Deals
Deals represent specific revenue opportunities. They connect a sales process to an amount, expected close date, owner, company, people, activities, quotes, invoices, and delivery work.
Every deal belongs to a Deal pipeline and stage.
Deal data
Section titled “Deal data”The standard Deal properties include:
- Name, priority, owner, pipeline, stage, and probability
- Account, primary contact, decision maker, country, and lead source
- Amount, currency, payment status, payment terms, and contract term
- Deal type, forecast category, close date, next step, and competitor information
- Won timestamp, lost reason, subscription start date, and won-deal administration details
- Description and system dates
Administrators can add custom and computed Deal fields in Properties. They can also require fields always, conditionally, or only when a deal enters a particular stage.
Creating a deal
Section titled “Creating a deal”- Open Deals.
- Select New Deal.
- Enter a deal name.
- Choose the pipeline and stage.
- Add an amount, currency, probability, and expected close date when known.
- Associate the account and primary contact.
- Assign an owner and save.
If a pipeline exists, Workstation can use its first stage as the initial stage. A stage’s default probability is applied when the deal does not provide a different probability.
A Price Offer is not required before creating a deal. Create or associate a Price Offer when the opportunity needs a formal quote.
List and Kanban views
Section titled “List and Kanban views”The Deals page supports List and Kanban views.
- Built-in tabs include All deals, My deals, and Closing this month.
- Quick filters include owner, stage, account, close date, updated date, and created date.
- Kanban groups by Stage by default and can use other supported properties.
- Deal cards can display configurable properties, associations, activity context, and card actions.
- Deals that have gone stale in their stage show a Stale badge on the row and card.
- Selecting a row or card opens the deal in the shared record flyout. The URL keeps the open record, and Open full page goes to the full detail page.
Use Table Views to save filters, columns, sorting, view mode, and Kanban grouping. Select Duplicates to review deals that look like duplicates and merge them.
Stale deals
Section titled “Stale deals”Stage Health watches open deals and flags the ones that sit too long in a stage, have no recent activity, or have no next task. A flagged deal gets the Stale badge, and the pipeline can notify the owner, create a follow-up task, or move the deal automatically.
The flag clears when the deal moves to another stage, or at the next hourly check once the problem is fixed, for example after you log an activity or schedule a task. Stale deals also feed Radar, and a deal’s Radar Findings card lists the problems Radar found on it.
Moving between stages
Section titled “Moving between stages”Change a deal’s stage from its record page, list controls, or Kanban board.
Before a move completes, Workstation checks:
- Whether the pipeline uses Free or Strict transitions
- Whether the destination stage is allowed from the current stage
- Whether standard and custom stage-required fields are filled
- Whether property validation and conditional requirements pass
See Pipelines and Stages for configuration details.
Won deals
Section titled “Won deals”Moving a deal into the pipeline’s Won stage opens a Mark as Won dialog. Winning a deal:
- Sets the Won timestamp
- Sets the close date to the win date when entering Won
- Applies the stage’s default probability when appropriate
- Requests any custom properties configured for the won dialog
- Records audit history and triggers the configured won and stage-change automation
Won-deal information can include administration contacts, payment details, subscription dates, and documents. Which custom fields appear in the win dialog depends on the workspace configuration.
Lost deals
Section titled “Lost deals”Moving a deal into the pipeline’s Lost stage opens a Mark as Lost dialog that requires a Lost Reason. Workstation records the stage change and triggers the configured lost and stage-change automation.
Use specific, consistent reasons so reports can distinguish pricing, timing, competition, qualification, and other causes.
Relationships and record page
Section titled “Relationships and record page”A deal can have an account, a primary contact, a decision maker, and additional contact relationships. It can also connect to Price Offers, Tickets, Invoices, Subscriptions, Projects, Activities, Emails, Comments, Attachments, and other records.
The default record page has About, Comments, Activities, Emails, Invoices, and Timeline tabs, with the stage and key details in the header and related-record cards on the side.
- The Activities tab is a timeline of notes, calls, tasks, and meetings linked to the deal. See Activities on a record.
- The Invoices tab lists linked invoices with their status, total, and amount due. New Invoice creates an invoice already linked to the deal. To split the amount into a down payment and installments, turn on Payment plan when creating the invoice. See Invoices → Payment plans.
Administrators can change the layout in Settings → Objects, so visible tabs and card placement may vary by workspace.
Bulk actions
Section titled “Bulk actions”Select deals on the list page to assign an owner, edit standard or custom properties, delete records, or create follow-up tasks. Bulk actions run in the background, and the list refreshes when they finish. Bulk stage changes still need to satisfy the applicable property and stage rules.
Visibility
Section titled “Visibility”Deal visibility follows ownership and the workspace’s configured data-visibility scope:
- All shows all accessible deals.
- Department includes deals owned by visible department members.
- Own limits records to the current user’s ownership scope.
- Unassigned deals remain visible under the shared visibility rules.
Permissions still control whether a user can create, edit, delete, or reassign deals.
Reporting
Section titled “Reporting”Deal properties, stage probability, dates, owners, and outcomes are available to Reports. Common measures include pipeline value, weighted value, win rate, average size, stage conversion, and time to close.
Keep stage and outcome data current; report accuracy depends on the record state.