ClientFlow Help Center
Search approved ClientFlow guidance across setup, leads, messaging, billing, privacy and account operations. Account-specific or sensitive issues are escalated instead of guessed.
112 answers
Expand answer
ClientFlow helps service businesses capture inbound opportunities, follow up, qualify leads, book real availability, and track outcomes in one governed workflow.
Expand answer
A workspace is your business's isolated ClientFlow environment. It holds that business's leads, contacts, settings, pipeline, billing context, automations, booking configuration and team access.
Expand answer
ClientFlow asks for the business details needed to configure the workspace safely, such as contact information, service type, business hours, services offered and other setup inputs relevant to enabled capabilities. Known information should not be requested twice.
Expand answer
Your activation experience distinguishes what is ready, what is still required, and what execution capabilities remain disabled. ClientFlow is designed to fail closed rather than silently treat an incomplete prerequisite as active.
Expand answer
ClientFlow is designed to preserve resumable signup and onboarding progress so an eligible user can continue from the appropriate step instead of starting over.
Expand answer
When the applicable messaging and consent requirements are satisfied, ClientFlow can create a lead, follow the configured workflow, qualify the opportunity, and help move it toward booking. Execution remains subject to your enabled features and safety controls.
Expand answer
Generated leads are opportunities sourced through ClientFlow's governed lead-generation capabilities. Recovered leads come from opportunities your business already received but might otherwise have lost. ClientFlow keeps the product identities and evidence separate.
Expand answer
ClientFlow is designed to expose relevant lead state, activity, qualification, source, booking, delivery, recovery and outcome information when that information is available and permitted for your workspace.
Expand answer
Where scoring is enabled, the score is a guidance signal derived from available lead information and configured criteria. ClientFlow should show understandable contributing factors rather than treating a score as a guarantee of conversion.
Expand answer
ClientFlow uses governed identity and deduplication logic where applicable so the same opportunity is not silently treated as multiple independent leads. Duplicate and recovery relationships should remain visible in the authoritative record.
Expand answer
ClientFlow does not use a universal flat generated-lead price. PPGL pricing is calculated from verified customer economics: average closed revenue, gross margin, expected close rate, sustainable service cost and any customer-accepted cap. The approved policy targets 20% of verified expected gross-profit value, normally cannot exceed 30%, and seeks the lowest sustainable fair price inside that boundary.
Expand answer
ClientFlow's approved commercial model is economics-based rather than a single static price list. CF must use the governed quote for the applicable service and customer economics, preserve the policy version and evidence, and never revive an obsolete historical price as authoritative.
Expand answer
Billing disputes and account-specific lead disputes require review of the authoritative account evidence. Use the support escalation path so the issue can be reviewed without guessing from general FAQ content.
Expand answer
ClientFlow's approved commercial architecture includes an exact seven-day free trial. Trial eligibility, disclosure, acceptance, start/end timestamps and post-trial subscription lineage must be explicit and auditable. Trial activity must not silently create PPGL/PPRL charges that the approved trial rules suppress.
Expand answer
ClientFlow treats opt-outs as a hard suppression signal for applicable automated messaging. Workflows must respect consent, suppression, quiet-hour, and other configured messaging controls.
Expand answer
Yes. Automated messaging is designed to remain behind the configured compliance and execution gates, including quiet-hour controls where applicable.
Expand answer
ClientFlow separates feature availability from execution authorization. A workflow may exist while broad outreach, email, SMS, provider execution or paid discovery remains disabled until its required operational and compliance gates are explicitly enabled.
Expand answer
ClientFlow uses the workspace's configured booking settings and availability. Booking should only present or create appointments from authoritative availability and should not invent open times.
Expand answer
ClientFlow's estimate experience is intended to use the minimum necessary information and the customer's authoritative estimate rules. It may return an estimate, range, next step or human-review state, but it must not fabricate pricing or present a non-binding estimate as a guaranteed quote.
