Yes, if your team already signs in with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and your CRM supports it. One work account per person, MFA enforced in one place and access that ends when the account is disabled. Keep one emergency admin login outside it.
Per role. Define a small set of roles that match how people work, give every user exactly one, and keep personal exceptions rare, written down and dated. Then access stays explainable when people join, move or leave.
Not as a hard block, but yes as an agreed review threshold. When one person owns more open deals than they can follow up with a dated next step, the pipeline fills with deals nobody is working. Agree a number per role and review it weekly.
Yes. A report or dashboard that several people rely on needs one named owner who keeps its filters, definitions and recipients correct, and who decides when it is changed or retired. Personal views can stay personal.
Yes. Renaming, adding, merging or removing a pipeline stage changes what every open deal and every report means. Agree the change with sales and management first, decide where open deals move, note the date, and only then change the CRM.
Not by default. Track a deal when there is a real sales decision to win or lose, such as a quote or a negotiation. Small repeat orders without a sales conversation belong in the order or invoicing system, so win rate, cycle time and forecast keep describing real selling.
Yes, for every business customer and serious prospect. A registration number such as a Dutch KvK number is the most reliable way to recognise the same company, which prevents duplicates and makes imports, merges and invoicing easier.
Yes, as soon as you sell more than one thing. Give every deal a product line from a short fixed list, choose it no later than the quote, and use it to compare pipeline, win rate and loss reasons per offer.
Yes, as soon as you quote in more than one currency. Record the currency on each deal as a fixed choice, keep the amount in the currency the customer was quoted in, and convert only in reports, with a stated rate.
Yes, if you work with customers in more than one language. Record the language each contact wants to be addressed in as a fixed choice on the contact, not on the company, and use it for emails, quotes, calls and handovers.
Yes. When the quote lives only in someone's mailbox or a shared folder, nobody else knows what was offered, at what price or until when. Record the sent quote on the deal: the date, the version, the amount excluding VAT and the valid-until date, and keep the deal amount in line with the latest version.
Yes. Every extra field asks something of the people who fill it in, and fields nobody uses make the CRM slower and less trusted. Before adding one, name the report or decision it serves, who fills it in and when, and who owns it; review unused fields once a quarter.
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