HubSpot Ideas

mariahedges

Private or hidden communication subscription type

It would be useful if it were possible to set up a subscription preference type which is private or could be hidden from everyone.

 

For example this could be used for an internal employee newsletter who would have a subscription category that cannot be signed up for by external people.  Or, if you have a specific group of customers who you want to sign up to a certain type of emails and therefore limit who would be able to access that subscription.

HubSpot Updates
In Beta
September 06, 2024 04:26 PM

Hi folks,

I have a small update: We have a private beta experience available for Marketing Hub Enterprise users. Request to join the private beta for this feature by signing up via your Product Updates section. The beta will allow you to create a 'rule' that will specify what subscription type(s) a contact should see on their Preference Page. Thank you!

May 22, 2024 09:18 AM

@FMaher @JTree Another alternative is to use the Transactional Email add-on -- though it is currently only available for Marketing Hub Professional or Enterprise users. This add-on allows you to send important notifications and service emails to your customers that cannot be unsubscribed from and will not be displayed on your Manage Preferences page.

 

@NMeyer0 There are no new updates; it is still in development 🙂 I will post more as this feature moves to beta availability. Thanks

In Planning
April 18, 2024 08:46 AM

Hi folks,
Just sharing a quick update -- this idea is now in the 'In Planning' stage, and our engineering teams are hard at work bringing it to life. While I can't give an exact timeline due to the nature of product development, we're pushing to deliver it as soon as we can. Again, please keep an eye on this thread for any further updates. 

Regards,

Markie

Being Reviewed
March 01, 2024 03:48 PM

Hi folks,

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 hear you and recognize that this has been a long standing paint point for many. We agree that having more control over displaying subscription types and supporting different preference page experiences for different contact segments or groups of users is important. And I’m pleased to share that we are actively reviewing and evaluating how to support this best. Any news about this feature request will be relayed on this thread, so stay tuned. 

Regards,

Markie

Not Currently Planned
April 14, 2020 07:25 AM

Hi all I am the product manager on the subscriptions team at HubSpot, I certainly see where this will be useful as folks run all their communications on HubSpot (external and internal) and the need to keep those completely separate. Right now we do not have a space for this in our roadmap, however I will keep this one on our radar.

137 Replies
Ave_Ls
Member

Let's imagine: you sell B2C and B2B software/products. For every product, you have a different funnel with email subscription support. There are 3 subscription types: sales subscription, marketing emails and service subscription in B2B, and only marketing and service in B2C.

 

But when a person wants to change his/her subscription preference he/she see ALL subscription types. The only words that can express their feeling is O M G.

 

I suggest making the "subscription hiding feature".

 

With this feature, a marketer can choose what people will see "sales subscription preferences" and who won't.

 

Do you experience the same problem? Upvote this post and leave a comment about your case.

cgardner22
Participant

Yes, we need this!! We offer a SAAS product and a newsletter for the public. We need the option to have, essentially two types of manager preferences pages, one for SAAS users and the other for the general public. 

kfavaloro
Participant

Any updates on this. Our marketing team is wanting to use HubSpot internally and I don't want them to go to another provider like Dynamics for internal communications?

JoeMayall
HubSpot Alumni

Hi folks!

 

I wanted to hop in with a quick update here. I'm happy to report this is now In Beta for Marketing Enterprise customers. You can learn more here: https://knowledge.hubspot.com/email/manage-preference-groups-for-your-email-subscriptions

 

Best!

Joe

Ideas Forum Manager

kfavaloro
Participant

We need this and I don't want my marketing team looking at another application in order to have an internal communication platform to track campaigns. 

MBaecker
Member

I like this idea. Also it would be nice to be able to set public or private communication between staff members. For example, my Business Development team doesn not want to share communication with the Sales team as they don't want their contacts being poached and number hitting the sales pipeline as opposed to the BD pipeline

 

bhascher
Contributor

Showing all subscription types to all subscribers is indeed a huge GDPR and customer satisfaction risk. Because of this, we disallowed sending emails with Hubspot to our customers.

 

I don't understand why this is not a critical roadmap issue for the Subscription Product Team at Hubspot.

 

The simplest way of implementing this is to be able to hide Sales and Service process emails from the online contacts subscription page.

RBonney
Participant

I really need this! We want a subscription type that can be easily opted out of but not easily opted into. So this would fulfill that role!

charlieclarke
Member

Really need this too. Same use case as many others, private partner emails and segmented list communications that shouldn't be available to everyone externally but can be opted in and out of by specific segments.

HMC
Member

I agree - I would like to have a subscription type that only shows if you're opted into it. This would allow you to opt out if you want, but would stop users from opting themselves in. We would use this for things like account update. Some of our clients are large companies with many users. They only want certain information about their account to go to the person designated as the "main contact". We wouldn't want any user to be able to opt in to this subscription.

dabroncos
Contributor

There is a big gap and problem in Hubspot that even Active Campaign can properly handle. 😄 There are not multiple subscription preference landing pages for each of my domains/brands that I have.  It is incredible that Hubspot is not able to provide this with Professional when I have a few different very small websites that I want different subscription options for so they don't all show up on the same page- Also I can't have them unsubscribe from all of my domains with one click.   To think I will be charged over $3,000/mo for enterprise to get this feature is ridiculous.  Even Active Campaign can do this for $150 per month.  Hubspot needs to step up their game!

dsecareanu
Top Contributor | Partner

+1 from me as well.

 

We need to create separated email subscriptions across multiple profiles (prospects, customers, partners, etc.) and we cannot have them all join the same subscriptions, especially since some of these include more sensitive information.

 

Is there any way to moderate subscription management (at least make sure that a journalist doesn't join a customer list)?

 

Thanks!

jenlangley
Participant

+1 this is a huge problem for us, as well.

RyanPeterson
Member

+1 

 

Need this for our investor-only newsletter.

LWildman
Contributor

This is desperately needed - we need a way to send internal email such as employee newsletters and there's no way to put them on their own subscription, so we have to use one of our public subscriptions and pray that they don't unsubscribe. 😞 

JenD
Participant

It's not available in Enterprise either! 😡 I just submitted a ticket. My department is part of a university. We had HubSpot first. They decided they wanted HubSpot so they asked us if we wanted to combine and by doing so they would take over the billing. We already had 4 subscription types. When the university and all the other departments joined, the types grew considerably. Now when someone opts out they are overwhelmed with options. Of course, they are going to just click opt-out of all. I know I would! 

KZabinska
Member

I would consider this to be a basic & necessary feature. I'd also imagine it is not uncommon to have multiple mailing lists for different groups - clients, vendors, employees etc - so the issue is relevant to large number of HubSpot customers. 

We need this!

KWaring
Member

Replying to keep this on HubSpot's radar - this should be a priority feature. 

PValois
Member

This is absolutely a need!

At a minimum it would be great to only have unsubsribe to all as an option to avoid exposing certain lists.

APatrizi
Member

Do we have an update on this?

 

Almost every business has multiple areas of communication for internal and external needs.

 

When can we expect to customize our active email subscriptions inside certain emails?

 

For example, I don't want our readers(marketing contacts) to sign up for client-only subscriptions.