Create a lead

A lead is a confirmed interest in your products or services expressed by a potential customer. For example, new leads emerge if new users register on your website or you receive a call from a contact who is interested in your services. With Creatio leads, you can work both with customers who are ready to make a deal and those who need some more time to consider a purchase.

In Creatio, a lead can be created in the following ways:

• added manually in the Leads section

• imported from Excel

• created automatically from a contact that has reached the lead conversion score of 80 or higher determined by the machine learning model

Using the Leads section, you can manage the entire lead management process, from the first confirmed expression of interest to conversion of the lead into an opportunity.

To add a lead manually:

1. Open the Leads section.

2. Click New. This opens a mini page.

3. Fill out the following fields on the mini page:

   Field	Field value
   Customer need	The need type the lead has. The field is required.
   Contact	Contact connected to the lead. Populated automatically by the account of the contact if the contact has an account specified. The field is required.
   Account	Account connected to the lead. Populated automatically by the account of the contact if the contact has an account specified. The field is required.
   Lead type	How you got the lead. Set to PQL (product qualified lead) automatically. You can specify a different type if needed.
   Comments	Additional information about the lead.
   Owner	The contact in charge of the lead. Populated with the current user contact automatically. The field is required.

4. Save the changes.

Fig. 1 Create a lead

As a result, Creatio will add a record to the Leads section. You will be able to fill out the additional fields of the record later.

note

Creatio populates the Name field of the lead record based on the "Filling the field [LeadName] in the lead" business process out of the box or if the "Filling the field [LeadName] in the lead with the process" ("FillingInLeadNameWithProcess" code) system setting is turned on. We recommend keeping the system setting turned on and customizing the field population mechanism in the business process if needed.

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See also

Lead management process

Lead duplicate search

Predictive scoring of leads

Leads FAQ

Set up automatic lead registration from LinkedIn

Set up automatic lead registration from social networks

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Resources

Lead management