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Client Card in CRM: The Whole History in One Place

Ivan Kancyr6 min read

A sales rep leaves, and half your clients “leave” with them: nobody knows what was discussed, what was promised or why the deal stalled. A client card in CRM exists for exactly this reason: so that the history belongs to the company, not to one person.

Contents
  1. What is a client card
  2. What's in the card
  3. Reach the client without leaving the card
  4. When a sales rep leaves
  5. A tidy database: fields, views and duplicates
  6. If a client was deleted by mistake
  7. AI summary of a client

What is a client card

A client card is the page of a company or contact in the CRM: details and phone numbers at the top, and below them a feed of everything that has happened with this client. Any employee who opens it understands within a minute who the client is, what was discussed and what the next step is.

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  1. A call lands in the feed with its recording — you play it right in the card.
  2. The messenger conversation sits in the same client card.
  3. Tasks and colleagues' comments share one history with the calls.
  4. The owner changed, the feed stayed: it belongs to the client, not to the employee.
An illustration. The client's emails are on the neighbouring “Mail” tab of the company card.

What's in the card

  • Activity: comments, calls with recordings, tasks, notes, “Call back” tasks and messenger messages. Important items can be pinned to the top.
  • Call recordings play right in the feed, with a Download button next to them.
  • Mail: the Mail tab of a company card shows emails from the addresses of the company and its contacts.
  • Links: the company's contacts, deals and invoices. A contact can work at several companies at once.
  • History: who created the card, who opened it and when the owner changed.

Reach the client without leaving the card

To call, click the number and choose a line. You start a WhatsApp chat with a button on the card, and ongoing conversations open right there. An email goes out from the card if the employee has a mailbox connected and the client has an email address on file. Everything you send shows up in the client's history right away.

When a sales rep leaves

Feed entries are tied to the client, not to the employee. So changing the owner erases nothing: the feed shows an “Owner changed” entry, while calls, messages and agreements stay where they are.

emyCRM has a separate app for offboarding. In a single action, the employee's companies are handed over to colleagues, their mailboxes are disconnected, their chats are transferred and their account is blocked. By default, only the administrator can export the database, so nobody can “walk off with the clients in Excel” before leaving.

A tidy database: fields, views and duplicates

  • Custom fields: 15 types, including money, file and a link to another CRM record. You can keep the contract right in the card.
  • Card view: which fields to hide and in what order to show the tabs. A view can be personal, for a department or shared by everyone.
  • Duplicate hint: when you create a company, the CRM looks for similar ones by name, tax number and phone numbers and warns you: “This client may already exist.”
  • Merging companies: for each field, you choose which value to keep, and all links move to the main card.
  • Import companies and contacts from Excel and CSV: any duplicates found are skipped instead of overwriting existing cards.

If a client was deleted by mistake

Deleted companies, contacts, leads, deals and invoices stay in the Trash for 30 days. An administrator restores them in a single action, and the feed comes back with the record, including all its calls and comments.

AI summary of a client

When the history is long, nobody has time to read all of it. The AI summary button in the card gathers recent calls, messages, comments, tasks and deals, and writes a short brief: who the client is, what was agreed, what the risks are and what to do next. It's a paid skill that works in company, contact, lead and deal cards.

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WhatWhere people looked beforeWhere it is in the CRM
Call recordingsOn the rep's phoneIn the card's Activity feed, with a player
MessagesIn the employee's WhatsAppIn the client card
AgreementsIn a notebook and in someone's memoryTasks and comments in the feed
EmailsIn a personal inboxThe Mail tab of the company card
Contracts and filesIn a folder on someone else's computerA file field in the card
What is a client card in a CRM?
The page of a company or contact that brings together everything that has happened with them: calls with recordings, messages, tasks, comments, deals and invoices. Any employee with access sees the full history.
Do all employees see all clients?
Not necessarily. Permissions are set by role, for example so that a rep sees only their own clients while the manager sees everyone.
What happens to the history if a sales rep quits?
It stays in the card: feed entries are tied to the client. The departing employee's companies are handed over to colleagues in a single action.
Can I restore a deleted client?
Yes, within 30 days. An administrator restores it from the Trash together with its entire feed.
How do I avoid adding the same client twice?
When you create a company, the CRM suggests similar cards by name, tax number and phone numbers. If a duplicate still slips through, you can merge the companies.

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Ivan Kancyr

Founder of emyCRM. Writes about how small teams sell over the phone and in messengers without losing clients.

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