We frequently need to get in touch with the primary contact at one of our customers. In HubSpot, there is no way to identify who this is among the many contacts we have in HS for that organization.
Even HubSpot recognizes the importance of this for your own use, as our Account & Billing page includes a required drop-down field for HubSpot primary point of contact. Ironic, huh?
Please add a new Company field type, which would allow us to pick from a list of contacts at that Company. This could either be a dedicated Point of Contact field or perhaps just a more generic field that lets you pick from a list of contacts (I'd probably do the latter).
I agree that if this is being worked on it may need to be a bit more robust and allow multiple "primary contacts". Preferably custom named primary contacts as someone already mentioned here. Accounting/Finance Contact(s), Client Relationship Contact, Administrative Contact, etc.
Yes, I see this as an absolute necessity, rather than a nice to have option, as far as chatting with some colleagues who use other CRM systems, quite a few have this option, so would make sense for Hubspot to implement this asap 🙂
Each of our clients has a dedicated "Primary contact" And "Billing contact" we do this manually and over time we'll find 2 contacts marked "Primary contact" and we have to do digging to see what is going on. We get confused, our customers get frustrated about how we are "not listening". It's really messy.
This is a great idea and would be helpful for Deals as well. We often have multiple contacts associated to a deal and once a deal is closed, typically one person "carries the torch" for the project and it would be great to be able to easily identify them.
any updates? marking a contact as primary seems to be a basic crm functionality. Right now only work around is to make your own manual list to add contacts too but that does not help internal team knowledge when looking at company level.
This is needed. We have companies with mutliple contacts and when looking at the company overview page, it would be really nice to see quickly which one is the main contact.
Idea would be possibly set the contacts image to a star? Not sure if that would work for everyone but for us, the images are pretty useless. So use that space for something more important. And to take it a step further, create other quick images that represent the buyer role or other property of choice.
I am confused -so let me get this straight...years into a significant crm gap- it is still in 'planning' from an official product dev standpoint? NO hubspot change on this? There is now a solution being posted out here somewhere BUT it seems it a paid add on integration offered by another company with a monthly subscription fee. JUST to get Hubspot to allow a primary contact on the deal and company level. Bizarre, such a minor feature that is such a basic CRM need I do not get why a third party application should need to fix product dev gaps in a case like this. That is not an integration that makes good sense from a support perspective on either side and sounds just messy. sheesh, was so excited for aminute.
@SMartin You have it exactly right! Bizaar indeed. It's because Hubspot at its core is a B2C CRM and hasn't optimized as a B2B CRM. But I really wish it would sooner than later. It's not like Hubspot cannot afford to hire 3 new developers and start throwing them at all the brain dead b2b optimized issues/ideas like this one.
@Mike_Eastwood sorry no foul meant, I am glad you made this for folks to fill this gap! I was confused becuase at first i thought this was a product update. I am new to my company so not likely to win the battle to add subscriptions for what arguably should be basic product functionality yet. Will keep this in my pocket. I saw the free version but would easily go over the 200 and am hesitatnt to integrate third party tools or cause issues/ learning curve at my new company. Will ponder this add on and research the implications further. Thanks!
I was shocked when we couldn't assign a Primary Contact which is why we built the integration for one of our clients.
At the risk of talking you out of our integration: have you seen the Account Based Marketing (ABM) features available in Marketing Pro or Sales pro? This would allow you to set up a Primary Contact, Billing Contact – whatever you need.
When I pointed out HubSpot's ABM features to one client they still preferred our Primary Contact Integration over the ABM features [proud smile] because it was easier to use.
Because we've added Primary Contacts for Deals we were looking at increasing the Free Tier "views".
Cheers
Mike
p.s. @SMartin no foul noticed, certainly no offence taken now you point it out.
Currently I am trying to send out an email campaign to the main contact of each company that subscribes monthly. With several hundred companies in that category, this will take me hours without another solution
I need this for API connections. Today we are able to get a batch of contacts if wanted but there is no way to know who is the primary contact in an array.
A good technical solution would be for the product team to: ( @Dylan )
1. Create a contact / company property
2. Property name - similar to: "Primary contact for {{object}}" - array of object id´s.
3. If one contact / company gets a new associated object - the system goes to that object ID - checks for associations - to other contacts / companies
4. Updates all associations except the now chosen one so that they do not contain the chosen object id.
Optional:
A) Make a setting in contact settings to ask each portal if they allow more than one primary contact (bool). If true - stage 3 + 4 can be ignore above.
If setting is changed by portal admin - then go to property history and look for the contact who was made primary last. (this is a messy point but still an idea).