Requesting this on behalf of a customer- this would be an amazing feature 
Great idea!
Great idea!
Great and necessary idea! A bit surprised that it isn’t implemented yet 
Can’t believe this isn’t an option, tried everything to find a way round this today
Agree! +1, solution needed
Absolutely. This is essential for accurate reporting of Deal activity.
Bumping this! Hundreds of folks looking for this SIMPLE ask/solution for 4 years. Why in the world are we still waiting on this?!?!?!?
I agree, this does not seem like a time consuming feautre to add. It would help immensely with our data validity for reporting
How is this still not a feature? Hubspot is sooo slow at developing new features. Every one that I look up has been open for years and not been developed. Move faster!
We badly need this. Can’t build any adequate conversion reports because of this linear approach.
Look forward to when it will be added.
I completely support that any of these solutions would make sense:
1 - either to be able to move the Deal to the next stage (or Closed lost) only.
2 - or to automatically put a time stamp on previous stages (Stage2, eg), if the Deal is moved from Stage1 to Stage3.
Pleeeeease
How is this still not a thing? This is such a basic feature that would greatly improve native reporting.
We need this as well! Upvote + 100
Co-signed. Deal funnel reports are useless without this functionality because there’s too much missing data from skipped deal stages, even with strict internal standards. This is badly needed.
@hubspot please implement this! Funnels are kind of worthless if a salesperson forgets to pass a deal trhough every stage or is lazy and decides not to.
+1
So disheartening to read 4 pages of users begging for this functionality. I’ve upvoted it, but don’t feel very optimistic about Hubspot listening. As dozens have said before me, this issue renders HS funnel reports useless.
Need this! We have certain workflows built around certain stages. When reps skip a stage, it skips the workflows. We want reps to move through each required stage, in order. No more skipping ahead!
Commenting on behalf of a customer! This is a much needed feature for accurate funnel reporting.
We could give the option of forced progression through deal stages or if a user select a stage out of order, a pop up will appear that asks the users if they want to auto complete the previous stages in the pipeline
We DESPERATELY need this functionality. Our sales team keep skipping stages which means our dashboard reports are then inaccurate. Please implement this soon.