Overview
Apollo's Home is your starting point for getting set up, finding the right prospects, launching outreach, and tracking your team’s sales activity.
When you first join Apollo, Home surfaces a personalized onboarding checklist to help you configure your account and start driving pipeline. As you complete your onboarding tasks, Home gives you access to go-to-market insights, widgets, and customizable dashboards to monitor your sales activities in one place.
Check out the following sections to learn more about Home and how to use it.
Get Started with Apollo
When you first log in to Apollo, Home displays Get started with Apollo, a guided onboarding experience that helps you complete key actions in your first 14 days. Complete the actions to build pipeline, set up outreach, and earn available credits when eligible.
Apollo displays your earliest incomplete mission first. Click Load more to view additional missions. You can click anywhere in an action row to open the related workflow.
| Mission | Actions |
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| Start reaching the right prospects |
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| Get your inbox ready to send |
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| Scale your outreach |
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| Turn activity into meetings |
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To switch from the onboarding experience to your customizable Home dashboard, click the Getting started dropdown, then choose the Home layout you want to use.
Explore More Resources
Home also surfaces resources to help you master Apollo faster:
- Hands-on training: Work directly with an Apollo expert to get set up and start prospecting faster.
- Apollo Academy: Explore tutorials and best practices designed to help you get started.
- Webinars: Watch live sessions or on-demand walkthroughs to learn Apollo workflows in more detail.
Use the Home Dashboard
Use the following widgets to monitor all your sales activities from one place:
| Home widgets | ||||
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| Recommendations | Tasks | Suggested leads | Recent replies | Pending deals |
| Recommended prospects | Email stats | Call stats | Emails sent | Quota attainment |
| Calls made | Sequence stats | Email funnel | Leaderboard: Deal amount won | Leaderboard: Deal win rate |
| Leaderboard: Emails sent | Leaderboard: Calls completed | |||
Recommendations
Recommendations turn Apollo into a proactive system of action. Powered by Apollo AI, you see the next step at the right time, right from home — helping you fix deliverability issues fast, prioritize high-intent prospects, and drive more pipeline.
Click View recommendation to learn more about a specific recommendation and take action.
Click Mark complete, Save for later, or Dismiss to take an action on the recommendation.
Alternatively click the Active dropdown to view saved, completed, or dismissed recommendations.
Tasks
Track tasks assigned to you, take quick action, and reassign or archive tasks directly from here.
Click View all tasks to navigate to Tasks, and review all task details.
To view tasks from home, you need at least 1 active task assigned to you. Read Create a Task to learn more.
Suggested leads
Suggested leads provide you net-new, high-value prospects that fit your target personas. These recommendations can help you prioritize and generate pipeline faster by connecting to the right people in just a few clicks.
Recent replies
Track recent replies to messages you sent via the mailboxes you've connected to Apollo. You can filter messages by status and linked mailbox.
To view recent replies from home, you need to connect your mailboxes to Apollo. Read Link Your Mailboxes to learn more.
Pending deals
Track the status of your team's pending deals.
Click View all deals to navigate to Deals and review all the pending deals assigned to you and your team.
To access deals from home, you need to have existing deals in Apollo or pull opportunity data from your CRM.
Recommended prospects
Access a list of prospects that Apollo recommends for you. You can view up to 20 new prospects daily.
Email stats
Gain a holistic view of your email performance to track progress and monitor:
- # Emails Sent
- # Emails Delivered
- # Emails Opened
- # Emails Replied
- # Emails Interested
- # Emails Bounced
Click filters to adjust the time range for your email stats to daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
Apollo displays data once you start sending emails via sequences in Apollo.
Hop into Chapter 7 of the Outbound Sales book to learn more about email deliverability best practices or check out this article for recommendations to avoid spam filters.
Call stats
Track your calls to monitor your team's performance and keep an eye on the following statistics:
- # Calls Logged
- # Calls Connected
- # Calls Connected - Positive
- Avg. Call Duration (sec)
Click the filters icon to adjust the time range for your team's call stats to daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
You need to make and receive calls in Apollo to see call stats data from home. Read Dialer Overview to get started with the Apollo dialer and Cold Calling Best Practices for tips on how to optimize call performance and stay compliant.
Emails sent
View email volume over the past 5 weeks and compare it with the previous period.
