# update lifecycle stage by workflow

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/update-lifecycle-stage-by-workflow/66269>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** workflows\
**Created:** [September 30, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/update-lifecycle-stage-by-workflow/66269 "2022-09-30T15:30:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![juliehuval](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/juliehuval/32/41549_2.png) [@juliehuval](https://community.hubspot.com/u/juliehuval)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/update-lifecycle-stage-by-workflow/66269/1 "2022-09-30T15:30:24Z")

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I know HubSpot is not currently setup to revert a contact’s lifecycle stage via a workflow but doesn’t that go against the idea of the flywheel? I know we can manually change the lifecycle stage but we need to automate this.

We are an enterprise SaaS B2B company and the majority of our prospects go through a couple of deal cycles before they become a customer. Being able to automatically set contacts from “opportunity” back to “lead” after a deal has gone to closed-lost would ensure those contacts get back into marketing campaigns.

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**Author:** ![sherrychen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sherrychen](https://community.hubspot.com/u/sherrychen)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/update-lifecycle-stage-by-workflow/66269/2 "2022-09-30T17:38:05Z")

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I am wondering whether you are open to use API to achieve this, according to contact api ([https://legacydocs.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/update\_contact),](https://legacydocs.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/update_contact),) you can reset lifecycle stage by making it empty string first, then assign new value.