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Manage lost opportunities
=========================

While working with your opportunities, you might lose some of them. You
will want to keep track of the reasons you lost them and also which ways
Odoo can help you recover them in the future.
Not all opportunities result in successful sales. In order to keep the pipeline up to date, lost
opportunities need to be identified. Specifying the reason why an opportunity was lost provides
additional insight that can prove useful for future opportunities.

Mark a lead as lost
===================

While in your pipeline, select any opportunity you want and you will see
a *Mark Lost* button.
To mark a lead as lost, open the :menuselection:`CRM` application, and select a lead from the
pipeline, by clicking on its corresponding kanban card. Doing so reveals that lead's detail form.

You can then select an existing *Lost Reason* or create a new one
right there.
Then, click :guilabel:`Lost`, located at the top of the lead's detail form.

.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost_opportunities01.png
.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost-opps-lost-button.png
:align: center
:alt: Buttons from the top of an opportunity record with the lost button emphasized.

Manage & create lost reasons
----------------------------
This opens the :guilabel:`Lost Reason` popup. From the drop-down, choose an existing lost reason. If
no applicable reason is available, create a new one by entering it into the :guilabel:`Lost Reason`
field, and clicking :guilabel:`Create`.

You will find your *Lost Reasons* under :menuselection:`Configuration --> Lost Reasons`.
Additional notes and comments can be added below the lost reason designated in the :guilabel:`Lost
Reason` field.

You can select & rename any of them as well as create a new one from
there.
When all the desired information has been entered in the :guilabel:`Lost Reason` pop-up window,
click :guilabel:`Submit`.

.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost-opps-lost-reason.png
:align: center
:alt: Lost reasons popup with sample reasons.

Upon clicking :guilabel:`Submit`, the pop-up window disappears, and Odoo returns to the lead detail
form, where a new red :guilabel:`Lost` banner is now present in the upper-right corner of the lead.

Create/edit lost reasons
========================

To create a new lost reason, or edit an existing one, navigate to :menuselection:`CRM app -->
Configuration --> Lost Reasons`.

To edit an existing reason, click on the reason that should be modified. When clicked, that reason
becomes highlighted. Once highlighted, change the description of the selected lost reason by editing
the :guilabel:`Description` field. When done, click :guilabel:`Save` in the upper-left corner.

To create a new lost reason, click :guilabel:`Create` in the upper-left corner of the
:guilabel:`Lost Reasons` page. Doing so reveals a new blank line in the :guilabel:`Description`
field. Then, proceed to type in the new lost reason in that new line. Once ready, click
:guilabel:`Save`.

Retrieve lost opportunities
===========================

To retrieve lost opportunities and do actions on them (send an email,
make a feedback call, etc.), select the *Lost* filter in the search
bar.
To retrieve lost opportunities in Odoo *CRM*, open the :menuselection:`CRM app` to the main
:guilabel:`Pipeline` dashboard. Then, click the :guilabel:`Filters` drop-down menu, located beneath
the search bar.

.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost_opportunities02.png
.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost-opps-lost-filter.png
:align: center
:alt: Search bar with lost filter emphasized.

You will then see all your lost opportunities.
From the :guilabel:`Filters` drop-down menu, select the :guilabel:`Lost` option. Upon selecting
:guilabel:`Lost`, only the leads that have been marked as `Lost` appear on the :guilabel:`Pipeline`
page.

If you want to refine them further, you can add a filter on the *Lost
Reason*.
To filter leads by a specific lost reason, select :menuselection:`Filters --> Add Custom Filter`.
Doing so reveals another drop-down menu with three fields.

For Example, *Too Expensive*.
In the top field drop-down menu, select :guilabel:`Lost Reason`. In the second field drop-down menu,
select :guilabel:`Contains`. Then, in the third field of the :guilabel:`Add Custom Field` sub menu,
type in the specific keyword(s). Lastly, click :guilabel:`Apply`. Upon clicking :guilabel:`Apply`,
Odoo reveals all the lost leads with a reason that contains that specified keyword(s).

.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost_opportunities03.png
.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost-opps-lost-custom-filter.png
:align: center
:alt: Search bar with custom filter added for lost reason.

Restore lost opportunities
==========================

From the Kanban view with the filter(s) in place, you can select any
opportunity you wish and work on it as usual. You can also restore it by
clicking on *Archived*.
To restore a lost opportunity, navigate to the main :guilabel:`Pipeline` dashboard on the *CRM* app,
open the :guilabel:`Filters` drop-down menu, and select the :guilabel:`Lost` option. Doing so
reveals all the lost opportunities on the :guilabel:`Pipeline` page.

.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost_opportunities04.png
:align: center
Then, click on the kanban card of the desired lost opportunity to restore, which opens that lead's
detail form.

You can also restore items in batch from the Kanban view when they
belong to the same stage. Select *Restore Records* in the column
options. You can also archive the same way.
From the lost lead's detail form, click :guilabel:`Restore` in the upper-left corner. Doing so
removes the red :guilabel:`Lost` banner from the lead form, signifying the lead has been restored.

.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost_opportunities05.png
.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost-opps-restore.png
:align: center
:alt: Lost opportunity with emphasis on the Restore button.

To select specific opportunities, you should switch to the list view.
Restore multiple opportunities at once
--------------------------------------

.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost_opportunities06.png
:align: center
To restore multiple opportunities at once, navigate to the main :guilabel:`Pipeline` dashboard in
the *CRM* app, open the :guilabel:`Filters` drop-down menu, and select the :guilabel:`Lost` option.

Next, select the list view option, which is represented by the three-line :guilabel:`☰ (list)` icon
in the upper-right corner. Doing so places all the leads from the :guilabel:`Pipeline` page in a
list form. With the list form chosen, select the checkbox to the left of each desired
opportunity/lead to be restored.

Once the desired opportunities/leads have been selected, click the :guilabel:`⚙️ Action (gear)`
drop-down menu at the top of the :guilabel:`Pipeline` page. From the :guilabel:`⚙️ Action (gear)`
drop-down menu, select :guilabel:`Unarchive`.

Then you can select as many or all opportunities and select the actions
you want to take.
Doing so removes those selected lost opportunities from the :guilabel:`Pipeline` page because they
no longer fit into the `Lost` filter criteria. To reveal these newly-restored leads, delete the
`Lost` filter from the search bar.

.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost_opportunities07.png
.. image:: lost_opportunities/lost-opps-unarchive.png
:align: center
:alt: Action button from list view with the Unarchive option emphasized.

.. seealso::
* :doc:`../performance/win_loss`
:doc:`../performance/win_loss`
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