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Converting deals to leads

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Jenny Takahara, July 24, 2025
Note: This action is only available to global admin users or users with the permission “Convert deals to leads” enabled. This permission is enabled for regular users by default.

If a deal isn‘t ready to move through your pipeline but still shows potential, you can convert it into a lead. This allows you to keep the key information and review it later in your Leads Inbox when the timing is right to follow up again.

Note: The number of leads and deals depends on your plan. Learn more about usage limits in this article.

Converting your deals to leads

Note: Invoices, deal labels and deal history aren’t included in the converted lead.

A deal can be converted to a lead from a number of entry points in Pipedrive:

Learn more about lead CRM.

Pipeline view

  • Drag-and-drop your deal to the “Move to” option in the bottom right corner of your pipeline view, then select the location you want to move your deal to. Select “Leads” as the save location and click on “Save”.

Deal detail view

  • Click on “...” > Convert to a lead in the top right corner of a deal's detail view

Deals list view

Note: You can convert up to 100 deals at a time from the list view.
  • Filtered list – Click on “...” > Convert to leads in the top right corner of your deals list view to convert a filtered list of deals to leads
  • Converting in bulk – Select the deal or deals you want to convert in the deals list view and select ”Convert to leads”

When converting deals in the deal list view, you’ll see a window prompting you to confirm your changes and receive an email confirmation when the conversion is finished.

Note: If you accidentally convert a deal to a lead, you can filter for your deleted deals and restore it and the converted lead will still remain in your Leads Inbox. You can learn how to do so in this article.

Viewing your leads

Note: The user who converts a lead becomes the owner of that lead.

You can view your converted leads in your Leads Inbox by filtering your own leads.

Note: To get a better overview of how many deals were converted to leads, you can create a lead conversion report and check the field “Lead source”.

What deal information will be included in my lead?

When your deal is converted to a lead, deal data such as value and contact information is added to the lead so you can start right where you left off.

  • Deal fields – Custom and default deal fields
  • Contact information – The deal’s linked person and organization information, including custom field data (but this can only be updated from the contact’s detail page)
  • Activities – Upcoming activities and those already marked as done will remain with the deal
  • Emails – Emails linked to deals from email sync or using the Email Bcc feature
  • Notes – Notes created under the deal
  • Files – Files added to the deal

If your converted deal includes formula field data, you’ll see this message:

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