It’s hard to comprehend how a system as large as HubSpot would not use their own unique system ID for things like Companies and Contacts to allow batch imports. Furthermore to suggest a solution is to manually update thousands of companies is ridiculous.
We all pay way to much money to use a system that doesn’t give us a way to easily do batch imports so we can maintain data integrity. This is a badly needed feature and it’s an elementary one at that. I have worked with many systems over the years and if they offer batch importing they have all used some kind of internal unique ID.
I noticed the HubSpot ID is now being included when you export Companies. Let’s hope this is the first step towards being able to do imports using this ID. HubSpot team, can you please give us some feedback, is this something that’s being considered or better yet worked on?