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Help

Step-by-step guides, FAQs and tutorials for every OMB Cloud module.

guides

How to write a B2B quote that closes — 7 elements

The structural elements every B2B quote needs, in the order that matches how the buyer reads it. Plus the three lines most quotes are missing.

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Multi-country invoicing — a B2B operator's guide

How invoicing actually works when you bill from Mexico, Spain, the US and Brazil simultaneously. Compliance, FX, and the three traps that bite at scale.

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The B2B collections playbook that recovers 80%

Why single-channel collections caps at 60% recovery and how multi-channel dunning, paced correctly, lifts that to 80%+.

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AI sales agents — when they work and when they don't

An honest framework for when an AI agent replaces human reps for parts of the sales workflow, and when it shouldn't.

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Migrating from HubSpot to OMB Cloud — what to expect

A practical walkthrough of what migrates cleanly, what needs manual mapping, and the timeline you should plan.

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DocuSign alternatives for B2B — when in-house signing wins

For everyday B2B contracts in MX and the US, simple e-signature is legally valid and costs nothing per envelope. When DocuSign is still the right tool, and when it's not.

how-to

Create and publish a page

Build a hero, body, footer, and ship it under your domain with one click.

how-to

Multi-site and custom domains

Host a main marketing site, campaign landers, and partner microsites under one tenant.

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Structure a CMS site that scales

Conventions that keep a 3-page site and a 60-page site both manageable.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: page changes not live

Why your edit doesn't show up at the public URL — and how to force-refresh.

advanced

Advanced: templates, themes and component libraries

Lock brand consistency across hundreds of pages without freezing flexibility.

getting-started

Get started with Marketing Analytics

Traffic, conversion, attribution and revenue — one dashboard tied to the same CRM the rest of the platform uses.

how-to

Read the conversion funnel

Visitor → lead → meeting → deal — and where each segment leaks.

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Attribution: first-touch, last-touch, multi-touch

Three models, three different stories. Pick the one that matches the question you're asking.

best-practices

Best practices: which metrics to actually watch

Most marketing dashboards have 40 widgets. You need 6 numbers.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: numbers don't match Google Analytics

They never will — and that's usually fine. Here's why and what to trust.

advanced

Advanced: cohort analysis

Group leads by week of creation, then watch what % progress over time.

getting-started

Get started with Collections

A dunning workflow for invoices that crossed due-date — staged outreach, multi-channel, tone-calibrated.

how-to

How collection stages and the funnel work

When an invoice moves stage, who triggers it, and how to override.

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Multi-channel follow-ups (email, voice, WhatsApp)

Email is the floor — voice and WhatsApp lift recovery rate dramatically after day 21.

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Tone playbook: firm without burning the relationship

Five tone moves that keep customers paying and willing to renew.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: collection emails bouncing

Why your dunning emails don't arrive and how to recover deliverability.

advanced

Advanced: segmented playbooks by customer tier

Strategic customers and one-off customers should never see the same cadence.

getting-started

Get started with SEO

Track rankings, audit pages, generate AI-assisted briefs — built into the platform, not bolted on.

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Track keywords and rankings

Pick the right keywords, watch positions move, get notified on big shifts.

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Generate AI content briefs

A brief that says what to write, why, and what shape it should take.

best-practices

Best practices: pillar pages and clusters

A pillar page + cluster of supporting pages outperforms 20 disconnected blog posts.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: page not indexed

When you published but Google still doesn't show your page.

advanced

Advanced: schema markup and structured data

Schema.org markup that earns rich results in SERPs.

getting-started

Get started with Agency

The in-tenant catalog of done-for-you marketing and ops services — request, scope and track without leaving the platform.

how-to

Request a service from the catalog

Filling the brief well saves you a meeting and shaves days off delivery.

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Track agency engagements

Every active service shows up as a project — same project module your team uses.

best-practices

Best practices: writing briefs that get great work

A great brief takes 30 minutes and saves a week. Five rules.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: project running late

Most slippage has a cause traceable in the project itself.

advanced

Advanced: retainers and ongoing engagements

When you stop buying services and start buying monthly capacity.

getting-started

Get started with Webchat

An AI chat widget for your website — qualifies leads, books meetings, hands off to humans when needed.

how-to

Embed Webchat on your website

One script tag, two-minute setup. Works on any CMS or static site.

