01

A lead arrived. Then what?

The form sent an email, but nobody replied. Follow one request from submission to its owner, status and next action.

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02

Ask enough to route it

Collect the service, contact details and a short brief.

Mark required fields clearly; ask deeper questions during the conversation.

03

Keep one working record

Choose where enquiry status lives. Give each request a stable reference so forms, replies and the CRM point to the same record.

04

Give the next step an owner

Assign each request to a person or queue.

Decide who checks unassigned enquiries and who takes over when someone is away.

05

Make waiting visible

Record the next action and due time.

'Awaiting a brief' should say what is missing and who will follow up.

06

Test a broken connection

In staging, make the CRM unavailable.

Confirm the enquiry stays saved, a person sees the failure and a retry creates no duplicate.

Website enquiries get lost after submission: how to fix the handoff

Trace a website enquiry through storage, ownership and follow-up, then test what happens when an email or CRM connection fails.

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Close the follow-up gap

Keep one record, an owner and a next action. Check the oldest open request regularly. Use the full guide to test each handoff.

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