HubSpot Ideas

clioi

Block free email providers from bots

Just what title says, we don't want gmail, hotmail.com... emails come through our bot. only valid business email addresses.

33 Replies
clioi
Top Contributor

Hi,

 

Just reading through the Messages help article and I was wondering if you could add an option to block free email providers from submitting their email before chatting to us?

 

"Collect visitor's email address: select this option to prompt the visitor to provide their email address before they receive a reply from you. They will then be created as a contact."

 

Just like we do not send our content to free or spam email addresses when they submit one of our forms/lead flows, we would not want to have these free email providers contacts chat to us, only actual business employees.

 

Thanks,

 

Clio

YonM
Contributor | Diamond Partner

Agreed! I was surprised that this wasn't included. 

Would like to have similar functionality like when an email is submitted in a form - control over who is notified, what emails we accept, and what followup actions occur.

benmd
Member

Love this idea. 

aflynn
Member

Agreed, I was on to HubSpot today about this. Just starting using the bots and love it. However, we have had a few spam leads using free webmail, so if we could block them like we can in a HubSpot form it would be fantastic.

 

 

OfekA
Member

We need this feature, please implement!

lisadevoto
Participant

Would also like to see this feature added.

TommyB93
Participant

Yes, upvote this idea. Would also be great to limit chat being displayed based on IP geo-tagging so chat windows aren't displayed to traffic outside our target markets. 

Glenn16
Member

Once can filter it out with an If then branch.

If
Visitor's response
contains any part of
gmail.com, yahoo.com ....

Next action
<<put an error message and call the "Email" action again>>

greenjerod
Member

Personally, I believe this is a must-have. HS has already added this functionality elsewhere in the product. I can block free emails from forms, how are conversations different?

 

Think about all the businesses wanting to use bots to book demos. What salesperson is going to be pumped to give a demo blind to a _@gmail.com contact? The company domain adds a ton of value to the sales process. I'm really surprised this isn't in hs-conversations. 

 

WHO is the feature for?

Salespeople - business development

 

WHAT product/tool does it improve?

HubSpot Messages

 

What is the GOAL?

Qualification: increase lead quality, decrease time wasted 

 

How would this add VALUE?

It would save the sales team some serious time and transfer value directly back to the user who's given up their *SUPER-SECRET* business email address. It would give them a leg up on getting to knowing who the company is. It would technically provide the website. It would give the salesperson a jumpstart on searching LinkedIn for this person. john.brown@gmail.com would be a complete waste. jbrown@acme.com is better. Buyers expect really personalized demos and experiences. They're always going to try to through that Gmail address at a salesperson without really considering how that puts their demo experience at a disadvantage. I'd much prefer to have the user give the business email over the free email. 100% every time. 

 

Do you have any EXAMPLES (other products / diagrams / screenshots)

Drift gives users this ability. I can specifically enter all free emails as an invalid domain and cycle the question back to the email capture. 

chiragdevpura
Member

We need this feature as well. Please implement.

ChrisSpellman
Participant

Definitely would benefit from this feature as well!

Prakhar
Participant

Agreed. When we are able to do it in forms, then we should be able to do it in Conversations also.

There should be a central place for domain suppression also. Like I wouldn't want my competition also to be able to interact with anything.

So if added their domain to a central blocklist - they could get blocked from Conversations, Forms, Emails, Marketing contacts and everything Hubspot - solely because they will never convert into business. So makes no sense spending time and efforts on it.

MOperationsTe
Member

Totally agreed. We need this feature. Please implement.

RIentile
Member

This needs to be added ASAP. I can't tell you how much time would be saved and clutter would be removed. Please implement.

Kmoloo
Top Contributor | Elite Partner

If this already exists for the email field in forms, it should also be avail for chatflows (bots).

AFacchini
Member

100% agree with my colleagues above.
This is causing a big issue in our marketing and sales structures, so it needs to be implemented in the product roadmap ASAP, thanks.

NCBowser
Member

Our team would also like this feature. We've just turned on the feature on forms and would like all our leads to have the same quality datat.

 

Sarah_M
Participant

Why wouldn't this be possible? It's all the same property...this is absolutely needed!

MLozano2
Member

We need this ASAP, please. 

luizmoura
Participant

Mandatory feature!