Possibility to disable automatic association to deals
We have set up integration of Hubspot CRM with Gmail.
If one of my colleagues emails a contact, this email is automatically associated with the last X open deals where this contact is connected to.
For us this does not make sense at all. Let me give an example:
Company ABC has 10 deals running with us. 5 of those 10 deals are associated with contact Jeff.
If one of my colleagues now sends an email to Jeff about a warranty issue totally unrelated to any of these 10 or 5 deals Hubspot automatically associates this email with the last X open deals associated with Jeff.
I don't even see when this automatic association would make sense?
So I vote for have an option to disable this automatic deal association asap.
At this moment our CRM is a total mess because of this and that is the opposite of what I wanted to achieve with this CRM.
Good that this works for gmail now, making that usable. But we must see this also in hubspots email feature. It really creates utter chaos at the moment
I hope you are still working on fixing this issue, because we are having a very similar situation, over 3 years after this idea was first created, and 1.5 years after Flora's last update about it...
Our problem is that we have contacts that are "Selling Partners". They have a primary company and then are associated with several deals in several other companies. We DO NOT WANT contacts timeline activities to be carried between deals! It makes a mess for regular contacts that are associated with only 1 company, but it's a complete disaster for those Selling Partners that can be associated with a large number of unrelated deals/companies.
At the least, we need the option to CHOOSE whether or not we want to include the contact's timeline activities when we associate him/her with an existing deal. It is possible to choose whether to associate the activities history (30/60/90 days) during the deal creation process, so why not when associating a contact to an existing deal? That would be extremely helpful.
Thank you for considering this request as soon as possible.
Has there been a resolution to this issue yet? We have run into the same problem in using the Deal feature. It makes our system a mess and the Conversations, Deals, and Tickets feature almost unusable whenever you have customers that are associated with multiple Deals.
Note that you can now manually associate and disassociate records from both Gmail and Outlook - however, we find for many of our clients this is too manual- We have built an external script to HubSpot that can associate and disassociate activities based on various business rules - e.g. associate if the content includes the record ID - if you are keen on something similar please send us a message via hypeanddexter.nz
Its still accociating any reply with all deals in Microsoft 365, it makes its a pain to manage activity on deals. I wondered if its to do with inbox automation?
We really need the ability to remove automatic deal associations in Hubspot, not just Gmail. All the support emails, calls, notes, etc. are automatically logging against the deal and creating an absolute nightmare for the Sales team. Being able to turn off this automatic association is a no-brainer
We have created a micro app to support this requirement as we have had so many requests for it, we can enable on your portal and configure your disassociation rules if anyone needs support - note there is a small monthly license for this
We have ended disconnecting the calander for everyone, it was too much of a pain to deal with. There benifits of not capturing this outweigh the nightmare of dealing with it. Hopefully Hubspot will sort this or give us some logic or even the Hubspot button in meeting requests in Outlook
We are desperate for this to happen too, for O365.
We have multiple teams using tickets and pipelines - and every email is automatically associated to contacts, those cc'd, the company, deals, ticket... everything!
There is so much information cluttering up the system, we can't get to the what we need.
It's not easy to remember to find and deselect the association options - and even when we do, sometimes that means deselecting about 25 boxes.
If the associations could just link to one thing and then we manually choose to add what we want.
This applies for any activity, which means it also affect notes. So if I create a simple note (!!!) it automatically associates with the 5 latest open deals. That note could be about anything – completely unrelated to the associated deals.
To make sure I don’t swarm these deals with unrelated notes and other activities, I have to take extra steps. People won’t have the time and energy to do this every single time so in the end people will just stop caring about creating notes (or any other acitivty) – which leads to us missing out on important information in our CRM.
I honestly have no idea why this behaviour would be useful at all and why it’s not optional – seems completely idiotic.
I have now again failed to escalate that to hubspot. They are unwilling to listen, giving poor excuses that it would be so super complex to fix this bug (in their world we are talking about a feature request). I cannot see where it is complex, just remove that stupid "feature" alltogether in the first place I'd say.
Also the reply was that there is no further commercial escalation possible, no way to get that fixed for money.
I'm super disappointed, we will now look into migrating away from hubspot.
It might help if we spam them with support requests on that one, but given the response I got I've little trust on that.
So, it has been several years since a lot of people agree that this is a stupid algorithm. Appreciate it that you fixed it for gmail users, but what about the rest of us that use O365 and Outlook. It is a pain to manage these misassociations and one of the reasons I have started researching Salesforce.
Does anyone know if there is a setting we can turn off in Hubspot to stop this from happening. I am getting a lot of complaints from the BDMs in relation to this auto-association.