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Handing off from AI to human

When the visitor needs a human, the AI bridges without dropping context.

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Best practices: tone, scope and guardrails

A well-scoped chat agent feels professional. A poorly-scoped one feels like a chatbot.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: Webchat not loading

When the bubble doesn't show up, or chat stays in "connecting…" forever.

advanced

Advanced: routing rules and segmentation

Send enterprise visitors to enterprise reps, SMB to SMB. Without asking the visitor.

getting-started

Get started with AI Agents

Digital employees that work across email, chat and voice — not just bots, but full-stack workforce.

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Build a custom AI Agent

Persona, knowledge, tools, guardrails — the four levers that define your agent.

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Connect channels: email, chat, voice, WhatsApp

One agent, multiple surfaces. Same context, same memory.

best-practices

Best practices: scoping an agent that performs

Narrow scope, clear escalation, honest about limits — the three principles of agents that work.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: agent giving poor answers

When the agent fabricates, derails, or refuses — diagnose by reading the transcript carefully.

advanced

Advanced: multi-agent handoff and workflows

Agents that work in teams — SDR hands off to AE, AE hands off to CSM. Without dropped context.

getting-started

Get started with Webforms

Capture leads, applications, surveys — every submission lands in your CRM with full attribution.

how-to

Build a form with the visual builder

Fields, validation, conditional logic, theming — all without code.

how-to

Embed a form on your website

Three ways: snippet, iframe, direct link. Each preserves attribution.

best-practices

Best practices: forms that actually convert

Six moves that lift submission rate without changing your offer.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: form not submitting

When the button does nothing, or submissions don't reach CRM.

advanced

Advanced: conditional logic and multi-step forms

Branch the form based on prior answers without making it feel like a survey.

getting-started

Get started with Automations

When-this-then-that workflows that move records, notify channels, and tie modules together.

how-to

Build a custom workflow

Drag triggers and actions onto a canvas. Branch with conditions.

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Trigger and action catalog

What you can fire from, and what you can do — at a glance.

best-practices

Best practices: debouncing and idempotency

Don't send the same notification 14 times because a field flickered.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: automation not firing

When you expected the workflow to run, but nothing happened.

advanced

Advanced: conditional branches and loops

Workflows that handle "if A do X, if B do Y" and iterate over collections.

getting-started

Get started with Diagnostics

Interactive self-assessments that qualify leads and tee up consultative sales calls.

how-to

Design questions that qualify

Each question should produce both a score and a useful piece of CRM data.

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Configure the result page

The result page is where the lead falls in love or bounces. Earn the call.

best-practices

Best practices: tone and length

5-10 minutes, conversational, never accusatory.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: low completion rate

When people start but don't finish.

advanced

Advanced: benchmarking and segments

Tell each respondent how they compare to similar companies. Most powerful result-page lever.

getting-started

Get started with Billing

Configure fiscal identities — MX, US, ES, BR, CA — under a single tenant.

how-to

Add a fiscal entity per country

Step-by-step for MX (CFDI), US (LLC/Corp), ES (Facturae), BR (NF-e).

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Operate across multiple countries from one tenant

Pick the right entity per invoice — by customer country, contract, or currency.

best-practices

Best practices: credential hygiene

CSDs expire. Signature certificates expire. A blocked stamp on a Friday afternoon is avoidable.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: stamping fails (MX, BR, ES)

Most stamping errors are credential, customer data, or amount issues — not platform issues.

advanced

Advanced: cross-entity reporting and consolidation

Roll up revenue across countries without losing the per-entity compliance view.

getting-started

Getting started with Catalog

Your master list of products and services with pricing, taxes and multi-currency — pulls into quotes and invoices.

how-to

Import the catalog from CSV

Bring your existing product list in one shot — pricing, taxes, categories.

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Multi-currency catalog pricing

Quote the same item in MXN to MX clients and USD to US clients with locked rates.

best-practices

Naming and structuring catalog items

Five conventions that keep your catalog usable as it grows past 200 items.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: prices not updating on quotes

When you edit an item but new quotes still show the old price.

advanced

Advanced: bundles and tiered packages

Create bundles that combine multiple catalog items at a discounted single line.

getting-started

Get started with Google integrations

Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Ads, Search Console — connected to the parts of the platform that need them.

how-to

Connect Gmail to CRM threads

Send from your real Gmail, see replies in CRM. No forwarding rules.

