Quick Tour
A 5-minute walkthrough of HotCRM — the home page, your first lead, your first deal.
Quick Tour
A guided tour through the screens you'll use every day.
1. The home dashboard
The first thing you see is the CRM Overview dashboard. It tells you:
- How many open leads you have.
- How many opportunities are in your pipeline.
- Any cases awaiting your response.
- Top accounts by pipeline value.
- Recent activity (last calls, meetings, emails).
Use it as your daily start-of-day landing page. If you're a manager, you also see team-level rollups.
➜ Learn more: Dashboards
2. The app launcher
Click the app launcher (top-left grid icon) to switch between apps:
- Enterprise CRM — the main app with all CRM functionality.
- Admin — for system administrators.
Inside Enterprise CRM, the left nav groups things by:
| Group | Contents |
|---|---|
| Sales | Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, Quotes, Contracts |
| Service | Cases, Knowledge Base |
| Marketing | Campaigns, Campaign Members |
| Products | Products |
| Activities | Tasks, Events |
| Analytics | Dashboards, Reports |
| AI | Copilot, Knowledge Bases |
| Approvals | Approval Requests, Action History |
3. Your first lead
A lead is someone who's expressed interest but hasn't been qualified yet.
- Click Sales → Leads → New.
- Fill in Name, Company, Email.
- Save. The lead is automatically assigned to you.
- Click 🎯 Qualify on the lead detail page — the Sales Copilot will score them as Hot / Warm / Cold and suggest the next action.
- When ready, click Convert to turn the lead into an Account + Contact + Opportunity in one step.
➜ Learn more: Leads
4. Your first opportunity
An opportunity is a real deal you're working.
- Created automatically from lead conversion, or Sales → Opportunities → New.
- Set Account, Amount, Close Date, Stage.
- As the deal progresses, move it through stages: Prospecting → Qualification → Proposal → Negotiation → Closed Won.
- The system enforces the state machine — you can't skip stages randomly.
- Click ✍️ Draft Email to have the AI Copilot draft a contextual follow-up.
- Win it by setting stage to Closed Won — the system auto-creates a contract and notifies the team.
➜ Learn more: Opportunities
5. A service case
A case is a customer issue.
- Cases arrive via email, web form, phone, chat, or portal.
- New cases land in a queue — agents pick them up.
- Click 🚦 Triage on a new case — the Service Copilot suggests priority, category, and the top 3 matching knowledge-base articles.
- The SLA clock starts — see the time-to-respond / time-to-resolve countdown on the case page.
- Reply to the customer; close the case when resolved.
➜ Learn more: Cases
6. The AI Copilot
The Copilot lives in the right-side chat panel on every page. Ask it:
- "What's at risk in my pipeline this week?"
- "Give me Customer 360 on [account name]."
- "Draft a discovery follow-up for this lead."
- "What's my forecast for this quarter?"
It reads from your CRM data and respects your sharing — you can't ask it to leak records you can't already see.
➜ Learn more: AI Copilot
7. Where to next?
Pick the role that matches you:
| You are a... | Start here |
|---|---|
| Sales rep | Sales |
| Service agent | Service |
| Marketer | Marketing |
| Sales manager | Analytics → Dashboards |
| CRM administrator | Administration → Setup Checklist |
| Developer | For Developers |
Happy selling 🚀