HubSpot
Email to HubSpot,
the easy way
ForwardThis is the simple tool that connects your email to HubSpot. Forward any email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Nothing to download, nothing to set up. Works with dozens of your other apps too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect HubSpot
Create a free account and connect HubSpot. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made - and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Website enquiry - Lambeth Dental
Add Owen as a contact and create a deal for Lambeth Dental worth £6,500.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Hi - we saw your practice management package and we'd like a demo. There are six of us and we'd want to be live before the new year.
Added contact Owen Fletcher
owen@lambethdental.co.uk · Lambeth Dental
Created deal Lambeth Dental - practice package
£6,500 · six seats
Undo available for 24 hours if something does not look right.
Some other examples
- “Log this as a call on the Lambeth Dental contact.”
- “Add Owen to the Autumn Demos list.”
- “Create a follow-up task to chase the demo on Monday.”
Everything ForwardThis can do in HubSpot
Create contact
Add a contact
Update contact
Update a contact's details
Add note
Log a note, call, meeting or email
Add CRM record
Add a deal, ticket, company or custom object
Update CRM record
Update a deal, ticket, company or custom object
Look up a contact
Look up a contact
Look up records
Look up deals, tickets or companies
Read a record
Read one record in full
Create task
Add a follow-up task
Update task
Update or complete a task
Look up tasks
Look up your CRM tasks
Link records
Associate two records
Change tags
Add or remove a contact's list membership
Attach file
Attach a file to a contact
Delete record
Archive a record
Merge duplicate records
Merge two duplicate records
Try it with a real email.
Forward any work email to the address below and see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to HubSpot?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a line saying what it is, like "add this as a contact and open a deal". ForwardThis creates the records, fills in the details it can read from the email, and replies to confirm with links. The first time, you'll need a free account with HubSpot connected, which takes about 30 seconds - that's the entire HubSpot email integration.
- Can it create a deal, a ticket or a company from an email?
- Yes, and custom objects too. Name what you want in your instruction and ForwardThis creates it, with an amount and a stage on a deal, a description on a ticket, a domain on a company, and an owner on any of them. It can associate the new record with the contact in the same go.
- Will it duplicate a contact that's already in HubSpot?
- No. The email address is the identity, so an existing contact with that address is updated rather than added again. The confirmation tells you which of the two happened.
- Can it add someone to a list or log a call against them?
- Yes. HubSpot's version of a tag is a list, so "add Owen to the Autumn Demos list" puts him in that manual list. Notes, calls and meetings all land on the contact's timeline, and logging an email that already happened sends nothing to anybody.
- How is this different from HubSpot's own forwarding address?
- HubSpot's address logs a copy of the email onto the contact's timeline, which is useful and free. This is HubSpot email automation without building a workflow first: you write one line, and the email becomes the contact, the deal and the follow-up task, in HubSpot and in your other apps.