Expand answer
ClientFlow is designed around tenant isolation. Database row-level security and application controls are used so one customer workspace cannot read or mutate another customer's protected records.
Expand answer
No other tenant should receive your protected workspace data. Access is scoped by authenticated membership, tenant controls and least-privilege boundaries. Specific privacy and retention terms are governed by ClientFlow's approved policies.
Expand answer
Use ClientFlow's password recovery flow from the sign-in experience. Security-sensitive account recovery should stay inside the authenticated recovery path rather than being handled through ordinary FAQ messages.
Expand answer
ClientFlow's review and feedback system is part of the approved product architecture. Genuine customer reviews must remain separate from test or synthetic feedback, and sensitive account issues should use private support rather than public review content.
Expand answer
Product feedback should feed ClientFlow's governed improvement intake. Suggestions can be evaluated alongside support gaps, reviews, bugs and measured product outcomes without automatically becoming production changes.
Expand answer
Use the support escalation path for account-specific, security-sensitive, disputed, or exceptional issues. Self-service is intended to eliminate routine support friction, not block legitimate human help.
Expand answer
Do not post sensitive security or privacy details in a public review. Use the private support path so the issue can be triaged with the appropriate access and evidence controls.
Expand answer
ClientFlow supports governed pay-per-generated-lead (PPGL), pay-per-recovered-lead (PPRL), Lead Growth monthly, Lead Recovery monthly and the integrated Revenue System architecture. Customer-facing availability still depends on the applicable quote, acceptance, eligibility and activation state; a capability shown in CF is not permission to execute billing or provider spend.
Expand answer
ClientFlow is designed to charge only after the specific service's billable event has been proven by required evidence. Generated leads and recovered leads use separate evidence rules, and CF should show why a charge is eligible before money movement is executed.
Expand answer
A PPGL charge must be tied to a genuinely generated lead that satisfies the applicable source, identity, qualification, delivery and other governed evidence requirements. A mere record creation or weak source match is not enough.
Expand answer
A PPRL charge requires evidence that ClientFlow actually recovered an existing opportunity that otherwise met the governed recovery criteria. CF must not label ordinary follow-up, duplicate activity or an already-secured outcome as a recovered lead.
Expand answer
Lead delivery and customer sales outcomes are separate. CF should preserve the evidence of what it delivered, what happened next, and the commercial rule that applies, without pretending every qualified lead will close. Any applicable compensation or charge must follow the approved service terms and evidence rules.
Expand answer
Yes. CF's billing architecture is intended to make the billable event, amount, service, evidence and relevant timestamps explainable from the authoritative record. Disputed or account-specific charges should route to private review.
Expand answer
Corrections and refunds must preserve the original economic event, the reason for correction, the authorized adjustment and the resulting ledger state. CF should not erase history or create a second inconsistent truth.
Expand answer
Cancellation should be available through the governed account/billing experience once the applicable commercial terms are active. CF must clearly explain effective date, remaining access, pending obligations and what happens to data without using dark patterns.
Expand answer
Where export is supported, CF should provide tenant-scoped data through an authorized export path. Export must respect security, provider-license restrictions, privacy obligations and any data that CF is not legally permitted to redistribute.
Expand answer
Workspace access should follow role and membership permissions. Owners and authorized admins can manage higher-risk settings, while ordinary members should only access actions and data allowed by their role.
Expand answer
Separate browser profiles or isolated sessions can maintain different accounts. Ordinary windows in the same browser profile may share authentication state, so CF should not imply that two same-profile windows are isolated accounts.
Expand answer
A Company represents a business or organization related to contacts, leads, opportunities or jobs. CF should reuse the authoritative company identity when reliable evidence shows records refer to the same organization.
Expand answer
A Contact represents a person associated with a lead, company, opportunity or job. CF should deduplicate and link contacts when identity evidence is strong enough rather than creating unnecessary duplicates.
