Deals don’t die because your product isn’t good enough; they die because quotes take too long, pricing rules are inconsistent, and approvals get stuck in endless loops. The truth is, your sales team is often fighting their own tools as much as they’re fighting the competition.

Did you know that 65 percent of marketers have not implemented lead nurturing strategies? Even though research shows that nurtured leads create 20 percent more sales opportunities than non-nurtured leads.

That’s where Revenue Cloud Advanced steps in to provide a complete overhaul of how sales get done. It removes friction from quoting, automates approvals, and enforces pricing rules so your reps can focus on closing deals, not chasing down spreadsheets. 

In other words, it gives your team the speed, accuracy, and guardrails they need to win faster and more often.

In this blog, we’ll break down the biggest sales pain points and show you how Revenue Cloud Advanced helps fix them. Let’s examine how it improves win rates, protects margins, and accelerates deal cycles, while also giving leadership the insights to manage performance through the right KPIs. 

If you’re tired of watching revenue slip through the cracks, keep reading. This is how you make sales easier in 2026. 

 

Stop Losing Deals to Broken Quoting Tools

When your quoting tools are fragmented, quoting gets delayed, proposals get messy, and customers lose patience. Add in bundling rules that misfire, pricing that doesn’t match up, inconsistent discounting, and approvals that move at a snail’s pace, and you have a lot of reasons why deals stall.

Revenue Cloud Advanced unifies quoting, enforces bundling and pricing rules, and automates approvals. For instance, Salesforce’s sales quote automation tools reduce quote-generation steps by up to 87 percent, resulting in fewer clicks and turning quote turnaround time from hours to minutes. 

The result? No more guesswork, no more errors, no more “I’m waiting on quote revisions.”

 

Free Your Reps: Minimize Non-Selling Tasks

Sales reps shouldn’t be part administrators, part price checkers, and part discount negotiators. Yet many are stuck in that mix, losing hours per week to tasks that add zero value to the customer relationship. For instance, Salesforce research found that sales teams spend 72 percent of their time on non-selling tasks.

With Revenue Cloud Advanced, those manual approvals disappear, pricing and discounting rules are consistent and embedded, and quoting becomes flexible yet governed. Your reps spend less time staring at spreadsheets and more time engaging buyers.

 

Win More by Quoting Faster, Smarter

Speed isn’t everything. What really counts is how quickly you can send correct, compelling quotes that matter. Faster quote-to-close cycles, supported by AI-sourced tools, mean less opportunity for competitors to intervene, less frustration, and more revenue. Salesforce research found that 83 percent of sales teams using AI-supported tools experienced revenue growth in 2024 compared to 66 percent of teams not using AI. 

 

Goals you should see improvement in:

• Win Rate: better part proposals, fewer mistakes → more wins.
• Average Deal Size: Built-in bundling upsells and cross-sell opportunities.
• Discount Rate: Discounting only when necessary, not simply because approvals are delayed.

 

Track Real KPIs: Quote-to-Close Time, Win Rate, Deal Size & Discount Rate

You can’t improve what you don’t measure. But measuring means nothing if your tools don’t move those metrics.

With Revenue Cloud Advanced, you gain access to dashboards and analytics that span the entire quote-to-cash lifecycle. You can see where delays happen, which reps are discounting too much, where average deals are shrinking—or where there’s room to push for more.

 

Helpful KPIs:

KPI	What You Measure	Why It Matters
Quote-to-Close Time	How quickly quotes become signed deals	Faster cycles mean less churn risk and quicker revenue realization
Win Rate	% of quoted deals that close	Reflects accuracy, relevance, and competitive strength
Average Deal Size	Revenue per deal	Shows whether quoting tools help you upsell / bundle properly
Discount Rate	Average discount applied	Helps protect margins & ensure discounting is strategic, not reactive

 

Deliver on the Promise: Increased Wins, Higher Deal Velocity, Maximum Revenue Potential

At the end of the day, your sales engine is only as good as its weakest link. Revenue Cloud Advanced rebuilds the system for speed, consistency, and confidence.

With better quoting tools, fewer manual checks, consistent approvals, and smart pricing & bundling, you unlock increased wins, higher deal velocity, and maximum revenue potential, rather than living in the stress of “we need more pipeline” or “why didn’t that deal close?”

Studies have found that some companies experience a nearly 50 percent reduction in deal cycle time after adopting Revenue Cloud Advanced’s automation features for quoting, approvals, and contract management. 

 

Don’t Let Inefficiency Be the Reason You Miss Quotas

If you’re letting fragmented quoting, sloppy discounting, or slow approvals steal wins from your pipeline, it’s Time to act. Revenue Cloud Advanced gives you the tools to stop losing deals you should have closed. It gives your sales reps their Time back. It gives your managers visibility. It provides your organization with predictable, more substantial revenue.

Have questions? We can help! The Simplus Business Transformation Services team can optimize your sales machine to make quoting faster, close more deals, and protect your margins.