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How to assign Internal Contracts to a new or existing renewal project
Published June 12th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction This article walks you through the process of using the Assign Contracts to Project console in Renewal Manager. As a Renewal Manager, you’ll identify Internal Contracts (ICs), group them into Renewal Projects, and assign them to Renewal Engineers for execution. Previous Step: Identifying and Prioritizing Contracts Using the Dashboard Ne
How to pick and process contract items due for renewal - Renewal Project Console
Published July 9th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction The Partner Renewal Workspace (PrW) simplifies contract renewals by breaking them into clear workflows. As a Renewal Engineer, once you’re assigned a renewal project by the Renewal Manager, your next step is to review Internal Contracts (ICs) within that project and prepare them for further action such as asset list creation, export fo
How Renewal Engineers Manage Subscription Items for Customer Validation
Published November 19th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction Once subscription renewal projects are assigned to you, one of the first steps in the renewal execution process is reviewing the Managed Subscription items and preparing them for customer validation. This step ensures that SKUs, quantities, terms, and usage details are accurate before creating Asset Lists or sending items for pricing. I
How to Review and Manage Assigned Renewal Projects
Published September 1st, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction Once a Renewal Project is created and assigned to a Renewal Engineer, the Renewal Manager continues to oversee the renewal lifecycle. This stage allows managers to review active projects, monitor their progress, re-assign users if needed, and ensure the correct contracts are part of each project. From this console, Renewal Managers can
How to Identify and Review Assigned Renewal Projects
Published June 24th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction As a Renewal Engineer, your daily workflow begins with the Renewal Dashboard in the Partner Renewal Workspace (PrW). This dashboard provides a personalized view of contracts and renewal projects that have been assigned to you. In this article, you'll learn how to: Understand your dashboard layout and assigned data Use the 30/60/90-day c
How to Assign Subscriptions to Accounts
Published October 29th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction This article explains how Renewal Managers can assign imported subscription records to the correct customer accounts using the Assign Subscriptions to Accounts Console. This process ensures that all imported subscriptions—especially those brought in via Cisco API or manual imports—are mapped correctly to their respective accounts before
How to identify and prioritize renewals using PrW Dashboard
Published May 21st, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction Partner Renewal Workspace (PrW) is StrataVAR’s renewal management solution that provides a unified platform to handle complex, multi-vendor contract renewals efficiently. It connects siloed systems, offers visual insights, and enables seamless collaboration between Renewal Managers and Engineers. In this tutorial, we focus on the starti
How to Prepare and Share Subscription Data for Vendor Pricing
Published November 19th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction Once customer validation is complete, the next step in the subscription renewal workflow is preparing the confirmed subscription data for vendor pricing. As a Renewal Engineer, you will export the finalized quantities and terms from PrW into the Price Request template and then share this file with vendor teams for pricing review. This a
Introduction to PrW Subscription
Published October 26th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction The PrW Subscriptions module in StrataVAR enables VAR teams to efficiently manage, track, and renew customer-managed subscriptions. Unlike one-time or term-based maintenance contracts, managed subscriptions involve recurring renewals, dynamic usage tracking, and periodic billing adjustments. This introductory article explains how PrW si
Introduction to StrataVAR PrW
Published April 17th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction Renewal management plays a pivotal role in customer retention and long-term revenue growth. As organizations scale, managing multiple contracts, expiration timelines, pricing requests, and renewals becomes increasingly complex. Manual tracking using spreadsheets or scattered systems leads to delays, missed opportunities, and revenue lea
How to create vendor price requests to get vendor quote
Published August 19th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Overview We learnt in our previous article that the renewal engineer shares the exported asset list file with customer for their review and approval. Once the customer approves the asset list after review and changes, if any, the next step is to proceed with pricing where first step is to create a price request for the approved asset list items. Th
How to Identify & Prioritize Subscriptions for Renewal
Published October 28th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction Partner Renewal Workspace (PrW) is StrataVAR’s renewal management solution that provides a unified platform to handle complex, multi-vendor subscriptions renewals efficiently. It connects siloed systems, offers visual insights, and enables seamless collaboration between Renewal Managers and Engineers. In this tutorial, we focus on the s
How to Review Assigned Subscription Projects
Published November 17th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction As a Renewal Engineer (RE), your workflow in the PrW Subscription module begins at the Subscription Renewal Dashboard. This dashboard provides a personalized view of only those subscription renewal projects that have been assigned to you by the Renewal Manager. In this article, you’ll learn how to: Understand your dashboard layout and a