Expand answer
An Opportunity tracks a potential piece of business through the sales/work lifecycle. CF is designed to create and advance opportunities automatically from verified lead and job evidence when appropriate, while allowing governed manual exceptions.
Expand answer
A Job represents actual work being estimated, scheduled, performed or completed. Job outcomes should reconcile with linked opportunities and confirmed revenue rather than living as disconnected records.
Expand answer
Confirmed revenue is revenue supported by the applicable authoritative outcome evidence. CF should distinguish confirmed/settled results from estimates, pipeline value and other projections.
Expand answer
Where a safe override exists, authorized users can correct exceptions without turning normal workflows into manual clerical work. Overrides should be logged, permissioned and prevented from bypassing hard safety, billing or compliance boundaries.
Expand answer
CF is intended to automate routine discovery, deduplication, enrichment, qualification, follow-up orchestration, booking, pipeline progression, attribution, measurement and recommendations when the required evidence and permissions exist. Consequential ambiguity, new material spend and other gated actions remain controlled.
Expand answer
CF separates product capability from execution authorization. A feature can exist in the interface while a provider, consent, billing, spending or certification prerequisite remains intentionally disabled.
Expand answer
CF should expose source and attribution evidence to the maximum extent permitted by provider contracts, privacy rules and security boundaries. If a source cannot be fully disclosed, CF should explain that a source/evidence exists rather than pretending it does not.
Expand answer
A source is not considered production-proven merely because it connects. CF tests authentication, usable result retrieval, provenance, quality, duplicates, cost, attribution and downstream outcomes for the role the source is meant to perform.
Expand answer
Yes, when the provider and permitted use support both roles. CF treats those as separate certifications: success finding CF customers does not automatically prove success finding tenant leads, and vice versa.
Expand answer
No. CF's architecture requires paid/free/credit classification and cost visibility where known. Material new provider spending or subscriptions remain approval-gated unless already inside an explicitly authorized policy.
Expand answer
CF should detect degraded quality, cost or reliability, show the evidence, and recommend pausing, reducing, replacing or retesting the source. Autonomous changes are limited to actions already permitted by policy and budget.
Expand answer
CF uses available evidence such as service fit, geography, identity, contactability, intent, timing and business-specific criteria. Quality signals should be explainable and should never be represented as a guaranteed sale.
Expand answer
Verification depends on the available source and workflow evidence. CF may validate identity, contact information, business/service fit, service area, provenance, duplicates and other relevant facts before treating a lead as qualified or billable.
Expand answer
CF should preserve the source evidence and classify the issue rather than forcing the lead through the normal pipeline. Duplicate, invalid, out-of-area or otherwise disqualified outcomes should remain auditable and should affect source-quality measurement.
Expand answer
Use the private account support/dispute path so CF can review the authoritative source, qualification, delivery and outcome evidence. Public FAQ content cannot determine whether a specific lead should be credited or upheld.
Expand answer
Workspace scheduling uses the organization's authoritative timezone unless a supported setting explicitly overrides it. Unconfigured communication settings should inherit the organization timezone rather than silently defaulting to UTC.
Expand answer
Yes. SMS, email and voice are separate channels and should be labeled and governed separately. Availability of a channel does not mean provider execution is currently enabled.
Expand answer
Automated communications must remain behind the applicable consent, suppression, quiet-hours, daily-cap and provider-execution gates. CF should fail closed when required authorization or evidence is missing.
Expand answer
Where configured, CF enforces daily caps and related communication policies in addition to consent and quiet-hour controls. These protections should not be bypassed merely to increase outreach volume.
Expand answer
SMS/voice execution depends on an approved and certified communications provider configuration. A paid number should not be provisioned or activated until the communications setup and spending boundary are explicitly approved.
Expand answer
Booking should rely on authoritative configured availability and connected calendar evidence when enabled. CF must not invent open times or imply a calendar is synchronized when it is not.
