I recommend revisiting the idea to customize log activity in HubSpot Sales. I would like my team to track "Direct Mail," and I've seen others asking about logging texts and in-app messaging.
Hi all a couple of years ago, we released 7 new logged activity options based on what we saw in this post. Could you please submit this short form if you still have a logged activity type that isn't being supported? Thank you!
Re: Customizing "log activity" and Task type in HubSpot Sales - changed to: Idea Submitted
Hi everyone, I'm going to update this idea as 'Idea Submitted'. To be fully transparent, the mistake was mine in interpreting these discussions as the need to customize Call & Meeting types - this feature was in beta and is now live (details below).
However, I understand that the need here is to identify, track and report on custom activities. I have made a note of this change and demand and will be taking this to Product, I know this is something they are aware of and reviewing but I do not have any further update at this time. To set expectations the next report I bring to the Product team will be early January.
I apologize for the miscommunication here and will endeavor to get you an update on this idea.
Navigate to Settings > Sales > Call & Meeting Types.
Click “Enable Call and Meeting Types.”
Add your types.
Then, when you’re logging an activity from a record in your CRM, simply click “Select Call Type,” and choose your desired type.
What about reporting?
With the update, call/meeting type is now represented in two pre-built reports within the report library, and can also be used to build custom reports.
The two pre-built reports look like this, and live under "Prospecting:"
Call and meeting totals (by type). Holistically, are there trends in the types of calls/meetings your team is having?
Call and meeting leaderboard (by type). This report shows you the total number of meetings and calls each of your reps are having, by type. Did one rep have more pre-qualification calls, while another had more demo calls? Use this report to find out.
In addition to the pre-baked reports, Reporting Add-on or Sales Professional users can createcustom reports using the Call/Meeting Type data.
So much of our outreach is through LinkedIn -- it would be helpful to have that as an option, in addition to Email, Call, and To-Do on tasks, both for planning and for analytics/tracking.
This feature is crucial to tracking our sales outreach. Nowadays, a ton of business is conducted via LinkedIn, and the abillity to quickly check the box for activity on HubSpot will save us time and leave less margin for error when recording our outreach.
In our company we track activity for many things (i.e. calls, emails, etc.) we also would like to log drops (drop-ins) to prospects -- right now we are using tasks as a work around. The log activity should be customizable. In addtion, it is cruical for sales orgs to track reschedules and cancellations. When you log a meeting or schedule a meeting - when that date is/passes the system should require an outcome - moved to next step, cancelled, rescheduled (prospect rescheduled vs. rep rescheduled) etc. AND/OR when a rep moves a deal in the pipeline (top of the deals screen) it should require them to enter the meeting date - that way reps cant move deals forward / backward without data. Weve been using the history log to see when the movements are taking place but, this would be simpler. Thank you !!
Totally agree - it's tracking real customer outcomes that makes the difference in our work, and while delas are the big chunk, building relationships and tracking that along the way would be more helpful than whether a phone call was made. So a customised list of outcomes and corresponding reporting would do the job here.
Unless there's another way to look at this within Hubspot?
Our sales leaders need to track discovery calls, on site product demos, and other measurable activities that cannot be accuratelyshoe-horned intocall, meeting, email. Notes don't cut it for measuring theproductivityof our sales team.
To accurately measure productivity we need to be able to create custom activities, or sub-categoriesofactivity, and these need to show up in reports. We eagerly look forward to HubSpot's work in this area.
it would be awesome if you could add in a few extra task types. We especially need a task type = SMS as we do a lot of follow up SMS messages to our leads.
Often i chat with potential leads via LinkedIn Messaging and I would liek to record this correctly and paste the contents of the discussion rather than report in hubspot as a logged email/call
This should be standard functionality for users to define the type of Activity used to reach the customer
Only having Call/Email/Meeting is very early 2000's
I would like configurable list of types, but if you could give us an "Other" category some of us could limp by until you can take the time to make it customizable.
Email, Call and Meeting are useful categories to Log Activities, and Email, Call, and To Do (essentially, Other) are useful for Tasks, but they're not enough.
If opening these lists to additional categories would cause problems, could HubSpot perhaps allow us to create custom sub-categories, underneath the existing three, so we can make our reporting more useful?
For my reps, site visits are a KPI with annual quotas and weekly reporting. In my reports, I need to be able to differentiate a site visit from other types of meetings (virtual, trade show, seminar, poker game, bat cave, etc.).
(If you're here because you received notice of my mentioning you, please up-vote the original post at the top of this thread, and ask your team members to do the same. Let's get this vote count up so we can get a response.)
HubSpot, please consider adding a way to allow users to customize those Task and Log Actvity categories. In a system with so many customizable fields, this limitation makes no sense. Thanks.
That's good to hear, roisinkirby. Is it possible to sign up for the Beta? We're currently working to transfer our data from our old CRM over to Hubspot, and having that particular feature activated would save us a lot of headache in developing workarounds in the task tab to avoid data loss.