Why is the "Company Name" field in a Contact just a text box that doesn't link to the actual Company in Hubspot? The "Associated Company" field will link to the actual Company in Hubspot but the "Company Name" field won't. Why isn't "Associated Company," an actual field in Contacts that can be edited and added to the Contact's list on the left side of the screen? In general, it's odd that there are two different fields for the name of a company ("Company Name" and "Associated Company").
It would be great to see a single "Company Name" field function similar to SalesForce. There's one field "Company Name," that's entered when creating a Company and when creating a Contact (same field on both the Company and Contact pages), that field links the Company and Contact. From there they have an additional field in the Company's page that allows you to enter an "Associated Firm" field name if you want to link the company to another firm (like subsidiaries, etc).
Late 2024 and this is still an incredibly confusing part of managing HubSpot contacts and companies. There is a built in open ended contact property called "Company Name" that does not seem to connect to anything else, yet it gets used in form templates etc and appears in various places on the contact record.
Then we have "Associated Company", which is an entirely separate object. So a contact could have "Company Name" filled in via a form, or manually by a user, yet no associated company. Likewise, a contact could have an associated company, yet nothing (or something different) in their "Company Name" field.
Why don't these two things relate to each other better?
