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Workflows with a repeating action

I want to start a new Workflow with a List, add a delay of 30 days, then send an internal email, then delay again for 30 more days. I want it to repeat over and over again as long as a Contact remains on that List. We'd like to use it to remind staff to reach out to certain Contacts regularly. 

HubSpot Updates
Delivered
April 15, 2022 06:42 AM

Update: Scheduled triggers went live to all operations hub pro and enterprise customers in December 2021. To learn more, check out this KB Doc: Create a scheduled workflow.

In Beta
November 05, 2021 07:32 AM

Hi Folks,

 

Thanks for all the comments and upvotes. I'm here with an update: We've recently launched a beta feature called Scheduled Triggers, that allow you to run HubSpot workflows on custom, pre-defined intervals, to better support your recurring processes. This allows you to repeat a workflow and it's actions on a specific schedule that you define. 

 

This feature is exclusive to Operations Hub Professional & Operations Hub Enterprise.

 

This new type of trigger is intended to support repetitive business processes that aren't tied to a specific change or event, and instead need to happen on a regular, specific cadence. Two examples:

  1. You want to automatically clean up data every Thursday night, before you run your weekly reports.
  2. You want to create tasks for your success team on the first of every month, to remind them to run a health check for each of their customers.

To learn more, check out this KB Doc: Create a scheduled workflow.

 

If you are an Operations Hub Pro or Ent customer and you'd like to participate in this beta, reach out to your point of contact at HubSpot and let them know that you would like access to the Scheduled Triggers rollout which they can sign you up for through our internal Customer Success tool. If you don't have one of those subscriptions currently, but would still like to check it out, consider starting an Operations Hub trial, while also requesting access to the rollout for the duration of the trial. 

 

Best,

Megan

Being Reviewed
May 18, 2020 01:17 PM

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm Jesse Tremblay, Product Manager for our Automation products here at HubSpot. Thanks for all of your feedback on this thread.

 

While we don't currently have anything planned here, we are going to be reviewing this idea. We will update this thread as we learn more.

 

Best,

Jesse

33 Replies
brentstach
Participant

Love this idea. 

plllmg
Participant

 we would make use of this as well

techguardnathan
Participant

This would be game changing!

Cait_
Participant

THIS TIMES A MILLION. I would love to be able to create a loop via a workflow and it just keeps looping until the workflow is disabled OR tie the loop to a property of some kind so as long as the property is set to one of the triggers, the workflow just loops until the property is changed.

 

Use Case:

We want to make contact with all of our customers every 30 days. I want to create a workflow that will auto generate a task/ticket to prompt the user responsible for making contact every 30 days, as long as the company has the customer status property set to "active customer". I don't want to have to build a bunch of steps manually or chain a bunch of workflows together.

SC_Landvoice
Participant

I also need the ability to loop workflows.

JeremyHong
Contributor | Diamond Partner

Here's a pretty simple workaround to loop workflows. I've built this to send internal reminder emails for one of our clients. Of course, you can replace that step with whatever you want to occur on a regular basis.

 

The workaround uses 2 separate workflows and a custom date property (ie. Send Date)

 

Whoever I manually enroll into Workflow 1 will receive the email in Workflow 2 on a recurring basis that I'm able to set using a single delay.

 

Workflow 1:

  • Enrollment Trigger=manually
  • Step 1=Clear the contact custom date property (Send Date)
  • Step 2=Delay action by the # of days/weeks/months you want to wait before workflow #2 recurs
  • Step 3=Set contact property value > (Send Date) > Date of step
  • Turn it on

Workflow 2:

  • Enrollment Trigger=Contact property "send date" is known; Re-enrollment=yes, when Send Date is known
  • Step 1=delay 1 minute
  • Step 2=send internal email (or whatever you want repeated)
  • Step 3=Enroll into Workflow 1
  • Turn it on

I've tested this by using 1 minute delays – worked like a charm.

ridingforlife
Top Contributor

+1

 

Also need the ability to do a loop within a workflow, until a condition is met.

EduardoMetahui
Member

Maybe You can Hack that! 
Make 2 workflows, 
Establish the options and actions that you want, in the final of the workflow enroll the other, and the second contain the same process and enroll with the first workflow. 

This is like a loop, but with two workflows. 



jtremblay
HubSpot Product Team

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm Jesse Tremblay, Product Manager for our Automation products here at HubSpot. Thanks for all of your feedback on this thread.

 

While we don't currently have anything planned here, we are going to be reviewing this idea. We will update this thread as we learn more.

 

Best,

Jesse

cericson
Member

+1 from me. We'd like to incentivize our BDRs to follow-up with MQLs in a timely fashion. Since our routing is a flat round robin, we'd like to re-route any MQL that still has a 'Lead Status' of "New" after 24 business hours. 

thanhsavincom
Member

This is the reason we paid for our package on HubSpot, the automation that helps us do the work. Unfortunately, until now our main goal is not achievable on the platform. Our objective is to base on the contract end date of A Company (as we are a B2B model), then send them a reminder email every 3 months until that end date. 

Hope that this could be sorted as soon as possible

 

cvalverde
Participant

We need this feature! Please add!

DanDow
HubSpot Employee

I have had a customer reach out to us in Support to inquire about this feature. They have also the need to set up a workflow that if the initial task has not been accomplished and a follow up email has been sent then the contact should be re-enrolled into the workflow.

@yogev@say2eats.com

robertriversoz
Contributor | Platinum Partner

Yes, I need this to create recurrent surveys!!

 

BastiSchuhl
Top Contributor

I would love to see this feature for Deal-based Workflows as well. Currently, HS is preventing an "infinite loop" Workflows. In some use cases these infinite loops are exactly what we're looking for though. So, having the possibility to re-enroll deals to the same workflow over and over again until a certain goal (or "unenrolment criteria") is met would be amazing! 

Aspyro
Member

I would also need it

steinarslatten
Participant

I'd like to +1 what @BastiSchuhl describes. This is exactly the use-case. Right now we have to rubber-band a workaround using several workflows (and possibly lists) to get a simple feature. 

NJenkinsLC
Participant

Would love it we could do this with a series of emails. 

 

So, stage : 

 

Send email #1, if reply, create a deal, if unopened, send email #2, repeat

 

So, loop, but email n+1 each time

NJenkinsLC
Participant

@JeremyHong Can you do your workflow, but use separate emails for each repeat? Ie: Email #n+1 each time?

JeremyHong
Contributor | Diamond Partner

@NJenkinsLC It's been a while, but I'd imagine the scenario you described in your other comment, "Send email #1, if reply, create a deal, if unopened, send email #2, repeat," is doable. Can't really be fore sure without trying it myself, but try testing it out by replacing the one email in my workflows (workflow #2, action #2) with the logic for your workflow.