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cfleishman

Cloning a Deal

Need to be able to clone an individual deal. This is helpful for recurring revenue organizations and building MRR. Please! Smiley Happy

 

Update from @JoeMayallDue to a technical error on HubSpot’s end, this thread has an inflated upvote count. As of June 10th, 2020, we estimate this thread has around 500 upvotes. I'll continue to update this count as the thread receives upvotes."

HubSpot Updates
Not Currently Planned
January 22, 2024 10:06 AM

Hey HubSpot Community,
Here to share an un-fun update. We explored Cloning Deals in the second half of 2023 but are not ready to execute yet. Projects like this seem easy on the surface, but both technical and customer experience implications really matter. We're committed to providing the best experience, and sometimes that means taking extra time to do so. I know this is still a pressing need, and plan to make strides this year. In the meantime, as folks on this thread have mentioned, either using a workflow or an app like Deal Duplicator are your, admittedly not perfect, best options.
-Maggie

February 14, 2023 01:36 PM

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In Planning
February 14, 2023 11:46 AM

Hi HubSpot Community great news! Our product team is prioritizing this feature and actively working on a solution. To help us better understand what exactly you'd like to clone (e.g. properties, associations, activities), could you please take this short survey? Thank you!

 

*Update: Survey link has been fixed, please let me know if you're still not able to access it.

May 26, 2022 08:53 PM

Hello HubSpot Community, 

 

Thank you all for your incredible patience. We reckon an update is warranted. 

 

Unfortunately, this idea remains unplanned. The team is currently planning some really valuable, high-impact features (e.g. team goals, deal overlays, color coding the deals board) that fall higher on the priority list. We can't take this on. But we understand the need and see the value in a cloning feature. 

 

Fortunately, there's a workaround. You can use workflows to create a new deal and copy data from the existing deal. 

Thank you for making HubSpot CRM a better tool. 

March 22, 2021 10:33 AM

Hello HubSpot community,

Thank you for your continued feedack here. I wanted to provide an update on the status of this idea. Cloning a deal is absolutely on a list of things we’d like to do. However, the list is long and time and resources are limited, so building this functionality is ultimately a question of priorities, and this is a lower priority compared to some of the other things we’re working on right now. We're continuing to keep an eye on the use cases provided in this idea and are always re-evaluating our top priorities, I'll be sure to update this thread when this is a more near-term priority. 
 
- Dylan 

August 06, 2020 09:01 AM

Hello HubSpot community, 


Thank you for your continued input on this idea. As I mentioned in a previous post, saving reps time is squarely in the realm of things we are thinking about on the HubSpot Product Team. 

To help us continue to deliver a product that helps your business grow better, could you answer this 3 question (only 1 required) survey about your detailed needs for cloning deals? 

Thank you in advance! 

June 11, 2020 06:10 AM

Hello HubSpot community, Smiley Happy 

Thank you all for your continued input on this idea. I'm a product manager on our CRM team and wanted to provide you all with a status update here as the status of this issue is a bit complicated.

For starters, @JoeMayall recently made an update to the core idea. There was a technical error on our end that increased the number of votes on this issue by about 300.

When it comes to cloning deals, we hear you! We've been steadily looking into all of the context provided here and its clear there is product pain in a few areas.

Recurring revenue - the ability for HubSpot to support a recurring revenue model can be painful due to the fact that deals need to be re-created month over month, or quarter over quarter.

Saving reps time - sometimes deals are created that are very similar to a previous deal and the rep creating the deal wants to use the same data. Re-typing this data is inefficient.

Regarding recurring revenue: We're currently working on several aspects of the product that will help recurring revenue models. This includes invoices, reports, and even forecasting.

Regarding saving reps time: Our entire product is shaped to help you grow better. When reps are doing duplicative tasks, this slows you down and hurts growth. However, different businesses have different needs around "cloning". Some want just the deal name, others want the same deal amount, others want to copy the entire contents of the deal (including activities and emails), some want the deal to be included in the same reports as other deals. Since there are such vast requirements amongst our user base - this would inherently create the need for "settings" to allow admins to choose exactly how a deal cloning would work.

