Frequently Asked Questions

Products

CRM

  • Quick Check: Confirm you are using the correct login URL, username, and password.
  • Self-Service for Admins: Admins can disconnect or reset MFA for a user by following our MFA Disconnection Guide.
  • Contact Support  from a verified company email (or have your admin submit the request) to have our team reset your MFA.
  • Urgent Lockouts: Include “Urgent” in the subject line for priority handling.
  • Immediate Access Removal (Freeze): Admins can self-serve to freeze a user’s account for instant access removal. Follow the interactive Navattic walkthrough in the “Deactivate a user” section of our User & License Requests Guide.
  • Full Deactivation: Once a user is frozen, contact support to complete the full deactivation — this is handled by Altvia directly to ensure the license is correctly cleared and freed up for a future team member, rather than just paused.
  • Offboarding Options: Contact support with the departing user’s name and indicate how you’d like to proceed:
    • Reassign (transfer the license to a new hire — include their full name, email, and an existing user to mirror)
    • Deactivate (frees the seat for future use). 

If permanently reducing your total contract seat count, notify your Account Manager at least 60 days before renewal.

  • New Licenses: Contact your Account Manager to handle contract execution for additional licenses. To know what information to provide, check out our User & License Requests Guide.
  • Available Licenses/User Setup: Contact support with the user’s full name, email, and an existing user to mirror for permissions. Submit batch additions in a single email.
  • Governance: Altvia directly manages user changes to guarantee proper access levels and process compliance.
  • Templates & Training: Contact support to request a data template or schedule data upload training.
  • Record Structure: Use 1 record per row. Keep First Name and Last Name in separate columns. Every Contact must have an Account assigned.
  • IDs & Relationships: Include Record IDs when updating existing records and fill out required fields for new ones. Ensure names match exactly when linking records across objects.
  • Data & Field Formatting: Picklists must match exact configured options (don’t mix “IT” and “Information Technology”). Format currencies to full length (2500000, not 2.5M). Keep date formats consistent across all rows and objects.
  • Salesforce Security Model: Access restrictions in the CRM are intentional security controls (Profiles, Permission Sets, Sharing Rules, Folder Access) rather than a system bug.
  • Why Access Might Be Restricted: Fields & Objects — Profile/Permission Set assignments. Individual Records — ownership, Role Hierarchy, or Sharing Rules. Dashboards & Reports — Folder Sharing permissions.
  • How to Request Access: Contact your internal CRM Administrator or contact support with the affected user’s name, a link to the record/report/dashboard, and the exact error message received (screenshot of entire screen).
  • Build a Report: Navigate to the Reports tab and use standard Salesforce report types. View our “How to Create Reports and Charts” article.
  • Subscribe & Schedule: Open a saved report, click Subscribe, and set your preferred frequency to receive automated emails. See our Report Subscription article for instructions.

This email address is unique to each client org and is used to log emails to the CRM automatically. Contact support and we’ll provide yours.

  • Accounts & Contacts (Standard Merge): Use Salesforce’s native merge feature for standard objects. When the duplicate widget flags potential matches, click View Duplicates to compare and merge them. See our guides: 
  • Deals, Fundraising & Investors (Custom Objects): Custom objects cannot use the native merge tool — these must be manually consolidated by transferring child records and field data to the primary record before deleting the duplicate.

Important: Salesforce merges are permanent and cannot be undone. Verify record data thoroughly before merging. Contact support for guidance on complex consolidations.

  • Exporting Reports: Open the report, select Export, and choose Formatted Report or Details Only. See our How to Export Reports to Excel guide.
  • Bulk Data Exports: For large-scale data exports beyond a single report, contact support and our team will provide guidance.

VDR/Portal

  • What It Is: The API key is a unique security token that connects the VDR/Portal to the CRM, enabling data flow between Mailings, Investor Correspondence, and your portal.
  • How It Works: Each Admin user must generate their own unique API key from Settings with a single click.
  • Guide: Follow our step-by-step instructions on How to Connect the VDR/Portal API Key to the CRM.

Note: All VDR/Portal admin users need to generate and connect their API Key to the CRM.

Need Help or HUB Admin Access?

If you don’t know who your HUB Admin is, don’t have one assigned, or need HUB Admin permissions granted, contact support and our team will get you set up. New admins added this way should also generate their own API key (see the API key FAQ above).

  • Quick Checks: Search SPAM/JUNK folders first. If using SMS, verify the phone number — if set up incorrectly, switch to email verification.
  • Contact Support: Include the user’s full name and email address. Our team can check delivery logs to see if the email bounced or was suppressed, clear the block, or resend an invite.
  • Email & IP Whitelisting: If codes are blocked by corporate email filters, ask your/their IT team to whitelist admin@sharesecurely.com and the transactional SMTP IP ranges: 
    • 50.31.156.96/27 (50.31.156.96 – 127)
    • 104.245.209.192/26 (104.245.209.192 – 255)
    • 50.31.205.204/30 (50.31.205.204 – 207)

Yes, instructions can be found under the ‘Users’ tab and by clicking on the ‘Import Users’ button.

Make sure “Mark as Investor Legal Name Category” is checked when reviewing the Entity category setup. This is the most common cause of LPs not being able to filter to their own documents (including K-1 category visibility issues).

This is usually a file-size, format, or sync-timing issue. Try re-uploading; if the error persists after upload, send us the workspace name, the document you are attempting to upload, including the document name and we’ll investigate.

