We’re running into a structural limitation in how HubSpot handles fees and discounts on deals, and it’s blocking us from designing a clean integration with NetSuite.
Context
- We use HubSpot as our CRM and integrate with NetSuite for finance/accounting.
- For Amazon marketplace orders, Amazon collects the customer payment and charges us a platform fee.
- We need to represent both:
- Gross order value (what the customer paid Amazon, excluding sales tax), and
- Net revenue (after Amazon’s platform fee),
on the HubSpot deal and then pass that cleanly into NetSuite.
Current limitations we’re hitting
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No support for negative line items
- We cannot add a line item such as “Amazon Platform Fee” with a negative amount.
- This prevents us from modeling fees as explicit items tied to the deal.
- As a result, we can’t clearly show gross vs. net utilizing line items or or send that breakdown reliably into NetSuite.
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“Add discount, fee, or tax” below the Subtotal is not accessible to workflows or integrations
- On the deal line items card, there’s a “Add discount, fee, or tax” drop down option under the Subtotal that looks like the natural place to put an Amazon platform fee.
- However, the label/text and amount entered there:
- Are not exposed as deal or line item properties,
- Cannot be read by workflows or custom code actions, and
- Cannot be mapped or synced into NetSuite.
- This makes that UI effectively unusable for any automation or integration scenario, even though it’s exactly where a user would expect to configure this.
Business impact
- We can’t accurately represent Amazon platform fees and other similar marketplace fees on deals in a way that’s:
- Visible in reporting and workflows, and
- Correctly represented when creating NetSuite sales orders.
- We’re forced into workarounds (extra custom properties, manual calculations, or awkward discount setups), which are error‑prone and confusing for users.
- This limits HubSpot’s effectiveness as a reliable bridge between CRM and finance for marketplace/aggregator use cases.
Ask
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Can you confirm there’s currently no supported way to either:
- Use negative line items, or
- Expose that “Add discount, fee, or tax” subtotal row to workflows/custom code/integrations?
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Please log and attach this to any existing product feedback or create new product feedback so the product team is aware this is blocking our HubSpot ↔ NetSuite design for Amazon orders.