Development Settings holds the handful of organisation-wide choices the module runs on. A user with Manage Franchise Development can change them; everyone else reads them.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| First response target (minutes) | How quickly a new candidate should be contacted. Candidates without a logged first response count on the dashboard. |
| Default owner for new candidates | Pre-selected as the owner when a candidate is added without one. |
| Default currency | The three-letter currency used for deal fees when a deal does not set its own. |
| Approval committee | The team members who decide financing and approval. Recording them here does not yet gate anything; the approval step that reads them is still being built. |
| Approval rule | Whether any one approver, a majority or everyone must approve. |
| Keep lost candidates for (years) | Records your organisation's retention intention, so it is written down in one place. Nothing is deleted automatically today — lost candidates stay until someone removes them. |
Changing a setting
Edit the field and click Save. Changes apply immediately to new candidates and deals; existing records are not rewritten.
TWO SETTINGS ARE STORED, NOT ACTED ON YET
SPEED TO FIRST CONTACT
Industry data shows most signed deals were first contacted within four hours of enquiring. Set the target to what you can actually hit and watch the Awaiting first response counter, not the target itself.