Convert Deals to Leads
Loving the new Leads tab - about time. I was just about to create two pipelines to separate my sales function into warming up leads and those converting that warmed up lead into a client!
I have got hundreds, no probably thousands, of Deals that I want to move to be Leads.
I reached out to support and was told:
1-Export them all to an excel file.
2-Delete them from Pipedrive.
3-Re-import them to Pipedrive as Leadshttps://support.pipedrive.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000797525-How-can-I-export-data-from-Pipedrive-
This not only is a big job for me (which I don't have capacity do now - I need to be focussed), but it will also orphan any activities that sit against those Deals right now, which I would later have to manually link up - a huge task.
Could I therefore ask if the developers can create a "CONVERT TO LEAD" option - this would show up in the Deals list, and against an individual Deal.
It would not only convert the Deal to a Lead, but it would retain the activity against that Deal.
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Hi @Mark Haller this is on our to-do-list, thanks for sharing and happy to hear you are excited about the feature!
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Awesome! Will it be ready by end of the week? :-)
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Mark Haller said:
Awesome! Will it be ready by end of the week? :-)
@Mark Haller that I doubt
but I can tell you it's one of the next things we're working on. It's impossible for me to give a date but if nothing crazy happens it's not multiple months away.0 -
Mark Haller said:
Awesome! Will it be ready by end of the week? :-)
Brill, thank you for replying so politely to my request :-)
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Where I can find "Leads"tab?
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Marco Govoni said:
Where I can find "Leads"tab?
@Marco Govoni https://support.pipedrive.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001998358-Leads
It's not live yet for everyone though, let me know what email address you use to login and I can enable it for you to test.
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Marco Govoni said:
Where I can find "Leads"tab?
thanks. My email is info[at]marcogovoni[.]it
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Marco Govoni said:
Where I can find "Leads"tab?
You should have it now @Marco Govoni perhaps it needs a refresh
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Do you have a roadmap of how you saw Leads evolving?
I created one as a dummy yesterday but was missing key functionality that I expected. Things like being able to classify those leads (revenue, company info, tech stack, etc). And other functionality.
it made me wonder if I should use this knowing the rest will come soon, or whether I should in fact just requalify some of my Deals and just use two pipelines (which is what I was planning on doing soon anyway).
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We are in the same boat... we have a column in Deals called Leads and its getting longer and longer. I do want to pull them out of this column and treat differently so TICK loving the concept of a LEADS only area but based on the above do i export and re import or hold off until a simpler solution is available??
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@Mark Haller and @Fiona Montgomerie
We definitely have plans to further develop this feature and give it the ability to work like the rest of Pipedrive:
- Converting deals to leads
- Using all your custom fields
- Bulk editing
- Bringing in new lead generation options
- Etc..
We're also talking to our teams to make sure that in the future this ties in better with other features in PD like workflow automation for example. So yes the leads inbox as it is right now is our first step and for many users already super useful. For others, please hang tight, we're working hard on improving this area the coming time!
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Fiona Montgomerie said:
We are in the same boat... we have a column in Deals called Leads and its getting longer and longer. I do want to pull them out of this column and treat differently so TICK loving the concept of a LEADS only area but based on the above do i export and re import or hold off until a simpler solution is available??
One way I've got around this, really nicely, for now is to have TWO PIPELINES.
One for LEADS that my sales people use - they are emailing, cold-calling and so on, and trying to warm up people to talk to me and others! (https://i.imgur.com/sDUQcFR.png)
and one for OPPS that I use (as I'm the one taking that warmed lead who are interested in our services and want to engage in a conversation) that I then progress. (https://i.imgur.com/HD6UEtC.png)
And when Mike and his team get Leads to a much better place, we'll likely drop the Leads pipeline and convert all across to proper leads
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Fiona Montgomerie said:
We are in the same boat... we have a column in Deals called Leads and its getting longer and longer. I do want to pull them out of this column and treat differently so TICK loving the concept of a LEADS only area but based on the above do i export and re import or hold off until a simpler solution is available??
Thanks Mark, yes we are about to implement that as we had plenty of leads coming in, we may still do it as another way to really seperate and test cheers
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Mike van der Valk said:
Hi @Mark Haller this is on our to-do-list, thanks for sharing and happy to hear you are excited about the feature!
This is def a priority for me as well!!
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Mike van der Valk said:
Hi @Mark Haller this is on our to-do-list, thanks for sharing and happy to hear you are excited about the feature!
