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Before someone is a tenant they are an enquiry. The sales pipeline is where that enquiry is captured,
qualified, worked and either converted into a lease or closed out — so vacancy is managed
deliberately rather than by whoever happens to answer the phone.
Two surfaces:
Marketing leads
A lead is an enquiry that has not yet been qualified.
Source is the field that pays for itself. Recorded consistently, it tells you which channels produce
tenancies rather than which produce noise.
Leads are people, not units. The same person enquiring about three units is one lead with one
history — do not create a lead per unit.
The pipeline
A qualified lead becomes an opportunity and enters the pipeline. Each opportunity carries the unit it concerns, an expected value, a stage, and an owner.1
Qualify
Confirm requirement, budget and timing. Disqualify early rather than carrying dead enquiries.
2
Viewing
Arrange and record the viewing. Link it to the unit so vacancy activity is visible.
3
Offer
Terms proposed — rent, deposit, start date, any concession.
4
Application
The prospect submits an application. From here the record continues in
Applications.
5
Closed
Won, when a lease is created; lost, with a reason.
Handover to applications and leases
The pipeline stops at the point an application is submitted. It does not create leases itself — the applications workflow does the screening, and lease creation happens there. This keeps a single path into tenancy, so every resident arrives with the same checks behind them.Assignment and follow-up
Opportunities respect the same assignment layer as the rest of the platform: an owner is set on the record, and follow-up work appears in that person’s queue. See Work and assignments.Reading the pipeline
Common problems
Related
Applications
Screening and conversion into a tenancy.
Units
Vacancy and unit availability.
Work and assignments
Who owns follow-up on an opportunity.
Communications
Reaching prospects and tracking delivery.