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How to Use Advanced Search?

1. Feature Overview

Advanced Search feature of the LeadSquared application allows you to search for leads that satisfy one or more conditions. This feature is useful when you want to make a list of Leads that satisfy multiple criteria. For example, Leads coming from California, Leads from the education industry and Leads who submitted a form on a particular landing page could be advanced search conditions.

 

2. Use Cases for Advanced Search

You can use the advanced search feature during any one of the following scenarios –

  • You want to see any last activity on a lead or a specific last activity on a lead. See Advanced Search: Last Activity on a Lead.
  • You want to see leads on which there was some activity in the last few days.
  • You want leads that are submitted on a particular landing page, using a particular keyword to arrive at the page, who are from a specific location and belong to a specific industry type.
  • You want leads who received a particular email campaign, who clicked on a link in that email, whose job title is similar, and from a specific industry type, and time period as yesterday, since, maybe you ran a campaign yesterday.
  • You want leads that visited a particular web page on your website (typically a pricing page), who are from a specific location, and from a specific industry, in the last 30 days.

 

3. How to Perform an Advanced Search

  1. Go to  Leads>Manage Leads. The Manage Leads window will appear.

LeadSquared Advanced Search

2. In the Manage Leads page, click Advanced Search. The Advanced Search pop-up box appears.

3. Click on Any Criteria to search for leads that match any selected search criteria.

4. Click on All Criteria to search for leads that match all the search criteria.

LeadSquared Advanced Search

Advanced Search feature allows you to search leads based on two broad categories, namely, Activity and Lead Details.

1. Activity

This is any type of action that the lead has performed. Activity also has different sub-divisions or criteria, based on which you can search leads.

  • Sales Activities –  These are sales-related activities that were made by the customer. There are 15 sales activities which you can configure. Out of these, Product, Order Value, Sales Date and Sales Owner are mandatory fields, and are available in the search criteria. The remaining sales activities, if selected as Show In Form from the Sales Activity Fields section will be available as search criteria. For more information on Sales Activities, refer to Sales Activity Management.
  • Email Activities –  These activities are related to the lead’s response with respect to Email Campaigns and Autoresponders that you send. It includes Email Sent, Opened, Bounced, Link Clicked, Marked Spam, Unsubscribed, Inbound Lead through Email and View in Browser Link Clicked.
  • Web Activities – These activities are related to the lead’s presence on a particular website. It includes Page Visits on the Website.
  • Landing Page Activities – These activities are related to the lead’s response with respect to your landing pages. It includes Conversion Button clicked and Form Submitted on the website.
  • Phone Activities – These activities are related to the lead’s response with respect to the phone conversations with the marketers. It includes Inbound and Outbound Phone Call Activity.
  • Other Activities or Custom Activities – These are the activities which you can create based on your requirement. There are also some sample activities, based on which you can create your own activity.

Note:

  • In Advanced Search for Opportunity Activities, filters can only be applied within a 90-day time frame.
  • You can search using Custom Activity which you create from Custom Activities & Scores. The additional fields for the custom activity can also be used along with the custom activity as the search criteria in Advanced Search. For more information on Custom Activities and additional fields, refer to How to add Custom Lead Activity and associate a Score to it?
  • If you get an error notification while performing an Advanced Search with wildcard operators (Contains, Does not contain, Starts with, and Ends with), you might have exceeded the rate limit. To know more, refer to Wildcard Search Limitations.

2. Lead Details

These are the lead fields that are present in LeadSquared, the fields that you have created. You can also search for leads based on Lead Details. Typical examples could be Lead Source, Lead Stage, Country and so on. You can select any relevant criteria.

3. Tasks

Tasks can be used as a filter to search for leads. You can find leads with –

  • Open tasks of specific task type
  • Overdue tasks
  • Tasks that were completed yesterday
  • Tasks that are due today for a particular owner

 

4. Selecting Activity as a Search Criteria

1. In the Select Search Criteria section under Advanced Search, select an activity from the drop-down. Set the condition as Is –

LeadSquared Advanced Search

2. As mentioned above, you can select criteria based on the Lead Activity. It could be again sub-divided into activity related to Email Campaigns, Landing Pages, Websites or even Phone Calls (You must have enabled Super Receptionist connector). Select the required activity. For example, in the screenshot below, Conversion Button Clicked is selected.

LeadSquared Advanced Search

3. Next, select the Landing Page or Website on which the condition has to be satisfied. The Landing Page or Website can either be selected from the drop-down, or typed in. In the screenshot below, Any Landing Page is selected –

LeadSquared Advanced Search

4. Next, select the time interval, during which the lead has performed the particular activity. The time interval can be all time, today, yesterday, this month, this year or even a custom time interval. In the screenshot below, Custom is selected and the Start and End Dates are specified.

LeadSquared Advanced Search

5. Click on Find Leads button to see the leads that satisfy the specified criteria. You will be redirected to the Manage Leads page, with the leads that satisfied the criteria, being displayed.

