| SharpSpring's Visual Workflow Builder provides you with the means to automate how you generate new opportunities. This article will detail how to create new opportunity automation through SharpSpring's Visual Workflow Builder.
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Workflows and the Sales Optimizer
SharpSpring's Sales Optimizer allows sales teams to automate their opportunities, tasks, and actions based on opportunity pipeline stages. The Sales Optimizer allows you to create visual workflows that are based on contacts with opportunities and how leads interact with your content.
However, certain visual workflow features are only available if you have the Sales Optimizer feature enabled. Sales Optimizer actions will be grayed out and inaccessible if you have not enabled the Sales Optimizer.
For more information on enabling the Sales Optimizer feature, refer to Configuring Sales Optimizer Services.
Creating New Workflows
To create automation using a visual workflow that deals with how new opportunities are created, do the following:
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In SharpSpring's top toolbar, click |
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Click the Visual Workflows tab. |
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Click Create > Visual Workflow. |
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Enter a name for the workflow. |
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Click OK. |
Editing Workflows
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In SharpSpring's top toolbar, click |
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Click the Visual Workflows tab. |
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Click the Activity drop-down menu. |
Note: A workflow's location in the Activity drop-down menu depends on whether it was previously set as Active.
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Select either Active or Inactive. |
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Click the name of the desired workflow. |
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Creating New Opportunity Triggers
Once you have created the workflow, you will need to add an initial trigger. To add a trigger that will set off how new opportunities are created, do the following:
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In SharpSpring's top toolbar, click |
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Under Start or an applicable workflow branch, |
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Select the desired trigger. |
The trigger you select will determine how the opportunity automation is initiated. For more information on triggers, refer to the following help articles:
Creating New Opportunities via Automation
You can use visual workflows to generate new opportunity information and associate those new opportunities with a user or pipeline. Depending on the triggers and filters that you set within the automation, created opportunities can be placed on any available pipeline and at any available stage within that pipeline.
To create new opportunities via visual workflows, do the following:
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Under the added trigger in the created workflow, |
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Under Sales Optimizer, click create new opportunity. |
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Enter the desired lead owner's name in the Assign to |
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Select one of the following Account Name options: • For new accounts, auto-generate the name • Use the following prefix plus a timestamp |
Important: These actions for new opportunities are available through visual workflows and not opportunity workflows.
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If Use the following prefix plus a timestamp is |
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Enter the desired pipeline in the Pipeline text field. |
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Enter the desired stage to in the Pipeline Stage field. |
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Select the initial opportunity status in the Status field:
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Enter the monetary value of the opportunity in the Total Value field. |
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Enter a number for how long until the opportunity closes in the Number field. |
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Select the closing date unit of time from the Days drop-down menu. |
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Click OK. |
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Complete the workflow with other triggers, filters, delays, or actions. |
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