Expand answer
An estimate can be a range or preliminary amount based on available information. CF should not present it as a binding guaranteed quote unless the business's approved rules and evidence make that representation accurate.
Expand answer
Legitimate negative reviews should not be hidden merely because they criticize CF. Review moderation should focus on privacy, spam, impersonation, threats, illegal content and other defined rules, with verification labels and an audit trail.
Expand answer
Verified Customer means CF can prove an eligible customer or trial relationship existed. It does not mean CF agrees with the review or that the reviewer received special treatment.
Expand answer
Not simply because it is negative. CF may redact or moderate content for defined safety, privacy, spam or authenticity reasons, but criticism should remain visible when it follows the review rules.
Expand answer
Do not include passwords, payment-card information, private lead/customer data, security details or other sensitive account information. Use private support for disputes or sensitive evidence.
Expand answer
Suggestions should enter a governed improvement queue where CF can group duplicates, assess customer impact, effort, trust/safety and strategic fit, and assign a status such as reviewing, planned, in progress, shipped, declined or duplicate.
Expand answer
No. Customer recommendations are important product evidence, but they are reviewed alongside safety, architecture, customer impact, usage data, effort and strategic priorities before becoming product work.
Expand answer
For account-specific complaints, use private support so CF can review authoritative evidence. General product criticism can also be submitted through customer feedback or a review without being converted into marketing content.
Expand answer
CF is designed to resolve routine questions immediately with authoritative self-service guidance so customers do not have to wait for calls or email. Human support remains available for disputes, sensitive incidents and problems CF cannot safely resolve.
Expand answer
CF should distinguish healthy, degraded, disabled, waiting-on-a-dependency and failed states rather than presenting everything as active. Provider or feature status should be truthful and explain what, if anything, the customer needs to do.
Expand answer
Access should be limited to authenticated workspace members and authorized platform/service operations according to role, tenant and least-privilege rules. Cross-tenant access is not an acceptable support shortcut.
Expand answer
No. CF should never require you to put passwords, full payment-card details or other unnecessary secrets into ordinary feedback, reviews or support messages.
Expand answer
Some providers restrict redistribution of licensed data. CF should still show useful provenance and explain that a contractual or legal visibility limit applies instead of falsely implying that no evidence exists.
Expand answer
PPRL pricing uses verified expected gross-profit economics and separate recovery evidence. The approved policy targets 12.5% of verified expected gross-profit value, normally cannot exceed 20%, and still seeks the lowest sustainable fair price. A price calculation never proves that a recovery occurred; the Earned Charge Moment requires its own recovery evidence.
Expand answer
The approved monthly counterpart starts from comparable governed pay-per economics and expected units, then applies a 15% commitment advantage. Recalibration is prospective only, normal cycle-to-cycle movement is bounded to 15% up or down, and automatic overage charging is disabled.
Expand answer
The Revenue System combines the governed Lead Growth and Lead Recovery monthly counterparts and applies an additional 10% integration advantage versus buying those monthly components separately. Duplicate component charging is not allowed.
Expand answer
The governed lead quote treats an accepted customer cap as a hard economic ceiling alongside the policy ceiling. If CF cannot provide the service sustainably and fairly inside the allowed boundary, the approved behavior is to decline that economic configuration rather than silently exceed the cap.
Expand answer
No. The approved monthly commercial policy has automatic overage charging disabled. CF must not turn excess usage into an undisclosed automatic charge; any future overage model would require explicit governed terms and customer-facing disclosure.
Expand answer
No. Approved monthly recalibration is prospective only. The current policy also bounds normal cycle-to-cycle recalibration to 15% upward or downward so changes are controlled and explainable rather than surprising or retroactive.
Expand answer
CF should not force an uneconomic service onto either side. If the sustainable service floor is above the applicable customer/policy ceiling, the approved quote is marked unserviceable and declined instead of hiding the mismatch or charging an unfair amount.
