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If an order is placed by a lead - the order goes on hold.  The debtor can then be reviewed by accounts before the order is released.

You can enforce an approval process with minimum data collected before a lead can become a customer

How is a lead different to a customer?

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As you can see from the above a lead is related to a customer - so you will see many of the same fields.

Mass upload of leads

see Importing Leads, Customers, Suppliers, People and Companies#CreatingLeadsorDebtorswithPersonsasContacts

Creating a Lead in the system

Enter a Company or Person as the parent.

Note

You might want to check if the company (or person) does not exist already in the system before you create a lead by doing a search

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 From the Lead Form

Saving the company (or person) will give a search code (unless you defined one) and a card number

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If your host company has New Debtors Require Approval

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Lead Wizard - for companies

The lead wizard is designed to enter high volumes of leads - through a formal process that includes approval of the lead

Company information

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Sales Reps and Delivery Patterns (if required)

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If the customer has departments you deal with separately

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Contacts at the company

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Note

If a sales order is entered for a lead that is not approved - the sales order and the customers is put on hold with reason "Lead"

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To remove the Stop supply - the lead must be approved and converted to a customer (requires appropriate authorisation)

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New Accounts Dashboard = leads to be approved

Review the new debtors dashboard - this shows all the leads or debtors in proposed status

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Note

Status changes are logged on the Debtors form, Orders/Audit tab

Only users with the Secure Feature "Can Maintain Debtor Terms" can convert a lead to a debtor

Email Template sent is Usage Context: Debtor, System Usage: Approved

Setups

Next Actions List

Note that the Next Actions are setup as Lookups and can be maintained

 

Lead Sources

Lead sources includes

  1. Phone
  2. Website
  3. Any Organisation that is flagged as a Lead Source
    1. Note

      Turn on the "Provides Leads" flag on Debtor and Creditor on your Host Company

 



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