HubSpot Ideas

AllisonZ

Double Opt-in Enrollment Feature for Workflows

If double-opt in is enabled within a portal, we always need to set an additional enrollment trigger on workflows that send marketing emails, to ensure that only contacts with confirmed DOI status will be enrolled and sent the email. The only "workaround" is to set the additional workflow enrollment trigger as:

 

  • Marketing Email Confirmation Status is any of:
    • Confirmed
    • User clicked confirmed
    • HubSpot Rep. marked confirmed
    • Customer marked confirmed
    • Confirmed from previous behavior

 

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What happens currently is that contacts are enrolled in the workflow, regardless of their DOI status, which results in the marketing emails not being delivered. There is a lot of manual work involved in having to assess these contacts and manually resend the email. 

 

It would be immensely beneficial to have a double opt-in enrollment feature for workflows in portals where double opt-in is activated. I was imaging some sort of option that when activated in the workflow, will only enroll contacts with DOI confirmed without having to set additional enrollment triggers. 

 

This is currently causing a lot of confusion for customers, especially in Germany where DOI is a legal requirement. Additionally, there are multiple values for Marketing Email Confirmation Status which makes overcomplicates this even more.

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May 28, 2024 11:16 AM

Hello everyone,

I’m Markie, a Product Manager working within HubSpot’s Messaging Experience group. Thank you all for taking the time to submit, upvote, and comment on this Idea. We are exploring options on how to best support this. Any additional news about this feature request will be relayed on this thread, so stay tuned. 

Regards,

Markie

37 Replies
MPapayani
Member

We would also like to have this implemented as soon as possible since we are working with multiple countries, campaigns and integration with other databases.

MFischer
Participant | Platinum Partner

Agreed!!

We absolutely need this feature too!

ClaraHeins
Member

Same here. We want to send a double opt in mail (+followup) within a workflow that is connected to a wordpress form (a landingpage we created for our product). Mails tend to go to peoples spam folder as we don't use a double opt in mail. 

Would love if that changes soon! 

RLicau
Contributor

I'd also love to see this idea implemented. 

Same feature requested in 2019

Avahda
Member

Agreed! Need this feature to connect fluentforms with hubspot via double optin.

froettgen
HubSpot Employee

+1

DOI and workflows is quite tricky to understand and becoming more and more important in markets where privacy laws require DOI.

Kirsten8686
Participant

Has there been any update on this? 

onvista
Contributor

This feature is absolutely necessary to only enroll contacts who actually can receive marketing e-mails. 

DinkoS
Participant

This feature should really be implemented. Any news about it Hubspot? 

marvinvbrt
Member

Yes, we need this. Imagine a lead is saved to hubspot, receives the double opt-in request email but ignores or deletes it. A while later the user comes back and wants to e.g. download a whitepaper but will never receive it because the double opt-in was not completed and there is no automatic way to resend the double opt-in request mail, so the user will never be able to receive another mail.

flouSH
Member

PLEASE HubSpot - don't make things so incredibly hard on EU users.

Those are the moments, my team is seriously considering walking away from the whole HubSpot CRM. This kind of torture will be a retention problem for sure. Our tech stack is constantly evolving, please follow along. It's 2023 and GDPR is a reality for EU businesses.

AKolb
Contributor

As an alternative solution, this should be possible for Sequences.
I am unsure if there is a legal basis for sending opt-in emails via workflows, as these could be counted as "Automated Emails", which require opt-in.
However, sequences are one-to-one communication, meaning there is sufficient legal basis.

MWilcox
HubSpot Product Team

Hello everyone,

I’m Markie, a Product Manager working within HubSpot’s Messaging Experience group. Thank you all for taking the time to submit, upvote, and comment on this Idea. We are exploring options on how to best support this. Any additional news about this feature request will be relayed on this thread, so stay tuned. 

Regards,

Markie

SaShi
Member

This would really be a major benefit for us and our automated follow-up-processes!

BlueDasher
Member

We pull contact data from a central repository into Hubspot.  Those contacts have already been confirmed elsewhere.  We were shocked to find that our API couldn't set the Marketing Email Confirmation Status to reflect that (it's a read-only property!).  With also no workflow option to set new contacts syncing from the API as confirmed, that only leaves us with manually updating the status using filters and the bulk update option...every morning.  Please fix this Hubspot!  Allow Marketing Email Confirmation Status updates from the API's and workflows. 

MSchillig
Member

Bitte setzt dieses Feature um. Es wäre enorm wichtig für unsere Compliance im deutschen Raum. Danke

WDeBois
Member

Great idea! Definitely something we need for our HubSpot instance.