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Calendar booking for Webchat and CRM

AI agents and reps book onto your real calendar with conflict detection.

how-to

Connect Google Ads for ROI tracking

Spend data flows in, gets matched to leads and deals, ROI computes automatically.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: permission errors

OAuth misconfigurations, workspace policies, expired tokens.

advanced

Advanced: Search Console for SEO insights

Pull organic performance into the platform, cross with conversion data.

getting-started

Get started with CMS

Build marketing sites, landing pages and microsites visually — multi-site, multi-domain, multi-tenant.

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Getting started with Clients

A client portal where customers see their projects, invoices, contracts and conversations — no extra software for them.

how-to

Invite users to a client portal

Add stakeholders to the portal with role-based permissions (decision-maker, viewer, billing-only).

how-to

Share files and folders with a client

Drag-drop files into the client portal and the customer downloads them directly — no email attachments.

best-practices

Client onboarding best practices

How to use the portal to deliver a great first 30 days that anchors the relationship.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: client cannot access the portal

When a client reports the portal won't load — three causes and fixes.

advanced

Advanced: host the portal on your own subdomain

Run the client portal as clients.yourdomain.com instead of omb.cloud — fully branded with no OMB Cloud chrome.

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Getting started with Contacts

A unified database of every person in your operation — leads, customers, vendors — with deduplication and source attribution.

how-to

Merge duplicate contacts

When the same person exists under multiple emails or spelling variants, consolidate without losing activity history.

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Link contacts to leads, invoices and conversations

How OMB Cloud automatically connects activities to the right contact — and what to do when it gets it wrong.

best-practices

Best practices for contact segmentation

Tags and custom fields that let you slice your contacts for marketing, sales and reporting.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: emails to contact bounce

When marketing or transactional emails to a contact bounce — diagnose and fix without damaging reputation.

advanced

Advanced: LinkedIn-based contact enrichment

When a webform captures only an email, the agent enriches with LinkedIn name, role and company automatically.

getting-started

Getting started with Companies

A central database of every organization you sell to, with tax IDs, industry, multi-fiscal-entity support and the contacts who work there.

how-to

Import companies and contacts from a CSV

Bring your existing client list into OMB Cloud — companies and contacts together, deduplicated automatically.

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Merge duplicate companies

When the same organization exists twice, merge them and keep everything linked correctly.

best-practices

Five rules for company data quality

Practices that keep your Companies database trustworthy 18 months from now.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: tax-ID validation errors

When you can't save a company because the tax ID is rejected — common causes.

advanced

Advanced: managing parent companies and subsidiaries

When a client group operates multiple legal entities, group them so you see the consolidated picture.

getting-started

Getting started with Invoices

Multi-country invoicing with native CFDI (Mexico), Facturae (Spain), NF-e support (Brazil) and US/CA standard.

how-to

Issue CFDI 4.0 invoices for Mexico

Native CFDI 4.0 issuance with multi-emisor wholesale timbrado — no third-party PAC contract needed.

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Issue Facturae invoices for Spain

Native Facturae 3.2.x XML generation signed with XAdES — ready for B2G mandatory and Crea y Crece B2B progressive.

best-practices

Invoicing best practices for B2B cash flow

Five invoicing habits that shorten DSO and reduce payment friction in B2B receivables.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: invoice fails to stamp

When the CFDI/Facturae stamping rejects your invoice — common SAT or AEAT errors.

advanced

Advanced: recurring subscription billing

Configure monthly/annual recurring invoices with proration, plan changes and automatic stamping.

getting-started

Getting started with Quotations

Generate branded PDF quotes from your catalog, send for approval, and move accepted quotes into contracts.

how-to

Design a branded quotation PDF template

Use the visual builder to compose a fully branded quotation PDF — logo, colors, typography, layout.

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Apply discounts and taxes correctly

Volume discount, promo codes, VAT/IVA per line — get the math right the first time.

best-practices

Quotation best practices that lift win rate

Five tactical changes B2B teams make on quotations to close 10-20% more deals.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: PDF rendering issues

Misaligned tables, missing logos, weird fonts — common rendering issues and fixes.

advanced

Advanced: quote-to-contract flow with one click

When a prospect accepts a quote, OMB Cloud can auto-generate the contract for signature in seconds.

getting-started

Getting started with Contracts

In-house electronic signature with multi-signer support, audit trail and tamper-evident PDFs — no third-party vendor.

how-to

Create a contract from a template

Pre-built templates for NDA, services, contractor, lease, sales — pick, fill variables, send.

