Quip Blog

With the pandemic, the social justice crisis, and the “new normal” — how are companies adapting? Here are highlights from a conversation with three top corporate leaders.

Financial institutions can implement these best-practice sales strategies to create a competitive advantage during the pandemic and beyond.

There are three complaints Salesforce Admins bring up again and again. Here’s how you can solve all three with automation in Quip.

Meet this year’s winners and runners-up of the annual Quip Diversity Scholarship.

With everyone working from home, how can sales reps stay coordinated internally to best serve their clients? Here are three ways

What’s it like starting a job at Quip during the pandemic lockdown? An engineering manager shares her experience.

Staying organized with work can be a challenge. Here are four ways to stay on top of your work in Quip.

The quote-to-cash cycle requires effective coordination and collaboration across sales, service, and finance. So why are so many professional services organizations stuck with a process that's manual, disconnected, and siloed across different systems?

Live Paste is a simple yet powerful way for users to keep their text, tables, images, and videos in sync across multiple documents.

Learn how Quip transformed account planning for Cytiva — formerly GE Healthcare Life Sciences — and then empowered their global remote workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic has turned operations upside-down for manufacturing. Here are three strategies manufacturers can use to empower and support their employees, distributors, and customers.

True Alliance distributes 20 apparel brands in Australia and New Zealand, which requires a lot of internal collaboration. Learn how Quip has been key to their digital transformation.

Technology enabled Sequoia Financial to make a seamless transition to a remote work environment. Here are four ways Quip had a big impact.

With entire teams working remotely, it’s easy for the feeling of distance to creep in. Here are four tips to ensure team members feel the support, encouragement, and fun engagement they need to stay positive and productive.

Our fifth annual Diversity Scholarship is now open for applications.

It's more important than ever for organizations to provide their employees enterprise-grade security. Here's how Quip empowers teams to work securely.

How can sales teams maintain business continuity and momentum when everyone's working from home? Here are four key concepts for remote sales team success.

Join us on on April 16th at 11:00am PDT to learn how Salesforce employees are using Quip to stay connected, collaborate, and drive customer success while #workingfromhome.

Here are five ways to make sure your team feels connected and stays productive during challenging times.

Quip's Ryan Anderson describes how he stays productive while working from home.

Working from home with kids? Here's how one working mom uses Quip to help manage.

Here's how you, your team, and leadership can promote successful work-from-home habits.

How your team can work from home without skipping a beat using Quip.

Working from home has its benefits. Here's how to overcome some of its challenges.

How Claire Johnson overcame self-doubt and became a full-time software engineer at Quip.

In honor of International Women’s Day, a blog by a mom on the Quip team, sharing her working parenthood journey.

Join us for a free afternoon of inspiration and learning, featuring Sales Cloud, Quip, Salesforce Maps, and Salesforce CPQ.

Stale data made their account plans dead on arrival. Here's how Systech brought them back to life.

Get practical advice from experienced sales leaders.

Data Referencing allows you to reference a cell, range of cells, or sheet from one spreadsheet in another spreadsheet. This means no more toggling between spreadsheets and no more copy and pasting!

An interview with industry expert Nicole France, VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, on the latest trends impacting customer and employee experience.

Get the most out of your CRM investment with Quip for Salesforce. Learn about all the cool new Quip features from the Spring '20 Release!

Quip for Customer 360 is the best way to transform business processes in Salesforce. Here are five ways you can start.

Here's the Quip Keynote and more highlights from Dreamforce '19.

Join Quip December 18 at Salesforce World Tour New York City.

The Quip guide to the best content at Dreamforce '19.

Claim your seat at the Dreamforce Quip Keynote, Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 1:30 PST

Heading to Dreamforce? Here’s how to stay productive on the road.

Learn to create collaborative close plans that push deals across the finish line faster.

Follow these six best practices to optimize your pricing process and close deals faster.

Bring metrics into your management style — and accelerate your sales team’s success.

Follow these five tips for customer success at events.

Collaboration can be challenging. Here’s how to make it work.

Follow these simple guidelines for sales opportunity notes that are useful for you, your clients, and your entire team

Don’t create sales account plans in Q1 only to ignore them later. Create living account plans that drive pipe and revenue year-round.

