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Sales and Customer Intake

Qualify and Convert a Lead

Move a real opportunity into the customer workflow without losing notes, source information, or promised follow-up.

Usually handled by
Sales coordinator or service manager
Working time
About 8 minutes
Related workspace
View leads features
Start here Main menu → Leads → open the lead

What good looks like

A qualified lead connected to a customer and ready to become a quote, booking, service request, or job.

Have these details ready

  • A completed discovery call or site assessment
  • Enough contact information to identify the customer
  • A clear decision to pursue, nurture, or close the opportunity

Run the workflow

  1. Review the history

    Read the original request, activity, messages, source, and prior attempts. Correct outdated contact details before conversion.

  2. Confirm qualification

    Verify service fit, geography, schedule, budget, decision-maker, and access constraints. Record what is still uncertain.

  3. Resolve customer matching

    Search by phone, email, business name, and address. Select an existing customer when found; create one only when no reliable match exists.

  4. Choose the right handoff

    Use the available conversion action for the real next step: customer, quote, booking, service request, or job. Do not create a job before scope is clear.

  5. Verify the result

    Open the destination record and confirm notes, source, contact details, and ownership carried forward. Set the lead's final status.

Check your work

Do not call the workflow complete until these statements are true.

  • The lead has a final status
  • The destination record opens from the lead or history
  • The next department can see the original request and customer promise

If something does not look right

A duplicate customer is shown

Cancel, select the existing customer, and repeat the handoff. Escalate cleanup if both records contain valid history.

The lead is not ready

Keep it active and create a dated follow-up instead of forcing a premature conversion.

Keep the workflow moving

Put the process to work

Run the workflow with your own customers, crews, and pricebook.

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