cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12565350

RE: sales CRMs like salesforce or zoho

Don’t expect much of an audience for this on Lemmy, but:

Maybe it’s just the places I’ve worked, but seems like I’m constantly wading through contacts who are gone - I don’t want to delete them because the history could be helpful, but seems like there should be a quick, native way to mark them. Maybe once marked those names are grayed out or something.

My one company had a custom field that you could check, but then there was no special handling of those contacts in terms of how they’re displayed - just you could use it to exclude results in reports.

    • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      In the two organizations I’ve been at we didn’t use the lead object at all, it was all contacts. At the one place we did have a custom checkbox field for “no longer at the company” but that didn’t change how the contacts were displayed at all.

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        8 months ago

        Ahh… kk… so there is a less often used field for contact stage as well. Iirc Left Company is a default but I may have inherited that from stages syncing after deploying Outreach