Manager Guide
See who planned their week, who's following through, and drill into any rep's calls.
Assigning calls to a rep
When you add an activity (+ Add activity in My Week, the Dashboard, or a customer's 360° view), you get an Assign to picker that reps don't. Leave it on yourself, or pick a rep you manage — the call lands in their plan, recorded as assigned by you. The picker only lists people you can see: the reps assigned to you, and yourself.
Looking at a rep's screens
The Dashboard, My Week, New Customers, and Inactive tabs each have a Viewing picker that reps don't. Pick a rep and you see their screen exactly as they do: today's calls, their week, their new accounts, their quiet accounts, their sales against goal. The picker turns blue while you're looking at someone else, so it's obvious you're not on your own screen, and the choice carries across all four tabs — switch rep once and every screen follows.
Inactive is worth a look on any rep you're coaching: it lists accounts of theirs that were buying but have stopped ordering, with the contact details in the row. A long list, or a lot of accounts sitting at 90+ days quiet with no task against them, is a coverage conversation rather than a performance one. See the Sales & Counter Guide for how the windows work. You can add calls straight from it, and they default to the rep whose list you're on.
It's a read-only view of their world in the sense that matters: Submit plan, Submit log, and Pull last week's incomplete are greyed out while you're viewing a rep, because submitting is theirs to do. You can still add and edit calls — and when you add one while viewing a rep, the Assign to picker defaults to them, which is almost always what you want.
Every manager sees the reps whose Manager field points at them; admins see everyone.
Campaigns — assigning a batch of accounts
Got an event, a promotion, or a supplier push coming up? A campaign assigns a whole list of accounts to a rep in one go and emails them the list.
You can run one from three screens, and they work identically — pick whichever list already answers the question you're asking:
| Screen | Good for |
|---|---|
| Leaders & Bleeders | Performance. "Every D and F account on the Hikvision line." Filter by grade and supplier, then select all. |
| New Customers | Onboarding. "Everyone who bought for the first time this year gets a check-in call." |
| Inactive Accounts | Win-back. "Everyone who's gone quiet for 90 days." Or press All accounts first and work the ones who've never bought at all. |
- Open the list and pick the rep — the Rep menu on Leaders & Bleeders, the Viewing menu on the other two.
- Narrow it to the accounts you care about, using whatever that screen offers — grade and supplier, or the day/year windows on Inactive.
- Tick the accounts. The checkbox in the header selects everything currently shown, so filter first and then select-all.
- The campaign bar appears. Give it a name ("Fall camera promo" — this goes on every call and in the email), pick the activity type and a due date, and optionally add notes for the rep saying what the ask actually is.
- Tap Assign & email and confirm.
Each account becomes an ordinary call on that rep's plan for the due date, and they get an email with the campaign name, activity type, due date, your notes, and the full account list. Replies to that email come back to you.
Team Dashboard (sales managers & admins)
The Team Dashboard is the big-picture view for sales leadership — and it's the first thing sales managers and admins see when they sign in. A sales manager sees their own team; admins see every manager's team side by side. For the selected week (‹ › arrows to change it) you get:
- Activity-type chart — one bar per type: bar length is how many were planned, green fill is how many are completed. Your team for sales managers; company-wide for admins.
- Team cards — completion bar and percentage, a by-type breakdown (green when that type is fully done, red while calls remain), and each team member's own done/planned count. For admins, reps with no manager assigned appear in a "No manager assigned" card so no one slips through.
- Click any team member to expand their actual activities for that week — ✓/○ status, customer and objective, P21 task number, type, due date, and their notes. Click again to collapse.
- Sales performance (if configured) — a month-to-date table of each rep's gross sales and gross profit with a bar showing progress to their monthly goal, plus a team/company total. These figures come straight from P21, mirroring the sales portal. (This is month-to-date and doesn't change with the week arrows.)
- New customer activity — last 2 weeks (if the sales DB is configured) — which reps have new customers (first invoice in the last 12 months) that placed an order or quote in the last two weeks. Each rep row shows how many of their new customers were active this week and last week; expand a rep to see those customers with their order (ord) and quote (qte) counts, and click a customer to open its 360° view. Reps with no active new customers are left off.
- Sales by month (if configured) — a month-by-month table for the team: each month's gross sales, gross profit, % to goal, and GP margin, with a year-to-date total row. Use the rep picker to switch between the whole team total and any single rep, and the ‹ › arrows to look back at previous years. % to goal is colored green at/over goal, blue when close, red when behind. Admins get one table per manager.
Branch managers don't see this tab — their view of their own team is the Team Report below.
Leaders & Bleeders — any rep
The Leaders & Bleeders tab works for you the same as it does for reps (see the Sales & Counter Guide), with one addition: a Rep menu at the top lets you switch to any rep you oversee and see their book — who's growing, who's slipping, each account's last order/quote, last task, and open tasks. That's the reps assigned to you; admins see everyone. Use it before a one-on-one to spot the accounts a rep should be working.
The Supplier box narrows the list to accounts that buy a particular line, and recalculates this-year-vs-last-year on that supplier alone. That answers a different question from the overall grades: not "how is this account doing" but "who is quietly walking away from this brand." Pair it with the grade chips and a campaign to work the fallers in one pass.
The Team Report
Open the Team Report tab. It shows plan vs. actual for your reps for the selected week. Use the ‹ › arrows to change weeks.
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Rep | The salesperson. |
| Plan | Whether they submitted a plan, and when (✓ + date). |
| Planned | How many calls they planned. |
| Unplanned | Calls they added during the week. |
| Done | Calls completed. |
| Complete % | Share of planned calls completed. |
| Log | Whether they submitted their end-of-week log. |
Drill into a rep's calls
Click (or tap) any rep's row to expand their actual calls for that week. Each line shows:
- ✓ (done) or ○ (still open)
- The subject — customer, contact, and objective
- The P21 task number, activity type, and due date
- Whether it was an unplanned add, plus the first line of their notes
Click the row again to collapse it.
Emails you'll receive
You don't have to keep the app open to stay on top of your team — TrueBearing emails you automatically. The emails come from the rep's own mailbox, so you can reply straight to them.
| When | You get |
|---|---|
| A rep submits a price page | The customer price page as a branded PDF — suppliers, target margins, and levels — for your review. It also goes to the vendor-programs team. |
| Weekly team debrief (Sunday morning by default) | One email covering your whole team: a plan-vs-actual summary table plus every rep's calls and notes — sitting in your inbox for Monday. |
Who you can see
| Your role | Reps you see |
|---|---|
| Branch Manager | The reps assigned to you, plus yourself. |
| Sales Manager / Executive | Everyone. |
Using it well
- Start of week: check who has a ✓ under Plan. Follow up with anyone who hasn't submitted.
- Midweek: the Done and Complete % columns show momentum.
- End of week: check Log submissions and use the drill-down to review actual conversations before your one-on-ones.