HubSpot Ideas

mnewnham

Ability to archive 'Deals'

It would be really useful if users had the ability to archive 'deals'. 

 

I've seen a few people request this functionality from as far back as 2017, so it'd be great to know if I've missed something or if it's just still not available as a function.

 

If not, it'd be great to know if anyone had a smart interim solutions for this? 

 

Thanks!

42 Commentaires
MWolf
Contributeur de premier rang

This certainly is a must-have functionality. Please add. 

DHershberger
Membre

I very much need this feature also! 

RReservations
Membre

Yes, it would be so helpful to have this feature. The option to archive and unarchive contacts lists would also be helpful. 

bcf
Participant
Yes this would be a great feature
BenediktMueller
Membre

I was looking for this and also think it is a must, please add.

MMarohn
Participant

I agree that this functionality is necessary and fundamental. It would help in removing a closed/won deal from workflows and communications that are not relevant to them. 

bkubacki
Membre

This needs to be added. It's been 6 years since it was first brought up, and there still isn't a way to archive deals.

StanJohns
Membre
It is very annoying. I've been using Hubspot fir 3 years and it's getting very cluttered with old deals!
scottspaid
Membre | Partenaire solutions

I agree this should be implemented. Of course, there are implications that must be thought through when considering this functionality such as, once a deal is archived, does it apply to reporting still? So, then you would need two different types of archiving.  A show/hide archive that keeps deal data in reporting or a true archive where that deal's data is no longer included in reporting or anywhere else. This is probably why HS hasn't implemented it yet.

 

Here is how I solved it for my client. They only wanted to archive lost deals so I built a workflow that moves deals from the lost column to the archive column after 30 days. The column is visible to Super Admins only. A hack but it works.

JMcFarlane
Membre

@scottspaid I see you can change ability to edit a certain stage, but I don't see anywhere that you can hide it. How did you do that? Thanks for any help!!

StanJohns
Membre

What frustrates our business is that any deal associations still show against Contact or Customer. We still want the Deal associated with the Customer or Contact but not to see them on the Timeline down the right-hand side. An archive option to go into when needed would be ideal. I have some customers that have dozens of quotes/deals associated. I have just had to bite the bullet and delete these old deals after a couple of years as it is too much clutter!

scottspaid
Membre | Partenaire solutions

@JMcFarlane - First, it is only hidden if you're not a Super Admin. To hide a deal column for everyone else go to Settings > Objects > Deals and click the Pipelines tab. From there, pick the column or deal stage you want to hide, click on Users with access to deals and select Limited to super admins.

 

enjoy!

Scott

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JMcFarlane
Membre

@scottspaid 

 

Thank you so much for that, Scott I really appreciate it!

SarahX
Contributeur

Yes please, having a way to archive closed tickets and deals so that the don't show on the righthand side would be fantastic--having closed deals and tickets cluttering up the side makes the righthand column way less effective than it could be as a view.

DRiep1
Membre

An absolute MUST... We need this functionality in our business.

GWebb6
Contributeur

Adding a vote to this! We simply want to be able to filter out long closed deals and tickets so they don't clutter up boards but still stay in the right pipelines for reporting purposes.  In the meantime I think we will have to create a property called 'Archived' and use a workflow to update this property once deals/tickets have been closed for X amount of time, then create board filters to take out any deals or tickets that have been tagged as Archived - but it would be so much better to have some native functionality for this.

EJames6
Membre

Agreed - running decent size team and having 45,000 old deals floating around is a major PITA and reporting nightmare. Hubspot, please!! 🙂 

KDaly0
Membre

desperately need this! how can we accurately track new year deals with old data affecting the results. Deleting deals is losing key historic data too. 

MFagerberg
Participant

How can this not alrady exist!?

GWebb6
Contributeur

I'm going to share this thread with our HS CSM on the next call - maybe if everyone does that it will attract more attention?  We have over 250k closed deals in our instance and the ability to archive rather than delete is becoming a common thread when discussing reporting.