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Customer Journey

The customer journey is the end-to-end sequence of stages a customer moves through with your company — from first awareness, through evaluation, purchase, onboarding, ongoing use, renewal, and either expansion or churn.

Common stages

  1. Awareness — discovers the problem and your product
  2. Consideration — comparing options
  3. Purchase — signs the contract
  4. Onboarding — first 30–60 days
  5. Adoption — daily / weekly use
  6. Expansion — adds seats, tiers, modules
  7. Renewal — contract continues
  8. Advocacy — refers others, writes reviews

Why mapping it matters

A documented customer journey helps every team — marketing, sales, CS, support, product — know what the customer is experiencing right now and what they need next. Without a map, each team optimizes locally and the customer feels handoff friction.

How BlueHill helps

BlueHill represents every stage of the post-sale journey natively — onboarding templates, ongoing project work, QBRs, renewal pipeline, expansion tracking — so the journey isn't theoretical, it's operational.

Related: Lifecycle · Milestone · Onboarding