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Revenue and pipeline tracking for service businesses

The short answer

Revenue and pipeline tracking shows the money already booked and the opportunities still open, with each opportunity's stage, value and age. It focuses on what is coming in next, while close and outcome reporting looks back at what was won and lost.

At a glance
  • Revenue reporting by service, location and period
  • Pipeline views by stage, value and age
  • Stage-to-close rates from your history
  • Weighted pipeline and forecast

Why track the pipeline, not just revenue?

Revenue reports tell you what already happened. The pipeline tells you what is likely to happen next. If open quotes and proposals are thin today, revenue will be thin in a few weeks, and the time to act is now.

For service businesses with longer sales cycles or larger projects, pipeline visibility is the difference between planning and reacting.

It also helps with cash planning. Knowing roughly what will be invoiced over the coming weeks makes it easier to time purchases, hiring and marketing spend without waiting for the bank balance to tell you.

What we track

We build tracking from your CRM and pipelines, connected to booked revenue.

Where you sell through several channels or locations, we split each view by those as well, so a strong month in one area does not hide a weak one somewhere else.

  • Booked revenue by service, location and period
  • Open opportunities by stage and value
  • Age of each opportunity and time in each stage
  • Weighted pipeline based on your real stage-to-close rates
  • Forecast against targets
  • Recurring and contracted revenue
  • Opportunities at risk because they have stalled

A forecast based on your history

A pipeline forecast is only useful if it reflects how your business actually closes. We calculate stage-to-close rates and typical cycle times from your own history, then apply them to the open pipeline. As more data comes in, the forecast gets better.

It will never be exact, but it is far better than a gut feeling and shows clearly when a gap is coming.

We show the forecast as a range rather than a single number, because a range is more honest and more useful for planning. The range narrows as your history grows and your pipeline data gets cleaner.

Acting on what you see

The value of pipeline tracking is the early warning. Stalled opportunities get flagged for follow-up. A thin pipeline for a service prompts a marketing push. A strong pipeline signals when to plan capacity or hiring.

We set alerts for the conditions that matter, so you do not have to check the numbers to be warned.

Signs it is time to fix this

You find out a slow period is coming only when it arrives.
Nobody knows the total value of open quotes and proposals.
Forecasts are based on gut feel.
Opportunities stall for weeks before anyone notices.

What is included

  • Revenue reporting by service, location and period
  • Pipeline views by stage, value and age
  • Stage-to-close rates from your history
  • Weighted pipeline and forecast
  • Target tracking
  • Stalled opportunity alerts
  • Recurring revenue view
Questions

Revenue and pipeline tracking: common questions.

All questions

It is the value of open opportunities adjusted by the chance each one closes, based on its stage. A proposal stage with a historical close rate of half counts at half its value.

Yes, or a similar system where opportunities are tracked with a stage and value. If you do not have one, our Platform solution sets it up.

Yes. Memberships, retainers and recurring service plans are tracked separately so you can see predictable revenue alongside new sales.

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