Both of these things are goals that we have our eye on. The problems that are expressed here are likely to be solved in many ways. There is not a "clone deal" silver bullet. We plan on working continually towards solving all of this pain, every day. However, at this time we do not have immediate plans to build or launch a "clone deal" button and have our energy focused on solving other problems that help our customers grow better.

557 Replies
BoudewijnB
Participant

Hey ChrisMartin, 

 

Thanks for the helpful idea. I have been upvoting the feature to clone a deal for quite some time now. This widget is actually working very well!

 

So to all of you who are in need of a easy to use and easy to implement widget to clone deals, go to https://www.revenueriver.co/revlabs/duplicate-deal

 

Unless Hubspot develops this feature, I will be using this one instead.

 

Cheers,

 

Boudewijn

ArcusData
Member

Yes, we would like to see this too.

tg52
Participant

This is really quite a basic feature with lots of support - pls get on it Hubspot!

Andrew3
Contributor

We need this!  This is basic.

jenniferfuqua
Contributor

Agreed, at the end of a calendar year, we "close out" existing active projects in our pipeline by either Completing them, or Continuing them with a new category and slightly different name. Being able to clone an existing deal would make this much easier and faster to do than retying all of that info for each deal.

 

Thank you!

Danixa
Member

Where are we with cloning Deals? 

 

Thank you... 

ThierryCalderon
Contributor | Diamond Partner

Hi there

We need this feature too. Seems toi be essential for a rep and a CRM. Massive upvote !

BoudewijnB
Participant

There is a third party widget that clones deals! you can find it here. It works great.

 

REVlabs Duplicate Deal Widget

 

https://www.revenueriver.co/revlabs/duplicate-deal

 

Hope you find this helpful!

 

Cheers,

 

Boudewijn

mbowden85
Member

Yes this would be a HUGE help to help calculate our renewal MRR.

Evans4316
Contributor

I totally agree. 

Danixa
Member

Hi, 

 

I communicated with some great folks at Revenue River and downloaded the widget and it works great. They are in Beta testing right now, so you can get it for free and they are also making some updates. This has really helped our process, as we wanted to duplicate Deals for our different divisions. Thanks for the suggestion @BoudewijnB 

 

 https://www.revenueriver.co/revlabs/duplicate-deal 

 

I do have a questions about Calculation+Formulas. Is anyone familiar with how to set up a custom equation to automatically calculate Probability to Forecasting or Amount? I will start a separate Idea to keep this channel open for the Duplicate Deal. 

 

Thank you... 

jenniferfuqua
Contributor

Danixa,

 

Thanks! I found them as well and have downloaded the widget and it's working pretty well.

 

Thanks,

Jen

FHC
Member

Favor urgente necesitamos duplicar los negocios, nos quita muchisimo tiempo crear los negocios mes a mes de clientes que consumen el mismo servicio mes a mes

mcpaha
Contributor

This is one of the most important feature we needed!

Danixa
Member

@FHC  Francisco usa el widget, esta en beta, es gratis y estan abiertos a recomendaciones para mejorarla, funciona super bien. La compañia es legitima. Saludos! 

 

https://www.revenueriver.co/revlabs/duplicate-deal 

spitfire2020
Member

I am new to Hub Spot and can't believe it is not possible to clone a deal. Am disappointed this forum goes back to 2017 - I mean, how long do we have to wiat? I have used Salesforce in the past and Salesforce allows you to clone. When can we expect to be able to clone deals in Hub Spot?

 

bradytraeder
Contributor

yes,  would like also. 

MCaputo
Member

This is available in SalesForce, suprised it wasnt a feature on HS. This feature is crucial to by business. Please consider adding the clone option to deals. Thank you -MC

Decide4Action
Member

Please please please add this simple feature. 

Cloning is perfect and should be a basic feature

IRAR
Member

I need this asap. We have clients that make the same deal over and over. Duplicate data entry when we alredy have the info is dumb! Clone deals!!