Tracking clients and deals in Notion comes down to two things: a pipeline that shows where every opportunity stands, and a follow-up system so nothing goes silent. Get those right and you always know your pipeline value and who needs attention today. Here is how.
Create a Deals database. Give it a Status property with clear stages — Lead, Contacted, Proposal Sent, Won, Lost — and a Value number property for the deal size. Then make a Board view grouped by Status. Dragging a deal from Contacted to Proposal updates everything, and the board shows your whole pipeline at a glance.
Keep clients in their own Contacts (or Clients) database and link each deal to a client with a relation. Now a client's page shows their full deal history, and a deal shows who it belongs to. This is the difference between tracking deals and tracking relationships.
Add a sum of the Value property at the bottom of each board column. In seconds you can see how much is sitting in Proposal versus Lead — which tells you whether next month looks strong or thin. That single number is worth more than most reports.
Add a Next Step date to each deal. Create a view filtered to next steps due today or overdue. Every morning, open it and work the list. Deals do not usually die because the client said no — they die because nobody followed up. This view is the fix.
Use each deal's page to note what was said and agreed. Before any call you glance at the last note and walk in informed. Over time this becomes a record of the whole relationship.
The pipeline board, the linked client relation, the pipeline-value sum, and the follow-up filter are all quick to use but fiddly to set up correctly. A finished Notion CRM with these already wired lets you drop in your deals and start tracking the same day, instead of debugging filters and relations first.
Create a Deals database with a Status property for pipeline stages and a Value property, shown as a Board view grouped by status. Link each deal to a client with a relation.
Add a sum of the Value property to each board column. You can then see at a glance how much sits in each stage, which tells you whether next month looks strong or thin.
Add a next-step date to each deal and filter a view to what is due today or overdue. Most deals die from silence, and that daily list keeps you following up.
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