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Setting estimated closing dates on leads

When managing your leads, you need to be able to have them in pipelines in order to understand where you're at in your sales process, to have an amount associated with the sale, but also to have an idea of when you're going to close that deal.

If you have the Sales Essentials or Dream Team edition of noCRM you're able to add an estimated closing date to your lead. This feature is ideal to have a nice and clear forecast of your sales!

How to add an estimated closing date to a lead?

When creating a lead or after a lead is created, a button "Estimated closing date" appears next to the "Set Amount" button. Simply click on it to add the estimated closing date for that lead.

As an admin, to make sure all leads have an estimated closing date and get relevant data in your pipeline and statistics you can go in the Admin panel > Preferences and check the box: When creating a lead, pre-fill the estimated closing date according to the account's average duration to close leads. This way you can also evaluate if you are on time or late to close the lead based on your average performance.

Closing dates' pipeline view

If you have Estimated Closing Dates, from the Pipeline view you will also be able to access a pipeline view by estimated closing date!

How does it work?

Its functioning is very intuitive. Simply choose to see your leads estimated closing dates by selecting that option from the scroll-down menu at the left.

You can choose to view them by week, month or quarter.

6 sections are displayed:

  • 4 weeks / quarters / months
  • 2 extra tabs for leads that do not contain estimated closing dates, or that had closing dates for the past.

If you wish to change the estimated closing date of a lead, you only need to drag & drop it from one month/week/quarter to the other. NB.: if you change the lead to the 1st column, we'll remove the estimated closing date.

How do I analyze my sales forecast?

Once you've set the estimated closing date, it's taken into account in the Forecast tab of your statistics, so that you have an idea of how much money you will be making in the future.