Join our upcoming webinar for a first look at Quip Shield, our new advanced security offering designed to provide an additional layer of trust, transparency, and compliance for security-conscious enterprises.

Discover when Fox realized it needed to change how employees worked and how it got started

Get the most out of your CRM investment with Quip for Salesforce. Learn about all the cool new Quip features from live List Views, Einstein Analytics for Quip and more!

Looking for ways to improve your development process? Learn how Quip engineers build customized in-product debugging tools for smoother development.

New styles of working provide great benefits in transparency, productivity and innovation, but they also bring with them new security concerns.

Dreamforce call for speakers is open. Apply to speak at Dreamforce ’19. Share your Quip story.

Customer service should be a team effort. Eliminate the tiers and instead swarm cases as a team.

Case swarming in Quip and Service Cloud = a better customer experience

🎉New in Quip: Introducing Live Deal Feeds! Bring visibility to your business and motivate your team to win big.

We’ve improved search across all platforms — web, desktop, and mobile — so all it takes is a couple of keywords or names, and you should find what you’re looking for the first time.

These three questions will help you determine if your workplace has a Culture of Action or Stagnation.

Flexible document permission controls let you bring the right set of people into your work at the right level of access.

Collaboration has evolved in the digital age. These days, effective collaboration is more than a nice-to-have aspiration; it’s a cornerstone of a workplace.

Salesforce Summer '19 Release is here! Deliver templated Quip solutions in Process and Flow Builder, view Quip notifications in Salesforce, and much more.

Digital Transformation + Cultural Transformation = Success

Engaging in “collaborative selling” every day requires a cross-functional team. Here are 4 best practices to do just that.

If you're looking to move deals faster and streamline processes, this quick 6 tip guide is for you.

Scrambling sales reps trying to meet quota require effective time management. Internal teamwork and processes could be dragging down your sales productivity.

The Rich Media Picker makes it easy for you to add images to their docs, spreadsheets, and presentations without having to leave Quip.

Empower sales reps to be more productive than ever with new Sales Cloud features, including Quip for Sales!

Chat tabs allow you to send and receive direct messages without leaving the document you're working in. By default, chats now appear in pop-up tabs at the bottom of your Quip window.

Turn any range of Quip spreadsheet data into an embedded chart within both spreadsheets and slides.

Announcing the 2019 Quip Diversity Scholarship! Our fourth annual Diversity Scholarship is now open for applications to win $5,000 toward your education.

Quip for Salesforce adds productivity to the Salesforce platform. Embed docs, spreadsheets, slides and chat rooms directly inside Salesforce objects and records.

Boost deal productivity with collaborative documents, spreadsheets, and slides inside Salesforce. Empower sales reps to lead teams through deal cycles more effectively than ever.

Meet Quip for Service! Boost agent productivity with collaborative docs and team chat inside Service Cloud.

Quip is about getting your work done quicker and living your best life. This video will get you up to speed and blowing through your to-do list in two short minutes.

We turned 45 of the best Quip documents into templates that anyone can use.

Learn about one interns journey with the Quip Engineering team.

Learn how to review and improve your team's processes and inner workings so you can get more done together.

How the Quip Marketing Campaigns Group works with colleagues and vendor partners in Quip to deliver high-performing marketing campaigns.

Learn about productivity-boosting trends in manufacturing and how Quip can accelerate team collaboration.

Watch the Quip Keynote video, and get access to our Dreamforce '18 recap webinar, including a Quip Slides demo.

Just in time for Dreamforce '18, we're launching Quip Slides, new integrations with Box and Dropbox, and a fresh look for Quip.

Meet Quip Slides: Designed for the way teams get real work done, with tools to build alignment, capture feedback, and make decisions faster.

With desktop app tabs, centralized tasks, and a revamped sidebar, the new Quip is fast, intuitive, and keeps you in the zone.

Get your seat at the Quip Keynote now during Dreamforce '18. Product announcements, customer trailblazers, and VIP party passes.

The Quip fan's guide to the best content at Dreamforce 2018.

How the Quip Customer Success Group helps our biggest customers scale and succeed by engaging them in Quip.

Introducing the Box Live App for Quip, empowering teams to collaborate on key content more effectively.

How a Quip product marketing manager runs the show using—you guessed it—Quip.

