I'm very interested in the recent updates to forecasting sales, but we are not able to use it as it's currently set up. We are not focused on revenue yet, therefore, we only set goals for the sales team to sell SaaS. The forecasting functionality would be great if we could somehow forecast subscription sales, but revenue alone does not work for us. An easy solution would be to implement the ability to set Goals based on Number of Deals Closed. However, my proposed solution wouldn't work when a salesperson sells 2 subscriptions on one Deal. We could certainly work around this issue by creating 2 separate deals, and that wouldn't be much of a problem. An alternative approach requires more background to how our HubSpot is set up. Currently, we have a Product SKU that records the subscription in a Deal Line Item. Once the Deal is completed, we have a Custom Object called Subscriptions that is created. If the salesperson sold 2 subscriptions on the Deal, then 2 Subscriptions are created. These Subscriptions are synced with our company's admin page via the API to keep our customer account data current and accessable in the form of HubSpot properties. I have 2 proposed solutions: 1) Create the ability to track Line Items/SKUs in the pipeline against a Goal. 2) Create the ability to track custom objects such as our Subscriptions.
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