Does parent/child auto-change lifecycle stage

I just added about 1,000 accounts and did the parent child relationships with them.
If I assign someone as a child account to a parent that is a current customer, does HubSpot automatically assume that the child is a customer too?
If so, would this affect anything at the contact level?

Hi @DChimenti,


@DChimenti wrote:

If I assign someone as a child account to a parent that is a current customer, does HubSpot automatically assume that the child is a customer too?


No, unless someone in your portal has set up specific automation for that, it wouldn’t happen automatically.


@DChimenti wrote:

If so, would this affect anything at the contact level?


This depends on whether you’re syncing lifecycle stage between contact and company, see here: Automatically set and sync record lifecycle stages

Hope this helps!

Thank you Karsten. Being that I inherited this HubSpot and am new to it, can you tell me how I can find out if someone previous to me has set up a specific automation for that correlation at the company level?

Hi @DChimenti,

Navigate to Settings > Properties, switch to the Company properties dropdown and find “Lifecycle stage”. Click on it and you should see a “Used in” tab. If nothing’s there, nothing was set up.

Best regards!

so if this is the setup, and it doesn’t show automation, I can assume that there is no automation setup?

Hi @DChimenti,

Workflows are a form of automation, you would have to review what those workflows do.

Karsten, amazing advice as always.
Thank you for your service to our community.