Hi Readers,
I could not spend time on my blog since last few weeks due to my extended vacation. I know i owe answers/responses to a few of you. I will start doing it from today again. Sorry about this.
In today’s post we will take a look at all the important capabilities of the customer self-service portal.
The customer self-service portal, which is an out of box feature of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 adds to the list of several other simple yet powerful list of features.
This enables your customers to work with you in more efficient way without having the need to several manual interventions. Rather than having customers calling you and asking questions about their orders, placing new orders, asking about invoices, inquiring about products, you can just give then a log in for the customer self-service website and can do all of the above stuffs on their own.
For customers to get started with using the portal for them, all you need to do is follow few simple steps to setup the customer contact and other required details and then they are ready to go. The various capabilities of CSS(Customer self-service portal) are explained in the points below.
1. Configure Product Catalog and make it available on the web for customers to browse through your products:
- Configure Product groups:
- Prepare presentations:
- Sync and publish images to the Web/SharePoint portal:
2. You can prepare campaign items and few easy steps and make it available on the web for customers to browse through them and add to their carts.
This makes it easy for the organizations and their customers to interact easily, without having to make several calls and exchange emails to find required information about your products.
3. Customer can place Orders on the web in few simple steps:
- Add items to shopping cart
- Checkout items and initiate order
- Confirm order
And You have successfully placed your order.
4. Have customers inquire about all their orders at one place on the web without reaching out to you frequently for the status and other related information about their orders.
5. Have customers inquire about all their invoices and related information on the web.
View invoices
6. Customers can create , Manage and inquire about their item/order returns.
7. If your organization provided services on it’s products for customer and manage repairs for them, then you can have your customers/technicians create service orders on the web.
So, with these offerings on the web for making your customers work easily with you on several things on daily basis, AX 2012 can help you and customers interact everything efficiently at one place, getting most updated information about their orders and stuff etc.
This post is aimed for customers who are looking for a customer self-service portal built inside and coupled strongly with their ERP application.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 – POWERFULLY SIMPLE !!! YET AGAIN !
Till next time… Keep DAXING 
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog 
Hi
How difficult or easy is it to import the items and their images via DIEF? Seems bizzare that this does not directly link to the default item image location and therefore save you time having to add the image twice in DAX?
Thanks
Wayne
Hi Wayne,
Sorry, but I have done this before, so I will not be able to recommend on this. Did you get the answer for this yet ? I can help asking this in the community to find out what other experts think about it.
Regards,
Sandeep
Hi Sandeep,
I create a sale order through customer self-service, I would like to confirm it and do the invoice in AX but I am unable to do so. Also, in the column of type of sale journal appears instead of sales order.
Thanks
Andrea
Hi Andrea,
You could check the setup parameter under the AR module to verify if the default SO type is selected as “Journal”. If it is so, please change it to Sales order and you should be good.
Please let me know if it is not so.
-Sandeep
Hi Sandeep, I would like to see if you can help me with this. When I create a salesorder from the enterprise portal the first one goes through fine. Then I create a second one and the I get this error when I do the checkout:
Error: Create sales order automatically Customer account: 1331 Cannot create a record in Sales orders (SalesTable). Sales order: SO012464, TWC CHERMSIDE. The record already exists.
I have tried to invoice the first order but I still get the error. If I delete the record from the Sales and Marketing\all sales orders grid then I’m able to create a new salesorder. But only one if I create a second one I get the error again. Do any of you have an idea about what is tricking me?
Thanks
Soren
Soren,
It looks to me like a SQL issue. It goes fine when i try to do the same.
Can you work with one of your developers to see if they can help. Also, please let me know which CU are you in. I am on CU3 patch.
Thanks
Sandeep
Hi Sandeep,
Thanks for your reply. I will install CU3 which we are not on. That will probably bring me back on track.
Cheers
Hi, it is very useful for the understanding of the capabilities of the tool. Could you please let me know if the account status (e.g. invoices overdue, the next due invoices, payment applications) could be monitored by the customer it self through the EP customer self-service?
Thank you
Hi Laura,
Several details gets displayed about the invoices when customer will navigate to Invoices page in the EP.
Can you please let me know the list of exact requirements which your customer would like to see on the EP ?
Thanks
Sandeep