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Rep Seat

Focused deal triage, performance, tasks, meetings, and manager messaging for sales reps.

The Rep Seat loops sales reps into the manager workflows SMVue already supports, using their scoped CRM, pipeline, meeting, performance, and task data. It is free and unlimited, and it is intentionally not a replacement CRM.

What You Get

Personal Dashboard

  • The numbers that matter for the current period
  • A focused attention queue spanning deals, assigned tasks, and unread manager messages
  • Upcoming meetings with your manager and recent meeting history
  • A one-time welcome that explains the Rep workspace and stays dismissed across devices

Your Data Only

  • Your deals and pipeline
  • Your meetings with your manager
  • Your action items
  • Your manager conversations

Meeting History

  • Past 1:1 notes (read-only)
  • Meeting summaries
  • Action items from meetings
  • Skill development discussions

What You Don't Get

Rep Seats have a narrow participation boundary over their own data:

❌ No Sales Coach in the free Rep seat (available as an assigned add-on) ❌ No Meeting Prep ❌ Cannot create action items or meetings ❌ Cannot see other reps' data ❌ Cannot access team analytics ❌ Cannot manage integrations or settings

They can reply to manager conversations and change the status of eligible tasks assigned to them. Manager controls, CRM administration, team analytics, and other reps' data remain unavailable.

Who Should Have Rep Seats

Rep Seats are for:

  • Sales reps (AEs, SDRs, CSMs)
  • Anyone being coached by a manager with SMVue
  • Team members who need to see their own performance

Rep Seat Capabilities

Can Do

✅ View your own deals and pipeline ✅ Triage your own deals by what needs attention first ✅ See your action items and mark eligible work in progress or complete ✅ Add a response while working an eligible assigned action item ✅ View your meeting history and notes ✅ See your quota progress and performance metrics ✅ Reply to your manager in Inbox, including deal-update conversations

Cannot Do

❌ View other reps' data ❌ Create action items or meetings ❌ Access Meeting Prep; Sales Coach requires an assigned Rep Coach add-on ❌ Edit notes or notebooks ❌ Manage team or organization settings ❌ Access any manager or executive features

Rep Dashboard Features

Rep Seat Navigation

  • Today (/dashboard)
  • Inbox (/inbox)
  • Pipeline (/pipeline)
  • Performance (/performance)
  • Action Items (/action-items)
  • Meetings (/meetings)

Action Items

What you see:

  • Server-paginated work assigned to you, with overdue, due-today, this-week, status, priority, due-window, tag, and search controls
  • Open, in-progress, completed, cancelled, and carried-over states without collapsing terminal work

What you can do:

  • Mark eligible items in progress or complete
  • Add a response from the item drawer so follow-through stays with the assignment
  • View item details
  • Open linked deals or meetings

Upcoming Meetings

What you see:

  • Scheduled 1:1s with your manager
  • Meeting type and date/time
  • Join link (if calendar connected)

What you can do:

  • View meeting details
  • Join meeting from calendar link
  • See past meeting notes (read-only)
  • Retry an unavailable meeting list or detail view without losing your place
  • Open an agenda action item directly in the Action Items workspace

When a manager schedules a meeting, SMVue also creates an in-app notification when your notification preferences allow it.

Performance Summary

What you see:

  • Personal quota and progress
  • Open pipeline value and deal count
  • Win rate and average deal size
  • Forecast, coverage to quota gap, at-risk pipeline, and stale deals

What you can do:

  • Switch between month, quarter, and year periods
  • Track your own performance
  • Compare against the prior period and see pacing/attainment-trend context
  • Identify areas to improve

Inbox

What you see:

  • Participant-scoped conversations with your manager
  • Deal, meeting, task, and status-update context carried with the thread
  • Read/unread state and paginated message history

What you can do:

  • Search, filter, sort, and mark conversations read or unread
  • Reply with a thread-specific draft
  • Jump to the linked deal, action item, or meeting

Deal Update Requests

When your manager requests a deal update:

