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Order Contracting Methods in Salesforce CPQ
You can adjust the contracting method fields on your order and order products to control how Salesforce CPQ distributes subscription products on your contracts. (Salesforce CPQ Managed Package)
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce CPQ Summer ’16 and later |
Order Contracting Method
The order field Contracting Method controls how Salesforce CPQ sets the start dates and end dates of contracts you create from your order. The field inherits its value from the quote that created your order.
- By Subscription End Date
- Salesforce CPQ groups subscription products by end dates into separate contracts. Each contract’s start date is equal to the earliest start date among its subscription products. This value is the default contracting method value.
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Note Salesforce CPQ creates contracts only when a user or process selects the Contracted checkbox on an opportunity or order. Amending an order with net-new subscriptions on the amended quote while this method is active doesn’t produce a new contract. - Single Contract
- Salesforce CPQ creates one contract for all your opportunity’s subscription products.
- The single contracting method isn’t available for evergreen quote lines. Evergreen and non-evergreen subscriptions must be managed on different contracts.
- When using single contracts, if you start a contract process and then start another contract process before the first one has finished, Salesforce CPQ creates multiple contracts. To avoid this, make sure to wait until the first contracting process has finished.
Order Product Contracting Method
Order products also have a Contracting Method field.
- Inherit: This order product follows the contracting method specified on its order. All order products have this value by default.
- Contract Separately: This order product receives its own independent contract when you contract its order.
- Do Not Contract: Salesforce CPQ does’t contract this order product when you contract its order.
Example
You’re contracting an order for several of your company’s software subscriptions products. Let’s have a look at how Salesforce CPQ creates your contracts based on the contracting methods of your order and order products.
| Subscription Order Product | Start Date (Order Product) | End Date (Order Product) | Contracting Method (Order Product) | Resulting Subscription Goes To | Contract Start Date | Contract End Date | Subscription Start Date | Subscription End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDM Subscription | 01/01/18 | 09/30/18 | Inherit | Contract 1 | 01/01/18 | 09/30/18 | 01/01/18 | 09/30/18 |
| Data Security Subscription | 03/01/18 | 09/30/18 | Inherit | Contract 1 | 01/01/18 | 09/30/18 | 03/01/18 | 09/30/18 |
| Service Desk Subscription | 03/01/18 | 10/12/18 | Inherit | Contract 2 | 03/01/18 | 10/12/18 | 03/01/18 | 10/12/18 |
| Data Backup Subscription | 05/01/18 | 11/15/18 | Inherit | Contract 3 | 05/01/18 | 11/15/18 | 05/01/18 | 11/15/18 |
| Data Backup Subscription | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 | Inherit | Contract 3 | 05/01/18 | 11/15/18 | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 |
| Infrastructure Management Subscription | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 | Contract Separately | Contract 4 | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 |
| Release & Deployment Subscription | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 | Do Not Contract | None | None | None | None | None |
| Subscription Order Product | Start Date (Order Product) | End Date (Order Product) | Contracting Method (Order Product) | Resulting Subscription Goes To | Contract Start Date | Contract End Date | Subscription Start Date | Subscription End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDM Subscription | 01/01/18 | 09/30/18 | Inherit | Contract 1 | 01/01/18 | 11/15/18 | 01/01/18 | 09/30/18 |
| Data Security Subscription | 03/01/18 | 09/30/18 | Inherit | Contract 1 | 01/01/18 | 11/15/18 | 03/01/18 | 09/30/18 |
| Service Desk Subscription | 03/01/18 | 10/12/18 | Inherit | Contract 1 | 01/01/18 | 11/15/18 | 03/01/18 | 10/12/18 |
| Data Backup Subscription | 05/01/18 | 11/15/18 | Inherit | Contract 1 | 01/01/18 | 11/15/18 | 05/01/18 | 11/15/18 |
| Data Backup Subscription | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 | Inherit | Contract 1 | 01/01/18 | 11/15/18 | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 |
| Infrastructure Management Subscription | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 | Contract Separately | Contract 2 | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 |
| Release & Deployment Subscription | 06/01/18 | 11/15/18 | Do Not Contract | None | None | None | None | None |
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