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Quinten

Total amount on Quote confusing to customers when using multiple pricing options

Our Pricing is per month and we charge a one time setup.

Invoice happens once per year (See screenshot)

The total amount as mentioned on the quote is quite confusing for customers.

My suggestion would be to make it an option to hide the total amount in quotes.

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I am aware that a suggestion for a fix has already been done in this thread but since that covers more topics I would like to isolate this RFC here.
(*Ability to remove or adjust the total shown (in the case of multiple pricing options for one component). 

HubSpot Updates
August 30, 2022 12:18 PM

Hey folks - Ethan here, product manager for the Product Library and Quotes. Apologies for the missed quarter of updates. I want to let you know that this feature is not on our roadmap for this quarter (Q3, 2022). We will be making some small adjustements (like potentially re-naming the Total field to say "Total Due Today" or "Total first payment"), and it is possible to add the Total Contract Value Deal personalization token to Quotes. We recognize the confusion here, but we need to make hard prioritization decisions this quarter. I'll let you know in October how things are looking for Q4.

 

As a sidenote, I'll be updating the top Ideas associated with Products and Line Items ~once per quarter going forward. I will include (1) whether or not a feature is on the roadmap for that quarter or not and (2) what our rollout plan for that feature is (e.g. will there be a beta or not). If you have feedback about additional information I could include in these updates, drop a note here. If I see a theme, I'll adjust my updates to address that.

 

I won't be doing this for every idea, but most ideas above 100 kudos will get this treatment. Previously, I had been trying to do it for ideas greater than 25 upvotes, but unfortunately the volume is too high to be practical.

In Planning
March 15, 2022 11:24 AM

Hi folks, Tori here, product manager for our quotes tool. I wanted to provide a quick update on this issue. We have officially launched our Customized Quote Template tool. Features of this include showing/hiding your line items total and developing your own line item tables modules with custom calculations. We are still working on a user-friendly setting in app to adjust how totals are shown and are hoping to deliver something in Q2.


To learn more about Customized Quote Templates, click here.

September 09, 2021 10:13 AM

Hey folks - Ethan Kopit here, the product manager of HubSpot Quotes. I wanted to drop in to give you some updates. We made quite a bit of progress on this feature (it will live as a switcher in Quotes, which will allow reps to toggle how they want the total to be calculated). We'll likely build a setting for it as well, which will allow you to set a default for your account. 

 

We will ALSO be supporting removing the total (or subtotals, or additional fees) from the line item table as well, so you can list just line items with no calculations.  <-- this should be out even sooner as its a feature of the custom quote template editor.

 

I can't give you an exact ETA yet, which I know is frustrating, but we're well on our way. Thanks for your enthusiasm.

August 17, 2021 07:19 AM

Hey team - I just wanted to let you know that we've made progress on this feature and it will be released this year. Our solution will be that you will be able to remove the Total and Subtotal sections from quote templates, which will allow you to list multiple pricing options in a table without presenting a total.

 

Thanks for being patient with us - we're making progress.

Being Reviewed
March 09, 2021 06:57 AM

Hey team - HubSpot PM of Quotes here. We're currently working on a solution for this which would allow you to toggle whether you want the "total" of a quote to represent the total contract value or the first billiing period (which is what it represents today). Our upcomiing customizable quote templates will also offer the ability to show/hide different sections of a quote, which could include total. 

 

I hope that you haven't already made the decision to stop using quotes! And, if you haven't, I'm grateful that you're sticking with us. Our quoting functionality is only going to get better and better. Thanks for the feedback.

76 Replies
TK1
Member

When providing quotes to clients our sales team occasionally likes to provide a couple options for specific line items for customers to choose from.  However, when showing the price for each they both get added in the total due to the default cumulative feature.  It would be nice if you could turn off the cumulative feature for some line items as needed so that prices do not appear inflated, yet still show the customer possible alternative upgrades.  

Quinten
Participant

It has been since ‎Sep 26, 2019, a lot of comment & kudos later but still not fixed. I know there is work being done at Hubspot about this functionality but for us it is probably time to move away from using the Quotes functionality since improvement simply takes too long.

