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"Reason Lost" - Moving Opps to Closed Lost

 

When moving an Opportunity into the "Closed Lost" stage, a few fields may be required, including:

  • Reason Lost
  • Sub Reason
  • Reason Detail
    • *Only required is specific values for Reason Lost are selected

It is important that users understand the differences and definitions of these reasons. Please see the table below:

REASON LOSTSUB REASONREASON DETAILDEFINITION
Legacy End of Life

Internal Server Errors

(optional) We received server errors

Customer Corrupted Files (optional) The customer had corrupted files

Firewall Issues (optional) The customer had firewall issues

Misunderstanding (optional) The customer misunderstood what was happening with migration (i.e. they thought we were going out of business instead of just sunsetting products)




Buying Committee Out of Business (optional)

Acquired/Sold Business (optional)

Disconnected (optional) You were ghosted or were no longer able to get in touch

Champion Left Company (optional)

Procurement/Legal (optional)




Customer Requirements Only Wants Storage (optional)

Outside our Product Scope (optional) Do not confuse this with a product limitation. When the customer's requirements are outside our product scope, this means something they are wanting is not something our product does and likely will never do. (i.e. they are looking to purchase a used car and that is not what our company does)

On-Prem Requirement (optional)

Timeline Too Far Out (optional)

Budget/Pricing (optional)

Consolidation (optional)




Product - Limitations Functionality Missing *required Please elaborate on the product limitation; not to be confused with a bug/technical challenge NOR product scope. This should be selected when there is something our product should be able to do but doesn't today.




Product - Technical Challenges Bug/Something Not Working *required

Downtime/Not Stable *required

Slow Product Experience *required
 


 
Service Issues Customer Education *required

Onboarding Expectations *required

Support *required




Adoption Product Utilization (optional)

License Utilization (optional)




Auto-Terminated Customer Cancelled (optional) NEVER to be selected by users; this is selected by automation in Salesforce




Duplicate Opportunity Duplicate Created by Mistake (optional) When a duplicate opp was created by mistake (by a user or by the system)