We're excited to announce the recipients of the 2018 Quip Diversity Scholarship!

Our quarterly series covering new Quip features that didn't get their own blog posts. This edition is jam packed with updates to document history, spreadsheets, commenting, and more.

Quip VPC is the same collaboration product that our customers know and love, delivered as a managed, virtual private cloud.

One of our customers pointed out that the way gender pronouns worked in Quip… wasn't great. So we fixed it.

Part 2 of our engineering blog post on embedding third-party React apps in Quip.

If you like React and browser security models, check out this engineering blog post on embedding third-party React apps in Quip.

CIOs need to move business faster. But they're roadblocked by tools that are overwhelming their employees. See how Quip can help clear the way for faster, more successful collaboration.

We're excited about this new Live App from Lucidchart, which lets you embed, create, update, and sync Lucidchart diagrams—in real time, right inside your Quip documents.

Third-party Live Apps for Quip are here! Learn all about the newest Live Apps from Altify, Vidyard, Smartsheet, Lucidchart, and more. Then visit the Salesforce AppExchange to add them to your organization’s Quip site.

How can CIOs keep up with the pace of shifting markets and technology trends while keeping employees engaged and productive?

This new WordPress plugin makes it easy for any company to publish Quip documents (along with all images) to their WordPress blog for free.

Our quarterly series covering new Quip features that didn’t get their own blog posts. In this edition: better Slack integration, removal of gendered pronouns, and easier sharing on big teams.

We're excited to announce the third annual Quip Diversity Scholarship: a program designed to make an impact in the lives of students who are underrepresented in STEM. Apply today!

Our customers help make us better. Thanks for spending your days with us!

A few suggestions for how to make your Quip notifications not only manageable, but useful.

Moving JSON data out of <script> tags can significantly reduce parsing times.

We added a new way for you to see a complete edit history for any part of your Quip document, including author, editors, and timestamps.

Introducing a new way to manage your projects right inside Quip. It’s flexible, discoverable, and works great on mobile.

A few ideas for things to work on in the new year — you don’t have to call them “resolutions” if you don’t want to!

Want to make a change in how your team works together this year? Learn how to get started with Quip in this on-demand webinar.

Live Apps in Quip help technical teams get more done together and ship great products.

See how new Live Apps in Quip can help your marketing team plan, execute, and track results better than ever before — all in a single document.

Live Apps are here, and they're empowering sales teams like never before. Learn about Live Apps from Salesforce, Altify, and more.

There's an illustrious group of partners helping us make the Quip platform the best it can be for customers. Learn about the Live Apps our partners are bringing to the Quip Platform today, and in the near future.

Teamwork in Quip just got even better. Live Apps are interactive, customizable apps you can use right inside your docs. Try embeddable apps like calendars, polls, and Kanban boards, plus apps from Salesforce and Atlassian.

Help us donate $100k to charity, win special access VIP party tickets to meet the band, and catch the hilarious stars of HBO's Silicon Valley. Oh, and hear from one of our biggest customers about how Quip is changing the face of teamwork. It's gonna be amazing!

Join Quip in an effort to donate up to $100,000 to victims of the North Bay fires at this year's Dreamforce.

It’s time again for our quarterly feature roundup. Here are the latest little things we launched in Quip since July.

Registration is open for the Quip Keynote, and seats are limited. Don't miss these huge product announcements, special celebrity guests, and the chance to win special tickets to our VIP party.

The Dreamforce Agenda Builder is live! You can add the Quip keynote to your Dreamforce schedule using Agenda Builder today.

Your first look at what Quip is bringing to Dreamforce for 2017.

Insights from one of Quip’s summer engineering interns.

How to get the absolute most out of Dreamforce, from sessions to action items.

Part two of our post on how sales teams can become more agile to improve team camaraderie, communication, and close more deals.

Agile sales teams communicate better, improve faster, and close more deals. Find out how Quip can help your team become more agile.

A few super useful, keep-you-in-the-flow features you might not know about in Quip.

Quip is a no-email zone: We work and communicate internally entirely without email, and use it sparingly without outside parties. Read how.

Hear from Quip's chief customer officer, Patrick Moran, on what it's like to be an introverted marketing executive.