AndreaLugli
Member | Elite Partner

Agree, for now is very confusing!

Enipeus
Member

For me until this is sorted out there is no point in using the quotes section of Hubspot.

CHansen
Participant

I can´t belive, that this topic has been known since sep 2019 and not changed until today. Totally confusing for customers!!! Using any workaround for that, makes hubspot as enterprise solution superflous - for our Saas Usecase.

 

Please, we need a fast Fix

EDavids
Member

fully agree, pretty disappointing that no feedback van HS seems to be added to this suggestion for optimisation 

JHarvey
Member

Add us to the list. 

 

Just showing the first month's expenses is basically useless if a customer cannot see the total contract value.

JBav
Participant

Agreed! This functionality to adapt a quote by term, billing frequency etc and have an output that explains the product lines, periodic breakdown summary and total per year and total contract value is an essential requirement for any pricing model. 

 

Please help us all with this. 

 

  

 

 

ethankopit
HubSpot Product Team

Hey team - HubSpot PM of Quotes here. We're currently working on a solution for this which would allow you to toggle whether you want the "total" of a quote to represent the total contract value or the first billiing period (which is what it represents today). Our upcomiing customizable quote templates will also offer the ability to show/hide different sections of a quote, which could include total. 

 

I hope that you haven't already made the decision to stop using quotes! And, if you haven't, I'm grateful that you're sticking with us. Our quoting functionality is only going to get better and better. Thanks for the feedback.

JHarvey
Member

@ethankopit, how do we become part of beta for this update? We REALLY need this for the quoting function to be useful to our company.

 

Thanks!

ZatAdam
Member

@ethankopit I second @JHarvey comment, It would be great to be part of the beta for this as it is one of those missing features that erodes confidence in Hubspot from a wider management perspective. 

Quinten
Participant

The question is "only" out since ‎Sep 26, 2019 now so to be honest do not expect it to be solved any time soon.  Basically makes this part of Hubs nvery unattractive to use since it really affects conversion ratio of signed deals we noticed. There is plenty solution out there specializing in this and doing way better, looking for the best integrations that work for us at the moment.

NGeorgieva
Member

+1 here..

 

This has been so confusing for the customers. We urgently need the Option to take the "Total Sum" out, please.

 

Hubspot is such a sophisticated tool that has thought of so many extra things that other tools haven't. I find it difficult to believe that you haven't thought of the negatives of this feature. I think this is actually a basic that is non-negotiable - the financial plans nowadays are so much more complicated than your template.

 

Please let us be able to take it away.

 

I hope you take all the comments and requests above into consideration. Thank you in advance.

 

 

elizabeth2
Participant

Customer facing quote include the annual cost while keeping the quarterly billing for internal use. This would be a different line item property.

ATrejo
Member | Partner

We need the updated asap

 

Is necesary include the TCV on the quote.

Raffy
Top Contributor | Partner

Upvoted.

And I really can't push my client to use the quote tool because of the same reasons mentioned above.

That said hiding the total can already be done on the Custom Quote Beta. I hope other options for showing TCV/ACV would become available. Pehaps even options to distribute one-time charges over the duration of the engagement.  

fPICANO
Member

Hi 

I believe that the total of the quotes is wrong when you mix recurring and one shot fees

the total takes only the first month of the recurring part of the quote even if you defined a 6 month lenght for example.

This makes a total which sum the full unique cost and only a piece of the recurring. This is milleading (and wrong I guess) for customers

 

TonyDowling
Contributor | Diamond Partner

I've just solved this by changing the monthly cost to a single annual cost so it shows up. I've explained to the client why I've done this, but it doesnt paint a good picture for them coming into the ecosystem for the first time. 

 

Plus one for CPQ development!

ecmurph
Member

This is an issue my team is having as well. Something we need to be fixed asap!

rozi
Member | Diamond Partner

Does anyone try to use the CSS option? available only in Sales Enterprise**

I still don't manage to get the Sub total TCV In the actual quotes tool - but maybe it can be changed from the design tools?

 

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