I think it would be good to be able to pause a sequence. Sometimes you put a prospect on a sequence and things happen... illness, weather (hurricanes) and there is no sense continuing sending them emails and making calls when you know they aren't going to be there. I think it would be good to be able to pause them and schedule them to restart at a later date... Thoughts?
The ability to pause and resume sequences is now live to all portals with access to sequences! You will be able to do this from the enrollment table of the specific sequence.
When paused, sequences retain the time delay before the next step. So if a sequence that was scheduled to send on Tuesday is paused on Monday, and resumed on Wednesday, the next step will send on Thursday.
For those following this issue, the infrastructure changes needed to make this change were beyond our initial anticipation, so we appologize for the time spent waiting.
For those following our roadmap of priorities in sequences, we are currently focused on improving the visibility of contacts engaging with seqyences (opens and clicks) and making improvements to the experience in the management of enrollments (better bulk management for pausing, unenrolling, etc.)
Some details on this beta for folks that are looking to get access:
We have finished the ability to bulk pause sequence enrollments, but at the moment we are still working on the ability to bulk resume sequence enrollments (which technically is actually the more complex part of the work!). There are also several usability issues that we are working to resolve. We hope to have the ability to bulk resume ready in the week following Thanksgiving. So for folks that do need access, this is how it will look:
We are now reviewing this with our team. If you would like to participate in our discovery and research, you can fill this short form and I will reach out about our next steps: https://forms.gle/oE5veMh4mLRzoMZX7
As we learn more and make progress, I will update this issue, thanks everyone for your feedback!
I would like to be able to import a list of major holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, July 4th here in the States) and have all sequences skip these dates...
The ability to pause sequences is sorely needed. I agree with others that it would be a ton of work to manually update each sequence, especially if you have multiple sequences targeting different buyer personas. This type of out of office functionality should be seriously considered.
Just signed up and am shocked to find out you can't pause entire Sequences. This is crazy for a number of reasons (many which have already been mentioned). Particularly if going on vacation, or if there is a Holiday.
This should be a top priority for Sequences to get added.
It would be extremely beneficial for our sales team to pause sequences whenever they are out traveling for events. Also, life happens, so I know that this would be helpful to a lot of people!
+1. Just got an unfavorable reply on Monday (Memorial Day) and would love to know how to do this especially with July 4 week coming soon. Would be a nightmare to have to create, build and time sequences out with holidays
So, it is almost 3 years since this was first suggested. It seems like such an obvious requirement that it is highly surprising the feature doesn't exist already. Plenty of people have added their support so what is taking so long? HubSpot really is a great tool it is such a shame this is being ignored.
The current solution in place to this problem is not going to work for us. When a customer recieved a sequence email which is designed to look like it has been sent by the sales member, only to reply and see they have been on holiday all week, makes us look a little daft and is not particularly customer focused or helpful to enhance the customer journey.
Whilst on holiday, it would be useful to select all customers and prospects who are entered in to a sequence, by user. From there, adding a bulk delay to all of these sequences for a custom period of time (for wexample 1 week). For the system to then add an additional 7 days to the delay until the next step and I think this would resolve the issue. It would work best within the schedules tab of sequences with a filter for the user at the top right and some sort of actions option to create a sequence delay and a box to enter the number of days you would like to delay this for.
How is this not an option already? Get with it HubSpot, you are the only marketing automation platfrom that doesnt offer a sequence pause or auto holiday skip feature.
This would be very helpful. I recently had some sequences sent out on Labor Day. This makes me and my company's emails look like spam and hurts our reputation. There should be a feature that automatically pauses Sequences on all national Holidays.
I recently noticed some of my sequenced emails were sent out on this past Labor Day. Having these emails sent out to potential clients on National Holidays comes out as extremely insensitive, makes me and my company's emails look like spam, and damages our reputation. Please add a setting that allows us to prevent sequences from being sent out on National Holidays!
I still can't believe this has not been actioned. I am going on holiday for 16 days and have circa 200 emails I need to move the date for. That is just in one sequence. I don't have time to do this so wil probably have to run the risk or respond to emails on holiday which I would rather not have to do.
I would urge Hubspot to create this feature as a priority.
