Opportunity management
An opportunity is a revenue-generating event. Adding deals to Salesforce will help you build a strong pipeline and help the organization in forecasting. An opportunity is also called as deal.
Opportunity - standard fields
Numerous standard fields exist on an opportunity object. Out of them, a few are very important, and they are mentioned in the following table:
|
Field label |
Data type |
Description |
|
Account Name |
Lookup (Account) |
This field is used to associate an account with an opportunity. |
|
Amount |
Currency(16, 2) |
This field is used to store the amount of the opportunity. |
|
Close Date |
Date |
This field is to store the probable deal closing date. |
|
Stage |
Picklist |
This field is used to capture the status of an opportunity. The values available under this picklist are:
|
|
Probability... |
