Deal Number Generator

[mfinocchiaro]

We need a systematic way to create a "Deal Number" containing letters as well as sequential numbers. These are based on which business unit creates the deal, the year the deal is created, and then a sequential number to create a unique identifier for each deal. For example, one deal number would be XYZ20171234, the next one created in that BU would be XYZ20171235, etc.

[JoachimP]

Today, I also asked the support for such a feature, since it is not in HubSpot and would be an easy one to implement.
The suggestion to use the DEAL identifier from the URL is not really practicable.

Actually we will develop such a generator within SharePoint. Even we could handle such a solution it´s really not sexy!

[hilaryb]

We are looking for something similar!  Using the long system ID is not a long term solution for us.

[DanCvet]

Agreed with above - would require:

Prefix Options
Incremental Numbers

i.e. MW-00134, MW-00135, NS-1083, NS-1084

Please help!

[javieryebenes]

I would love to be able to use this as well as we would like to assign a number to a new deal that enrolls in a workflow following a number sequence. Once deals are reviewed and meet certain criteria, we would love to automate a number modification to another sequence depending on the category or other features.

I tried this by making a calculation using the "Deal ID" but unfortunately we have several products and pipelines from different departments in Hubspot and this would work.

[JRomero]

Same here. We started using the DealID at the beginning but the fact that it's not consecutive and that it's not customizable is making this a nightmare. To give more context, the deal numbering goes also into file naming for everything related to a given deal and it's making the search very difficult...

As this is a request that has been going over for years, it should be the time that it's really solved.

[romi]

If the number is based on the number of deals for a given company, you could use the following tool with the Associated Deals property to create a specific coded structure:

https://ecosystem.hubspot.com/marketplace/apps/marketing/marketing-automation/integration-agent-conc...

To implement:

1. Create Deal Reference property on the Deal
2. Create any other properties that will make up the Deal Reference, e.g Deal Number, Company Shortcode
3. Create a Company workflow to copy the Company Associated Deals property to the Deal Number property and any other data if unknown when a Deal is created
4. Set up the Property Concatenator to update the Deal Reference property with the relevant text, e.g. {deal.company-code}{deal.deal-number) would come out as HUB12 when creating the 12th deal against a company who has a company code of HUB

[JRomero]

Hi Romi,

Thanks! My question was for a general consecutive number, regardless of the company.

It would be useful that you could set it to start at any given number (I'm thinking of numbers that may reset each month/year)... Any idea if there is a similar tool that is not connected to companies?