How to handle the departure of a Sales Rep? (in forecast)
Hi Everyone,
I have an issue within the forecast module. In our company, we have many sales rep. Every sales rep is assigned in a "sub team" within the global Sales Team.
Every Sales rep has a monthly goal defined in forecast.
So far, nothing special but the issue is when the sales rep leaves the company. We have two things to take into account :
- His goal will still remains for the total of the sub team - His signed deal will still count for the total of the sub team
Hubspot told me that the only way to do so, is to keep a paid seat for all our sales but on the other hand, it makes no sense to keep paying for this ex-users.
How to handle the departure of a Sales Rep? (in forecast)
Hi @BFeron, If you deactivate the user (rather than remove them), all of the associations will remain in tact - their owned deals, contacts, goals, etc. and you can reassign them as needed.
It's my understanding the paid seat only allows access to the paid sales tools, like meetings, templates, sequences, etc. and you can remove them from the seat without removing their data for the goals, etc.
Hopefully one of the others can also confirm this, it has been over a year since I've removed someone from a seat.
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I won't remove the user. Indeed deactivate is way better to keep track of his signature. But I wanted to remove his paid seat (as he is no longer in the company). By removing the paid seat, this user won't appear in forecast anymore and we use forecast to see how much we signed vs our global (and sub teams) goals.
How to handle the departure of a Sales Rep? (in forecast)
@BFeron hmm, good point, could you allocate a single paid seat to 'inactive' users, so create a user that has a paid seat and reassign the forecasting of each sales rep that left to that user?
Or would that still mess with your team/sub-team structure?
Maybe @jolle has run into this before and has some insights...
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How to handle the departure of a Sales Rep? (in forecast)
Hi Pam,
I have the exact same issue and reassigning deals to other reps does not work, as need a clean records of the revenue each person has brought in for the year. Adding it to other users messes with their goals.
This is creating a huge issue for us currently, and we can't keep adding paid seats for ex-employees to ensure our forecast/goal attainment is correct.
Would it be possible to create ghost licneses that cannot perform anything in the system but are still shown in the forecast with their revenue? That would solve it for us.
How to handle the departure of a Sales Rep? (in forecast)
I 100% agree with this. The forecast tool is only useful if former reps can be displayed. Not only does it break the existing forecast, but all historical data as well. Hubspot needs to resolve this.
I learned that the only way to keep a deactivated user included in the forecasting tool is to keep a paid seat for that user. The deactivation is not necessarily what causes the exclusion, but the paid seat is.
How to handle the departure of a Sales Rep? (in forecast)
@PamCotton I appreciate your response, but keeping a former employee as a paid user to preserve forecast data is an unrealistic and unacceptable spend. Hubspot should modify the functionality to lock the historical data into the forecast for former employees and decouple it from the paid seat requirement.