LogoLogo
More help and supportPhocas website
  • Home
  • Getting started
    • Navigation
    • Homepage
    • Data access
    • User licenses, profiles and permissions
    • Account settings
    • Databases
    • Periods
      • Offset dates
      • Default period for a database
    • Sharing and folders
      • Share a dashboard, favorite, or alert
    • Subscriptions
  • Analytics
    • Take a tour of Analytics
    • Work with the grid
    • View a summary of the data
    • Customize your view (Analytics)
      • Change the mode
        • Period mode
        • Period Variance mode
        • Period Stream mode
        • Moving mode
        • Stream mode
        • Total mode
        • Transaction mode
        • Matrix mode
        • Matrix Variance mode
        • Matrix Share mode
        • Variance mode
        • Search mode
        • Market mode
        • Custom mode
      • Change the properties (Analytics)
      • Change the measures (Analytics)
      • Change the stream
      • Use the activity filter
      • Change the data format
      • Change the period (Analytics)
    • Drill down into your data (view transactions)
    • Filter data (use dimensions)
    • Select data (Analytics)
    • Focus on data (Analytics)
    • Copy or export data
    • Search for data
      • Perform a basic search
      • Perform an advanced search
      • Search for similar or comparative data (right-click filter)
    • Add levels to the grid (grid nesting)
    • Compare data with Matrix mode
    • Get more options for viewing data
    • Visualize your data in a chart
      • Bar and Column charts
      • Combo chart
      • Pareto chart
      • Waterfall chart
      • Line chart
      • Area and % Area charts
      • Pie and Donut charts
      • Bubble chart
      • Radar chart
      • Gauge chart
      • Bullet chart
      • Summary and Ring Summary charts
      • Map charts
      • Configure the chart options
      • Select and focus on a chart segment
      • Export a chart as an image
      • Use the chart legend
    • Save favorites and add to dashboards (Analytics)
    • Reset data
    • Phocas AI
  • Flex Modes
    • Switch modes
    • Change the period (Flex Modes)
    • Filter data (Flex Modes)
    • Apply conditional formatting
    • Create a nested view
    • Manage columns (Flex Modes)
    • Save and share a favorite (Flex Modes)
    • View your data in a chart (Flex Modes)
  • Financial Statements
    • Take a tour of Financial Statements
    • Overview of access to financial statements
    • Customize your view (Financial Statements)
      • Change the properties (Financial Statements)
      • Change the measures (Financial Statements)
      • Change the period (Financial Statements)
      • Change the streams and scenarios
        • Change the budget data
      • Change the columns
      • Change the style
      • Change the rows (activity filter)
    • Filter the financial information
    • Select and focus on data (Financial Statements)
    • Copy or export financial information
    • Add a level in a financial statement
    • View financial information in a matrix (change column groups)
    • Add and view comments (Financial Statements)
    • View transactions (Financial Statements)
    • View financial information in a chart
      • Create a Pie and Donut chart (Financial Statements)
      • Create a Value card
      • Export a financial chart widget as an image
    • Save and share favorites (Financial Statements)
    • Add financial analysis to a dashboard
    • Manage financial statements
      • Overview of financial statements and dimensions
      • Create a financial statement
      • Delete a financial statement
      • Customize a financial statement
        • Rename a financial statement
        • Reorder a financial statement
        • Customize account groups
        • Customize calculations
          • Functions for Profit & Loss calculations
          • Formulas for financial ratios
        • Customize headings and spacers
        • Set the revenue row in a Profit & Loss statement
        • Customize columns
        • Customize a Cash Flow statement
          • Common account mapping for Cash Flow statements
        • Rebuild the database
      • Set the financial year end date
      • Map the Retained Earnings account(s)
      • Restrict access to accounts
      • Manage streams and scenarios
        • Manage budget streams (Financial Statements)
      • Create a budget (Financial Statements)
      • Use statistical streams
      • Use multiple currencies
      • Manage dimension groups
      • Map categories from your Chart of Accounts
  • Budgets & Forecasts
    • Overview of key terms and concepts
      • Budgets versus forecasts
      • Users and data access
      • Relationship with the Financial Statements module
      • 3-statement budgeting
      • Filtering methods
      • Demand planning
      • Loan repayments
    • Take a tour of Budgets & Forecasts
      • Explore the budget workbook
      • Explore the forecast workbook
      • Explore the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow budgets and forecasts
