Activities in Pipedrive represent any scheduled action on your part towards the closing of a deal: a phone call, lunch meeting, email – whatever it is, you can schedule it with your people contacts, organizations, leads, deals or projects so you will always know what’s coming next. By default, you can set up your activities to be a call, meeting, task, deadline, email, or lunch type. You can set up custom activities types for activities that are specific to your company’s needs.
To facilitate the activities scheduling process, we suggest using our calendar sync feature to sync activities from your calendar provider and Scheduler feature to set up availabilities and book activities with clients.
Note: In order for another user, admin or regular, to have visibility of your activity, they will need visibility of all of the activity’s linked items.
To look at your activities in the calendar view or list view, go to the activities tab.
Adding activities
Since Pipedrive encourages activity-based selling, it’s easy to schedule activities no matter where you are.- In the pipeline view of the deals tab: Clicking on a deal’s activity icon in the pipeline view of the deals tab allows for the quick scheduling of an activity.
- In the detail view of any deal, person, or organization: When in the detail view of an item, click on the activity tab to link an activity directly to that item.
- In the lead view within the Leads Inbox: Select the lead from your Leads Inbox to open the details and click on the “Activity” tab at the top. The activity will automatically be linked to the lead.
- In the calendar or list view of the activities tab: When in the activities list or calendar view, you can quickly add an activity to make sure you’re able to stay aware of all actions you need to take in the immediate future.
- In the contacts timeline of the contacts tab: If you see that a person contact or organization has not had an activity scheduled in quite some time, you can quickly add an activity to make sure your lead doesn’t go cold.
- In the mobile app: If you have the Pipedrive mobile app downloaded, you will also be able to add activities on the go. You can add activities on the activities, deals and contacts tabs in the mobile app.
Note: If you wish to learn how to add activities in bulk, you can check this article.
Scheduling an activity
The Schedule an activity prompt presents you with your entire day’s agenda on the right, next to the necessary fields to schedule your next activity. This helps you to schedule your activities efficiently, preventing any double booking as well as giving you an easy way to reschedule your existing activities. In the Schedule an activity prompt, you can fill in the activity’s details.- Title – Name of your activity
- Type – Default or custom activity type
- Time, date and duration – The time and date of your activity
- Busy/Free – Set the activity as “Busy” or “Free” (default). If the activity is set to “Busy”, your customers will not be able to book that time slot through any Scheduler links.
- Note – A description of your activity. This is private and will only be visible within your Pipedrive account.
- Last activity date – Will show you the date for the last activity that was marked as done
- Next activity date – Will show you the date of the next activity you scheduled but that is not marked as done yet
- Update time – The date of the last update made on the item (a new activity created, a field that was updated, moving stages and more.)
- Guests – The people you want to invite to the activity. This can be either your existing Pipedrive contacts or an external email address. It’s recommended to make sure the Pipedrive contact person added to the guest’s section is also linked to the activity itself.
- Location – The address of your activity. Pipedrive will automatically check if the location matches a geo-location on Google maps. When on the activity list view in Pipedrive, clicking on the location will bring open up the location on Google maps.
- Description – Additional details about the activity that will be synced to your external calendar. Unlike the note added to your activity, the description will be publicly visible to any guests added to the activity.
Linking deals and contacts
You can enter the owner, deal, organization and person contact you want to be linked to the activity. When the activity is linked to an item, it will show up on the item’s detail page.- Linked deal – An activity linked to only a deal will automatically be linked with the contact person and organization that is linked to that deal.
- Linked person – An activity linked to a person contact will automatically be linked with the organization that is linked to the person contact.
- Linked organization – An activity linked to an organization will not be automatically linked to its deals or people contacts. This is because since there can be multiple deals and people contacts linked to each organization, Pipedrive will not know what people/deals to link the activity to.
Completing activities
As you complete your scheduled activities, you can mark them as done in the activities list or calendar view. They can also be marked as done anywhere you are able to see your activities, such as in the detail pages of your deals and contacts timeline view. The activities Marked as done time field will be updated with when the activity itself was marked as done. The Due date field will always show the time and date the activity was originally scheduled for. While you can always click and manually edit the Due date field of the activity – even retroactively – the Marked as done field will always reflect the time that activity was actually marked as done. You can read more about activity marked as done logic in this article.If you are just getting started with Pipedrive, you can check out our “Never forget a follow-up” Pipedrive Academy course.
Deleting activities
Activities can be deleted from both your Calendar and List view. To delete an activity from your List view, select one or multiple activities from the left side margin, then click the trash can icon: To delete an activity from your Calendar view, select the activity and click the trash can icon:Tags:
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