Sequence Testing

[ddomroski]

It would be great to be able to test a sequence immediately (see the emails and task notifications) instead of having to wait for it process through the timing.  

[Milimon]

It would really be nice if they soon include the option to test the sequences before they are sent to the final contacts.

[TPang]

I would really like this feature to test out emails to my inbox so I can share email screenshots in decks and historical records.

[DBowers]

Really need this feature as it would be much simpler to implement and adopt sequences. 

[MRubin9]

Must have, your competition does - Salesloft makes it very easy. 

[PerrynOlson]

I'm amazed HubSpot doesn't have this feature yet. I had it back in 2015 when I used SharpSpring. 

[JOpie]

While I could enroll myself, as mentioned, having the test ability would be ideal. Please make it so!

[toolsadmin]

Needed! A lot of steps are needed to work around this lack of functionality... 

[kelseyhamon]

There's got to be a way to test without actually enrolling a test email and waiting the number of days a sequence could take to be sure all is set up correctly

[thatch]

REALLY WISH I COULD TEST THIS.......

[DBerger]

This is a critical feature - I just had a sales prospect write back to me that she was very unimpressed with my company's professionalism... all because I wasn't able to test my email sequence. It turned out there was a broken image that caused the entire email to appear to the recipient as a long string of characters. Something I would have known if I'd been able to test the sequence!

[nlssplgn]

Every other mail marketing tool has this, so why not Hubspot? 

[DHill5]

Three years and still not being planned? Critical piece of marketing and sales QA, really need testing to be added to sequences.

[CarrieGallagher]

Have there been any updates to this? It's extrememly important to be able to test sequences before turning them on (like workflows), especially since they often include several one-to-one emails that can create a clunky user experience if not done right. As a HubSpot Partner, more and more companies come to me asking about how to use Sequences, so this is a hot priority for Sales Hub users and agencies alike. Thanks!

[AVela8]

If you turn of the "Delay" function for each email, you can cycle through your entire sequence for testing, and then restablish the "Delays" upon confirming the content delivery.

[AClark51]

How is this not a feature? It's been requested for over 2 years now?

[tdanciak]

So surprised that sequences do not have test functionality.  Please add ASAP.

As a work around,

1) I am cloning my original sequence X times for each email in the sequence.  For example, I clone it 4X for a four email sequence.

2) Keep only one unique email in each cloned sequence and delete the rest.  In my example, I have 4 cloned sequences and each one has different content.

3) Change delay time to 1 day for each

4) Enroll a test email account of your choosing to each cloned sequence.  

This takes a ton of time, and would only recommend doing for each new, major sequence or change.

[CarrieGallagher]

I am also shocked that this hasn't been done yet. Sequences are all my clients want to talk about. Much more than AI.

[MRubin9]

I like the idea, but just reading it, I am thinking that is a lot of work...

[mgphillips]

This is really essential and exists in competitor products, I am very surprised and disappointed this does not exist already given how long ago this was requested (looks like 4 years?).

I need to be able to send all emails in a sequence to myself and my colleagues for review before sending. This is significant enough for me to now be looking at moving away from Hubspot

[Jyotshna]

Yes , agree before we run the sequence it would be great we can test it as we can do in the workflow