Custom Pipelines and Sales Stages

Create multiple pipelines if your business requires you to manage different processes with different sets of sales stages. There will always be a "default" pipeline that you will use if you only require one set of sales stages. Relabel this pipeline to what your first pipeline should be called before adding others.

Examples of when multiple pipelines are needed: sale of different products or managing new versus recurring revenue.

Once your pipelines are set up you can edit the sales stages for each pipeline. Choose the pipeline from the drop-down list under Sales Stages. If you do not have multiple pipelines you will see the default pipeline sales stages and be able to make edits. To reorder sales stages, you can drag and drop so the stages are in the correct order. 

To add a new sales stage, click on the pipeline name, and click the + sign. Be sure to choose if each stage should be Open (an opportunity that is being actively worked on), Won (you successfully closed the deal) or Lost (the deal fell through). Hover over an existing sales stage to edit or delete. 

IMPORTANT: If you change an existing sales stage, opportunities with the prior sales stage will not automatically update to the new stage. You will be able to manually update these values to the new stage by finding the opportunities using the Open, Won or Lost filter on the Opportunity page.