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Send to multiple signers (sequential or parallel)

Configure a contract with several parties and choose the signing order that fits your workflow.

best-practices

Best practices for audit trail and defensibility

Make every signed contract defensible if you ever end up in front of a judge or auditor.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: signer cannot open or sign

When a signer reports the link doesn't work — four common causes and fixes.

advanced

Advanced: bulk-import existing contracts with AI extraction

Drop a PDF or scanned image and an AI agent extracts the full body, parties, value and term automatically.

getting-started

Getting started with Projects

Manage delivery work with tasks, milestones, time tracking and a client portal — all linked to the CRM record.

how-to

Set up milestones and link them to invoicing

Trigger an invoice automatically when a milestone is marked complete and approved.

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Track time against tasks

Log billable hours per task with stopwatch or manual entry, then export for invoicing or analysis.

best-practices

Best practices: project templates and playbooks

Five principles for project templates that save time without becoming straitjackets.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: client portal access issues

When a client can't access the project portal — three common causes.

advanced

Advanced: retainer-based projects with rollover hours

Configure recurring retainers with monthly hour quotas, automatic rollover and overage billing.

getting-started

Getting started with Drive

Connect Google Drive or OneDrive and keep every contract, quote and customer file linked to the CRM record.

how-to

Connect Google Drive

OAuth-based Google Drive connection with optional folder scoping.

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Attach files to leads and companies

Drag-and-drop files into any CRM record and they auto-file into the right folder.

best-practices

Drive folder structure best practices

Five rules that keep your customer files findable five years from now.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: files not appearing in Drive

When uploads succeed in OMB Cloud but don't land in Drive — three checks.

advanced

Advanced: use a Google Shared Drive as the OMB Cloud root

For teams with strict offboarding policies, use a Shared Drive so files survive employee departures.

getting-started

Getting started with the Email Hub

A unified inbox for your team that ties every email back to a contact, lead and timeline.

how-to

Connect a Gmail account to the Email Hub

OAuth-based Gmail connection with optional label scoping for privacy.

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Set up SMTP for outbound when Gmail/Outlook are unavailable

For shared mailboxes or non-Gmail/Outlook domains, configure SMTP with rotating accounts.

best-practices

Email deliverability best practices

Authenticate your domain, protect reputation, and stay out of spam folders.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: emails not syncing into the Hub

When the Email Hub stops ingesting new messages — diagnose in 3 steps.

advanced

Advanced: shared mailboxes (sales@, support@, info@)

Route a shared inbox to multiple team members with auto-assignment and AI triage.

getting-started

Getting started with Calendar

Sync your calendar, publish booking pages, and let the AI agent schedule meetings on your behalf.

how-to

Create your first booking page

A public URL prospects can use to book time on your calendar without back-and-forth.

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Enable AI scheduling for inbound requests

When a prospect asks "can we meet?" by email or chat, the AI agent handles the rest.

best-practices

Best practices: team calendars and availability

How to publish accurate team availability without leaking private meetings.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: double bookings or wrong timezone

When a prospect books a slot that's actually unavailable — common causes.

advanced

Advanced: multi-host round-robin and pooled availability

For teams: distribute incoming bookings fairly or require multiple people in the same meeting.

getting-started

Getting started with OMB Cloud CRM

A 10-minute tour through pipelines, leads, contacts and the activity timeline.

how-to

Import leads from a CSV file

Bring your existing pipeline into OMB Cloud in under 5 minutes.

how-to

Set up lead scoring

Auto-prioritize leads by fit and engagement so reps focus on the best opportunities.

best-practices

CRM pipeline hygiene best practices

Five habits that keep your pipeline accurate and your forecast trustworthy.

troubleshooting

Troubleshooting: leads not appearing in the CRM

When new leads from forms or webchat don't show up — three things to check.

integrations

Connect your email and calendar to the CRM

Sync Gmail/Outlook conversations and calendar events automatically into the CRM timeline.