents → Click Create Document
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In Details:
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Choose brand, document type, owner
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Enter a title
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Set the locale (e.g., English)
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In Products:
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Add products tied to the deal
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Totals update automatically
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In Signature:
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Enable e-signature
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Add one or more signers
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In Content:
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Use the Visual Document Editor to design rich, branded layouts
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Insert product tables, placeholder fields, and headings
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Click Save
💡 If the document owner differs from the creator, they receive a notification (using the User Assigned To Document template).
📎 Associations:
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When a deal is linked:
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Contacts are added as signers
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Products auto-load into the document
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Document is associated with the deal for tracking
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🧭 Choosing a View Layout
At the top-right of the editor, select between:
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Navigation Top – Simple, minimal layout
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Navigation Left – Sidebar navigation based on headings (H1)
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Navigation Left – Full Width – For immersive content without margin
📌 You can switch to Visual View from the top-right corner of the document editor.
✏️ Editing a Document
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Go to Documents
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Click the document title
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Make changes to any field
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Click Save
📦 Products in Documents
Adding Products
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Add multiple products in the Products tab
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Total is auto-calculated (helpful for reporting, filtering, and totals in PDFs)
Displaying Products in Content
To show product tables in your document:
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Go to Content
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Use the editor to insert a Products Table where needed
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It appears in both the public HTML view and PDF
✍️ Collecting E-Signatures
Add Signers
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Go to Signature
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Enable Use e-signature
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Add signer(s): name + email
Each signature logs:
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IP address
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Timestamp
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Full name and email
Signer View
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Click the public link
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Click Sign (top right)
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Confirm email
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Type full name
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Click Sign
🔔 Notifications:
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Document owner gets notified after each signature
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Uses the Signer Signed Document email template
⚠️ Removing a signer from an accepted document will revert it to Draft status.
✅ Accepting Documents (No Signature Required)
Documents can be accepted without requiring a signature:
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Enable Accept Without Signature
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Once accepted:
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Status changes to Accepted
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Owner is notified (bell + email)
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⚠️ Accepted documents cannot be reverted but can be deleted.
📤 Sending Documents
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Open the document → go to Send
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Review signers (pre-filled from Signature tab)
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Add new recipients if needed
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Choose email account to send from
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Set subject and message
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Click Send
📌 Cron job must be configured for scheduled sends.
🔍 Tracking Document Views
Tenziv CRM logs when a document is viewed via its public HTML link:
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Owner gets notified (bell + email)
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View is added to the activity log
🧠 View Tracking Smart Logic:
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Views are tracked hourly
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Reloading within the same hour does not create new entries
📄 Generating Document PDFs
Click the PDF button (top right in editor):
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View in browser or download
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Customers can also download from the public document view
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Minor differences may exist between HTML and PDF versions
Fonts
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Set a default font for each brand
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Override per document in the editor
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✅ DejaVu Sans recommended for multilingual/special characters
🔧 Using Placeholders
Placeholders auto-fill content using deal, company, contact, or brand data.
To insert:
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In the Content editor, click the
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Choose from:
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Brand info
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First associated deal, contact, or company
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General placeholders (e.g., document title)
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🔁 Pulls data from the first linked record if multiple are associated.
📂 Templates
Why Use Templates?
Save time and maintain consistency when sending similar documents.
Managing Templates
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Go to Manage Templates via the dropdown or document index
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Create, edit, or delete templates as needed
Saving as Template
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In Content, click Save Template
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Name it and optionally share with your team
Inserting a Template
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Use the Insert Template dropdown in Content
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Template content is loaded instantly