Best organization method - Products & Services?

TSaunders
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I work with a company that offers multiple services that within carry multiple products in each one. I am curious as to how others in this situation has organized their sales Hub? 

My team & I have thought of deal or product properties to be searched by or even having a pipeline per service - all have been found to operate rather clunkily or merge together. Sometimes we service a customer in more than one way in a single deal which makes the seperate pipelines potentially not ideal (if we use the quote feature in HubSpot)

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ndwilliams3
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Without more detail into the stages of the sales process and reporting, it's tough to say which way would be ideal.

 

I would probably avoid separate service pipelines if the stages in sales process are mostly the same and use a single pipeline with a multi-select property for services.

 

OR

If the process is competely different , a pipline for each service.

 

OR

If they have common initial steps, transition between pipelines at the point of divergence

  • Pipeline 1 (initial sales process) stages: 1, 2, 3
  • Pipeline 2 (service A) stages: 4A, 5A, 6A
  • Pipeline 3 (service B) stages: 4B, 5B, 6B
  • Pipeline 4 (multiple services) stages: 4C, 5C, 6C + multi-select property with services.

OR

If each service is sold independently or there is opportunity for an exisiting customer to buy service A now and then service B later down the road, you might want to consider a single pipeline with a separate deal for each service and use a dropdown property to identify the specific service.

 

 

 

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Mike_Eastwood
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Hi @TSaunders 

 

We've productised most of our services into programmes or packages. Now it's easy to sort, filter and report.

 

If you are quoting hourly rates – for service work – you could add a line item for hourly rate, then a multiplier to calculate a price (in quotes or deals). 

 

Feel free to share some more specific examples if you'd like some more detailed answers.

 

Cheers

Mike

ndwilliams3
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Without more detail into the stages of the sales process and reporting, it's tough to say which way would be ideal.

 

I would probably avoid separate service pipelines if the stages in sales process are mostly the same and use a single pipeline with a multi-select property for services.

 

OR

If the process is competely different , a pipline for each service.

 

OR

If they have common initial steps, transition between pipelines at the point of divergence

  • Pipeline 1 (initial sales process) stages: 1, 2, 3
  • Pipeline 2 (service A) stages: 4A, 5A, 6A
  • Pipeline 3 (service B) stages: 4B, 5B, 6B
  • Pipeline 4 (multiple services) stages: 4C, 5C, 6C + multi-select property with services.

OR

If each service is sold independently or there is opportunity for an exisiting customer to buy service A now and then service B later down the road, you might want to consider a single pipeline with a separate deal for each service and use a dropdown property to identify the specific service.

 

 

 

PamCotton
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Hello @TSaunders!

I would like to add some top experts to this matter to share their thoughts @Mike_Eastwood @HubSpotMaster @ndwilliams3 any recommendations to @TSaunders?

 

Thank you,

Pam