Before a building is inspected, someone found the lead, called the contact, logged the meeting and chased the deal. In most fire protection companies that history lives in one salesperson's inbox and leaves with them. These six pages keep it in the company: who was spoken to, what was promised, what is due next, and how much is in the pipeline.
The pages follow a lead in order: a contact, the company behind them, a deal, the activities logged along the way, the next action owed, and the tasks that fall out of it.
My Next Actions
Open My Next Actions- Nothing owed to a prospect goes unseen. Overdue is the first number on the page and the first section in the list.
- The next step is booked when the last one closes. Logging an activity and scheduling the next action are one modal, so a lead is never left without a next date.
- A day's work, already ordered. Today, This Week and Future are the day's calls in the order they need making.
Contacts
Open Contacts- One list for every person. A lead, a customer's accounts-payable clerk and a building's site contact are all here, and the tabs keep them apart when that matters.
- The history travels with the person. Every call, meeting, deal and file attached to a contact is on their record, not in someone's inbox.
- Bulk load without bad rows. Import validates the whole spreadsheet first, so a typo in row 40 does not create 39 half-good contacts.
Companies
Open Companies- The organisation is the unit of selling. Contacts, deals and activity roll up to the company, so the pipeline value of an account is one number.
- Won means converted, not re-typed. Convert carries the company and the contacts you choose into a customer record in three clicks.
- Defaults set once. Code year and municipality are set at conversion, so every building and inspection that follows inherits them.
Deals
Open Deals- The pipeline is a number. Total value, count and average size, live, without a spreadsheet.
- Won and Lost stay visible. The board keeps the outcomes beside the open work, so win rate has a denominator.
- The dashboard and the board agree. The Prospecting cards drill into All Deals at the same bucket, so the count on the card is the rows in the grid.
Activities
Open Activities- Effort is visible. This Week and This Month say how much selling is actually happening, per person and in total.
- One log, three doors. Whether the activity is logged here, on the contact or on the company, it is the same record.
- Nobody double-calls. The most recent touch on any contact is a search away.
Tasks
Open Tasks- Same tasks, everywhere. A task raised in CRM is the same kind of task as one raised in Jobs, so people manage one list, not one per module.
- Sales promises become assignments. The follow-through from a call has an owner and a due date.
- Attachments live on the task. The sample report or the proposal draft is on the task, not in an email thread.
Where to go next
- Follow a lead in sidebar order: a Contact, the Company behind them, a Deal, then Convert on the company to make a customer.
- Once converted, the record continues under Account Management: All Customers.
- The Prospecting sub-tab of the Dashboard is this whole group summarised, with an account-wide Next Actions list.
Good to know
- Deals belong to a company and a contact only. A deal is never linked to a customer, a quote or a job. Converting the company is the bridge to the post-sale side.
- Imports validate first. Contact and Company imports report row and column errors in a modal before writing anything.
- "Next Actions" on the dashboard is account-wide; "My Next Actions" here is the same queue. Both read the same records.
- Addresses are USA-only, on purpose. Every address picker in the module restricts to US addresses.