Opportunities without products

Hello,
I was wondering if someone has experience with creating opportunities without products attached to them. If this is a service organization and there are no products as such, every opportunity or order will have its own price depending on amount of mandays, etc. How would you approach this? What would be the best way to set it up in the system?
thanks

Generally opportunities are often found without products, esp. in early sales stages as in these phases the products offered to the customer are not yet clear. One can work with dummy products assigned to the product hierarchy which are refined / replaced further in the process. But this is the exception, not the rule.
If you are in a service organisation it might be helpful to have a 'manday' product whcih you can assign, but that depends on your business. If you are just selling time & material this approach might be fine, if you are selling deliverables like fixed projects or similar this might work as well, but you could also introduce a freely-priced project here.
But in the cases I know one works without products and just maintains the expected sales volume on opportunity header as the time & material is the only product and of not much additional use.
Hope this helps,
Kai

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