business person hlding business card with Rocket CRM logo

From Nov 2019 you may have suddenly noticed a new button on your contact Quick Create class similar the one below?

Scan Business Card feature i

The Scan Concern Carte du jour pick is a great addition for salespeople who are as well busy to type info into a CRM system, or those lucky plenty to have a biz bill of fare scanning device that scans business cards and uploads an image into a file.
One other great benefit of this feature is that information technology can also help reduce the risk of typo mistakes.

The feature works with image fields of business cards.

You lot tin can too employ your mobile phone to accept a photo and upload information technology to a file. This might be a useful method for an admin person who has just had a pile of business cards dumped onto their desk!

The only requirement to utilise the feature is to make sure you have the Common Data Service User part assigned.

How to utilize the feature

  1. Click the + button to create a new contact
  2. Click the Scan Business organization Card Push button to browse for your image and click Insert
  3. Dynamics will attempt to extract the information from the business organization card

You can see in the instance beneath, it didn't manage to capture my email address. I take tested on other cards and information technology ordinarily had no problem with this.

Scan Business Card feature i

Once saved, the record is created and the business organization is also saved along with the record by default.

Retained busienss card on the contact form

For more than information run into the Microsoft Docs site
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/sales-enterprise/browse-business-cards

If y'all need assistance with this or any other part of Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement feel free to accomplish out and contact us for an informal chat.

About Iain Wicks

Iain has been working in the CRM manufacture since 1999 and has a wealth of experience of implementing CRM for small to medium sized business organisation teams. Iain's focus is on "Keeping it simple" and on user adoption.