LeadSquared Advanced Search

 

5. Selecting Lead Details as a Search Criteria

1. In the Select Search Criteria section under Advanced Search, select any relevant Lead Detail from the drop-down. In the image, Lead Stage is selected –

LeadSquared Advanced Search

2. Select the required condition in the next dropdown. In the screenshot below,
Is is selected –

LeadSquared Advanced Search

3. Next, select the available lead stage options from the drop-down list. Note that these lead stages are already present in LeadSquared. In the image below, Opportunity is selected –

LeadSquared Advanced Search

4. Once you have specified the conditions, click on the Add button. Similarly, you can specify any number of criteria to filter the leads. You can also choose, whether all the selected criteria is to be satisfied, or any of the criteria is to be satisfied –

LeadSquared Advanced Search

5. Click Find Leads button to see the leads that satisfy the specified criteria. You are redirected to the Manage Leads page, with the leads that satisfied the criteria, being displayed.

 

6. Creating a List of Leads who Satisfy the Criteria

1. After you specify the conditions and retrieve the relevant leads, you can create a list of those leads. Select all the displayed leads and hover over the Actions button. Click on Add to List –

LeadSquared Advanced Search

2. The Add to List box opens up. Here, you can add the leads to an existing list or create a new list. Click Add once you have chosen the list –

LeadSquared Advanced Search

 

7. Selecting Tasks as Search Criteria

In this example, we’re searching for all leads with Overdue tasks –

Advanced-Search-Tasks

 

 

8. Search Up to 1,000 Values in a Single Advanced Search

You can search up to 1,000 comma-separated values (for Text, Email, Number, and Phone lead fields) using the In operator on Advanced Search (provided the total character count doesn’t exceed 20,000). This allows you to copy large data volumes from CSV files, and use it to filter leads using fewer search conditions.

Note:

  • For this setting to work, you must enable the Include in Quick Search setting for these lead fields.
  • This feature is available in Advanced Search across the platform, including Automation.
  • This setting isn’t available by default. To enable it on your account, contact your account manager, or write to support@leadsquared.com.

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9. Troubleshooting

1. Conditions not visible/No options appearing under the Advanced search conditions drop-down.

If no options appear when selecting your advanced conditions, it may be due to interfering browser extensions. Removing the extensions should resolve the issue. If you need more assistance, contact us at support@leadsquared.com.

 

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Merge Leads

1. Feature Overview

Merge duplicate leads in your account into a single lead. This feature enables you to choose the lead details you want to retain versus those you want to overwrite.

Note: You can also set up automations to merge leads programmatically. For details, see How to Merge Leads through Automation.

Merge

 

2. Prerequisite

You must be the administrator of your LeadSquared account.

 

3. Merging Leads

3.1 Using the Duplicate Leads Report

  1. Navigate to Reports>Reports Home, and search for the List of Duplicate Leads report.
  2. Once you open the report, from the Select Lead Field dropdown, select the unique lead field based on which you want to identify duplicate leads, and click Show Duplicates.
  3. Alongside the unique lead field value you want to merge, click Merge.
  4. On the Merge Leads page, click Merge. This will merge all the selected leads.

LeadSquared Leads Merge

 

3.2 From the Manage Leads Page

  1. From the main menu, navigate to Leads>Manage Leads.
  2. Use the Checkbox checkbox against the leads you want to merge. You can also use the Search Leads bar to select the leads.
  3. Hover your cursor on the Actions button, available on the top-right corner of your screen, and click on Merge Leads.
  4. On the Merge Leads page, you can filter by Only Lead Fields with Different Values or All Lead Fields.
  5. Once you make your selection, from the list of lead fields, click the lead fields you want to retain as the primary lead field. You will get a Tick tick against the fields you choose.
  6. Once you’re done selecting the fields, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Merge.
  7. On the Merge Lead confirmation pop-up, click Merge.
  8. Once the leads are merged successfully, you’ll get a notification stating the same. You can view the merged lead by clicking on Merged Lead.

Note: You can merge only up to 20 leads at a time.

Merge Leads

 

4. Merge Lead Activities

The details of the lead fields that have been merged are recorded as activities against the retained lead. You can view them in the Activity History tab on the Lead Details page.

  1. Navigate to Leads>Manage Leads, and click the merged lead.
  2. On the Lead Details page, under the Activity History tab, the entry for the lead merge is visible.
  3. Against the lead merge entry, click Details.
  4. On the pop-up, you can view the details of all the lead fields that have been retained.

Merge

 

Troubleshooting

Issue: Permissions and Restrictions on Merging Leads

  • Issue Description: Some sales users can merge leads without any restrictions, while others receive an “unauthorized” error despite having all permissions enabled.
  • Cause: If a user has partial access to specific Lead Fields in the Permission Template Settings (i.e., restrictions on editing fields), they will be unable to merge leads.
  • Solution:
    1. Check the Permission Template assigned to the affected user.
    2. If the template has “Edit” restrictions on Lead Fields (partial access), the user will be unable to merge leads.
    3. To allow merging, grant full edit access to the required Lead Fields in the Permission Template.
    4. If restrictions are intentional, the expected error message will appear: “Error in Merging Leads. You do not have permission to update these fields.”

 

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