If you haven't already done so, customize your Deal stages based on how you sell your products or services. At any given time, you will know in what stage every single business opportunity you have in play is. Setting up your own set of deal stages is a matter of seconds. Instructions can be found
here. If the way you do business does not fit into only one set of stages, try the Trade types feature that can be set up in Record Settings - Deal - General settings . Take a look at the
separate article with detailed introduction and specific use cases.