Call the column whatever your firm calls it
Every status you make sits on one of seven roles, and the role is what the rest of the platform reads. Name a column “Chasing paperwork” and mark it as waiting on the client, and the automations, the reports and the client portal all carry on working. You are not learning our vocabulary — we are learning yours.
- Rename, recolor and reorder statuses whenever the firm’s vocabulary changes
- Automations fire on the role, so renaming a column in March breaks nothing
- Reports group by role, so two firms with different words get comparable numbers
