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Automate creation of Contact/Account when creating a Lead

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Hi,

I want Dynamics to automatically create a Contact and an Account when I create a Lead in the Sales Hub
Is this done via a Business Process Flows and any suggestions on creating this plan as I'm new to Powerapps flows etc.
I've had a little play but I want to make sure I create it correctly. 

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    Nya Profile Picture
    29,060 on at
    RE: Automate creation of Contact/Account when creating a Lead

    Hi,

    So you can set the trigger as "when an opportunity is created".

  • RachelColes Profile Picture
    71 on at
    RE: Automate creation of Contact/Account when creating a Lead

    Thank you for the comments

    We have decided to leave it as is and when a Lead changes to a Opportunity then it will create the Account and Contact  

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    Nya Profile Picture
    29,060 on at
    RE: Automate creation of Contact/Account when creating a Lead

    Hi,

    Here is an example for creating contacts, and creating account can be done in the same way.

    Please refer to the following steps to create the workflow.

    If a contact record is created for an existing lead record, it is created as on-demand workflow. For your case, it can be created as a normal one which starts when "Record is created".

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    Insert a step to create the related contact for the record.

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    Set the value of the field in contact record with the existing value which you need in the lead record.

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    Then update the lead record itself.

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    Set the contact just created as the parent contact of the lead.

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    After activating the workflow, you can select multiple / all leads and trigger the workflow for them manually. 

    This step can be ignored if it is not an on-demand workflow.

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    It eliminates the challenge of having to create contacts for a large number of leads.

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    JenDV Profile Picture
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    RE: Automate creation of Contact/Account when creating a Lead

    Contact and Account is created when a Lead record is Qualified (this is a button in the Lead form).

    If you mean to create a contact and account record on the moment that lead record is created, you can achieve this via power automate flow and use the Microsoft Dataverse trigger for When a row is added, modified or deleted:

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    and then followed by Microsoft Dataverse action for Add a new row for creation of contact and account record

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    You can customize it the way you want.

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