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Manage Opportunities in Your Pipeline

Use opportunities to track revenue as it moves through your sales process.

Opportunities are an easy way for Kyrios to track potential revenue inside your pipeline. Each opportunity belongs to a pipeline stage, so you can see where the deal stands and what needs to happen next.

By the end of this phase:

  • You can see where revenue opportunities stand

  • Sales conversations follow a process

  • Estimates, invoices, and contracts are structured

  • Payments and deals move through a system

  • Revenue is no longer tied to memory or scattered messages

Opportunities are how Kyrios tracks potential revenue inside your pipeline. Each opportunity belongs to a pipeline stage so you can see where the deal stands and what needs to happen next.

Why this matters

Revenue gets messy when it lives in scattered places:

  • a conversation thread

  • a note

  • a quote someone meant to send

  • a follow-up someone forgot

  • a deal that is “probably close” but not tracked anywhere

That makes sales feel unpredictable. Opportunities give each potential sale a visible place in the system.

You can see:

  • who the opportunity is with

  • what stage it is in

  • what it may be worth

  • what needs to happen next

What you will do

You will:

  1. Open your opportunities pipeline

  2. Understand how opportunities connect to contacts

  3. Move an opportunity through stages

  4. See how revenue activity connects to the opportunity

Where to go

  1. Click Opportunities

  2. Open your sales pipeline

  3. Select an opportunity card

Step 1 — Understand opportunities

An opportunity is a potential sale, project, or revenue event. It is always tied to a pipeline stage.

That means every opportunity has a visible status.

Examples:

  • New Lead

  • Follow-Up Started

  • Contact Engaged

  • Appointment / Next Step Set

  • Won

  • Lost

  • Abandoned

Your exact stages may be different, but the idea is the same. Each stage tells you where that revenue opportunity stands.

Step 2 — Understand how opportunities connect to contacts

Opportunities are tied to contacts.

That matters because the contact record holds the relationship history:

  • conversations

  • tasks

  • appointments

  • notes

  • invoices

  • documents

  • estimates

So you are not just tracking a deal. You are seeing the full customer context behind it.

Step 3 — Move the opportunity forward

When the status changes:

  1. Open the opportunity (Alternatively, you can drag and drop it anywhere in the pipeline)

  2. Move it to the correct stage

  3. Update any important details

This keeps your pipeline honest. That matters. A pipeline full of outdated cards is just a spreadsheet wearing a nicer outfit.

Step 4 — Connect revenue activity

Opportunities can connect to revenue tools inside Kyrios, including:

  • invoices

  • estimates

  • contracts

  • documents

  • appointments

This helps you see more than “someone might buy.” You can see the steps that move the opportunity toward revenue.

Important note

Moving an opportunity does not automatically trigger anything by default. Workflows are what automate next steps. The pipeline shows where things stand. Workflows handle what happens next.

What happens next

Once you use opportunities consistently:

  • revenue becomes easier to track

  • follow-up is clearer

  • open deals are visible

  • stale opportunities are easier to spot

  • conversations, estimates, invoices, and documents stay connected to the right contact

Where to look

You can review opportunity activity in:

  • Opportunities

  • Contact records

  • Conversations

Helpful resources

Use these if you need more detail:

What to ignore for now

You do not need to start with:

  • opportunity imports

  • exports

  • custom fields

  • engagement scoring

  • advanced metrics

Those are useful later. Right now, the goal is simply to make sure every revenue opportunity has a visible place to move forward.

That is how revenue starts becoming easier to manage.

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