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We read this morning on TechCrunch that Mozilla Add-Ons hit one (1) billion in downloads. We are proud to be part of the Mozilla “Add-On Community” and continue to experience great success with our LOOP PDF add-on for Firefox.

Drawloop Add-On Rankings:
Document Category (47th out of 116)
Other Category (68th out of 695)

Our users have been able to extend Firefox to allow them to convert and combine any files to PDF without the conversion getting in the way of their web browsing. We have also experienced (about 30% of total PDF conversions) an increase in URL/web page conversions to PDF within our add-on. Users can document web pages while browsing the Internet within Firefox. All you do is click a button and the web page is converted to PDF. From there, you can download or quickly combine the web page(s) with other files into a single PDF.

Congrats Mozilla! Make it a billion + 1 and install LOOP to PDF today.

Now is a great time to implement tangible solutions to increase profitability for 2009. In the current economic environment, everyone is looking to do more with less. Document creation can be one of the more expensive and labor intensive business tasks. Sales reps and other critical team members often spend hours each day customizing the documents required to respond to customers.

Let Drawloop help you reduce costs and do more with less! We encourage you to take a look at our document automation services and add document automation as one of your priorities for 2009. Take a look at what our customers have to say.

Through December 31st, we are offering all Salesforce.com customers LOOP Merge at $0.00 per user / month in 2009. Yes, that means it’s FREE for a year! Simply have your Salesforce Administrator install now from AppExchange to take advantage of the LOOP Merge offer.

Click here to learn more about LOOP Merge.

So what are you waiting for? Install LOOP Merge today!

LOOP Document Services 3.0 went live on AppExchange today. As an active user of Salesforce, we often find ourselves looking for help within the Salesforce community or posting feature requests on the Salesforce Idea Exchange. While participating in this amazing community, we kept seeing ideas shared that related to documents (our expertise). Those ideas presented an opportunity for us to review our current document services (LOOP, LOOPlus and LOOP Reports) and see how we could incorporate real solutions to posts on Idea Exchange.

We are pleased to officially announce LOOP Merge - the answer to over thirty (30) Salesforce Ideas. LOOP Merge significantly enhances, compliments and extends the out-of-the-box Salesforce Mail Merge functionality.

Our Objectives:

Enhance the current Salesforce merge process

Improve maintenance and organization of merge templates

Support multiple browsers and operating systems

Extend merge to other applications and file types

Pricing: $4 per user/month (no minimum users)

Enhancements (11 ideas)

1. Increase File Size Limitation of 1MB: LOOP Merge allows you to upload your merge templates into the Salesforce documents tab which has a file size limit of 5MB. Like LOOPlus, you can also work with publicly accessible URL based documents which allow you to go beyond the 5MB limit if needed.
2. Date Formatting: All dates used by any of LOOP Document Service format the date using the long date format by locale.
3. Empty Fields: All fields that do not have values pass as a blank instead of “______”.
4. Ability to Select a Contact: Accounts, Cases, Opportunities and Contracts allow you to select contacts related to the object.
5. Customize the Button: You can easily deploy your own buttons and point to the LOOP Merge s-control.
6. Additional Delivery Options: You can Email, Email and Attach, Attach Only or send the Mail Merge Document to our free LOOP service where you can download or add any additional documents to the final merged PDF file.

Maintenance and Organization (7 ideas)

1. Folder Support: LOOP Merge allows you to upload your merge templates into the documents tab and store in any document folder - any security established within document folders will control access for available LOOP Merge documents.
2. Update and Tracking: Deploying templates in the documents tab also allows you to update and track templates.
3. Filter by Object: Document keyword tags allow you to limit documents by object.

Browser and OS Support (4 ideas)

1. Web Browsers: Our LOOP Document Services support Firefox, IE, Safari and Chrome.
2. OS: Our LOOP Document Services support any OS that can run Firefox, IE, Safari or Chrome.

Applications and Document Types (11 ideas)

1. Additional Application Support: LOOP Merge works with Google Docs and Spreadsheets as well as OpenOffice. Although we work with the Saleforce Office Plugin, this is not a requirement for any of our services. Any document that can be saved as an Microsoft Office document can be used with our document services.
2. Additional Document Types: Works with Mail Merge Templates or any Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel (up to 2007 versions) or PDF file.

