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Today I saw a pipeline with the stages "Inbound Leads" and "Outbound Leads". My first reaction: This is a deal source, not a stage. But then I learned why this company worked like this: They do set a goal for their marketing team to bring in a certain amount of inbound deals. And you just can set goals on new deals in a certain phase and not to new deals with a certain custom field like "deal source".
So this beautiful idea of stages in pipelines is completely abused by finding workarounds just to set very normal Marketing and Sales... (More)
Goals is a great feature! The only limiting factor I find in using it for real life is ability to make Quarterly targets tied to Fiscal Year, not Calendar Year. I mean, many businesses set targets, report on and measure Sales by Quarter and combined into a Fiscal Year that may be different from Calendar year. Currently Pipedrive only supports Calendar quarters which makes this wonderful feature disconnected from operations and finance. Suggested improvement: setting for custom fiscal year with custom quarters. For example our FY goes from Feb 1 to Jan 31, and using the current functionality gives me... (More)
Hi,
My team and I have been trying to set our yearly targets however, we noticed the current capability only allows for linear targets (yearly target/12). It would be great if we could allocate portions of our yearly target into different months, for us we pick up more revenue in the later months of the year and we would like our targets to reflect that.
