HubSpot Ideas

troelsfeodor

Handle inbound / incoming calls in HubSpot

We currently have to use a service like Aircall to handle the inbound calls, which is not ideal. When you do the outbound calling from Hubspot it would make sense to also be able to handle the inbound calls and get them properly tracked, recorded, etc.

Mises à jour HubSpot
July 11, 2022 09:41 AM

@Flo_bi We cannot log inbound calls, missed calls, and voicemails for "Outbound phone numbers" because they happen outside of HubSpot and are routed through the external telecom or VOIP provider. If the VOIP provider has a marketplace integration, they can push the call logs into HubSpot. Otherwise, users need to use a HubSpot phone number. We will be expanding the phone number offering to additional countries, stay tuned here.

Statut mis à jour : Delivered
May 03, 2022 11:58 AM

Hello HubSpot community! 

I am excited to announce that we now offer phone numbers and inbound calling! Dive into all the details here.

 

We know our job isn’t done and are already hard at work on the next round of features. This post encompasses a lot of different requests, this makes it hard to categorize feedback and share updates. We are going to mark this post as “delivered” and will open new threads for specific feature requests (and recommend you do the same).

Below are threads we have started for upcoming features. If they are important to you, I recommend upvoting and commenting on these pages.

Receive calls within the HubSpot  app

Manage voicemails in HubSpot

Port your existing phone number into HubSpot

Offer phone numbers in additional countries

 

Thank you for the continued feedback and support.

Happy Calling!

October 14, 2021 04:56 PM

Hi Everyone,

Good news! We are getting closer to offering inbound calling and we are looking for users to provide early feedback. If that is something you might be interested in, please fill out this form.

 

Thank you for all of the amazing feedback already provided and we look forward to growing together!

Statut mis à jour : In Planning
June 16, 2021 06:10 PM

Hello HubSpot community! 

As @JoeMayall mentioned in his previous post, making HubSpot calling bi-directional to support inbound calls alongside our current offering of outbound calling is something we realize is important for our customers. Since the last update in October 2020, we have renewed our focus to offering this functionality. We do not have a concrete timeline or initial feature set that we're comfortable committing to quite yet. However, I am moving this idea to the "in planning" stage to better reflect our increased commitment, as we currently are researching and prioritizing the work required to add inbound calls natively to HubSpot. 

We'll continue to monitor the use cases and needs submitted on this thread and will post updates as we have them. Your patience and continued feedback is very much appreciated as we work towards delivering a solution! 

Thank you as always for your continued feedback and support, it helps us build a better product.

Statut mis à jour : In Planning
May 19, 2020 02:56 PM

We agree this is a big gap! We're in the early phases of developing a plan to bring Inbound calling support to HubSpot. We will update this issue with more infromation as we validate our approach to realizing this feature. 

Statut mis à jour : In Planning
March 25, 2019 08:04 AM

We are planning on building an API to allow integrators to embed their calling functionality, including inbound calling, into HubSpot.

 

If you'd like to give our team feedback on how inbound calling should work, please fill out this form.

142 Commentaires
alliveagency
Participant

Throwing in my request for tracking/recording inbound calls.  Being able to do via mobile would also be amazing.  Guessing there are technological challenges here, but sure you guys can figure it out. Thanks!

Bryce
Contributeur de premier rang

I had a very quick look at Aircall and it looked like a minimum of something like USD120 per month (!) to use that on top of your Hubspot Sales Pro (now min USD 400 per month). So, only for bigger companies.

Le1
Membre

Is this likely to become a feature in the future?

Trevor
Contributeur

Yes, please! Having the contact property automatically opened for an incoming call would be remarkable.

thjoris
Membre

I agree with everyone here, being able to log incoming calls would be very useful.

CRM6300
Participant

This is tremednously needed.  This was something we took for granted when we used the Outlook App for Iphone. Please focus on this and get it up and running ASAP

RobinMcIntosh
Membre

This is a MUST it's really frustrating that Hubspot only shows half the picture of inbound interest. Thanks.

MatiasEscobar
Membre

Also looking forward to being able to handle inbound calls with HubSpot. Really astonished about not having this feature. Besides Aircall, what others services exist to handle this?

vesnastefanovic
Participant | Partenaire solutions Diamond

 This is very important functionality, contact should be automatically opened on incoming call.

AlexGallo
Participant

Absolutely agree. This is key to our business where we receive more inbound than we make outbound

brc235
Participant

Agreed, this is a neccessary feature. I suggest building an integration with RingCentral that could do the following:

 

NEEDED FEATURES:

1. An inbound call comes in it is answerable in HubSpot and the contact's info is shown

2. If a call is missed, that activity is logged to the Contact's record

 

WANTED FEATURES:

3. If a voicemail is left, that activity is logged on the Contact record and the voicemail recording is available there

4. If an SMS message is sent, that activity is logged to the Contact record

 

I could see a RingCentral + HubSpot integration being a feature we'd pay for as well if it were available, but alas....

 

RebeccaHill
Membre

This could be good for us to have too. Currently, there is no way to do this making reporting difficult as well as not providing a seamless journey for customers. Please consider this feature!!!

jnicolau
Membre

The mobile app should montor the mobile phone logs in order to keep track of all incoming phone calls and upload that info to the Hubspot server. The app could also directly record conversations. 

acmo
Membre

+1 from me

hgutierrez
Membre

Receive incoming calls, both in Sales and Service, is a must. Hopefully it would be available soon.

mmaddux
Participant

I haven't read through all the comments, but it appears Hubspot doesn't accept incoming calls natively through their platform. In addition to the requests for this feature, I'd like to add that when using a third-party solution like AirCall or Toky, you cannot log the inbound calls correctly. They appear as outbound calls and therefore are not tracked properly. It has something to do with the limitations of their API. Hopefully, if they solve one of these issues, both will be solved.

ThreadsHelp2018
Contributeur de premier rang

Just reading through these ideas and thought I'd let people know about our new HubSpot integation that is currently in beta.

 

Our integration works by automatically logging and tagging calls that have been made or received using a VoIP landline directly into HubSpot. We plan to add mobile calls as well in the future. As well as logging the call we also attach a link in HubSpot to the call recording and a transcription of the call.

 

Having a transcription of the call is a real game change for businesses that make lengthy phone calls as it means that if we need to listen back to the call we don't have to spend 20-30 mins scrubbing back and forth, we can just skip to the bit of the call we are interested in. We have also recently added a feature that sends you an email as soon as the call is complete and allows you to tag the call without having to switch back into HubSpot. 

 

If anyone is interested in this, then please feel free to drop me an email

Bryce
Contributeur de premier rang

 Thanks @ThreadsHelp2018 but which company are you from?

ThreadsHelp2018
Contributeur de premier rang

Hi @Bryce

 

Details for getting in contact were in my post. If you would like further information on our beta you can email me at threads@jpy.com. Thanks! 🙂

nickheurter
Membre

+1