Connect Sales & Operations

Connect Sales and Operations

The customer should not disappear between sales and delivery.

DigaWork helps growing service businesses connect the systems, information, and workflows between the teams that win the customer and the teams that deliver the work.

Instead of manually recreating records, forwarding emails, and relying on internal handoffs, we build connected workflows so the right information moves with the customer.

Sales

Lead
Opportunity
Proposal
Won

Handoff

Customer Details
Requirements
Scope
Documents
Dates
Assigned Team

Customer context moves forward together

Operations

Project / Job
Tasks
Schedule
Delivery
Status

The gap between winning and delivering

A closed deal should not create a new round of manual work.

In many growing businesses, sales and operations work well independently but the transition between them creates friction.

  • Operations recreates customer records manually
  • Project details live inside sales notes
  • Attachments are forwarded through email
  • Deadlines or requirements are missed
  • Sales promises are not visible to delivery teams
  • Customers repeat information they already provided
  • Project setup depends on someone remembering to do it
  • Managers cannot easily see the full customer journey

Sales CRM

Customer record

NameJane Cole
CompanyHarper & Co.
Phone(555) 201-3344
ServiceOffice Renovation
Start dateMar 14
NotesAccess via rear entrance

Operations System

Customer record

NameJ. Cole
CompanyHarper and Co
Phonemissing
ServiceRenovation?
Start datemissing
Notesmissing
Same customer, two different records

One customer. One continuous journey.

The important information should follow the customer forward.

Customer handoff record

Ready to hand off

Customer

  • Name
  • Company
  • Contact Details

Sale

  • Service Purchased
  • Deal Value
  • Proposal
  • Contract

Requirements

  • Scope
  • Preferences
  • Special Instructions
  • Dates

Delivery

  • Assigned Team
  • Project / Job
  • Tasks
  • Milestones

Operations

New project created with full context

4 groups received0 re-typedTeam assigned

Operations should not need to rebuild what sales already knows.

From manual handoff to connected workflow

See what changes when sales and operations share the same process.

Before

  1. 1Opportunity marked won
  2. 2Sales emails operations
  3. 3Customer details copied manually
  4. 4Project created by hand
  5. 5Tasks created manually
  6. 6Schedule updated separately
  7. 7Operations asks sales for missing information
  8. 8Customer receives inconsistent updates

After

  1. Opportunity marked won
  2. Customer and scope information moves forward
  3. Project or job created
  4. Standard tasks generated
  5. Team assigned
  6. Schedule prepared
  7. Customer status remains connected

The exact workflow may be different for every business. The goal is to remove unnecessary handoff work and keep context attached to the customer.

Different teams. Shared information.

Sales and operations can have different tools without losing the connection.

Sales workspace

  • leads
  • pipeline
  • opportunities
  • proposals
  • follow-ups

Shared customer record

JC

Jane Cole

Harper & Co.

Documents
Activity
Requirements
Key Dates

Operations workspace

  • projects / jobs
  • tasks
  • scheduling
  • assignments
  • delivery status

Different teams can work differently while still sharing the same customer context.

Keep the work moving

A won deal can trigger the next steps automatically.

Automation can handle the repeatable setup around the handoff while your team remains responsible for decisions, communication, and delivery.

Opportunity Won
Create Customer
Create Project / Job
Generate Tasks
Assign Team
Notify Operations
Create Customer Follow-Up

The customer feels the handoff too

Your internal process should feel seamless to the customer.

Customers should not have to repeat information or wonder what happens after they say yes.

  • Clearer onboarding
  • Consistent communication
  • Fewer repeated questions
  • Better status visibility
  • More organized next steps
  • Smoother transition from salesperson to delivery team

What the customer experiences

Sale Confirmed

Welcome

Onboarding

Active Work

Completion

Behind the scenes · Sales & Operations

SalesSales closes deal

HandoffHandoff to ops

OpsProject set up

OpsTeam delivering

OpsStatus shared

What the handoff looks like

The transition looks different depending on the business.

Events & Venues

Sales

InquiryTourProposalBooking

Key handoff information

Event dateGuest countPackageContractSpecial requirements

Operations

PlanningVendorsSetupEvent

Professional Services

Sales

LeadConsultationProposalClient

Key handoff information

ScopeDeliverablesTimelineStakeholdersContract

Operations

Project SetupDeliveryReviewCompletion

Home & Field Services

Sales

LeadEstimateApproved

Key handoff information

Job detailsProperty informationEstimateService dateCustomer notes

Operations

ScheduleAssignServiceComplete

One customer journey

Give both teams a clearer view of what is happening.

The goal is not to give every employee access to everything. It is to make the right information available to the right team.

Harper & Co. · Customer journey

  1. Sales ActivitySales
  2. Deal WonSales
  3. Project CreatedOps
  4. Tasks StartedOps
  5. Customer UpdateCustomer
  6. Work In ProgressOps
  7. CompletionOps

Sales can see

  • Project status
  • Major milestones
  • Customer activity

Does this sound familiar?

Your sales-to-operations handoff may need attention if…

01Operations recreates information after every sale
02Sales and delivery teams maintain separate customer records
03Project setup is manual
04Customers repeat information after signing
05Requirements get lost between departments
06Internal teams constantly ask each other for updates
07Important information lives in email threads
08Sales cannot see delivery status
09Operations cannot see what sales promised
10Handoffs vary depending on who handles them

You may not need a custom solution if your existing CRM and operations tools already share the information your teams need.

Our approach

We map both sides of the customer journey.

01

Sales

Understand how the customer is qualified, sold, and documented.

02

Handoff

Identify exactly what information and actions need to move forward.

03

Operations

Map how work is created, assigned, scheduled, and delivered.

04

Connect

Build the workflows, automation, software, or integrations that connect the process.

How we build the solution

Connecting sales and operations may involve multiple parts of the system.

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Starting point

The solution depends on what your teams use today.

CRM + Operations

Implementation starting at

$3,000

Ongoing service from $399/month

Potential scope may include

  • Sales workflow mapping
  • Operations workflow mapping
  • Shared customer records
  • Automated handoffs
  • Project or job creation
  • Task generation
  • Notifications
  • Integrations
  • Reporting
  • Training
  • Launch support

More advanced systems involving multiple departments, portals, complex integrations, finance workflows, or significant custom development may require additional scope.

Sales & operations FAQ

Common questions.

It means the information and next steps from a sale move into delivery without being recreated by hand — so operations starts with the full context and sales can see what happens next.

Winning the customer should be the start of one connected process.

Show us how a customer moves from sales into delivery today. We’ll help you identify where information gets lost, work gets repeated, or the handoff could be smoother.