Add CC and BCC capabilities to emails from HubSpot
We have a need for the option to add CC and BCC to emails that are sent from HubSpot. We have two important use cases for this.
Use case 1: We have a registration form set up on our website. When someone registers, they receive an automated email from us through HubSpot saying "Thank you for registering!". Since we have a lot of different people signing up, it's very important for us to follow up on that email.
If we could add CC to me on the email that is sent out, I could pick up the conversation with the person registering very quickly. I could simply press "Reply" on the email and continue the conversation with the lead.
If I want to do this now with today's HubSpot solution, I'd have to copy/paste the lead's email address from the internal registration confirmation email, write a subject line that wouldn't confuse the lead, and then write the message to the lead. This delays the response time dramatically, and takes up substantially more resources.
Use case 2: If we could add BCC to emails as well, it would give people two great advantages; (1) HubSpot emails could easily be integrated with almost ANY CRM (ex. Email to CRM option), and (2) it would add the contents of the email to the CRM (more than just "Sent Subject Line").
If anything is unclear, I would loooove to explain in more detail.
Just dropping back in to say thank you for all the comments & thoughts here. For transparency, this is still not yet on the roadmap. We are evaluating it as something to add in the back half of this year, but nothing is yet planned.
Please keep upvoting this, and dropping your use cases for it. We are following it and listening.
Thanks for your comments on the idea. This isn't planned for development in the next quarter. For transparency and clarity, I'm updating this issue to 'Not currently planned' for the time being. We are evaluating this feature, but it requires substantial changes in how a number of our backend systems work. Specifically how our event (open & click) tracking works today.
If you are willing to jump on a call to talk more about this functionality, and your specific use cases send me a direct message. I would love to understand and learn more from you. Please feel free to upvote and continue to leave feedback on this thread.
Hi all, wanted to chime in here to let you know that we're definitely paying attention to this idea post, it's gathered a lot of votes, rightly so. At the moment we don't have a clear answer on when this might be available, I wanted to make sure and be transparent here to let you know. Your feedback and unique ideas/use-cases are really important so please do keep sharing, and as we have a clearer plan here I'll be sure and keep everyone posted. Thanks!
Not sure if this was mentioned yet, but I'd like to use the "reply to" BCC to add our Hubspot Forwarding email address to marketing emails. That way when someone replies to a campaign email, it is automatically logged into the CRM. Thereafter, we can set up a workflow to automatically sync contacts with "Activity Type= forwarded email" to Salesforce for immediate follow up.
I'd be interested in piloting the new feature via beta, when ready!
Totally agree, as well. It would be nice just to initially, to test that all the personalization is working correctly. There's only so much you can do with a preview.
I'm just chiming in to say that both cc and bcc are super necessary. I want to bcc automated emails to salesforce for activity records for my salespeople, and can't.
This is a much needed feature, especially if you're also integrating with something like SalesForce and want to quickly add the email content to the activity/task history of a contact
Hello Houston. It seems we're lost contact with HubSpot. It seems they're not receiving customer signals.
Strategic plans are great but potholes (gaping product gaps) need to be filled. If HS want to retain happy users while growing its market cap, I suggest you start acting.
PS. While at it please increase your sequencing number. The current limit of 5 is, as you well know, far short of recommended limits for lead identification/qualification. Read what the experts like Litmus say. Thanks.
This looks like it’s been originally requested back in 2017, and I definitely think there is a need for CC and BCC. Our sales team wants to be BCCd when their specific leads enter a workflow so they know what their clients are receding at what time so they can be prepared if a customer calls on behalf of an email they receive from that sales person.
Just as a reference for those with Marketing Pro and Enterprise, the feature of BCC is enabled for that level of subscription. You can find it under Settings Cog >Marketing > Email > Subscriptions:
Not having BCC capabilities has halted my entire integration with HubSpot. Without the ability to blind copy our current CRM my sales team has no ability to see marketing or onboarding communcation I've had with leads. Now we are going to have to spend even more development time on this.
The ability to have a cc' on marketing emails would be great for us - It would help us internally to allow contacts to be kept in the loop of communication and monitor replies.
It seems like basic functionality. no idea why we can't have this done. It's absolutely necessary for us to have this functionality when sending marketing emails. We may have to reconsider if we want to continue the membership if this function is not going to be ready soon.
This is a very much needed feature and should be added! Having the option of also populating the CC or even BCC field with DIFFERENT email addresses would also be needed. 🙂