CRM Overview

Manage contacts, track deals through a visual pipeline, log activities, and use message templates — all built into the Kantivo Platform.

Kantivo Platform includes a built-in CRM that every organization, partner, and salesperson can use. There's no separate tool to buy, no data to migrate, and no extra login required. Your CRM lives inside the same platform you already use to manage subscriptions, commissions, and partner networks.

The CRM is available in both the Admin Portal (for org admins) and the Partner Portal (for partners and sales reps), with visibility controls that determine who sees what.

Where to find it

In the Admin Portal or Partner Portal, click CRM in the sidebar. You'll see tabs for Contacts, Deals, and Templates.

👤 Managing Contacts

Contacts are the people and companies you're working with. Each contact has a full profile including name, email, phone, company, job title, tags, and notes. You can classify contacts as leads, prospects, or customers to track where they are in your sales process.

Search and filter contacts by name, company, tags, or type. If you have a large number of contacts, use tags to organize them into meaningful groups.

Full profiles with name, email, phone, company, and job title
Contact types: lead, prospect, customer
Tag-based organization and filtering
Free-text notes on every contact
Search by name, company, or tag
CSV import and export (tier-gated)

Importing contacts

CSV import/export is available on higher subscription tiers. Prepare a CSV with columns for first name, last name, email, phone, company, and tags (comma-separated). Upload via the Import button on the Contacts tab.

📈 Deal Pipeline

The deal pipeline gives you a visual, Kanban-style view of where every deal stands. Each deal links to a contact and includes a dollar value, probability percentage, expected close date, and notes.

Deals move through stages that you can customize — for example: Lead, Qualified, Proposal, Negotiation, Won, Lost. Each stage has its own color for quick visual scanning. You can drag and drop deals between stages or update them manually.

Example pipeline view

Lead
Acme Corp
$12,000
TechStart Inc
$8,500
Qualified
DataFlow Ltd
$18,000
Proposal
MediaPulse
$32,000
Won
RetailMax
$45,000
Visual Kanban pipeline view
Customizable stages with names and colors
Deal value and probability tracking
Expected close date
Win/loss tracking with timestamps
Pipeline statistics (total value, win rate, avg deal size)
Link deals to CRM contacts
Notes and activity history per deal

Customizing stages

Organization admins can create, rename, reorder, and color-code pipeline stages. All users in the organization share the same stage definitions, so everyone is on the same page.

📝 Activity Logging

Activities are the record of every interaction with a contact or deal. You can log calls, emails, meetings, and notes with a subject line, description, and timestamp. Activities appear in a chronological timeline on the contact or deal profile.

Beyond manual logging, the system also creates automatic audit trail entries when a contact or deal is created, updated, or moved between pipeline stages.

Log calls, emails, meetings, and notes
Subject line and description per activity
Chronological timeline view
Automatic audit trail on changes
Activities linked to both contacts and deals
Filterable by activity type

💬 Message Templates

Message templates let you create reusable email, SMS, or note content that you can personalize with variables. Instead of retyping the same outreach message for every contact, create a template once and use it over and over.

Templates support variable substitution — insert placeholders like {{first_name}}, {{company}}, or {{deal_name}} that get replaced with real data when you use the template.

Email, SMS, and note template types
Variable substitution (name, company, deal, etc.)
Private templates (only you can see)
Shared templates (visible to your team)
Usage tracking and analytics
Quick-apply from contact or deal view

Template visibility

When creating a template, choose Private to keep it for yourself, or Shared to make it available to your team. Organization admins can see and manage all templates across the organization.

🔒 Visibility & Permissions

Every contact and deal has a visibility level that controls who can access it. This ensures sales reps only see their own leads, while org admins have a complete view of everything.

Visibility Level Who Can See It Best For
Individual Only the creator + org admins Personal leads not yet qualified
Partner Team Creator's partner + their sales reps + org admins Team collaboration on shared deals
Organization Everyone in the organization Committed deals the whole team should know about

Commit-up workflow

Start contacts as Individual (private), then "commit up" to Partner Team or Organization visibility when you're ready to share. This gives sales reps privacy to work leads before exposing them to the broader team.

Role-based permissions

Each user role has different default CRM permissions:

Action Org Admin Partner Salesperson
View all org contacts
Create contacts
Edit own contacts
Delete contacts ✓ (own)
Import/export CSV ✓ (tier-gated)
Manage pipeline stages
Create deals
Manage templates ✓ (all) ✓ (own + shared) ✓ (own only)

Getting started with the CRM

The CRM is ready to use as soon as you log in. Here's a quick workflow to get started:

1. Add your first contacts Go to CRM → Contacts → click "Add Contact". Fill in the profile details and assign a contact type (lead, prospect, or customer).
2. Create a deal Go to CRM → Deals → click "New Deal". Link it to a contact, set the value and expected close date, and choose a pipeline stage.
3. Log activities Open a contact or deal and click "Log Activity". Record calls, emails, or meetings to build a complete interaction history.
4. Set up templates Go to CRM → Templates → click "New Template". Create reusable messages with variables like {{first_name}} for personalized outreach at scale.
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