    • Customize your view (Budgets & Forecasts)
      • Filter a worksheet (search for items)
      • Group period columns
      • Use layouts
    • Use session filters
    • Edit values in a worksheet
      • Open workbook notes
      • Use keyboard shortcuts
      • Copy and paste values
      • Use comparison rows
      • Use sum and working lines
      • Use formulas
      • Spread totals
      • Revert to the baseline values
      • Edit the Balance Sheet budget
      • View and use headcount data
    • Refresh a workbook
    • Use workflows
      • Contribute to the workflow
      • View the workflow history
      • View workflow comments
    • View budget information in a chart
    • Open baseline, comparative, or opening balance data
    • Review the budget or forecast
      • Add and view cell comments
      • View and restore the cell history
      • View the audit log
      • Compare actuals, budgets and forecasts
    • Export a workbook or worksheet tab
    • Manage budgets and forecasts
      • Create a budget workbook
        • Best practices for efficient budgeting
        • Filtered budget or forecast
        • Budget by region and branch
        • Multi-currency budget
        • Unclassified data
        • Period types in budgets
        • Additional measures for driver-based budgeting
      • Create a forecast workbook
      • Clone a workbook
      • Import a budget or forecast
      • Edit the workbook setup
      • Roll a budget forward
      • Add more detail to a budget or forecast
      • Add worksheet tabs (drivers)
        • Balance Sheet and Cash Flow tabs
        • Manual Entry tab
        • Database tab
        • Headcount tab
          • Headcount tab FAQs
        • Reference tab
        • Lookup tab
        • Allocations tab
        • Scratch Pad tab
      • Manage worksheet tabs
      • Add notes to a workbook
      • Customize the format of measures
      • Manage the workflow
      • Manage user access and notifications
      • Publish a budget, forecast or other worksheet tab
      • Fix the baseline in a budget
      • Delete or restore a workbook
      • Delete a stream (Budgets & Forecasts)
  • Rebates
    • Overview of rebates
    • Get started with Rebates
    • Projects
    • Rules
      • Parent-child rebate rules
      • Rebates calculation methods
      • Yearly rebates
      • Quarterly rebates
      • Monthly rebates
      • Whole rule period rebates
      • Retrospective rebates
      • Pro rata rebates
    • Calculations
      • Run a calculation
      • Schedule calculations
      • View calculation results and transactions
      • Post calculation results
    • Seasonal calendars
    • Rebates analysis
    • Rebates near miss analysis
  • CRM
    • Overview of CRM
    • Agenda
    • Contacts
    • Accounts
    • Leads
    • Activities
      • Microsoft 365 Outlook calendar integration
    • Campaigns
    • CRM analysis
    • CRM administration
  • Favorites
    • Save a favorite
    • Manage favorites
    • Set a favorite as your default view
    • Use alerts
  • Dashboards
    • Use dashboards
    • Create a dashboard
    • Set a dashboard as your homepage
    • Manage dashboards
  • Administration
    • Overview of access to data (Administration)
    • Users
      • Add, update or delete a user account
        • User maintenance form
        • User permissions
      • Create a user template
      • Manage a user's database access and restrictions
      • Manage user passwords
      • Monitor user activity
      • Lock user accounts
      • Impersonate a user
    • Profiles
    • Folders (Administration)
    • Favorites (Administration)
    • Dashboards (Administration)
    • Subscriptions (Administration)
    • Periods (Administration)
      • Period types
      • Working days
    • Databases (Administration)
    • Sync Sources
    • Connectors
    • Configuration
      • Set up SSO
      • Set up SSO with Microsoft Entra ID
    • Logs
    • Designer
      • Modify a database
      • Get your data into Phocas
      • Design a database
        • Create a database
        • Add (connect) data to a database
        • Map data to the database
        • Save your database design
      • Design a financial database
      • Build a database
      • View and revert to older design versions
      • Add a budget file to a financial database
      • Add a budget file to a non-financial database (easy budget upload)
    • Sync
      • Automatically join or split items during Sync (split view)
      • Schedule the sync process
      • Migrate Sync
      • Test the sync process
    • Reserved words and characters
    • End of year maintenance tips
  • OTHER INFORMATION
    • File upload
    • Encrypt (share secrets)
    • Glossary
    • Release notes
      • Analytics release notes
      • Flex Modes release notes
      • Financial Statements release notes
      • Budgets and Forecasts release notes
      • Rebates release notes
      • Administration release notes
    • System requirements
    • Technical limitations
    • Security information
    • Scheduled upgrade and maintenance periods
    • More help and support
Powered by GitBook