Expand answer
The Earned Charge Moment is the exact service-specific point when ClientFlow has enough governed evidence to say a charge is legitimately earned. CF must not charge before that point, and it must not silently postpone recording the earned economic event after all required conditions are satisfied. Provider capture or settlement happens separately and has its own timestamp.
Expand answer
PPGL is not earned when CF merely discovers, scrapes, enriches or attempts to contact a prospect. The charge becomes eligible only after the generated lead satisfies the customer's accepted qualification/evidence requirements and governed delivery or availability to the customer is durably recorded. The lead does not have to become a closed job unless the accepted contract explicitly says otherwise.
Expand answer
PPRL is not earned because CF sent a message, received a delivery receipt, recorded an open, or reopened a CRM record. It becomes eligible only when a pre-existing or dormant customer lead produces renewed qualifying engagement attributable to CF under the accepted recovery contract. Waiting for the final job to close would normally be too late unless the accepted contract explicitly defines close/win as the billable outcome.
Expand answer
CF separates the time the service outcome became earned from the time a payment provider processes or settles money. If an earned event is proven while the provider is delayed or unavailable, CF should preserve the earned timestamp and separately record the later provider execution result rather than rewriting economic history.
Expand answer
A pay-per-lead service sells the governed generated or recovered outcome defined in the accepted terms, not a guaranteed sale. If CF validly delivers that agreed outcome at the Earned Charge Moment, a later failure to close does not automatically make the lead invalid. If the lead itself failed the accepted evidence or qualification contract, dispute review should examine that evidence.
Expand answer
It should not. CF uses stable economic-event identities, immutable evidence and exactly-once/replay protections so retries or duplicate provider events cannot silently create a second charge for the same earned event. Monthly Lead Growth, Lead Recovery and Revenue System also block separate component PPGL/PPRL money instructions on top of the monthly service.
Expand answer
A monthly service has disclosed usage boundaries tied to the accepted commercial terms. CF tracks both relevant unit counts and expected economic value so the plan is not judged by raw lead quantity alone. The envelope is derived from the accepted subscription terms and does not authorize hidden overage charges.
Expand answer
Reaching an accepted unit or value envelope does not create an automatic overage charge. CF should surface the boundary and offer an explicit next choice when appropriate. Any different commercial arrangement must be governed and disclosed rather than silently added to the bill.
Expand answer
The post-trial path must follow the exact commercial terms you reviewed and accepted before checkout. CF preserves the quote, disclosure hash, acceptance, trial timestamps and subscription lineage so the transition can be audited. The trial itself must not silently create suppressed PPGL/PPRL lead charges.
Expand answer
Cancellation behavior must follow the accepted trial and subscription terms and should be presented without dark patterns. CF should clearly show the effective date and any resulting access state. Account-specific cancellation problems should use private support so authoritative subscription evidence can be reviewed.
Expand answer
For self-serve commercial services, CF creates a customer-specific governed quote and disclosure, hashes that exact disclosure, and records a separate owner/admin acceptance. Checkout reloads those immutable server-side terms; the browser does not get to invent or substitute the authoritative price.
Expand answer
An expired or materially outdated quote should not be reused. CF should generate a new governed quote from the current permitted inputs and require review/acceptance of the new disclosure before a new checkout. Previously accepted terms remain preserved for audit history.
Expand answer
The billing architecture preserves the service type, lead/opportunity identity, evidence references, applicable commercial quote and acceptance, fair-pricing snapshot, Earned Charge Moment, amount, currency, policy versions and relevant timestamps. Sensitive account evidence is reviewed privately rather than exposed in public FAQ content.
Expand answer
A specific dispute should be reviewed against the authoritative quote, acceptance, service evidence, Earned Charge Moment, amount and correction history. CF should not decide an account-specific dispute from generic FAQ text, and a correction should preserve the original event plus the reason and authorized adjustment.
Expand answer
Qualification is customer- and service-specific. Depending on the accepted contract, relevant evidence can include source provenance, service fit, geography, verified contactability, intent/readiness, completeness, deduplication and governed delivery. A name or scraped contact record by itself is not a qualified PPGL lead.
