Funnel chart

Follow how users or deals drop through each stage of a process, from first visit to purchase.

8 funnel chart examples

B2B sales funnel

Leads narrowing down to closed deals.

Five stages, each a fraction of the one above. The step with the sharpest narrowing — qualified to demo — is where a sales team should spend its next quarter.

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Signup funnel

From landing page visit to an activated account.

Most product funnels lose more people at email verification than at the signup form itself. Charting both steps separately is the only way to notice.

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Checkout funnel

Where carts get abandoned.

The gap between 'added to cart' and 'entered checkout' is usually shipping cost. This funnel puts a number on that sentence.

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Recruitment funnel

Applications down to signed offers.

A thousand applications and thirty-eight hires. Recruiters use this shape to argue for better sourcing rather than more screening.

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Onboarding funnel

Completion rate per onboarding step.

Onboarding funnels are worth charting weekly: a step that quietly drops ten points is almost always a release, not the users.

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Trial conversion

Free trials converting into paid plans.

Trials that never reach the 'engaged' step convert at almost zero. The funnel makes the case for an activation team instead of a discount.

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Webinar funnel

Registrations through to sales opportunities.

Registration numbers flatter every webinar report. Attendance, retention and requested demos are the three steps that decide whether it was worth running.

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Support escalation

Tickets resolved at each escalation level.

Every level that a ticket climbs costs roughly five times more to serve. Half of these never leave self-serve, which is exactly the point.

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