© Phocas Software

On this page
  • View a list of all leads
  • Find a lead
  • Add a lead
  • View and edit a lead
  • Convert a lead into a contact
  • Delete a lead

Was this helpful?

  1. CRM

Leads

A lead is someone who might present a new business opportunity. A lead does not belong to an account.

PreviousAccountsNextActivities

Last updated 8 months ago

Was this helpful?

User permission: CRM

During your Phocas implementation, we often import your Contacts and Leads as a one-time process. However, you might want to re-import these items occasionally, for example, to update custom fields in bulk. You can’t do this task yourself, but you can contact your Customer Success Consultant to arrange for our Professional Services team to do it for you.

A lead does not belong to an account. A lead is different to a .

View a list of all leads

Click the Phocas menu button > Leads.

The Leads screen displays a list of all the leads you have permissions to view. You can view, edit and delete individual leads from here.

Find a lead

On the Leads screen, you can find a particular lead using the filter and search options above the grid or by sorting the list.

  • Use the Active filter to switch between viewing active and inactive leads in the list.

  • Use the Owner filter to display only your leads or leads that belong to another user (that you have permissions to view).

  • Use the Team filter to display leads allocated to a specific team to which you belong.

  • Use the Search box to search for a specific lead by name. This performs an is like search on the name column.

  • Click a column heading to sort data into ascending or descending order.

Filters remain active until you turn them off, so if you apply a filter and move away from the screen and then return, the filter will remain. To clear any filter you have applied, select All from the dropdown list.

Add a lead

  1. On the Leads screen, click New.

  2. Enter the lead’s details as required (items marked with an asterisk * are mandatory). See the table below to learn more about each item (field).

  3. Click Close.

Standard lead details:

Field
Field type
Description

Prefix

Dropdown list

The salutation of the lead. Choose from Dr, Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Prof.

First Name

Free text

The first name of the lead. This field is mandatory.

Middle Name

Free text

Middle name (or initial) of the lead.

Last Name

Free text

Surname of the lead. This field is mandatory.

Company

Free text

Can be used to indicate which company the lead represents. Typically when a lead is converted, this would be the account field.

Job Title

Dropdown list

Typically this field will indicate the lead's area of responsibility, rather than their exact job title. For example, the job title of Northern Region Sales Executive could be simply recorded as Sales.

Owner

Dropdown list

May be used to identify the person who normally looks after this lead. Owners are CRM users.

Is Active

Y/N

Active leads typically include people who are potentially doing business with you. Inactive leads might no longer present an opportunity for future business. Rather than delete the entire lead and all the associated activities, it is often better to mark these leads as inactive.

Phone

Free text

Direct (landline) phone number of the lead.

Fax

Free text

Direct fax number of the lead.

Email

Free text

Email address of the lead.

Website

Free text

Typically the website of the lead's company

Cell

Free text

Cell phone (mobile phone) number of the lead.

Contact Method

Dropdown list

Street/city

Free text

Street address and city of the lead.

State

Free text

State in which the lead is based, if applicable.

Postcode

Free text

Zip or Postcode of the lead.

Country

Free text

Country the lead is located in.

Is Mail Address

Y/N

Choose ‘Yes’ if the mail address is the same as the street address. Choose ‘No’ if the mail address is different, and enter in the details in the section below.

Street/city

Free text

Postal street address (or PO box) and city of the lead.

State

Free text

Postal state of the lead, if applicable.

Postcode

Free text

Postal Zip or Postcode of the lead.

Country

Free text

Postal country the lead is located in.

Custom

Any field not listed in this table is a custom field. Administrators can create custom fields, typically from data that already exists in your ERP or other systems.

View and edit a lead

  1. On the Leads screen, click the lead name (blue link) to open the lead record.

  2. On the lead record:

    • Lead tab - View and edit the lead’s details, such as its name, owner, and address, and assign the lead to another owner (CRM user responsible for communicating with that lead).

    • Activities tab - View and edit the activities assigned to the campaign, or delete (remove) activities from the campaign.

  3. Click Save > Close.

Convert a lead into a contact

Typically, when the lead becomes a customer, you can convert the lead records into contacts. Contacts, unlike leads, cannot exist in isolation in CRM and must be assigned to an account.

When you convert a lead to a contact, the lead disappears from the list on the Leads screen and displays in the list on the Contacts screen instead. Any activities assigned to the lead are retained.

  1. On the Leads screen, select the lead row (it turns blue) and click Convert.

  2. Select the appropriate account and click Save.

Delete a lead

If you do not have delete permissions, the Delete button might not display or you might see a message at the top of the screen indicating you do not have permission to delete. Talk to your administrator about your permissions. Deleted items can be restored by administrators.

On the Leads screen, select the rows of the leads you want to delete (they turn blue) and click Delete.

In older versions of Phocas, deleting a lead also deletes activities associated with it, so you are deleting the entire history of that lead. An alternative is to mark the lead as inactive.

Click Save. If successful a new tab displays, allowing you to to the campaign. You can come back to this tab later.

This is a customizable field that can be edited by administrators using.

Typically used to record the way that particular person prefers to be contacted – e.g. via phone or email. This is a customizable field that can be edited by administrators using.

Prerequisite: . If not, .

add activities
contact
Check the account is in CRM
add a new account
picklists
picklists