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Conversion Rate Calculator

Work out the conversion rate at each stage of a funnel, from leads to meetings to deals, and how many leads you need for a target. Four modes: one step, a funnel of up to eight stages, the leads needed for a deal target, and what a better rate at one stage is worth in deals and revenue.

One step

Sign-ups, meetings booked, deals won: whatever counts as the result.

Everyone who had the chance to convert.

Conversion rate

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Conversion rate = conversions ÷ visitors or leads × 100. Rates in the funnel are stage to stage; the overall rate is the last stage ÷ the first.

The calculation runs in your browser. Your figures are not sent to ParrotNotes; only the numbers go in the page address so you can share a result, never the names of your stages.

How to calculate conversion rate

Conversion rate = conversions ÷ visitors or leads × 100. 48 sign-ups from 1,200 visitors is 48 ÷ 1,200 × 100 = 4.0%, or 1 in 25. Use the same period for both counts: 48 sign-ups in March divided by March's visitors, not by the quarter's.

The rate only means something with its stage attached. A 4% rate from visitor to sign-up and a 4% rate from proposal to won describe very different funnels, so name the step every time: lead to meeting, meeting to proposal, proposal to won.

Funnel conversion rate: where the leak is

Enter the count at each stage and the calculator gives the rate from the stage before and the share of the top that gets this far. 500 leads, 200 qualified (40%), 60 meetings (30%), 36 proposals (60%) and 12 won (33.3%) is an overall rate of 12 ÷ 500 = 2.4%. The biggest drop is qualified to meetings: only 30% of qualified leads get a meeting, and 140 of them are lost there.

That is where to look first. A low rate between proposal and won points at pricing or the competition; a low rate between qualified and meeting usually points at follow-up: the lead was interested, nobody booked the next step. The rates between the middle stages are what a pipeline review should track.

Lead to customer conversion rate and how many leads you need

Turn the funnel around to plan the top. With stage rates of 40%, 50%, 50% and 25%, ten deals need 10 ÷ 0.25 = 40 proposals, 80 meetings, 160 qualified leads and 400 leads, each rounded up to a whole one. The lead to customer conversion rate is the product of the stage rates: 0.4 × 0.5 × 0.5 × 0.25 = 2.5%, so 400 leads for 10 deals.

The Leads needed mode gives the number at every stage, which is the activity target for each role: the marketing team's leads, the SDR's meetings, the rep's proposals.

What a better rate at one stage is worth

Uplift mode prices a change at one stage. 80 meetings a quarter with a 50% meeting-to-proposal rate and 25% of proposals won is 80 × 0.5 × 0.25 = 10 deals. Raise the proposal rate to 60% and it is 12 deals: 2 extra a quarter, or $16,000 at an average deal value of $8,000. The share of a stage's output that becomes a deal is the product of the rates after it; it is 100% when the stage is the last one.

Win rate is a different number: deals won ÷ (won + lost), which ignores open deals and leads that went nowhere. The Win Rate Calculator computes it and the Sales Velocity Calculator uses it; a funnel rate counts everything that entered the stage.

The rates describe the counts you entered for one period. A stage with few counts swings a lot from month to month; compare the same stage over several periods before changing anything.

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