How to: Create Sales Opportunities

You can create opportunities for the sales opportunities you have on your contacts. All opportunities must be assigned to a salesperson or purchaser and must have a contact.

You can create opportunities from the Opportunity List window. But you typically will create opportunities from the specific contact or salespeople.

Before you can create opportunities, you must set up opportunity sales cycles. For more information see How to: Set Up Opportunity Sales Cycles and Stages.

To create an opportunity from a salesperson

1. Choose the icon, enter Salespeople, and then choose the related link.
2. Select the salesperson from the list for whom you want to create an opportunity.
3. Choose the Opportunities action, and then choose List.
4. Choose New, and then fill in the fields as relevant. Choose a field to read a short description of the field or link to more information.

To create an opportunity from a contact

1. Choose the icon, enter Contacts, and then choose the related link.
2. Select the contact from the list for whom you want to create an opportunity.
3. Do one of the following:
   • Choose the Create Opportunity action.
   • Choose the Opportunities action, and then choose New.
4. Fill in the relevant fields.

See Also

Dynamics 365 Business Central
Sales
Creating and Managing Contacts
Working with Dynamics NAV