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How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

Dan1 — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:19:34 GMT

Earlier this year I posted this question to the community and had some great help from many Hubspot Pro's. I wanted to give back to the Hubspot community and pass on the knowledge to other new Hubspot CRM users.

So I put together a 2 minute video to show the renewal pipeline we created and use based on the feedback gathered. We run a B2B SaaS business with annual contracts, so it is specific to our requirements, however, hopefully, it will provide some ideas and a basis for a renewal deal pipeline setup.

If anyone has any further suggestions then please share on this post so that we can build some best practices around this topic.

All the best,

Dan

www.orgcharthub.com

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

roisinkirby — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:05:59 GMT

Terrific - thanks for sharing @Dan1

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

dleitch — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:37:00 GMT

Hi Dan1,

Thanks for sharing. Just a quick question. For the year 2 renewal, is there a 3rd pipeline or does it just start over in the same renewal pipline as year 1? Also, do you think the renewal process you have setup would work for additional years (i.e. 3, 4, 5, etc.)?

Thanks!

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

Dan1 — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 14:23:19 GMT

Hi @dleitch,

When the deal is won for the renewal, the cycle starts again and we rename the deal with "2nd year" tagged onto the end. It's helpful having all the renewal deals (1st, 2nd, 3rd year etc) in one pipeline as you can see the renewal amounts for each quarter very easily.

I hope this helps,

Dan

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

louischausse1 — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:16:20 GMT

thank you for the video

How do you manage workflow reenrollment? It will only work for one cycle?

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

Dan1 — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:28:23 GMT

@louischausse1 , its split into two workflows, the second below restarts the cycle. Sales pipeline to renewal pipeline

The second restarts the deal in the renewal pipeline once it's gone through the cycle.

Renewal Pipeline workflow

I hope this helps?

Kind Regards,

Dan

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

louischausse1 — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:53:54 GMT

Thank you @Dan1!

I figured out something else by creating a list of contact "to renew" as my enrollment criteria. Since it is contact-based there is no re-enrollment issue.

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

mbutterworth — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:13:12 GMT

This is awesome, Dan! Thanks so much for taking the time to share this!

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

Dan1 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:59:37 GMT

@mbutterworth glad it helps

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

louischausse — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 17:05:01 GMT

Your solution work if you have contracts with standard duration (i.e. 1 year) and the deal close date is the same date as the start date of the contract.

Here's my current situation:

What if a deal can be renewed in advance for a new contract start date in the future and the contract term is always different from one customer to another?

Any thoughts?

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

louischausse — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:02:13 GMT

Your solution is awesome, but will only work if your contract always has the same term length.

For businesses working with variable contract end dates, that won't do the trick.

That's why we've built a Recipe to handle that. A Recipe is a small process that you can install in your HubSpot portal. This doesn't require any third-party tool.

Here's a video of how it works:

Watch the video!

Renewal deals are created automatically for each closed-won deals with a known contract end date. Then, a task is generated with a reminder date XX days before that contract end date to notify the deal owner (or another user of your choice) that the renewal is coming soon.

Other settings and configurations are also available to suit your use case.

If you are interested, we can have a chat to setup this recipe on your HubSpot portal.

Learn more here

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

CamPage — Mon, 18 May 2020 14:53:42 GMT

Hey Dan - This is really really helpful, thanks!

Question - Do you have a workflow to move deals automatically into each quarter or do you do that manually? If so, how did you set that up?

Thanks!

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

Dan1 — Mon, 18 May 2020 15:52:31 GMT

Hi @CamPage ,

Glad its helped 🙂

We manually moved the deals quarter to quarter manually. But this was so that I could review them with the team together. So I didn't look into a workflow for that part of the pipeline. If you figure it out please tell the rest of us, sorry I can't be of more help on this.

Kind Regards,

Dan

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

Dan1 — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:32:29 GMT

@louischausse top work!! It's so good to have a solution to help with the renewal process.

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

JennyOD — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 07:34:41 GMT

Hey @Dan1 hope all is well!

From a reporting perspective, how do you ensure you are not double counting revenue? e.g. Deal is moving from Year 2 renewal to Year 3. If you wanted to see how much rev you have in your BoB, how do you ensure you are not counting the original deal closed and the year 1 renewal amount? Thanks a million

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

Dan1 — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:27:12 GMT

Hi @JennyOD , its a good question. I used these pipelines and workflows back in 2016/ 2017 at my last company, when I was Head of Account Management for Akkroo (Acquired by Integrate.com). We built OrgChartHub as in internal solution in 2017, it was a side project back then, as was this video. I shared the video to show how we were handling renewals at Akkroo at the time, as I thought it would be helpful to other HubSpot customers, I think it has been 🙂

At the time we didn't use the reporting functionality very heavily in HubSpot so this didn't become a factor, but as you say it would be a factor today and it would double count. I think I need to work on an updated solution and video to try and figure out how it should be done in 2021, incompassing reporting 😊.

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

JennyOD — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:58:44 GMT

Thanks so much for coming back to me @Dan1. If you do think of anything that could solve for this or know of anyone that has perhaps solved for this and wouldn't mind letting me know, that would be great! I am working on this with a customer of mine so any insights would be hugely appreciated. My email is jodoherty@hubspot.com if anything/one springs to mind. Thanks again

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

Dan1 — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:51:15 GMT

@JennyOD I certainly will, speak soon.

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

JAnderson5 — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 19:35:10 GMT

Thank you for the amazing video. I think this would work well for my company. One issue is that we have subscription numbers that need to be copied to the new deal. Are you attaching products from one deal to the next? Do you have to manually move your deal own the pipeline, or are you using workflows to trigger the change of stage; which triggers your tasks?

Re: How to handle renewals in your deal pipeline - Best Practices and Pro Tips

JAnderson5 — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 20:16:44 GMT

This is so helpful! Thank you so much.