The Complete Guide to Pipedrive Reporting

If you're using Pipedrive to manage your sales process, you're already ahead of the curve in terms of pipeline management. But when it comes to Pipedrive reporting, many users hit a wall.

Whether you're a sales leader, RevOps manager, or founder trying to scale revenue, having clear, actionable reporting is critical to growing your business. In this guide, we’ll walk through what great sales reporting looks like in Pipedrive, what’s possible with native tools, what’s missing, and how to close the gap—without relying on spreadsheets.

 

What Sales Leaders Want to Track

Before diving into tools and dashboards, it’s helpful to anchor on what matters. Across hundreds of sales teams, the most impactful Pipedrive reporting frameworks include:

  • Pipeline coverage & value over time

  • Win/loss analysis by stage, product, or rep

  • Sales velocity and time-in-stage metrics

  • Forecast vs actual revenue (Pipedrive forecasting accuracy matters!)

  • Activity-to-outcome conversion (e.g. meetings to won deals)

  • Goal tracking by team, role, or business unit

  • Pipedrive recurring revenue reporting (MRR/ARR tracking)

The challenge? Pipedrive does a few of these well—and leaves gaps in the rest.

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What You Can Do with Native Pipedrive Insights

Pipedrive’s built-in Insights module offers several valuable reports:

  • Current pipeline dashboard by stage, value, and rep

  • Basic activity tracking (calls, emails, meetings)

  • Revenue forecast based on expected close date

  • Goal setting for activity or revenue per user

  • Dashboard sharing with teams or leadership

For small teams or basic overviews, this works well. But as soon as your team grows or reporting needs become more complex, the limits appear:

  • No historical trend reporting — you can’t see how pipeline evolved over time

  • No deal movement tracking — who pushed the close date, who reassigned the deal?

  • Limited custom field support in reports

  • No support for Pipedrive recurring revenue reporting (MRR/ARR metrics)

  • Limited dashboards (report caps based on plan tier)

A Framework for Better Sales Reporting in Pipedrive

If you’re looking to level up your reporting, here’s a simple 5-part framework we recommend:

  1. Pipeline visibility over time
    Track how deal volume and value move week over week. Spot sudden drops or surges.

  2. Forecasting with context
    Go beyond close dates—score deal health based on activity, engagement, and risk factors.

  3. Conversion funnels & velocity
    Measure stage-by-stage conversion and average time spent in each stage.

  4. Goal tracking & accountability
    Set and monitor performance targets across reps, teams, and business units.

  5. Recurring revenue insights
    Visualize new business, renewals, and expansion revenue monthly or quarterly.

This is what modern sales teams expect from their reporting stack—and it’s what Pipedrive alone can’t deliver.

Pipedrive reporting dashboard
 

Plug-and-Play Reporting with Dear Lucy

Dear Lucy connects directly to your Pipedrive CRM and brings this framework to life—no coding, no spreadsheet exports, no setup headaches.

With Dear Lucy, you get:

  • Predictive Pipedrive forecasting based on real CRM activity

  • Pipeline history and deal movement tracking

  • Pipedrive goal tracking dashboards by rep, team, region, or product

  • MRR/ARR reporting for recurring revenue businesses

  • Conversion funnel and sales velocity insights

  • Unlimited dashboards with secure sharing

All accessible via browser, updated hourly, and ready to use in minutes.

 

Final Thoughts

You don’t have to switch CRMs or build custom tools to get better reporting. Pipedrive is a powerful sales platform—and with the right reporting layer, it can become a performance engine for your whole team.

No more spreadsheets. No more reporting ceilings.

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About Dear Lucy

Dear Lucy is a certified Pipedrive partner providing plug-and-play sales reporting, forecasting, and performance dashboards for modern revenue teams. We help Pipedrive users get the full picture—from predictive forecasts and pipeline trends to goal tracking and recurring revenue insights. Our platform is fully aligned with Sales Performance Management (SPM) best practices and used by scaling sales teams around the world.

If you’d like to learn more about Dear Lucy and whether it might be the right solution for your sales organization, you can either schedule a meeting with a product expert, start a free 10-day trial, or click around our gallery of advanced sales performance dashboards