Click Create goal to set a new goal for yourself based on your sent emails.
Click ... to view the full report, clone it, or download the data via a CSV file.
Quota attainment
Visualize your quota attainment for the last 5 weeks and the total amount won from your successful deals.
Click Create goal to create a new goal for your personal quota attainment based on insights from this widget.
Click ... to view the full report, clone it, or download the data via a CSV file.
Calls made
View the number of calls you made from Apollo over the past 5 weeks and compare it with the previous period.
Click Create goal to set a new goal based on your logged calls.
Click ... to view the full report, clone it, or download the data via a CSV file.
Sequence stats
Track the performance of your team's sequences over the last 90 days. You can review the following statistics for each sequence:
- # Emails Sent
- % Emails Opened
- % Emails Replied
- % Emails Interested
- # Calls Logged
- % Calls Connected
Click the filters icon to adjust the time range for your sequence performance report to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.
Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.
Email funnel
Visualizes percentages for the following email statistics over the last 30 days:
- # Emails Sent
- # Emails Delivered
- # Emails Opened
- # Emails Replied
- # Emails Interested
Click filters to adjust the time range for your performance funnel report to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.
Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.
Leaderboard: Deal amount won
Monitor the total deal amount each of your teammates have won in the last 30 days. Teammates with more deals rank higher on the leaderboard.
Click filters to adjust the time range for this leaderboard to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.
Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.
Leaderboard: Deal win rate
Monitor the deal win rate percentage for each of your teammates in the last 30 days. Teammates with a larger deal win rate rank higher on the leaderboard.
Click filters to adjust the time range for this leaderboard to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.
Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.
Leaderboard: Emails sent
Monitor the number of emails your teammates sent in the last 30 days. Teammates who sent more emails rank higher on the leaderboard.
Click filters to adjust the time range for this leaderboard to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.
Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.
Leaderboard: Calls completed
Monitor the number of calls your teammates completed in the last 30 days. Teammates with more completed calls rank higher on the leaderboard.
Click filters to adjust the time range for this leaderboard to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.
Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.
Create Custom Home Layouts
Apollo provides two default home layouts:
- Generate Pipeline: Track the performance of your prospecting activities, with insights on emails, calls, and sequences to improve how your team engages with prospects.
- Win & Close: Track performance related to your ability to win and close sales deals, with insights on pending tasks, quota attainment, and win rates.
You and your team likely have additional use cases that you want to report on. You can customize the layout of your home dashboard and add or delete widgets to tailor the dashboard to your needs, displaying only the data relevant to you.
To create a custom layout:
- Launch Apollo and go to Home.
- Click Edit layout.
- Click + to open the widget library and discover additional widgets to add to your layout.
- To add a new widget, drag it from the widget library and drop it in your main layout. A gray box will appear to let you know you can place the widget. Click x to close the widget library when you're done.
- Drag and drop widgets throughout your layout to reorganize them. All widgets can take up a single row in your home layout, or you can stack multiple widgets into the same row for better visibility.
- Click the trash can to remove a widget from your layout. You can re-add it from the widget library later if you need.
- When you're done customizing your layout, click Save as new. Give your new layout a name, then click Save.
- Click on the layout name at the top of your dashboard to switch between layouts:
- System: Default layouts built by Apollo.
- Your layouts: Your custom layouts.
- Favorites: Default and custom layouts that you marked as favorites.
- Hover over a layout and click the pencil to edit the layout. Click ... to favorite, duplicate, rename, or delete a layout.
Next Steps
Ready to keep building from Home? Use these resources to complete your setup, start prospecting, launch outreach, and turn Home insights into action:
| How to Prospect in Apollo | Start building pipeline from Home by learning how to find, save, and organize prospects in Apollo. |
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| Link Your Mailbox to Apollo | Get your inbox ready for outreach by connecting your mailbox to Apollo so you can send, track, and manage replies. |
| Sequences Overview | Scale your outreach from Apollo by building and launching sequences that help you engage prospects automatically. |
| Use Account-Based Recommendations | Prioritize the right leads faster by using Apollo’s account-based recommendations to find high-value prospects that match your target audience. |
| Create a Task | Stay on top of follow-ups by creating tasks in Apollo and tracking your next actions from Home. |
| Set and Track Goals | Turn Home insights into measurable outcomes by setting and tracking goals for emails, calls, quota attainment, and more. |