Sales Automation with Make.com: Step-by-Step Guide

Sales teams use make.com to replace manual tasks with automated workflows that capture leads, qualify prospects, and move deals through the pipeline with minimal effort. This guide walks you through how to build a complete sales process automation scenario based on the official how-to workflow.

Why Automate Your Sales Process with Make.com

Modern sales cycles include many repetitive actions that are ideal for automation. Using make.com to connect your CRM, email, forms, and communication tools helps you:

• Eliminate manual data entry from web forms and emails.
• Assign new leads to the right sales reps automatically.
• Trigger timely follow-ups based on customer behavior.
• Keep your CRM updated in real time across tools.
• Measure performance with consistent, structured data.

Instead of switching between apps and copying data, your team can focus on conversations and closing deals.

Planning Your Make.com Sales Workflow

Before you log into make.com, map out your ideal sales process. Clarifying the stages and rules first makes building your automation much easier.

Define Your Sales Stages

Outline the main stages you want to automate, such as:

• Lead capture
• Qualification
• Discovery or demo booked
• Proposal sent
• Negotiation
• Closed won or lost

These stages will become fields, filters, and conditions inside your scenario.

Identify Your Apps and Data

List the tools that your sales process uses and the data that needs to move between them. Common examples include:

• CRM (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, etc.)
• Form or landing page tools
• Email marketing and transactional email
• Calendars and scheduling apps
• Chat or helpdesk platforms

Next, decide what information you want mirrored across apps: contact details, company data, deal value, pipeline stage, and activity history.

Getting Started Inside Make.com

Now you are ready to open make.com and turn your plan into a working automation scenario.

Create a New Scenario in Make.com

1. Log in to your make.com account.
2. Click Create a new scenario from your dashboard.
3. You will see a blank canvas where you can drag and drop modules.

The scenario canvas is where you visually design how data flows between your sales tools.

Select the Trigger for Your Sales Flow

Every sales automation needs a clear starting point. Common triggers in make.com for sales processes include:

• New form submission from your website.
• New row in a spreadsheet storing inbound leads.
• New contact or company added to your CRM.
• New email in a specific inbox or label.

In the scenario editor, click the plus icon on the canvas, search for your app, and choose the trigger module that best matches the start of your sales process.

Building the Core Sales Automation in Make.com

Once the trigger is set, you can design the rest of the flow that handles lead creation, qualification, and routing.

Create or Update CRM Records with Make.com

Leads often arrive from multiple sources, so your first objective is to centralize them inside your CRM.

1. Add a CRM module (for example, Create or Update Contact).
2. Map fields from the trigger to CRM fields like name, email, phone, company, and source.
3. Use unique identifiers such as email to avoid duplicates.

This ensures every new inquiry or signup becomes a consistent record in your system.

Qualify Leads with Filters and Routers

With make.com you can apply business logic to decide what happens next based on lead quality or behavior.

• Add a Router module to branch your flow into multiple paths.
• Use Filters on each route to define conditions, such as:

• Budget or deal value above a threshold.
• Target industries or territories.
• Job titles or company size.
• Source campaign or channel.

For example, one route can handle high-intent leads by creating a deal and alerting a senior rep, while another route nurtures colder leads with a slower email cadence.

Assign Leads to the Right Sales Reps

Automated lead assignment keeps response times low and ensures fair distribution.

1. Create a data store, spreadsheet, or table of reps and territories if needed.
2. Use search or lookup modules in make.com to find the best matching sales rep.
3. Add a CRM module to assign the owner or set a custom field with the rep name.

You can implement logic such as round-robin, region-based assignment, or product expertise.

Automating Follow-Ups with Make.com

Timely and consistent follow-up is critical in any sales process. make.com lets you integrate email, scheduling, and messaging tools so that no lead goes untouched.

Send Automated Emails and Sequences

Connect your preferred email platform to send personalized messages right after a lead is created or qualified.

1. Add an Email or marketing tool module.
2. Compose your message or select a template.
3. Personalize the content using mapped fields like first name, company, and use case.

You can also trigger multi-step nurture campaigns by passing contacts into your email marketing platform with appropriate tags or segments.

Book Meetings Automatically

Many sales processes aim to move leads toward a demo or discovery call. With make.com you can:

• Connect scheduling tools that generate booking links dynamically.
• Insert those links into confirmation emails.
• Update the CRM when a meeting is booked, changing the pipeline stage.

Some setups also log events in calendars or messaging tools to remind reps about upcoming calls.

Managing Deals and Pipeline Stages in Make.com

After the first conversation, you can keep your pipeline organized by updating deal records automatically as prospects interact with your content and team.

Automate Deal Creation and Updates

1. Use a CRM module such as Create a Deal when a qualified lead is identified.
2. Map deal name, value, stage, and associated contact or company.
3. Add subsequent modules that move the deal to new stages based on actions:

• Proposal sent.
• Contract viewed or signed.
• Payment received.

Each event can be detected by dedicated modules or webhooks, then passed into your scenario to keep the pipeline accurate.

Trigger Internal Notifications

Internal communication is a vital part of a scalable sales automation strategy.

• Connect chat tools to send alerts when big deals are created or closed.
• Post notifications to a team channel when a lead reaches a high-intent stage.
• Send direct messages to a rep if a prospect has not been contacted within a set timeframe.

These notifications help managers and reps stay on top of the most important opportunities without manual monitoring.

Testing and Optimizing Your Make.com Scenario

Before you roll out your new workflow to the whole team, thoroughly test your make.com scenario.

Test the Scenario Step by Step

1. Use sample data in your trigger app (for example, submit a test form).
2. Run the scenario once and inspect each module’s output.
3. Confirm that contacts, companies, and deals are created correctly.
4. Check emails, notifications, and assignments in all connected apps.

If something does not work as expected, adjust field mapping, filters, or conditions and test again.

Monitor, Measure, and Improve

Once your scenario is active, review performance regularly.

• Track how many leads follow each route.
• Measure response times and conversion rates by stage.
• Collect feedback from sales reps on data quality and notifications.

With this insight you can refine filters, expand automations to new stages, or add extra checks to maintain data accuracy.

Resources for Scaling with Make.com

As your organization grows, you can extend the same principles from this guide to marketing, onboarding, and customer success processes using make.com. For detailed configuration screenshots and app-specific instructions, refer to the official how-to resource at this make.com sales process automation guide.

If you want expert help designing large-scale automation architectures or integrating complex CRMs, analytics, and billing systems, you can also consult specialists such as Consultevo, who focus on automation strategy and implementation.

By following these steps and iterating over time, your team can build a robust, efficient, and scalable sales engine powered by make.com.

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