# Forecast by Deal Quantity, Line Items, or Custom Objects **URL:** \ **Category:** HubSpot Ideas\ **Tags:** analytics-tools\ **Created:** [November 20, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257 "2020-11-20T03:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ztbyrnes](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/ztbyrnes/32/89259_2.png) [@ztbyrnes](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ztbyrnes)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/1 "2020-11-20T03:58:26Z")
I’m very interested in the recent updates to forecasting sales, but we are not able to use it as it’s currently set up. We are not focused on revenue yet, therefore, we only set goals for the sales team to sell SaaS. The forecasting functionality would be great if we could somehow forecast subscription sales, but revenue alone does not work for us. An easy solution would be to implement the ability to set Goals based on _Number of Deals Closed_. However, my proposed solution wouldn’t work when a salesperson sells 2 subscriptions on one Deal. We could certainly work around this issue by creating 2 separate deals, and that wouldn’t be much of a problem. An alternative approach requires more background to how our HubSpot is set up. Currently, we have a Product SKU that records the subscription in a Deal Line Item. Once the Deal is completed, we have a Custom Object called _Subscriptions_ that is created. If the salesperson sold 2 subscriptions on the Deal, then 2 _Subscriptions_ are created. These _Subscriptions_ are synced with our company’s admin page via the API to keep our customer account data current and accessable in the form of HubSpot properties. I have 2 proposed solutions: 1) Create the ability to track Line Items/SKUs in the pipeline against a Goal. 2) Create the ability to track custom objects such as our _Subscriptions_. ---
**Author:** ![JustinatNexVeg](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/justinatnexveg/32/29572_2.png) [@JustinatNexVeg](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JustinatNexVeg)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/2 "2021-02-22T19:46:39Z")
I too would like to see functionality in Forecasting added to build forecasts based upon new line items added. This would allow me to more accurately forecast and include Won deals that have expanded to new line items. ---
**Author:** ![NicoleJ](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/nicolej/32/76591_2.png) [@NicoleJ](https://community.hubspot.com/u/NicoleJ)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/3 "2022-03-26T23:18:20Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![RRasnic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d6d6ee/32.png) [@RRasnic](https://community.hubspot.com/u/RRasnic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/4 "2022-07-28T16:22:00Z")
I would like the ability to forecast by line items as well as we have different revenue types such as renewals, One-time, new subscription, etc. ---
**Author:** ![KlaudiaMerix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c57346/32.png) [@KlaudiaMerix](https://community.hubspot.com/u/KlaudiaMerix)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/5 "2022-12-28T13:09:06Z")
+1000000000 without this forecasting is useless 😞 ---
**Author:** ![RWhite29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@RWhite29](https://community.hubspot.com/u/RWhite29)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/6 "2023-01-30T16:51:27Z")
I would LOVE to see this idea implemented as it would give us more visiblity as a company and we wont have a need for an additional system!😄 ---
**Author:** ![jeremypatay](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jeremypatay/32/93181_2.png) [@jeremypatay](https://community.hubspot.com/u/jeremypatay)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/7 "2023-02-10T07:36:53Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![ABeian](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/abeian/32/69814_2.png) [@ABeian](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ABeian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 7:57am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/8 "2023-02-10T07:57:44Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![MLawrance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MLawrance](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MLawrance)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 10:26am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/9 "2023-03-27T10:26:25Z")
Being able to forecast and see what line items make up the revenue values would be invaluable. Any update on if/when this will be available? ---
**Author:** ![Dalton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Dalton](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Dalton)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 11:55am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/10 "2023-05-22T11:55:16Z")
Agreed, this is critical for forecasting or reporting. Having the ability to set a goal based on the line item type ex: Hardware vs/ Software would be extremely helpful. ---
**Author:** ![TuMa](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/tuma/32/64030_2.png) [@TuMa](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TuMa)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 11:09am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/11 "2023-08-13T11:09:50Z")
+1 to be available in HS Professional! ---
**Author:** ![PDinesen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PDinesen](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PDinesen)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/12 "2023-08-29T08:30:37Z")
This is definitely a must! ---
**Author:** ![PatienceSeow](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/patienceseow/32/105384_2.png) [@PatienceSeow](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PatienceSeow)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/13 "2023-09-18T09:09:03Z")
This feature is needed! +1 upvoting on behalf of my customer. ---
**Author:** ![AGreenslade](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/agreenslade/32/199073_2.png) [@AGreenslade](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AGreenslade)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/14 "2023-09-18T22:56:06Z")
We already set sales goals and do forecasting starting with product types that each sales person needs to sell a certain amount of in order to reach their goal. HubSpot only allows the setting of goals per sales person. It would be helpful if there was a way to set and measure progress against particular line items, which would make up the goal, even if it was just a percentage. The reason for this is we usually know for each of our regions what products are most likely to sell and generate the most revenue in the coming 12 months. It helps our sales teams to have specific achievable goals and measurable tracking against those goals month after month. This has been done using Excel and we were hoping to automate it in HubSpot, but at the moment it doesn’t look like we are able to. ---
**Author:** ![CAltmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb9ed0/32.png) [@CAltmann](https://community.hubspot.com/u/CAltmann)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 9:13am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/15 "2023-09-27T09:13:10Z")
Selling multiple products from our own software to ISVs to services in the forms of one-time, perpetual and subscription, the basic forecasting (and goals) capabilities are just not good enough to use across a multi-regional organization. An enhancement that would allow line-item category or type reporting would go a long way on allowing us the ability to use the forecasting tool and make the sales enterprise seat worth it in my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![OMueller7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/df788c/32.png) [@OMueller7](https://community.hubspot.com/u/OMueller7)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/16 "2023-11-29T18:23:22Z")
Allowing for line item forecasting would make HubSpot much more useful and allow it to easily inform purchasing. A forecasted quanitity property that’s a product of the foreacst probability and quanitity seems like a simple addition. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyVaulted](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/emilyvaulted/32/44222_2.png) [@EmilyVaulted](https://community.hubspot.com/u/EmilyVaulted)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/17 "2024-03-29T20:55:53Z")
I also have a use case for forecasting and custom reports by line item-to see the cumulative amount of anticipated active subscriptions and when those would start/end over time would be very helpful. ---
**Author:** ![MMeng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@MMeng](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MMeng)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/18 "2024-08-21T02:45:41Z")
I second this very important idea. Our business is capital equipment, besides forecast of revenue, the forecast on line item quantity is more important for the company production and resources planning. ---
**Author:** ![JHumphreys1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@JHumphreys1](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JHumphreys1)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/19 "2025-05-20T16:22:34Z")
This is preventing us from forecasting in HS and means we have to use an external forecasting tool. +1! ---
**Author:** ![SScolaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@SScolaro](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SScolaro)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257/20 "2025-08-11T18:41:12Z")
+1 - we need the ability to forecast line items! [Next page](https://community.hubspot.com/t/forecast-by-deal-quantity-line-items-or-custom-objects/28257.md?page=2)