PLATFORM · CAPABILITY
Contacts and pipeline
The contacts and pipeline module in EveryonePlans holds every person and organization you deal with, the stage each opportunity is at, who owns it, and the full history of what was said — in the same database as the scheduling, work and invoicing that follow from it.
01THE PROBLEM
Why this is worth having
Most small operations know who their customers are and still lose deals, because the knowledge is distributed: the quote is in one person’s sent folder, the follow-up date is in their head, and the reason the last deal stalled left with the person who handled it. Nothing is missing, exactly. It is just not anywhere you can act on.
02HOW IT WORKS
The mechanism
- A contact is a person; an organization is a company; either can be linked to the other, and to any number of jobs, invoices, messages and files. The link is the record — nothing is duplicated to make a connection.
- Pipeline stages are yours to define, not a fixed funnel. A stage change is an event, so automations and reporting see it without anybody remembering to tell them.
- Every message sent through the platform is logged against the contact automatically, so the history is a by-product of doing the work rather than a thing somebody has to maintain.
- Ownership is explicit and permissioned: a salesperson sees their pipeline, a manager sees everybody’s, and a subcontractor sees the job without seeing the margin on it.
02bWITHOUT SIGNING IN
What it looks like.
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Contacts and pipeline — screenshot
REAL SCREEN CAPTURE, NOT GENERATED. The contacts list and a single contact record open beside it, showing linked jobs, messages and invoices. Real-looking names, recent dates, a stage set to something mid-funnel. Capture at 1600x900 with believable seeded data — real-looking names, dates within the next two weeks, non-round money amounts — and blur anything identifying a real customer.
DROP AT
/art/screens/contacts-and-pipeline.png03WORKED EXAMPLE
A lead from your own website, end to end
- Someone fills in the contact form on the site you already own. It posts to the intake endpoint and lands as a contact, not as an email.
- A rule assigns it to whoever is on rotation and sets a follow-up for tomorrow morning.
- The owner quotes the work; the quote is attached to the contact and the stage moves to Quoted.
- The quote is accepted, which creates the job, puts it on the schedule, and moves the stage again.
- Six months later somebody asks what happened with that customer, and the answer is on one screen instead of in three inboxes.
04QUESTIONS
About contacts and pipeline
Is this a CRM?
Yes, but it is not only a CRM — the contacts live in the same database as scheduling, work, invoicing and messaging, so a deal becomes a job becomes an invoice without an integration in between. A standalone CRM holds the contact and hands everything downstream to another tool, which is where most of the re-typing in a small business comes from.
Can I import my existing contacts?
Yes, over the API, in bulk. Talk to us about the shape of what you have and we will tell you honestly whether it is an afternoon or a week before you commit to anything.
Can two businesses share a contact without sharing everything else?
Yes. Organizations are isolated from each other by default, and what is shared between them is shared as an explicit fact rather than by giving one access to the other’s records.
05READ NEXT
Forms and intakePublic forms that land as structured records, not as an email you have to read and re-key. Drop one into a site you already own.Quotes, invoices and paymentsPriced work turned into a document, sent, paid and reconciled, against a double-entry ledger.Workflows and rulesWhen this happens, do that — enrolment, waiting, branching, human approval steps. Automation a person can read back a month later.
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