To specify the part that each contact plays in a deal, add contact roles to your
opportunities. For example, at AW Computing, Mary Smith evaluates all proposals and then
forwards them to Tom Jones for a final decision. In the opportunity record for AW Computing, you
designate Mary Smith as the Evaluator and Tom Jones as the Decision Maker. Then, you know who to
contact first.
Required Editions
Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: All Editions
User Permissions
Needed
To add or edit opportunity contact roles:
Edit on opportunities
AND
Read on contacts
To view opportunity contact roles:
Read on opportunities and contacts
Note This information applies to opportunity contact roles, a type of contact roles.
In the Contact Roles related list on an opportunity, select Add Contact
Roles.
The list includes all contacts for the account that is associated with the
opportunity, even if you’ve applied a lookup filter on the Contact field.
To add a role to a contact, select the dropdown next to the contact, or select the
contact and select Edit Contact Role.
To add a new contact, select Edit Contact Role and add the
contact name to a blank row and select the contact role. Add more rows, as
needed.
If you don’t select a role, the contact is still added to the Contact Roles
related list in the opportunity. You can edit it later.
Optionally, designate a primary contact for the opportunity.
Save your changes.
Note You can save up to 200 opportunity contact roles at a time.
To keep the opportunity contact roles up to date, edit and delete the roles as contacts
change.
When converting a lead to an opportunity, a contact is associated with the opportunity
as a contact role if the contact and opportunity are created during the conversion process.
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