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HubSpotUser2020
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Email tracking not working?

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Hello all,
loving the ability to track when an email has been opened/read but it doesn't seem to work? Have sent out 10 test emails, many have been opened and replied to but under Notifications they still show as "Sent" only. Email tracking seems to work with Gmail recipients but not with any others, wondering if anyone else has experienced this and what if anything I can do to resolve it? Email tracking would be wonderful ability to have, if I can get it to work. Any and all replies most gratefully appreciated. 

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sferreira
Solution
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Email tracking not working?

SOLVE

Hi @HubSpotUser2020 , 

 

Thanks for reaching out to our Community! 

A couple of questions before digging into this: 

  1. are you sending emails through the HubSpot CRM?
  2. or directly via your inbox Gmail or Outlook, using the sales extension?

When you send an email via the CRM, or through your Gmail/Outlook, using the sales extension, and ticking the "track/log" button, when someone opens that email you should be notified. HubSpot embeds an invisible one-pixel image into the email message once it is sent. When your recipient views the email and the images load, you will receive a notification that the email has been opened.

Please note: 

If the recipient's email client doesn't allow the tracking pixel to load, HubSpot will not be able to track the email open. HubSpot tracking can be deactivated in the following situations:

 

  • The recipient formats their email in plain text. 
  • The recipient's email client doesn't automatically download images. 
  • The recipient's corporate filter strips away all images for incoming emails. 
  • The recipient's installed a firewall/Ad Block/Ad Blocker that blocks images to load

If the recipient has a very strict spam filter where they block any images or link tracking from loading in emails, your tracked email could be filtered as spam. 

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Paul15
Member

Email tracking not working?

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My email tracking isn't working again.  I feel like I run into this issue every 6 months.  I've reinstalled hubspot into my gmail.  I have also reinstalled my hubspot extension.  I've done both multiple times. Still not working.  Please help.

MPohle
Participant

Email tracking not working?

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It is the same at my outlook account. Every few weeks I got the same problem. 

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LChev
Participant

Email tracking not working?

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I found this post a few years later now, but I am having the same issues as other users, where emails I send from Gmail using the HubSpot email extension are tracked and logged as expected.

 

However emails I send directly from the HubSpot CRM are not tracked. I can only see that the emails are sent. I never get a notification that they are opened.

 

I have tested this using the same recipient email address so it is clearly to do with the method of sending, not the recipient email client.

 

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kvlschaefer
Community Manager
Community Manager

Email tracking not working?

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Hi @LChev,

 

Thank you for reaching out. 

 

Since this post is 3 years old, I would like to invite you to create a new post in our community describing the logging issue you are running into. 

 

Please be sure to include any troubleshooting steps you have taken so far and pertinent screenshots for the community to better assist.

 

Thank you,

Kristen


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cpbrody59
Member

Email tracking not working?

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Same functional area, different problem: I'm using Gmail extension (corporate domain with gmail cloud service, I use theChrome browser for UI) and I've set my Hubspot to log but not track emails - years ago.  I also set the account global preference the same (log yes, track no).  Starting on 23-Oct with no user intervention - I am the sole superuser - tracking was enabled i both places.  Even more peculiar, very few emails are being tracked.  I have only ever filtered our own domain, and one full address, but the majority of external address aren't tracked, though a few random emails are.  Icing on the cake: I explicitly disabled tracking again this morning, started a chat with Hubspot, and within an hour my tracking was enabled again.  Looking back through activity history I see tracking residue intermittenly and for aonly a few emails popping up over the past 3 years.  Any ideas what might be going on, especially in the past month?  The Hubspot folks are non-responsive about any new releases ....

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jesseingels
Member

Email tracking not working?

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I'm having the same problem, my tracking stopped shortly after 8am on Sept 15, 2020. I sent a test email this evening to a gmail account and opened it on a mobile device that downloaded the images in my signature (so presumably the pixel image downloaded too) but it's still not showing "opened" in my gmail inbox.  I only send from gmail and use the sales extension & it's been working the last several weeks just find until 3 days ago.

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sferreira
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Email tracking not working?

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Hi @jesseingels , 

Have you checked that the "TRACK/LOG" boxes are ticked when you send that message? 
Could I ask you to send me a test email to sferreira@hubspot.com ?

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SeaShellDigital
Member

Email tracking not working?

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I am not seeing the TRACK/LOG option.hubspotemail.PNG

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sferreira
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Email tracking not working?

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Hi @SeaShellDigital , when you write an email from the CRM, you automatically track/log that email, I was referencing the Track and Log options from the Sales Extension: https://knowledge.hubspot.com/connected-email/how-to-install-hubspot-sales

jesseingels
Member

Email tracking not working?

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Hi @sferreira, Yes, both boxes are checked by default and I've just sent you an email.

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sferreira
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Email tracking not working?

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Hi @jesseingels 

I confirm that the pixel is firing correctly, I successfully received and opened your email: 

 

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Don't hesitate if you have any doubts, 

 

Best, 

Sebastian 

 

 

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sferreira
Solution
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Email tracking not working?

