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Upsell opportunity deal creation from product usage threshold

One of 565 written HubSpot workflow specs, by a collective of independent HubSpot consultants.

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Seat pricing: Professional edition. To build it, a GTM Seat or an Ops Seat (an Ops Seat cannot create marketing emails or sequences). Per-hub plans: Sales Hub Professional.

Company4 stepsUpdated for HubSpot seat pricing
OutcomeAn expansion deal is created automatically the moment an account crosses a usage or seat threshold, so the account manager has a starting point for the upgrade conversation instead of finding out from a churn-adjacent support ticket.
Workflow maprenewal-expansion-005
Company: Customer, Usage Percent Of Limit >= 80%, no upsell deal yet leads to Set Upsell Deal Created = true. Set Upsell Deal Created = true leads to Create expansion deal, associate to company. Create expansion deal, associate to company leads to Create task: start upgrade conversation. Create task: start upgrade conversation leads to Notify owner. Company: Customer, Usage Percent Of Limit >= 80%, no upsell deal yet Set Upsell Deal Created = true Create expansion deal, associate to company Create task: start upgrade conversation Notify owner
Company: Customer, Usage Percent Of Limit >= 80%, no upsell deal yet leads to Set Upsell Deal Created = true. Set Upsell Deal Created = true leads to Create expansion deal, associate to company. Create expansion deal, associate to company leads to Create task: start upgrade conversation. Create task: start upgrade conversation leads to Notify owner. Company: Customer, Usage Percent Of Limit >= 80%, no upsell deal yet Set Upsell Deal Created = true Create expansion deal, associate to company Create task: start upgrade conversation Notify owner

When to use it, when not to

Use it

  • Use it when usage or seat consumption is already synced into a HubSpot property from the product, and expansion conversations currently start too late.
  • Use it for accounts with a plan limit that has commercial meaning (seats, API calls, storage, contacts) where crossing a threshold is a real buying signal.
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Skip it

  • Do not use it if usage data is not synced into HubSpot at all. This workflow reacts to a property; it has no way to pull usage from an external system on its own.
  • Do not use it on accounts already flagged high churn risk (see renewal-expansion-004) without a check; a usage spike on an unhappy account can mean something different from a usage spike on a healthy one.
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Prerequisites · 4 items

Every property with its label, internal name, type and options, plus the assets the workflow needs.

Enrollment · 4 parts

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Steps · 4 numbered actions

Each action in order with its parameters, branches and delays.

Known pitfalls · 5

Traps seen in production, each with what breaks and what to do instead.

Test plan and UAT script · 2 cases, 3 variants

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Files · PDF, Markdown, JSON, CSV

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