The key to building great products is communication — with your customers, and within your organization. That's why Quip is the perfect tool for product managers.

Who here loves meetings? Almost nobody. It's because they're so often a disorganized waste of time. Quip can help fix that, by making meetings more efficient, transparent, and action oriented.

Feature roundup, anyone? Starting today, we'll post once a quarter with a list of some great little features that launched in recent months.

We talked with product and engineering teams at TrailheaDX, and this is how they're using Quip.

While many companies organize their engineering team by platform, Quip chose a different strategy. Here's what we do, and why.

We're excited to announce the recipients of the 2017 Quip Diversity Scholarship!

Now you have a handful of bright, colorful options for highlighting text in Quip.

Think you're a Quip pro? Here are five features you might not know about.

Registration is now open for a special Salesforce Campfire event in the Quip office. Meet our co-founder and CEO Bret Taylor, watch a live Quip demo, hear customer stories, and enjoy snacks and drinks. This will sell out, so sign up fast!

Keep your teams aligned and on-task with a great product roadmap. Here's how to research, build, and socialize one — all using Quip.

Our product management teams lives and works by a set of thoughtful, collaborative values. Come see what we're all about — and then maybe you can join us.

As methods of team collaboration become more connected and social, how do we navigate strange new situations with propriety and grace? Here are a few tips.

The Quip mobile app simplifies work, so salespeople can spend more time selling (and less time searching through email).

Announcing Print to 3D, where done can never be undone. Memorialize your team’s best work and make collaboration forever.

Collaboration in big teams doesn't have to be messy. See how an optimized Quip setup can cure your team's collaboration chaos.

If you and your team are using different tools for documents, spreadsheets, planning, chat, and email, you're doing it wrong. Using Quip instead will save you money, but also cut down on meetings, email, and project completion time — and we have numbers to prove it.

Quip has a unique engineering culture — and a lot of very happy engineers. Learn more about our team and how we work!

We're excited to announce the second year of the Quip Diversity Scholarship — a program designed to make an impact in the lives of students who are underrepresented in STEM. Apply today!

With all the things you can include in a Quip document, it would be nice to be able to direct people to specific parts of the doc. That's what you told us, at least — so we went ahead and built anchor links in Quip.

There's a method to the madness of how we design Quip. See what we prioritize as we're building a product to help teams get more done.

Connect the world's leading CRM, Salesforce, to your favorite productivity suite, Quip.

Learn how Quip's new sidebar and menus help you stay focused and efficient.

Introducing new Quip checklists, with reminders and mentions to help you get things done.

Quip documents are smarter than ever with powerful checklists, a brand new design, and deep integrations with Salesforce.

We're extremely honored to be the recipients of G2Crowd's 'Best Software 2017' award for Administration, Business Operations, and Sales professionals.

Thinking about trying Quip? Here's a quick overview to get you started.

New folder colors in Quip! Organize your folders with 12 different colors to better structure your work.

It's easy to share externally with Quip. Get more work done with partners, vendors, and clients. Here's how.

See how you can automate common Quip tasks using Zapier. Create weekly documents, share Tweets in chat rooms, or get notified when Quip docs are shared in other apps — all without lifting a finger.

This webinar is perfect for both Quip beginners, who want to review the basics and discover impactful use cases, and Quip champions, who want best practices to onboard their team with Quip.

Join Quip experts, Ryan Anderson and Logan Randolph, for a live webinar to hear about important Quip basics and onboarding best practices.

We got a lot of questions about Quip at Dreamforce! If you're wondering about our Salesforce integrations, or Quip's pricing, this blog is for you.

It's been a little over a week since Dreamforce 2016 ended, and everyone's getting back into their grooves. Here are a few ways Quip can help you improve your daily routine, plan your next project, and bond with your team.

Quip's living documents and push notification system eliminates team email and makes everyone more productive.

Now that we're a part of the Salesforce family, we're going to be front and center at the world's largest tech conference. Are you ready? Because we are!

New to Quip: Presence! See when your teammates are viewing your docs and spreadsheets.

Email is far from perfect. Over the years, its limitations have forced people to develop some strange workarounds and truly annoying habits. Here are our favorites (or are they our least favorites?).

We have some big news to share — Salesforce has agreed to acquire Quip!

