Rather than deleting an opportunity that isn’t going ahead, it’s better to mark it as lost or dead, or cancel it.

At inquiry, draft, and quotation stage of an opportunity, you can mark as lost or dead:

From an opportunity page, click the Mark as lost or Mark as dead links under Actions on the details pane.

If you’ve allocated assets or bookable resources, these will be lost. We’ll also remove costs, too.

You may mark a quotation or an order as postponed. Do this if your customer has told you that they’d like this opportunity to take place in future or if it’s likely you’ll reinstate in future.

From an opportunity page, click the Mark as postponed link under Actions.

Asset allocations, bookable resource allocations, and costs are retained, so these will be there when you reinstate the opportunity in the future. 

When your opportunity has progressed to an order, you can’t mark it as lost or dead. Instead, you can cancel it.

To cancel an opportunity, click Cancel opportunity under Actions on the details pane.

Orders can be canceled up until any products have been checked-in on it. 

When canceled, the opportunity status will change to canceled and this opportunity will become inactive. 

The easiest way to see all of your lost, dead, or canceled opportunities is to filter the view in Opportunities to see inactive opportunities.

To do this, head to the main Opportunities screen and click View: Live and then choose Filter Selection from the menu. On the next screen, select “Inactive” and update the view.

To view more detail, create a custom view. 

Custom views are a great way to see a list of lost, dead, or canceled opportunities over a specific period of time. Add as many criteria as you like to the view to drill down into the data.

Lost, dead, and postponed opportunities can be reinstated. From a lost, dead, or postponed opportunity, click Reinstate opportunity under Actions on the details pane.

On the popup, choose the new opportunity start date.

When you move the start date, all of the dates in the scheduler adjust accordingly. We also update the dates of any services on the opportunity.

Canceled opportunities can’t be reinstated, but you can easily re-create them by cloning the opportunity to create a copy. 

Just click Clone opportunity under Actions on the details pane. Your cloned opportunity will be a draft order, ready to modify before converting to a quotation or order.

There's a few ways you might like to do this:

You can! If you'd rather delete opportunities, use the trash can icon at the top of the screen. Keep in mind that when you delete opportunities, they're permanently removed from the database. 

You can delete an opportunity up until you've booked products and services out.