Allow ticket-based workflows to send emails to arbitrary external recipients

I’d like HubSpot to support sending an email when a ticket is created or meets specific criteria to arbitrary external email addresses or to freely definable recipients outside the standard contact association/workflow logic.

Right now, ticket automation supports:

  • internal email notifications to HubSpot users, teams, or owners, and
  • ticket emails to the associated contact’s primary email address.

What’s missing is the ability to define external recipients directly in the ticket automation, for example:

  • notify an external service provider,
  • notify a partner mailbox,
  • notify a customer contact that is not the associated primary contact,
  • send to different external addresses based on ticket properties.

Why this matters:
Many service processes involve external stakeholders who should be informed automatically when a ticket is created or reaches a certain status. Today, this requires awkward manual workarounds such as creating extra contact records or external integrations just to send a simple notification email.

Suggested solution:
Add a ticket workflow action that allows:

  • entering one or more external email addresses directly,
  • optionally using a ticket property as the recipient source,
  • using personalization tokens from the ticket,
  • sending this independently of the associated contact model.

Current workaround:
Create additional contact records and associate them to the ticket, or send the data via an external system that sends the email.

ZenDesk does this and it’s a valuable asset. Essentially anyone copied on the original email ticket submission or added to the ticket via the CC field status on the ticket dialogue. It’s a great way to maximize reach.