Expand answer
A recovered lead begins as a pre-existing or dormant customer opportunity and must show renewed qualifying engagement attributable to CF under the accepted recovery rules. Ordinary follow-up activity, a delivered message, an open, a duplicate record or a lead that was already secured does not automatically become PPRL.
Expand answer
No. CF can govern sourcing, verification, qualification, recovery evidence, delivery and attribution, but it cannot honestly guarantee a prospect will purchase, that a job will close or that a specific revenue result will occur.
Expand answer
Exclusivity is a commercial/qualification factor that must match the applicable governed offer. CF should not imply a lead is exclusive unless the authoritative source and accepted terms support that claim. Shared versus exclusive delivery can affect fair pricing.
Expand answer
It can. Freshness and delivery timing are approved PPGL pricing/quality factors when they are relevant and evidenced. CF should explain their effect rather than using hidden urgency premiums or treating age alone as proof of quality.
Expand answer
Invalid or unverified contact information should be reflected in qualification and source-quality evidence. A lead that fails the accepted contactability requirement should not be forced through as a valid billable lead merely because a source returned a record.
Expand answer
CF should use durable source/provenance and downstream outcome evidence rather than last-minute manual labels. Attribution rules can differ by workflow, but the source evidence and any uncertainty should remain reconstructable so source performance is not inflated by guesswork.
Expand answer
Those are different jobs with different target populations, permissions, economics and downstream outcomes. CF certifies the source independently for acquiring paying ClientFlow customers and for generating/recovering tenant leads; success in one role is not evidence that the other role works.
Expand answer
A channel can have an adapter or configuration without being authorized for live execution. CF should separately show whether the provider is configured, whether workspace prerequisites are satisfied, and whether live traffic is actually authorized. This prevents a setup screen from falsely implying messages or calls are already being sent.
Expand answer
Automatic paid-number provisioning remains a separately controlled spending/provider action. CF can represent communications readiness without silently purchasing a number. Paid provisioning should occur only after its operational and spending boundaries are explicitly authorized.
Expand answer
Ordinary windows in the same browser profile normally share browser authentication storage, so signing that profile into another account can affect the other window. Use separate browser profiles or isolated/private sessions when you need two different ClientFlow accounts open at the same time.
Expand answer
Higher-risk workspace actions such as governed commercial quote generation/acceptance and certain settings are restricted to authorized owner/admin roles. Ordinary members should not gain those privileges by editing a URL or replaying a request; server authorization remains the source of truth.
Expand answer
CF uses authenticated workspace membership, server-side authorization and database row-level security/tenant boundaries. A customer-visible route or record identifier is not permission to access another tenant's protected records.
Expand answer
Platform/service access should follow least-privilege operational and support boundaries rather than unrestricted customer impersonation. High-risk administrative actions and consequential economic changes require governed authorization/audit evidence; cross-tenant access is never a normal support shortcut.
Expand answer
You may share legitimate criticism publicly, but a charge/lead dispute needs the private support path because CF must inspect account-specific evidence. Review moderation should not erase criticism merely because a private dispute also exists.
Expand answer
The approved product direction is a governed improvement loop where suggestions can be deduplicated, reviewed and assigned transparent statuses such as reviewing, planned, in progress, shipped, declined or duplicate. Customer feedback is evidence for prioritization, not an automatic promise to build.
Expand answer
It should not. Legitimate criticism, support escalation or a request for human review must not be used as a hidden pricing factor or retaliation signal. Pricing is governed by approved commercial evidence, and review moderation is governed by content/authenticity rules rather than whether CF likes the opinion.
Expand answer
CF should not guess. An unanswered search can be recorded as a knowledge gap for the improvement backlog, while account-specific, disputed, security-sensitive or exceptional issues route to private support. The goal is to expand self-service continuously without blocking legitimate human help.