Add or Remove Categories on Documents: 

Removing vs. Deleting:

  • Removing detaches the category from specific documents while keeping the category available in your system.
  • Deleting permanently removes the category across all documents in the portal.

Email Marketing

Yes: You can add CC and BCC recipients during the Customize Email step in Mailings.

Multiple Addresses: Separate multiple email addresses using commas.

Behavior: CC’d contacts receive a copy of the email and are visible to the LP on the email header (meaning “Reply All” will include them).

Delivery Report Metrics: View overall performance stats for your mailing, including successful emails, pending emails, failed emails, open rates, unique clicks, bounces, spam reports, and opt-outs.

Failures Tab: Check specific delivery statuses and detailed error messages (such as Hard Bounce) for individual recipients. Contact support if we need to investigate a hard bounced recipient.

Click Rate Variations: Recipient IT security scanners may automatically crawl email links upon delivery, which can occasionally inflate unique click rates.

Replies: Direct email replies from recipients are not stored inside the platform.

Requesting Changes: Contact support with the specific “From” email address to add/remove, or the user who needs mailing tool access.

Support Managed: Sender addresses and mailing tool permissions are configured directly by the Altvia team and cannot be changed in your self-service settings.

Choose a starter template when creating a new one, then customize it. If cloning a template or an existing newsletter template throws an error, send us the template name so we can investigate.

Scheduling Mailings: Yes. When finalizing your mailing, click Schedule Send and specify a send date and time (up to 7 days in advance).

Legacy ACME Note: Scheduled sending is no longer supported in legacy ACME. To access scheduling functionality, you must migrate to current Correspond – Mailings.

Most delivery failures come from an invalid recipient address, a temporary IP block, or DMARC/SPF authentication on the recipient’s domain. Send us the mailing name and a few affected addresses to investigate.

There is no direct export option available on the Mailing Lists tab.

Workaround: To export a list, follow the step-by-step guide: How to Export Mailing Lists from a Mailing as an Excel File

No. You can toggle deliveries to send direct emails only, VDR/Portal deliveries only, or both.

Doc Gen & Distribution

Check API Key Connection: Ensure your VDR/Portal API key is properly connected to the CRM. If it was disconnected or regenerated, reconnect it following the standard API key setup steps.

Verify Correspond Access: If the API key is connected or you are new to Correspond, your user account may need Correspond permissions extended.

Contact Support: If the error persists, email support@altvia.com with a full screenshot of the error screen along with the affected user’s full name and email address so our team can resolve it.

You can BCC contacts on a batch — this is set in the “Name & Recipients” section at the bottom of the mailing. Direct CC is not supported for investor correspondence.

Master Investor Contacts (MICs): Account-level default contacts. Setting up MICs allows you to quickly populate investor contacts and preferences whenever a new Investor commitment is created for that Account. View our article on How to Manage Master Investor Contacts (MICs).

Investor Contacts: Commitment-level recipients assigned to a specific Investor record who actually receive the correspondence for that investment.

Refer to the Investor Contacts and Master Investor Contacts sections in the Investor Correspondence User Guide for additional details.

Requirement: Anyone who needs to receive batch emails or documents must be designated as an Investor Contact under the associated Investor record for that Entity—even if they are a third party (such as legal counsel, tax advisors, or assistants).

How to Add: Navigate to the relevant Investor record, add the person as an Investor Contact, and set their communication preferences so they are properly included in future batches.

Setting Delivery Method: Delivery options are managed on the Investor Contact record under their Investor Correspondence Preferences.

Delivery Options: You can configure preferences by document type to deliver via Email, VDR/Portal, or Both.

Review our full guide on What Are the Delivery Options for Investor Correspondence?

Check the Investor Contact’s email address for typos or an outdated domain — this is the most common cause. If the address is correct, the issue may be an ISP block or DMARC/SPF configuration on the recipient’s side; send us the batch name and affected contact, and we’ll trace the failure.

Document Splitting: Yes, large PDFs can be split during the batch process. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the Manage Documents section of the Investor Correspondence User Guide.

Batch File Size Limits:

  • Static Documents: Up to 100 MB.
  • Document Splitting Limits: Master PDFs up to 250 MB or 20,000 pages (individual investor split files max out at 3,000 pages).
  • Zip Files: 10 MB or smaller per file within a Zip folder.
  • Full Batch PDFs: Up to 250 MB.

For additional limits and details, review the Frequently Asked Questions section in the Investor Correspondence User Guide.

Analytics

CRM Dashboards only pull in data that is in the CRM. Analytics can pull data from a variety of sources. Analytics can also build more complex dashboards and is more customizable.

CRM reports are still of use! If someone needs to run a quick report out of the CRM to help take action on a task, they can still do it. Analytics is best used for strategic decision-making across the firm, the fund, or a team.

Cubes are refreshed nightly to ensure data being pulled in is updated. This cadence can be customized for what time and what days it will refresh.

If a specific Investor is unable to view the ‘Analytics’ tab, ensure they’re included in the proper group. If you navigate to their specific user in the VDR/Portal and select the user’s Groups tab, the groups they are a part of will correspond to what analytics dashboards they should be seeing.

It is also good to confirm if the issue is happening for just one user or numerous.

If you are experiencing incorrect data in your dashboard, it may be caused by our nightly data syncs. Typically, each dashboard is scheduled to refresh its data every night. So if you just made changes to your data, that is most likely the reason. If this isn’t the case, reach out to Altvia support to assist.