Contact database in Onpipeline is organized into

• Persons
• Organizations
• Leads IN

Organizations are the companies/businesses where contact Persons work. On other CRMs you will see them named “Accounts”. You can rename the label as you wish.

Persons and Organizations can be easily linked within the application from the Person page. A person can belong to one organization at a time. If you wish to keep track of additional organizations linked to the person you can easily do it with custom fields.

By managing custom fields, you can also decide which fields to show or change their order within the contact spreadsheet. Please keep in mind that although it is possible to hide all fields, there are two important clickable fields that allow you to click from the spreadsheet to access the contact. Full Name in persons and Organization in organizations. You should never hide them.

To make you better understand the relationships between tables, what we call Organizations in other CRMs are called Accounts. You are free to rename the section (e.g. from organizations to accounts). Info

Leads IN (in Standard Plans) is a layer where you receive new leads that can be converted into contacts and deals.

Private Contacts

Contacts in Onpipeline by default have no owners and are shared among all users. We decided for this approach as  “private contacts” in a CRM are a nonsense in most cases. But obviously there are businesses with different needs!

How to make your contacts private

If for any reason you prefer to keep your contacts confidential – for example if your users are agents – you can make them private in 2 simple steps:

1. activate the feature in company settings

2. add a “user” custom field to both Organizations and Persons

New contacts (Organizations and Persons) added by users will be automatically owned, and no other user will be able to see them.

• Only the team leader or the administrators will be able to see those contacts.
• Unassigned contacts can only be seen by the administrators.

If you are activating private contacts, please make sure to assign all existing contact the to the proper user (users will be identified by name not by ID).

IMPORTANT: If you use this configuration, please make sure your users have no permission to import data as bulk uploads will affect the entire database.