We would love to use HubSpot's attribution models to evaluate marketing effectiveness across channels like email, SMS, paid social, and web engagement. However, we are running into a significant issue: HubSpot is attributing a large portion of revenue to our POS integration, which simply syncs contacts/deals and updates deal stages into the system. It is not a marketing touchpoint. For example, our company might do 1 million in sales for the duration of a campaign. That campaign's attribution reporting only attributes $20k in revenue to that campaign and it's assets. This is because the POS integration sync is being treated as the final touchpoint and receiving the bulk of the credit. What we are running into: Non-marketing system events (like POS syncs or integration updates) are being weighted heavily in attribution models—especially time decay. These events skew reporting and undermine the value of actual marketing efforts. We are currently unable to reclassify, suppress, or redistribute revenue from these non-marketing events. Excluding the Integration Asset Type removes the revenue entirely instead of reallocating it to prior qualified touchpoints. Here are some possible product update ideas that could fix this issue: Manually flag touchpoints as non-marketing (e.g. POS syncs, system integrations) so they can be excluded from attribution weight. Provide an option to suppress or exclude specific assets/events from attribution reports without removing the revenue entirely. Enable users to manually reassign revenue to earlier touchpoints or allow customizable attribution weighting based on touchpoint type. One of these enhancements would give our marketing team a much clearer picture of what’s actually driving conversions and revenue. Right now, system events are dominating our attribution models, making it hard to justify marketing spend or optimize campaigns based on real impact.
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