For us as well
but development takes a little time unfortunately, but rest assure it's coming!0 -
Fiona Montgomerie said:
We are in the same boat... we have a column in Deals called Leads and its getting longer and longer. I do want to pull them out of this column and treat differently so TICK loving the concept of a LEADS only area but based on the above do i export and re import or hold off until a simpler solution is available??
We tried the leads pipe but mostly we ended up just having a stage for "leads" and "hot leads" in the beginning of our main pipe.
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My key feature requests would be:
- Convert deal to lead button
- Ability to set the source (or use all fields from deals in the leads field)
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Bastiaan de Groot said:
My key feature requests would be:
- Convert deal to lead button
- Ability to set the source (or use all fields from deals in the leads field)
@Bastiaan de Groot I'll make you a happy man by saying this is in our product pipeline 🚀 it's hard to give dates for this but it's not too far away anymore
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Leads section - great initiative, but useless in its current form I'm afraid
We already have all our leads in PD - in the form of Deals or Contacts. You gotta make it easy for us to convert all of these, we're not going to export-delete-reimport just because PD decided to launch a new Leads type entity.But again - this is great progress, just make it usable!
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Aksel Gresvig said:
Leads section - great initiative, but useless in its current form I'm afraid
We already have all our leads in PD - in the form of Deals or Contacts. You gotta make it easy for us to convert all of these, we're not going to export-delete-reimport just because PD decided to launch a new Leads type entity.But again - this is great progress, just make it usable!
@Aksel Gresvig great news. We have a team already working on converting deals to leads as well as many other cool updates on the leads section. Bear with us!
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Aksel Gresvig said:
Leads section - great initiative, but useless in its current form I'm afraid
We already have all our leads in PD - in the form of Deals or Contacts. You gotta make it easy for us to convert all of these, we're not going to export-delete-reimport just because PD decided to launch a new Leads type entity.But again - this is great progress, just make it usable!
Tell the team we are excited! VERY EXCITED!
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Aksel Gresvig said:
Leads section - great initiative, but useless in its current form I'm afraid
We already have all our leads in PD - in the form of Deals or Contacts. You gotta make it easy for us to convert all of these, we're not going to export-delete-reimport just because PD decided to launch a new Leads type entity.But again - this is great progress, just make it usable!
🚀🚀🚀
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Aksel Gresvig said:
Leads section - great initiative, but useless in its current form I'm afraid
We already have all our leads in PD - in the form of Deals or Contacts. You gotta make it easy for us to convert all of these, we're not going to export-delete-reimport just because PD decided to launch a new Leads type entity.But again - this is great progress, just make it usable!
Also super keen to have the 'convert deals to leads' capability... Any update on timing at all? Thanks!
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Aksel Gresvig said:
Leads section - great initiative, but useless in its current form I'm afraid
We already have all our leads in PD - in the form of Deals or Contacts. You gotta make it easy for us to convert all of these, we're not going to export-delete-reimport just because PD decided to launch a new Leads type entity.But again - this is great progress, just make it usable!
We're hoping to be able to launch this the end of next month but sometimes unexpected things happen in software development so I can't give you an exact ETA, it might take some weeks longer than we expected at first. @Angela Wilbraham
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Definitely also a priority for us, so that we can finally get rid of that "Leads" column of our pipeline
What is an approx ETA?
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Jonas Vonlanthen said:
Definitely also a priority for us, so that we can finally get rid of that "Leads" column of our pipeline
What is an approx ETA?
Hi @Jonas Vonlanthen unfortunately I can't be more specific as I was in my answer above here, I'm sorry 😐
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We're hoping to be able to launch this the end of next month but sometimes unexpected things happen in software development so I can't give you an exact ETA, it might take some weeks longer than we expected at first.
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Jonas Vonlanthen said:
Definitely also a priority for us, so that we can finally get rid of that "Leads" column of our pipeline
What is an approx ETA?
Ok, is there wherever a visual representation of the roadmap of PD, maybe simply with topics / epics adressed?
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@Jonas Vonlanthen there isn't one publicly unfortunately. We are however, regularly sharing what's being worked on in the near term future in this channel right here: https://community.pipedrive.com/group/research
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Mike van der Valk said:
Hi @Mark Haller this is on our to-do-list, thanks for sharing and happy to hear you are excited about the feature!
When please?
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