HubSpot Ideas

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Calculated properties for Products

Now that we can create custom properties for Products, can we enable calculated properties for Products? Without this basic feature, our products have quantitative properties that we have to manually calculate before adding to HubSpot. This creates room for error. 

74 Replies
Mike_
Member

Hello Hubspot.

What's causing the delay ? This idea should be a prio!

DFuller
Member

Yes agreed with @Mike_  it is so strange products/line items aren't treated like any other objects.

 

Even workflows have since become an object and given properties in the settings, including calculated properties, all in the time since we have even received an update on this from Hubspot. 

 

I don't think there is any need to explain the importance of this in a CRM, that has been iterated on many times here. We would just like to have an update on this at the very least. I don't even need quarterly updates as @ethankopit said, just some type of recent acknowledgement would be nice.

PriscillaMB
Participant

We need this as well. We are a bank and we generate revenues from deposits and payments, so we need calculated properties.

KMurray6
Member

Really need this as well! Is there any update on this feature?

AVance1
Participant

This idea has constant comments. Still no update. Still desparately needed.

JHurt
Member

Hey everyone,

I actually opened up a support ticket to try to find out what is going on with this feature and why it's been in planning for two years and still we haven't received it in beta yet. I didn't recieve any update but was told I could email customersuccessteam@hubspot.com to further the need for the feature. I figured I mention it here because I know a lot of you are in the same boat and want an update on when we will finally get this capability.

vanessahunt
Top Contributor | Platinum Partner

Agree wholeheartedly that calculated properties and/or score properties are needed for more customisation of Products/Line Items. I have a client with a use case where we'd like to update the "Term" in months automatically, based on two custom date picker properties. So it's a simple formula/calculation which would remove the possibility of user error. 

 

Happy to discuss the use case with a Product Manager, since I imagine this is a common requirement. Many thanks in advance!

AaronM
Participant

To expand on this Hubspot Line Items include "Unit Price" and "Unit Cost" out of the box.  This allows Hubspot to show margin for each Line Item.

 

HubSpot Deals have standard fields called "Annual contract value" and "Total contract value".  These fields are excellent for reporting the total of all line items in a Deal both annually and for the the full contract term.

 

However, there are not standard fields for "Annual contract cost", "Total contract cost", "Annual contract margin", or "Total contract margin".  

 

If an item costs $5 to purchase, and is sold for $7, currently we can only report on the $7, not the $5 cost nor the $2 margin.

 

Please add this capability!

WClayton
Participant

I've spoken to the support over the last few days and still have no reply on how to perosonalize quote templates without coding the html. I need a user friendly way to add those new properties to the line items.

I've been told to find external programmer help to code a child template but I don't have one! I tried to see the . I hope this feature comes soon! I tried to find a service partner in the hubspot Solutions directory but they all start from 5000$! 

StephanCR
Participant

Yes, second that. Calculated properties could definitely help.

KBryan8
Participant

Very much a need for my client! We need to be able to calculate the p&l for each month, with a split in the revenue across multiple months for each line item as the active incoming revenue can be at different times throughout the year within 1 deal. This would only be possible to do with calculated product properties.

CCosgrove8
Member

We've just run into this in our reconstruction of our Hubspot CRM.  This is an absolute for us.  Without a timeline we'll be looking elsewhere.  Very surprising that this basic functionality isn't baked in. 

KQuinn89
Participant | Diamond Partner

We need to be able to calculate net unit price. Net price is fine when the quantity is one, but anytime quantity is > 1 we're running into issues. 

Sean_Baker
Member

It's insane to me that this isn't a feature. We are in industrial manufacturing, so every single line item is broken down into four pricing "categories" - engineering price, material price, manufacturing price, and shipping price. All of these need to be added up to get the price per unit. For whatever mindboggling reason, HubSpot doesn't allow us to edit the default formulas for Unit Price/Net Price, nor can we create calculated fields for products/line items, so I can't even create my own workaround.

 

This seems like a ridiculously easy feature to deploy and should be pretty common sense with a tool like this. Salesforce and Zoho have this ability, so why does HubSpot lack such an incredibly basic feature AND updates after four years of discussion and upvotes here? 🤔