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Overview: What is Lead Tracking?

ConstructionOnline™ Lead Tracking helps construction teams capture, organize, and prioritize sales leads through a custom pipeline that covers lead progression from start to close.

Every construction project begins with a conversation. Before contracts are signed, estimates are approved, or work is scheduled, there is usually a prospective client who has expressed interest in your company and the services you provide. Whether that interest comes through a phone call, website form, referral, or email inquiry, it represents a potential future project and an opportunity to grow your business. 

A lead is that earliest point of contact: a prospect that hasn’t yet been qualified into a defined project. The work at this stage is about communication and prioritization —placing calls, scheduling callbacks, logging conversations, and judging which prospects are worth pursuing.

Managing those early interactions effectively is an important part of the sales management process. Without a consistent system for tracking inquiries, recording communications, and scheduling follow-ups, valuable leads can easily slip through the cracks. When lead information is spread across inboxes, spreadsheets, and individuals, sales management is often inconsistent and ineffective. Genuine prospects quietly go cold amidst delayed responses and forgotten follow-ups.

An effective sales process is about more than just managing a calendar and a call list—it's about identifying qualified leads early and guiding them through an intuitive, consistent process that results in a signed contract and a closed deal. 

ConstructionOnline Lead Tracking

Lead Tracking in ConstructionOnline is a sales management solution designed to help construction companies organize, qualify, and manage prospective clients before they become active projects. By centralizing lead information, communications, follow-up activities, and sales workflows, Lead Tracking provides the structure needed to move prospects through the earliest stages of the sales process with consistency and confidence.

From a single workspace, teams can capture incoming leads, assign ownership, track interactions, schedule follow-ups, and monitor progress through a fully customizable sales pipeline. Leads can be captured automatically from your website or Public Profile, synced via HubSpot, imported in bulk, or entered manually. Integrated calendars, call logs, activity tracking, and reporting tools help ensure that every prospect receives timely attention while giving sales managers clear visibility into pipeline performance and future revenue opportunities.  

ConstructionOnline Lead Tracking works hand-in-hand with ConstructionOnline Opportunities. The Lead represents the potential construction client, while the Opportunity represents the potential construction project that grows out of that relationship. As the sales process advances, qualified Opportunities can eventually be converted into active Projects, creating a clear progression from prospect to project completion.

Lead → Opportunity → Project

As leads become qualified and project discussions begin to take shape, they can be advanced into Opportunities, where estimating, proposal preparation, and other preconstruction activities can be managed. To learn more about the next stage of the sales process, see Overview: What are Opportunities?

Lead Capture

  • Collect lead information automatically via form submissions utilizing ConstructionOnline's built-in Lead Capture tools, compatible with your ConstructionOnline Public Profile or your existing company website.
  • Connect your HubSpot account to ConstructionOnline to allow for direct or manual syncing across both platforms, ensuring lead information stays consistently up to date and bridging the gap between CRM and project management workflows.
  • Import leads in bulk through a formatted .CSV file—great for companies getting started with ConstructionOnline and looking to bring in an existing database of leads.
  • Manually enter individual leads into ConstructionOnline when a new inquiry is received via phone, email, or in-person event.

Lead Pipeline

  • Track every prospect in a fully customizable pipeline that shows how leads are progressing through the sales process. 

  • Filter leads by Stage, Status, Source, Type, and/or Sales Rep to surface valuable pipeline information, such as the total number and total value of leads within the selected filters. 

  • Customize column order and visibility within the lead list to ensure that the information most useful to your team is front and center.

Individual employees can lock their preferred filters within their ConstructionOnline profile for quick, repeatable access to the information they most frequently access.

Lead Calendar

  • Schedule callbacks and meetings associated with individual leads so that sales engagement stays on track.
  • Attach files & documents to lead events (for example, client-provided photos of the existing conditions at the jobsite) keeping each lead's activity history complete.

Lead Call Log

  • Record call duration, notes, and attachments to provide comprehensive documentation of interactions with prospects during ongoing qualification.
  • Preserve learned context, preferences, and insights as leads are handed off to other team members, ensuring no details is lost in lead transition.

Custom Lead Fields

  • Tailor select fields in Lead Tracking to your company's sales process:
    • Lead Stage
    • Lead Source
    • Lead Type
    • Lead Tags
  • Use custom fields to drive more meaningful filtering, viewing, and reporting across the Lead Pipeline. 

Lead Reporting

  • Generate professional, print-ready Lead Reports from Lead Tracking, complete with custom Company Branding.
  • Reports available for ConstructionOnline Lead Tracking include:
    • Lead Tracking Overview: A compiled list of leads in the pipeline, can be filtered by Status, Stage, Source, Sales Rep, Date Range, and more.
    • Lead Summary: A synopsis of any individual lead, including General Info, Lead Details, Lead Events, and any Related Opportunities.
    • Lead Value by Source: An inventory of Leads and associated Lead Value, automatically filtered by Lead Source. 
    • Lead Value by Sales Rep: An inventory of Leads and associated Lead Value, automatically filtered by Sales Rep.
Lead Tracking Workflow for ConstructionOnline

Lead Tracking Key Terminology

  • Lead Stage: Represents a lead's progress through the Lead Pipeline. Selected from Lead Stage dropdown, a custom Company field in ConstructionOnline. Can be applied to the Lead Pipeline as a filter.
  • Lead Status: Denotes whether a Lead is Inactive/Open or Closed-Won/Closed-Lost.
    Can be applied to the Lead Pipeline as a filter.
  • Lead Source: Tracks the origin of a Lead, such as Online Search, Social Media, or Referral. Selected from Lead Source dropdown, a custom Company field in ConstructionOnline. Can be applied to the Lead Pipeline as a filter.
  • Lead Type: Tracks the category or segment under which the Lead falls (e.g. New Business or Existing Business). Selected from Lead Type dropdown, a custom Company field in ConstructionOnline. Can be applied to the Lead Pipeline as a filter.
  • Lead Value: Projected value of the prospect and/or potential projects, used for forecasting and pipeline reporting. 
  • Probability: Estimated likelihood that the Lead will convert into an Opportunity or a signed contract, expressed as a percentage.
  • Quality: Internal rating metric of 1-5 stars, generally used to indicate lead promise and priority, based on initial conversations, project fit, budget alignment, and client readiness.
  • Sales Rep: User assigned to manage the Lead. Available Contacts populate from the Company Employees added as users on the ConstructionOnline Company Account. Can be applied to the Lead Pipeline as a filter. 
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HAVE MORE QUESTIONS?

  • Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Lead Tracking can be found in the article FAQ: Lead Tracking.
  • If you need additional assistance, chat with a Specialist by clicking the orange Chat icon located in the bottom left corner or visit the UDA Support Page for additional options.