A company creates large quotes with hundreds of line items. These line items must be generated in a specific format for internal processing and presentation to the customer.
What should the sales reps use to generate these line items in the required format?
Salesforce CPQ provides a powerful built-in tool called Document Builder for generating documents from quotes, particularly when dealing with a large volume of quote line items. Document Builder allows sales reps to design templates that reflect branding and formatting requirements, while also ensuring data consistency pulled directly from the quote and quote line item records.
According to the Salesforce CPQ Implementation Guide, Document Builder supports features such as:
Pagination for large quote tables.
Grouping and sorting of line items.
Conditional logic to display specific sections.
Merging quote-level and line-level fields dynamically.
This makes Document Builder the optimal and scalable solution for companies managing large quotes with hundreds of line items, as it is natively integrated with Salesforce CPQ and tailored for high-volume quoting use cases.
While OmniStudio Document Generation can be used across various Salesforce industries, it is typically more applicable in Salesforce Industries (Vlocity) implementations and not the default or recommended approach for standard Revenue Cloud customers. A Custom Report would not provide the flexible formatting, pagination, and quote-specific templating capabilities needed for such structured document output.
Exact Extracts from Salesforce Revenue Cloud Documents:
Salesforce CPQ Implementation Guide -- 'Quote Document Templates' Section:
''Document templates allow for the display of quote and quote line item data using merge fields and conditional formatting. Templates can be customized to handle large volumes of quote lines with repeating sections, grouping, and multi-page support.''
Salesforce CPQ and Billing Developer Guide -- 'Generate Document API' Section:
''The Quote Document generation process supports dynamic data merging and formatting for internal and customer-facing documents.''
Salesforce CPQ Implementation Guide
Salesforce Billing Implementation Guide
Salesforce Revenue Cloud Product Documentation (Fall 2023 Release Notes)
Salesforce CPQ and Billing Developer Guide