Current state:
On the Contact object, HubSpot has a system property called “Number of associated companies”, which is auto-populated and very useful. I’d like to see the same concept applied to the Lead object — a system property showing “Number of associated leads” for a given contact.
Why this matters / Problems we face today:
- Duplicate leads from reps – Inbound leads are automatically created when someone submits a demo form, but some sales reps don’t realize this and manually create a new lead. This breaks attribution.
- Bulk creation mistakes – I once bulk-created leads by mistake. Having this property would allow me to filter and delete duplicates more easily.
- Duplicate work – Some reps start working a lead when one already exists. With this property, we could set up notifications to warn them about existing leads for that contact.
Hey Frank, do you know whether Hubspot plans to create a default property for this? this would be extremely valuable not only at the contact level, but also at the company level. Currently, with the absence of this property I’m having to create multiple segment lists to ensure the rollup is correct across objects for the ‘number of associated leads’ property
This has a different wording, but would be able to achieve the same or similar outcome. I’d suggest upvoting and adding any additional use cases to the idea!
