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Opportunities & pipeline

Deals, your own pipeline stages, and the drag-and-drop kanban board.

Deals

An opportunity is a deal in progress. It carries a title (required), a value in real currency, a description, a source, and links to a contact, an offering, an owner and a pipeline stage.

Value, source and description can each be restricted to a minimum role, so deal size can be hidden from people who should not see it. See Team & roles.

Your pipeline stages

Stages are records you control, in Settings → Statuses. Each has a name, a short machine key, a colour, a description, a position, and a state of either open or closed.

  • Drag stages to reorder them; the board and every dropdown follow.
  • The colour drives the deal's colour on the board, in lists and on the calendar.
  • Open versus closed determines what counts as active pipeline and feeds win-rate reporting.
  • A stage still in use cannot be deleted — you will be told rather than losing data.

The board

The kanban board shows one column per open stage. Drag a card to another column and the deal moves stage immediately; counts update as you go. Each column paginates on its own, so a busy stage does not slow the rest.

The same pipeline is also available as a list, and appointments across it appear on the calendar and agenda views.

The quick-look drawer

From a list you can open a deal in a side panel showing its details, recent comments and recent history — useful for triaging without losing your place.

History

Every change is recorded, with stage changes shown by name rather than an internal identifier. Creating, updating or deleting a deal is also written into the parent contact's timeline, so the contact page tells the whole story.

Where deals come from

  • Created by hand, from the deals list or from a contact.
  • Capture forms — a submission opens a deal against the form's offering.
  • Calendly — a booking reuses the contact's open deal, or opens one.
  • The API — pushed in from your own systems.

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