topic Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner? in Lead Capture Tools

Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

butteryak — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 21:40:15 GMT

Is there anyway to assign an owner to a new contact when a form is submitted? (other than workflows which is not available in free version)

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

Phil_Vallender — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 08:10:09 GMT

Hi @butteryak

You can add the contact owner as a hidden field and have it set automatically on sumbission.

Hope this helps.

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

butteryak — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 08:22:13 GMT

I've read this is possible, but I don't see "Contact Owner" as being a field available to add to a form.

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

Phil_Vallender — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 07:45:41 GMT

Hi @butteryak

My apologies, you are correct - I did wonder this as I wrote it. HubSpot quite rightly doesn't let you expose the contact owner property to website visitors in forms, but this also precludes you adding it as a hidden field.

So, without workflows, there is not going to be a way to automate this. The next best thing, perhaps, is to bulk associate contacts from the contact views.

Hope this helps.

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

butteryak — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 08:19:33 GMT

yeah, that's what I was thinking.

thanks much anyway++

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

kpotenza — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:44:10 GMT

Phil, is there any update on this or another way? I need to have a contact be assigned either in a workflow (says they have to be on paid professional) or within the form (doesn't let me pick option for "contact owner").

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

PamCotton — Wed, 06 May 2020 20:32:15 GMT

Hi @kpotenza a way I can think would be that you should be able to create a custom property that would act as a temporary contact owner property and pass this as a hidden field.

After you can export these contacts and import back to the correct contact owner property.

I hope this helps.

Kindly,

Pam

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

kpotenza — Thu, 07 May 2020 13:28:49 GMT

Hi Pam,

I would be looking for the contact owner to be placed right away as these are time-sensitive forms. I just wish Contact Owner was an option as a property on a form.

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

PamCotton — Thu, 07 May 2020 19:46:06 GMT

Hi @kpotenza

At the moment, there is not an option for this property to be added inside the forms, this is because it is an internal sales property. I understand that you are trying to add this property in the forms, however, the reason the forms were designed to not include this property is so that your contacts do not have visibility of the users within your portal.

The other automatic way would be as @Phil_Vallender mentioned, using Workflows to automatically assign contact owner after a contact fill the form.

Kindly,

Pam

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

jtfmx — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:00:06 GMT

Is this on a roadmap to be able to assign ownership in the same manner as being able to send internal alerts on form submissions? That's not visible to those submitting forms, so it stands to reason it's an acceptable alternative to a hidden field. A workflow to assign ownership is often slower than my Salesforce sync, which means that my Salesforce rules have a chance to fire and assign the incorrect owner. This is a flexibility that I'm sure quite a few customers would benefit from instead of having to work around product limitations.

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

PamCotton — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:46:12 GMT

Hello @jtfmx

I was able to find this post in the HubSpot Community Ideas forum. Upvoting here will alert our Product Team to the popularity of this request. Doing so will also auto-notify you if/when this functionality becomes available within HubSpot. You may read more about how that review process works here.

Kindly,

Pam

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

CSBgwall — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:54:59 GMT

Here's a solution I found if you really want to assign a contact owner (one that is visible to the public or whomever is using the form). First create a form field, lets call it "Customer Service Contact" with the names you would like to have as options (Flora, Miles, Danni). Then in a workflow you can assign a contact owner. If form field "Customer Service Contacts" is "Flora" assign contact owner to "Flora@bly.com".

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

Brennon — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:35:38 GMT

We have an INTERNAL form the sales team uses to submit information so it would be really helpful to be able to pull in contact owner property and provide the ability to only show a certain team in the list.

Re: Assign new contact from form submission to owner?

RRindik — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:27:11 GMT

I also could really benefit from assigning owners through forms. Our company is B2C and sometimes we will have sales associates ask their customers to fill out forms in return of an extra discount or change to win something - on the internal side, that sales associate should receive credit for that form submission. As it stands right now, I have not found a single way so far to know which user should get credit for that form submission without a TON of manual work. Especially since we have just under 90 sales associates