  1. Notification — You receive email and in-app notification
  2. Open Conversation — The notification links to the exact Inbox thread
  3. Reply — Send the current state, next step, timing, or blocker in the thread
  4. Completion — The first qualifying Rep reply completes the pending request and notifies the manager

Why This Matters:

  • Keeps manager informed without constant check-ins
  • Shows you own your pipeline
  • Demonstrates proactive communication

Rep Seat Limitations

Cannot Access:

  • Team-wide data or analytics
  • Other reps' pipelines or performance
  • Meeting Prep and Sales Coach unless a purchased Rep Coach add-on is assigned
  • Notebooks and Skills administration
  • Organization or team settings

Cannot Create:

  • Action items
  • Meetings
  • Notes or pages
  • Skill assessments

Read-Only Context:

  • Meeting notes from 1:1s
  • Deal, performance, and meeting data synced or maintained by managers

Narrow Write Access:

  • Replies in participant-scoped Inbox threads
  • Responses plus in-progress/completed status on eligible action items assigned to the rep

Optional Sales Coach Add-on

The six primary Rep surfaces stay the same. If the organization purchases and assigns a Sales Coach for Reps seat, a floating Sales Coach launcher appears and the Coach scopes its answers to that rep's authorized context. Without that assignment, no Coach control is shown.

Inviting Reps

Managers or Owners can invite reps:

  1. Go to Settings > Team
  2. Click Invite Member
  3. Enter rep's email
  4. Select Rep Seat
  5. Confirm the matching Team record and reporting manager
  6. Send invitation

The email must identify exactly one active Team record in the same workspace that is not already linked to a user. If SMVue cannot find one unambiguous match, correct or create the Team record first and then resend the invitation. This prevents an invitation from attaching a user to the wrong rep's deals, meetings, or performance history.

Rep receives:

  • Email invitation
  • Link to create account
  • Access to their personal dashboard in the invited workspace; acceptance switches them into that workspace automatically

Removing or Restoring Rep Access

Archive a linked Team member before removing their access. Archiving preserves historical deals, meetings, notes, and action items while revoking the rep's active sessions. A Team member that is still linked to a user cannot be hard-deleted.

Restoring a rep requires an available Rep grant and relinks the membership to the same Team identity. Managers and Executives cannot be linked as Rep identities. If new Rep grants are temporarily paused during a rollout, existing reps can continue to work and managers can still revoke access.

Rep Seat Pricing

Always Free:

  • No limit on number of Rep seats
  • Included with all SMVue plans (Solo and Team)
  • No additional cost

Why Free:

  • Encourages adoption across entire team
  • Reps benefit from visibility into their own data
  • Accountability drives better performance

Privacy & Transparency

What Reps Can See

Reps see their own data only:

  • Their deals and pipeline
  • Their meetings and action items
  • Their performance metrics
  • Their manager conversations and linked update requests

What Reps Cannot See

Reps cannot see:

  • Other reps' data
  • Manager coaching notes (unless shared)
  • Team-wide analytics
  • Confidential manager insights

Philosophy: Transparency builds trust. Reps should see how they're evaluated.

Best Practices for Reps

Check Dashboard Daily

  • Review open action items
  • Mark completed items
  • Prepare for upcoming 1:1s

Respond to Update Requests Promptly

  • Manager needs your input to coach effectively
  • Shows ownership of your pipeline
  • Prevents surprises in 1:1s

Review Meeting Notes

  • See what was discussed last time
  • Track your own progress
  • Hold yourself accountable to commitments

Act on Coaching Follow-Through

  • Review the meetings and task context your manager shares
  • Use Inbox to clarify next steps or blockers
  • Keep assigned work current so your manager sees the real status

Upgrading from Rep to Manager Seat

If a rep becomes a manager:

  1. Owner changes their seat type to Manager
  2. They gain full coaching access
  3. Can now coach other reps
  4. Requires available Manager seat (may need to purchase)

Data Preserved:

  • All historical data retained
  • Meeting notes and action items remain
  • Now can see team they manage

Need Help?

Questions about Rep seats? Contact support@smvue.com

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