How to populate renewal data and create asset lists
Published August 5th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction In the previous article, we explored the Internal Contract Console, where you reviewed IC-level details and actions to perform for individual internal contracts. Also, you navigated into the item-level view for the selected internal contract. This article continues from there and shows how you, as a Renewal Engineer, can: View item-leve
How to process the vendor quotes in PrW for subscription renewal
Published November 24th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction Once subscription data has been validated and Pricing Requests have been shared with vendors, the next step in the renewal workflow is to receive the vendor quote and link it to the Subscription Renewal Project in PrW. This ensures that customer-facing quotes are built with accurate vendor pricing, and the project moves smoothly toward
How to review Asset Lists and prepare them for customer validation
Published August 16th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction As mentioned in previous article, the asset list is created by grouping internal contract items together which are expired or due for renewal. Once we have asset list ready, the next step is to get the asset list validated from customer. In this article, we will discuss how a renewal engineer reviews the asset lists and proceed with val
How to Review and Export Pricing Requests for Vendor Quoting
Published August 27th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Overview As we discussed previously, once an Asset List has been validated and a Pricing Request (PR) is created, the next step for a Renewal Engineer is to manage PRs in the Pricing Request Console. The PR Console is where you review Pricing Request details, export them in vendor-customized templates, and check the items included before sending the
How to Assign Internal Contacts to Accounts in PrW
Published December 1st, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction This article explains how Renewal Managers can assign imported Internal Contracts (IC) records to the correct customer accounts using the Assign Contracts to Accounts Console. This step ensures that all maintenance contracts—especially those imported from vendor data feeds (e.g., Cisco, Ingram etc) or manual uploads—are correctly mapped
How to Identify and Prioritize Cisco True Forward Subscriptions for Renewal
Published October 29th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction This article explains how Renewal Managers can identify and prioritize Cisco True Forward subscriptions using the Cisco True Forward Renewal charts on the Subscription Dashboard. Cisco True Forward is a unique adjustment mechanism applicable only to Cisco Enterprise Agreement (EA)–based subscriptions, where customer usage is periodicall
How to manage Last Date of Service data and their exports in Renewals
Published October 9th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction The Last Date of Service (LDoS) Console helps Renewal Engineers identify product or service items that are approaching the end of their service life. Analyzing this data supports proactive hardware refresh planning and ensures that renewal proposals only include items with active service availability. Monitoring LDoS data enables Renewa
How to pick and process contracts for Renewal- IC Console
Published July 28th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction In the previous step of the Renewal Engineer journey, you learned how to identify renewal projects in the Renewal Project Console and select Internal Contracts (ICs) for further processing. This article explains how to use the Internal Contract Console to: View and filter Contract-level details Export internal contract data for offline
How to Create and Assign Renewal Project to Manage Subscription Renewals
Published November 3rd, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction This article explains how Renewal Managers can create renewal projects and assign renewal subscriptions to Renewal Engineers from the Managed Subscription Console. The process is similar to how renewal projects are created for Maintenance Contracts. Renewal Managers analyze upcoming subscription renewals, group them under projects, and
PrW End to End WorkFlow
Published April 21st, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction Partner Renewal Workspace (PrW) is StrataVAR’s solution designed to simplify and centralize the renewal process for expiring contracts. It brings together distributed data, automates handoffs between teams, and streamlines multi-vendor renewals into a single, cohesive workspace. About Renewal Management Renewal management can often b
How to Create and Link Quotes from Quoting Tool to Renewal Project
Published August 28th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Overview After vendor pricing is collected, renewal quotes are generated in PqW. These quotes are linked back to Renewal Projects, updating PR Console stages from Created → Quoted → Won . Additionally, Purchase Order Assignment ensures that vendor PO numbers are mapped correctly, enabling the creation of the next generation of Internal Contracts. Pr
How to Assign Vendor Purchase Orders (POs) for Subscription Renewals
Published November 24th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
Introduction After the customer approves the renewal quote and the Renewal Engineer marks the quote as Won, the next critical step in the Subscription Renewal workflow is issuing Vendor Purchase Orders (POs). PO Assignment ensures that: Each renewed subscription item is correctly associated with its vendor. Vendor-facing details (PO number, supplier
Stratavar Glossary
Published April 17th, 2025 by Akanksha Shukla
This is a auto-generated Article of all your definitions within the glossary. Glossary This is a auto-generated Article of all your definitions within the glossary. All A B C D I O P T V API Application Program Interface BoM Bill of Materials CCW Cisco Commerce Workspace CCW-R Cisco Commerce Workspace – Renewals DVAR Direct VAR or 1-tier VAR ICT Inf
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