LOOPlus and DocuSign Mashup on AppExchange

We are pleased to announce our latest DDP integration partner - DocuSign. DocuSign has combined its e-signature service with our LOOPlus document creation service within Salesforce.com. A Salesforce.com user can now deliver DDPs for e-signature with enhanced features like dynamic placement of initials and signatures, powerful routing, workflow options and data capture back to Salesforce.com at the time of signature.

“The combined power of Drawloop and DocuSign on the Salesforce platform enables companies to achieve efficiencies, reduce costs and speed time to revenue like never before,” says Bob DeSantis, Vice President of Sales & Business Development at DocuSign. “Our joint solution completes the vision of straight through processing (STP) in a cloud computing environment with zero upfront capital expenditures. The combined solution enhances our customer’s ability to increase pipeline velocity, achieve greater agreement visibility throughout the sales lifecycle, and realize massive efficiencies from the reduction of paper, shipping and data entry costs. LOOPlus with DocuSign agreements will be consistent and remain digital during the entire sales process. In essence our joint customers will immediately execute leaner, greener, faster and more profitably.”

“Our partnership with Drawloop Technologies represents a very strategic relationship and tremendous value for Salesforce users,” commented Ken Cavallon, Business Development Manager, DocuSign. “Together we offer a powerful solution that provides the ability to originate, manage and complete sales contracts through a single work space, which in turn simplifies and expedites the entire contract execution process and helps businesses close deals faster, increase revenue and improve productivity.”

Please visit our LOOP Document Services on AppExchange.

Google Chrome allows you to use LOOP PDF without opening your browser. LOOP PDF will launch in its own streamlined Google Chrome Window. LOOP PDF is an on-demand document service allowing a user to convert and combine files to PDF. LOOP PDF also provides powerful features that are generally only found in paid software. We allow the user to convert to PDF, combine multiple files to a single PDF, select specific pages, determine page order, add bookmarks and add PDF security. In other words, LOOP PDF is more than just a PDF converter.

To create a the LOOP PDF application with Chrome, following these simple instructions:

Navigate to LOOP PDF for iGoogle.

Click on the Page menu next to settings.

Select Create application shortcuts.

Select where you want the shortcuts to be placed.

Click the OK button.

Start using LOOP PDF to convert, organize, and combine your files to PDF. When you double-click the new shortcut icon, the LOOP PDF application opens in a special streamlined window. Click here to learn how to use LOOP PDF.



 
Google Chrome Application Shortcuts:

We thought it would be helpful to share and summarize how our customers are deploying dynamic document packages or DDPs. Your business can automate document creation virtually anywhere on the web. Quick and easy deployment translates into more productive and profitable hours for your entire organization.

We offer our Premier and Enterprise customers several deployment options for their dynamic document packages or DDPs. Each option will allow you to automate document creation for your entire organization. All you need is your documents and a web browser.

You can now convert your CSS, MHTML, and Word Perfect files to PDF with our online service, LOOP. Below is a listing of all file types supported by LOOP.

We are excited to announce the new release of LOOP Reports within our Salesforce.com document automation service. You can automate and schedule the email delivery of Salesforce.com reports as one combined file. A powerful feature of LOOP Reports is your ability to dynamically send Salesforce.com reports into an Excel file allowing you to create any required analytics. The end result is a scheduled email report designed, calculated and structured to meet the unique needs and requirements for your reps, managers and executives.

Do you need to customize your scheduled Salesforce.com reports?
No problem. We work with CRM Advantage who provides both training and professional services for LOOP Reports.

We encourage you to install our free trial from AppExchange to begin automating and scheduling your Salesforce.com reports.

We have just updated and are pleased to announce that our Salesforce.com customers can now add Opportunity (or Product) Line Items to their Dynamic Document Packages or DDPs.

Our LOOPlus service allows your business to customize, control and manage document creation at the enterprise level for all users within Salesforce.com. You can dynamically customize and package any combination of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files into a single combined file. This combined file can then be delivered through Salesforce.com email or virtually any required delivery option, like electronic signature, a work flow, a document queue or a required approval process.

We offer LOOPlus training every Tuesday and Thursday, on the hour, from 10:00am to 2:00pm PT. Please email us at support@drawloop.com to register for a training session - please identify the date and time slot.

As some of you may have noticed, when converting from Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to PDF using our LOOP service, some fonts are not supported (i.e. some fonts do not get converted correctly). Fortunately, if the font you are trying to use is a TrueType font, you can solve this problem by embedding the font.

Watch this 15 second demo to see how to embed a TrueType font

Hope that helps! Please contact us at support@drawloop.com with any questions.