Workplace roles might be more or less the same but the prevalence and ease-of-use of productivity tools have made those same jobs more streamlined, more collaborative, and more fun.

In theory the process is always linear and clear but in reality the approval chain can be messy. Quip helps overhaul the approval process and cut some of the horrific process inefficiencies.

We've added to our Quip-Slack integration with 8 new slash commands, including two that bring Slack messages into Quip.

We're excited to announce five major updates to Quip's search experience to help you find your work.

Ideas have half-lives; they start out radiating and over time lose steam. Quip was built to help people keep that new-project passion burning at every stage.

At Quip, we think working less dumb starts with talking less dumb. So let's circle back, move this silly language offline and be more productive.

Navigate between your team and personal Quip accounts. Quip is the ultimate tool for both personal and professional productivity.

Quip helps teams and companies of all sizes be more connected, productive, and innovative.

Quip hires Matt Cooley as its first Chief Revenue Officer to accelerate market growth.

Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of the Quip Engineering Diversity Scholarship!

New Way of work, work less dumb, less email, fewer meetings

How email is to blame for poor collaboration, lost knowledge and stalling productivity.

Introducing document outlines for Quip. Add a table of contents to your long-form docs.

Introducing Quip Spreadsheets for Teams: Build beautiful, useful spreadsheets with your team.

Quip integrates with Slack to bring living documents into your favorite Slack Channels.

Take your Quip experience offline using our native desktop apps for Mac and Windows and work fearlessly with new unsaved changes indicators.

How to build a great product that impacts the lives of millions of people with just a small engineering team

How Quip's Reactjs-based desktop app renders React components in native popovers.

Boost your productivity with subscriptions to award-winning apps that help you get it all done.

Announcing the release of the redesigned Windows app that is optimized for the Windows 10 operating system.

A unified search result view within the web and desktop interfaces across the entire document, comments and chat history.

Recipients will receive $5000 toward their education and will visit the Quip office in San Francisco for a full day of learning, mentorship, and meeting the team.

Quip now supports formatting for block quotes and pull quotes in documents.

You can now insert a horizontal rule in a Quip doc to create a break between paragraph elements.

You can now make your Quip sidebar visible in every view, so you can access it while you work in a document or spreadsheet.

With Show Edit History, it's now possible to see the history for an individual paragraph or section of your document, going all the way back to when it was created.

To make Quip even more flexible, you can now embed files from your computer directly into docs, task lists and spreadsheets.

Set a default font for all your Quip documents.

How does Quip prioritize which features or improvements to work on? Kevin Gibbs and I generally think about expanding the product in three areas...

In short, Quip is better than Google Docs because its unique combination of communication and writing enables your team to be productive without email.

With Quip’s new design, your documents keep you up-to-date instead of you keeping up with them.

Quip has raised a $30 million Series B from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital. John Lilly from Greylock will be joining Quip’s board.

Quip now supports a full-featured list view for your desktop and folders.

Quip is now available natively on your Mac and PC. With the launch of Quip Desktop, Quip is the best productivity suite on every device, including your laptop.

You can now create a Quip document from any PDF file on your computer.

Onboarding is tricky. How do you bring in someone brand new and help them efficiently understand all the history, context, and processes of your organization?

With over 4,900 employees, the Larry Miller automotive division has substantial IT needs to keep the rubber on the road. They use Quip to keep their 30 person IT team connected across seven states.

With Chat Rooms, your team can talk about anything in Quip, whether or not it's attached to a document.

Find out more about each Quip theme and the typefaces we chose for each.

Today, we're making it easy to create a Quip doc straight from an email.

Did you know that keyboard shortcuts can save you up to one million hours per year?

For Assist, Quip acts like a Swiss Army knife. CEO, Shane Mac and his team like the simplicity of having one hub for everything.

We sat down with Cynthia, Nate, and Libby from the Path product team to learn more about their approach to product development and how they use Quip on a daily basis.

Bloggers, content marketers, and social media managers use Quip on a daily basis to write, edit, and approve content.

We recently sat down with Matt Galligan, CEO of Circa, to learn how one of the most interesting startups in the media space operates day-to-day with Quip.

Based on feedback from people who have been using Quip Spreadsheets since launch, we've added a bunch of new features to make the experience simpler and more powerful.

