Lesson 04 · 6 min 6 min

Intakes that feed the CRM

The lead arrives typed by them, not by you.

An intake is a capture form: you share it by link and the lead lands straight in your CRM with their answers stored, with nobody retyping anything or losing a detail on the way.

Building the form

  • Sixteen field types, from short text to address, file upload, currency and consent.
  • Each field is mapped to a CRM value: name, email, phone, message, area, source or budget. Whatever you do not map is still stored as an answer.
  • The contact's name, email and phone are required and must be mapped: without them there is no lead to create.
  • Fields can be conditional: «Show only if…» another field has a certain value.

Its web address

Every form opens at its own address and you choose the name: «schedule-an-appointment» reads better than an identifier. Careful about changing it later: the old one stops working immediately, and if you already handed it out, it stops working for everyone.

What happens on a submission

  • The lead is created or updated in the CRM, and you can open it from the submission in one click.
  • It can create a task for you automatically.
  • It can enroll the lead in an active workflow. That is where the two halves of this course meet.
  • It can end with the client's signature, and even with an agency countersignature afterwards.

Consent, which is not a detail

Consent fields store evidence: on each submission you can view the consent with the exact text that person accepted. And if your text says accepting is optional, do not tick the required box — the screen reminds you, because forcing someone to accept what you called optional is precisely what voids the evidence.

Tip: Send yourself the form and fill it out on your phone before handing it around. Half the intakes people abandon do not have a content problem: they have twelve fields and they are being read on a phone screen.