SOLVE

Hi @HubSpotUser2020 , 

 

Thanks for reaching out to our Community! 

A couple of questions before digging into this: 

  1. are you sending emails through the HubSpot CRM?
  2. or directly via your inbox Gmail or Outlook, using the sales extension?

When you send an email via the CRM, or through your Gmail/Outlook, using the sales extension, and ticking the "track/log" button, when someone opens that email you should be notified. HubSpot embeds an invisible one-pixel image into the email message once it is sent. When your recipient views the email and the images load, you will receive a notification that the email has been opened.

Please note: 

If the recipient's email client doesn't allow the tracking pixel to load, HubSpot will not be able to track the email open. HubSpot tracking can be deactivated in the following situations:

 

  • The recipient formats their email in plain text. 
  • The recipient's email client doesn't automatically download images. 
  • The recipient's corporate filter strips away all images for incoming emails. 
  • The recipient's installed a firewall/Ad Block/Ad Blocker that blocks images to load

If the recipient has a very strict spam filter where they block any images or link tracking from loading in emails, your tracked email could be filtered as spam. 

GDiNapoli4
Member

Email tracking not working?

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I have a free account. Although things are fine with marketing emails sent from CRM and when I tried to send an email I received the report regularly, I can't track one-to-one emails. This happens whether I send emails from CRM or via Gmail with Extension. In fact, with the latter I can't check the tracking box because the message that I am not authorized to record or track the email in this portal appears. I have given all the requested permissions, but it's as if something is blocked, because it continually asks me to update the permissions. The sequence is this: Connect your Google account to HubSpot CRM | Update permissions | I accept | I choose an account (mine, the only one) | Sign in to HubSpot | HubSpot wants to access your Google Account | HubSpot account (the only one, mine) | Add reports to this Dashboard. If I go back to Gmail I find the screen again: Connect your Google account to HubSpot CRM. How can I solve the problem? Again, what seems very strange to me is that with marketing emails it works and I receive the tracking report with the same addresses that I am having problems with. Thanks in advance for your interest

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CNguyen3
Member

Email tracking not working?

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Hi,

 

I am experiencing the same problem. I have the Hubspot Gmail Extension and have sent emails from Gmail with both the "tracking" and "logging" features checked. In the CRM, it only gets logged as "sent" and never shows if the email has been opened or not. Please see below for a screenshot reference.

 

When I send emails through the Hubspot CRM it gets logged correctly and shows when my emails are opened and clicked. Could you please help troubleshoot?

 

Much thanks!

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aprasad25
Member

Email tracking not working?

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Hey!

Is your email plain text? If that setting is on it won’t track.
Make sure it’s off and it should works.

A


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aprasad25
Member

Email tracking not working?

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Hey!

 

I'm having a similar issue - but it's not tracking the email through Gmail - i've tested it with people who have lax email permissions too. When i send an email through the HUBSPOT crm - it logs / tracks it - but it doesn't work with the gmail extension. 

 

it was working last week and now it doesnt. 

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TitiCuisset
Community Manager
Community Manager

Email tracking not working?

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Hi @aprasad25 

 

Thank you for reaching out. 

 

With a free subscription, clicks will not be tracked. However, the opens should be tracked. Could you confirm that the track box is checked when the email is being sent? (You can follow these steps here for that)

 

Is this happening with all your emails or some of them? 

 

HubSpot uses an invisible pixel to track the emails. If the recipient's email client doesn't allow the track pixel to load, HubSpot will not be able to track the email open. HubSpot tracking can be deactivated in the following situations:

  • The recipient formats their email in plain text. 
  • The recipient's email client doesn't automatically download images. 
  • The recipient's corporate filter strips away all images for incoming emails. 

Thank you

Best

Tiphaine


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HubSpotUser2020
Member

Email tracking not working?

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Thanks for the explanation. It seems likely that the tracking images are not being allowed to load and so email opens can not be tracked. Perhaps it was easier to track email opens 5 years ago but now there are filters and clients that prevent it. Since email open tracking is no longer widely available I won't waste your time with test messages or similar since of course I need it to work with non-Hubspot recipient addresses and that seems an unlikely outcome. Thanks much for taking the time to explain and if I may (humbly) suggest, can you please skillshare this information with your Chat support team? I spent several hours with them and they tested this and that and the other, then I posted here and your reply gave me the answer in seconds. Just a thought, would help to free up your Chat team members to deal with other issues. 

HubSpotUser2020
Member

Email tracking not working?

SOLVE

 

I have sent emails via HubSpot CRM and via Gmail and via Outlook (both desktop and web-based). Email tracking does not work at all, except for Gmail recipients. And so it seems that email clients are no longer allowing the tracking pixel to load and so email tracking by this method is no longer possible.

 

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sferreira
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Email tracking not working?

SOLVE

Thanks for getting back to me @HubSpotUser2020 

Could I ask you to send me 3 tests: one via CRM, one via Gmail with the extension enabled, one via Outlook with the extension enabled to sebastian.ferreira@outlook.com ?

 

I'd like then to double-check the tracking, thank you for your cooperation.

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