It’s good to see that there is a solution with the Sequential app integration from Unmatched. But what about those of us on Sales Hub Starter package (workflows not available on this subscription)? We are stuck with no simple solution to generate sequential IDs. Sooooo frustrating!!
I appreciate that is a real frustration @LinzThompson, but I guess that’s the point of the Starter. HubSpot are good at what they do - including offering very good free/cheap solutions that are designed so that at some stage you will find a pain point so you upgrade.
If it’s any consolation, you can create a private app with the starter version which has a webhooks option. You could then send a webhook to PowerAutomate (included in your Office 365 licence) which can then use the API to do something clever - like look up the next number from a spreadsheet and update a property in HubSpot. I’ve not done it as most of our clients are Pro/Ent but might be interesting to solve for this if there was enough demand.
If you are interested in investing some time for us to try it, then get in touch at david.parry@wellmeadow.co.uk - but tbh, at some point you may end up upgrading to Pro for other reasons and then you’ll have it anyway.
Good Luck.
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The absence of this feature is incredibly frustrating. We are relying on our sales team refreshing the page then manually assigning a sequential deal number when creating a deal. Massively prone to human error.
This really should be built in.
That said, we’ve been using the paid add-on Sequential and it works very well. It’s critical that we have automatic, sequential order numbers applied to each of our deals, and Sequential allows us to customize this number to the specific format we were using prior to HubSpot so there isn’t a whole new process.
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I am amazed that this idea was put up four years back and no action has been taken yet. This should have been something very basic to begin with! we are struggling big time as we have to assign an ID/Job Number manually every single time we create a deal.
This is very annoying, it took me a few months of negotiating to get us a CRM and now I have to explain to the management why it can not generate Job Numbers. I’m investigating other CRMs now. I don’t want to upgrade to get a Workflow for Sequential to work.
What level of subscription do you have MasJan? Even at Starter you can use the API to do it. Contact me if you want a hand.
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Did anyone try the Sequential app from Unmatched? I’ve tried it and it’s not working and they won’t respond to my inquiry? I *think* I followed the instructions and the workflow shows Enrollment, but the # isn’t generated. I used the prefix, so I’ll see if removing that helps. Anyway, I need a feature like this.
Sorry about this @pgazley, we had our team offsites this week so we’re running behind.
Happy to help you directly on this, please email me at matt@unmatched.agency and we’ll sort you with a discount too.
Thanks,
Matt
Fully agree. There could be a new property like “Deal No.” to record this. It will be evan better if we can have some freedom to define how the running number is generated, for example, with Country Code (like US, UK..) as prefix based on the country the customer or the sales team is.
100% vote for it but seriously what is the point if nothing has been done since this started in 2022??
This is still a common requirement from my HubSpot clients. I don’t believe we should need Ops Hub or a Zapier integation in order to be able to implement a solution for client.
In Salesforce and other CRMs you can create a field which allows you to set a prefix and automated numbering for any object. I know we haver the REGEX function available now for properties, but the capability to define our own prefix and sequential (unique) numbering for any object is a must have, please!
Looking forward to an update since this is quite a long-standing Idea (and I see there are similar ideas listed here with similar needs).
Praying to the HubSpot Project Managers 
This functional field NEEDS to be implemented. It is not rocket science. It should be a “Field Type” that can be chosen for Contacts, Deals, Companies, etc. Also, the ability to choose a start number would be great. Please update this soon.
haha literally needed this feature today ^^
spent 2 hours on some custom code and now i got the workflow for the “sequential deal number” u asked here
if someone has access to custom code in their portal and wants it just DM/ Email me
Very much needed. Currently struggline with Quotes and the custom does not like the Quote Number format that is provided by HubSpot. I need to build a custom field, but really I think I should be able through settings to decide the number format and implement it for this portal.
yes please upvoted
Any update on this?
Hi!!
How this is not done in 2026.
Is an embarrassment to say to a client that they can’t have a normal sequence for the deals.
Is a deal breaker!