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Lead and Contact assignment based on calendar

PDrews — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:54:42 GMT

Want to make my world a bit more beautiful?
In a perfect world these two scenarios would be solved:

1. New lead comes in to HS, and is then assigned based on a rep's (SDR or AE's) "real-time and updated"(rt) calendar availability.
2. Contact is reassigned from AE to an SDR based on SDR's "on shift/off shift"(oo) calendar availability.

RT: reps would keep calendars open when available, removing no-show meetings would then trigger availability, leads would then round robin assign to those with an opening.
OO: calendars would indicate simply days and hours available for lead assignment.

Re: Lead and Contact assignment based on calendar

PamCotton — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:40:15 GMT

Hey @PDrews, thank you for posting in our Community!

I would recommend creating a workflow automation in HubSpot that triggers when a new lead comes in. You can also implement a round-robin logic if multiple representatives are available.

To our top experts @TomM2, @Jnix284 and @trevordjones do you have any recommendations for @PDrews?

Thank you,

Pam

Re: Lead and Contact assignment based on calendar

TomM2 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:30:33 GMT

Thanks for the tag @PamCotton

@PDrews the "availability" feature is honestly a huge hole in HubSpot's system. I know they're working on this right now though so I believe it's a feature that will be out this year. However, at the moment there's really no way to set assignments based on availability outside of manually updating your assignment rules.

Re: Lead and Contact assignment based on calendar

trevordjones — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:00:59 GMT

Hi @PDrews and Thanks for the tag @PamCotton .

Agree with @TomM2 on this one and don't have any great workarounds for you.

Re: Lead and Contact assignment based on calendar

Jnix284 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:20:48 GMT

Excited to hear this is in the works @TomM2, thanks for sharing the update!

Like @trevordjones, I also don't have any workarounds @PDrews - other than keeping your fingers crossed and building out our your process map to have it ready to go for when the new feature is rolled out!

Re: Lead and Contact assignment based on calendar

Aakar — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:13:22 GMT

Hi @PDrews -- I guess, there are few features that are in beta or development, but there's no out of the box solution right now. Please check the product updates section on your portal.

If you're okay with exploring third party solutions, you might want to check routera as well. They have some cool features around availability.

Thanks.

Re: Lead and Contact assignment based on calendar

RBozeman — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:33:25 GMT

Hi @PDrews,

Having availability and deeper assignment features in the standard HubSpot UI would be so great. Definitely a sorely needed feature. Of course, you can put together workarounds for a lot of things using Workflows, but I don't think that you'll be able to do what you are looking for. Maybe with a third-party calendar integration that integrates with HubSpot workflows, but I don't know one off of the top of my head.

However, I wanted to mention that Insycle can help with this. Full disclosure — I work as a marketer for Insycle. But we recently launched some pretty deep record assignment features with advanced availability controls.

Here are the features that might be able to help your use case:

Set SDR/AE daily working availability. Input their working hours so assignments to them only happen during the specified hours. Reps will be automatically removed some assignments when they are off-hours.
Set expected unavailability. For vacations, conferences, PTO, etc. Quickly add unavailabile days for reps, and they will be automatically removed from assignment processes on those days.
One-click toggle for unexpected unavailability. For sick days, busy days, etc. Simply toggle a rep as "unavailable" with a single click and they will be removed from assignment processes until they are toggled back to available.
Round Robin w/ timeframe-based load balancing. Insycle has numerous assignment settings (including round robin like you mentioned), but also load balancing. You can also set a timeframe for load balancing, such as balancing assignments among all reps (or a small specified group) over the last week, month, quarter, etc.
Hubspot workflow integration. Inject Insycle templates directly into workflows so that leads can be assigned immediately after they hit the system and before your first communications go out to them.

So, your SDR for your AE-->SDR after shift handoff would be a little tricky, but doable. Is there a consistent time that all SDRs end their shift? Because you could have a HubSpot workflow triggered just after that time each day, and then inject the Insycle assignment template into that workflow, so that leads are re-assigned after the AE ends their shift. Then, in theory, you could have another one that runs in the morning to re-assign back to AEs if that was something you wanted.

Here is a recent article we published that breaks down our lead routing features and has a bunch of screenshots to show you how it all looks in the software.

Hope that helps. If you wanted to test it out, we have a trial and our support team would be happy to hop on a Zoom and help you get your initial setup in place.

Re: Lead and Contact assignment based on calendar

taylorsusanne76 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:25:19 GMT

Hii @PDrews

Totally possible and honestly, a really smart approach. For the setup, reps just need to keep their calendars updated. So when a new lead comes in, the system can check who’s actually available right then (not in a meeting, not out of office) and assign the lead to someone who can follow up immediately. If a no-show gets cleared from a calendar, that person becomes eligible again—super efficient. For the on-shift/off-shift flow, it's all about setting working hours ahead of time, so leads or contact reassignments only go to reps who are actually on shift. To pull it off, you’d just need a CRM- HubSpot, calendar access (Google or Outlook), and a routing tool like Chili Piper, LeadAngel, or even a Zapier/Make setup.

Re: Lead and Contact assignment based on calendar

Shweta95 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 06:01:34 GMT

This is such a great idea. Connecting lead assignment to real-time rep availability would take a lot of headaches out of the process. HubSpot doesn’t really do this out of the box, but you might want to check out lead routing tools like LeadAngel. They give you a lot more flexibility with rules and can even work around things like shift schedules or availability windows. It could be a good way to get closer to what you’re describing.