It's buying season in Hong Kong for schools and districts. Their academic year starts October. This took a couple of months of back and forth over email before it got signed. It also included almost a month long silence and tbh I'd forgotten to follow-up in between to kill the silence.
They wanted to pay in hong kong dollars (hkd). The main highlight of this deal was the internal selling I had to do. It took me a lot of convincing and knocking on different doors inside my org. to finally convince the CFO to agree for accepting the payment in hkd. If they'd not, this school was about to go to a purchasing party of sorts in Hong Kong and that would've just delayed the entire thing easily by a month or so. I learned that ego massaging helps a lot while selling internally.
Finally converted the original amount to hong kong dollars on the order form using the currency conversion on the day of signing. My SF is buggy still, as in screenshot you'd see $3510 but actial amount is $3335. Not to self: get hold of the SF admin and beat them up again.
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