Formatting in Quip just got twice as fast.

Quip Spreadsheets is not a separate app or file type, but is instead seamlessly integrated into the Quip product experience.

Integrations enable you to connect hundreds of other products, including Dropbox, Zendesk, JIRA and more, directly to Quip.

OS 8 supports a number of new features that make Quip for iPhone and iPad much closer to our vision of the ideal mobile productivity suite.

With the revamped notifications system in Quip, you'll never miss an important update no matter how much Quip activity you have.

We've made notifications much richer and group chat simpler and faster.

We updated Quip chat so that it looks beautiful and consistent across your desktop, tablet, and phone.

The team signed up for Quip looking for an easy, lightweight solution to create and manage documents.

Quip 2.0 is the culmination of nearly a year of product feedback and improvements.

The Quip API provides full read-write access to your Quip documents and messages via a REST API.

You can now insert source code blocks as figures in Quip documents from your desktop.

How HP Storage Media adopted Quip as a standard platform for creating and sharing copywriting content.

Angela Bowman, VP at the Boise Modern Quilt Guild uses Quip to prepare our board meeting agendas and minutes.

Today, we're introducing the Like button on Quip in an effort to bring some of these positive social interactions into the workplace.

In this guest post, Kathleen Stetson, Co-Founder and CEO of Trill, explains how she and the Trill team got hooked on Quip.

Today, we're delighted to release [Quip 1.6] for Android, which adds a number of the most-requested features to the product.

We just rolled out a handful of useful new features for the desktop version of Quip.

We are excited to release Quip 1.6 for iPhone and iPad, which adds a number of the most requested features to the product.

Split Pea Seduction uses Quip for their production and project management schedules and tasks.

Quip for Android has been one of our most requested products since launch, a testament to the reach of the operating system.

Damon Gravina and Mandy Oser, of Ardesia, discuss how Quip has helped them to manage their business.

We've made it easier to get started with Quip, to start collaborating, and to stay organized after you've migrated all your documents.

Colorado Hazard Control uses Quip to communicate daily and centralize their company documents.

Seventh grade teacher describes her first experience using Quip in the classroom as a tool to develop a community of writers.

In Quip, our engineers have found (and built) a simple, yet flexible product that makes it easier for them to keep making great products.

Using Quip to accelerate the game design process across a distributed team.

You can collaborate on a Quip document with anyone, but it's easiest when that person is already in your Contacts.

A document inside a restricted folder is only accessible by the people with access to that folder.

We are excited to announce that Quip is now available in Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, and Russian.

You can upload files to share with others, or download ones that people have sent to you. 

When I started working at Quip four months ago, one of the first things I noticed is that my email inbox was empty.

Our goal with this update is to make Quip the best looking and most natural word processor for iOS 7.

Chat Tabs enable you to easily view and respond to messages regardless of what document you're working on.

Emojis are a fun way to express what you mean through pictures and cartoons in messages in Quip.

We are excited to announce that Quip is now available in German, French, Spanish, Italian, and simplified Chinese.

Using Quip for packing, to-do-lists and shared travel itineraries.

One of the most memorable moments on Quip is when you get your first “open” notification.

SSFW uses Quip for almost everything, from planning future interviews, editorials, and meetings, to discussing ideas, concerns, and questions.

With the release of the Common Application two weeks ago, I finally ran out of excuses; it was time to start my college applications. 

In addition to a bunch of performance and stability improvements, we've added the most requested features from our first week of use.

Quip's formatting bar helps you create simple, beautiful documents.

How you can use Quip to organize all the details and logistics of purchasing and remodeling a home.

You can use @mentions in both documents and messages to create a dynamic link to any of your Quip documents.

A California biology teacher at discusses her experience with using Quip to manage a new curriculum.

Diffs get added to the thread every time an edit is made, showing what's changed, who made the change, and when they made it.

Quip's checklists are perfect for managing a team to-do list — assigning tasks, setting deadlines, and keeping track of everything that needs to be done to complete a project.

Douglas McGray, Pop-Up Magazine's editor-in-chief, shares how Pop-Up used Quip and the features they found most useful.

Quip is a modern word processor that enables you to create beautiful documents on any device — phones, tablets and the desktop.