How to automatically assign a contact to a deal (within Hubspot)

You had everything set up correctly. Sometimes it is best to then go into hubspot and do something to trigger again. Then you can go back to the zap, bring in the new data and do test & continue steps to ensure everything is OK.

some things that can cause issues I you create a test deal to start the zap build process then delete the test deal whilst doing the zap build and then subsequent tests fail for example. Can be confusing if you delete a deal or contact and then recreate it with the same information. The issue becomes that everything looks the same to us but the ID has changed.

@Troy Tessalone, 

I dont know why its working but it is working now. Thank you for all your help and patience. I will try not to touch anything and hopefully it keeps working. 

@AFM 

No timetables are provided for feature requests.

Could be tomorrow, could be never.

@Troy Tessalone,

Thanks for your help. Maybe its best to wait for Hubspot to fix it? Do you think the New Deal trigger will be available in the next couple of weeks?

Hi @danielajk, @DreTech , @AFM , @SeanWilson:

Thanks for reaching out and taking the time to surface this! I did some digging and was able to find the feature request related to adding associated fields to the “New Deal” trigger. 

While we don’t have an estimate when this will get implemented, I did go ahead and add votes for everyone in this topic to it. This way the HubSpot and Zapier teams can continue to track interest and send emails when and if this gets implemented.

Thank you to @Troy Tessalone and everyone for continuing to share your recommendations and what’s worked for you!

@AFM 

Try changing your Zap trigger step data: https://zapier.com/help/create/basics/change-the-test-data-in-your-zap-trigger

Hi Troy, 

I just tested them all and each on is working accept for the last step #3. I am still getting the ID error. Screenshots below:

@AFM

Make sure to test each Zap step manually

Hi Troy,

Thank you for the response and continued help. Hopefully this is helpful: 

Should something be set under triggers for New Contact in Hubspot?

@AFM

Please post screenshots with all your Zap steps, thanks.

Here is the error I am getting:

I pulled the only “ID” option from the Contact field that appears. Which for me is : 37051 

I am getting this error but this isn’t another ID for me to choose from. 

Here is the full screenshot.

Honestly if its an option, I am happy to pay a fee to hop on a zoom and have you tell me what to click to get this to work.

@DreTech 

You’ll need to use static IDs and/or use Zap steps to Find the Contact/Deal you want to dynamically map via variables as shown below.

This relates to the Contact

This relates to the Deal

Thanks for your response!

I tried it, however I don’t have a ID option for the second Field (I am assuming that’s the contact ID?)

Hi @DreTech & @AFM  & @danielajk 

Try this…

Zap Step 2 is related to the HubSpot Contact

Zap Step 3 is related to the HubSpot Deal

TIP: When in doubt, test it out!

We are having this same problem.

Trigger- New Form Submission

Action - Create or Update Contact

Action- Create Deal in hubspot

Action- Create Associations (this is where we are stuck, should this be contact to deal or deal to contact?) and which ID’s go on the object being associated and on the Id's of the objects the from object is being associated with)

Thanks so much for your help!

@AFM 

Can you please post full screenshots of your Zap steps.

Unable to tell what HubSpot trigger event you are using.

NOTE: By default HubSpot will return certain properties for the chosen object.

Hi @Troy Tessalone, I am not seeing the option under Triggers to select “New Contact”. Maybe I am doing something wrong on my end?

Hi @AFM 

Try these Zap steps…

1. Trigger: HubSpot - New Contact
2. Action: HubSpot - Create Deal
3. Action: HubSpot - Create Associations

I am having this same issue! I can not find a way to automatically create a deal when a new contact shows up in my Hubspot account. 

I am commenting, as I would like the follow this thread as it gets solved. This will be huge for our business and eliminate a lot of work for my team.

Hi,

I have the exact some problem as you. The legacy Hubspot API was great. The new one is not good. This is unfortunate. I am working on doing something with my own API key and seeing if I can get anything from there.

Until then, I have two workflows:

1. New deals:
2. Updated deals where the contact association has changed

Here is the issue: There is no way to have a trigger that notices a change to hubspot associations. That is, if you change a contact associated with a deal - there is no trigger for that.

A workaround I have created is to use the trigger ‘update on property change’ and use the property change ‘last modified time’.

But now there are a LOT of triggers that are created. Every chat, conversation, email, phone call, everything is a trigger.

So then I dealt with it in three parts:

1. A trigger system that sends a webhook
2. A catcher system that sorts and filters these triggers and passes on to the actual updater
3. The updater that updates the database with all sorts of interesting things (looping through associated contacts to get their details and update them for example) but this is not a concern for the time being.

The Trigger goes like this:

1. Receive trigger
2. create a key in storage by zapier with Key: CID_{Deal_ID} and value {zap_meta_timestamp}
3. send webhook

The Catcher goes like this:

1. Receive webhook with Deal_ID
2. Go into delay by zapier queue with queue name Q_{Deal_ID}
3. once out of delay use storage by zapier to find key CID_{deal_ID}
4. Filter by zapier to continue only if a value is found at CID_{deal_ID}
5. It runs some other checks (not important) before sending a webhook to the actual updater and then:
6. Uses storage by zapier to erase the key and value at CID_{Deal_ID}

The updater goes like this:

1. Receive webhook with Deal_ID
2. Find deal by Deal ID
3. Find Associations by Hubspot type
4. Loop through to do what I want with them.

In your case it seems you have:

1. A deal
2. A contact
3. No way of associating the contact with the Deal

I would recommend:

1. Once a deal is created with your other Zap
2. Send webhook for sub routine and make the payload the DealID and contactEmail
3. Sub routine searches for contact by email address (the unique key for contacts in HS)
4. New association using dealID and ContactID

@danielajk

The HubSpot New Deal Zap trigger is NOT instant.

Polling trigger: the majority of triggers are polling triggers.
With a polling trigger, Zapier will check for new data from your trigger every 1 to 15 minutes in order to start your Zap, depending on your pricing plan.

Check your Zap Runs to further troubleshoot: https://zapier.com/app/history/

@Troy Tessalone Thanks a lot for this tip. I could get it to work now. I have an trigger in place that creates a deal from a contact list in Hubspot. Once triggered, the zap will now include first and last name aswell as the contact id. It will separate the three with tha Formatter. With the Contact ID it is then easy to find the contact and create the association. I have one more issue with the contact association and automatic deal creation. So it seems that once a deal is automatically created with a zap based on another trigger, the contact association zap does not trigger (or recognize the new deal?). I have tested this by comparing the deals created via the zap from the Hubspot contact list vs. creating a deal manually. The contact association zap only triggers when a deal is manually created (only my test deal from 14.19).

@danielajk 

You need to map variables from a previous step.

For example, if your Deal Name is the Contact Name, then you may need a Formatter step to split the Deal Name into Contact First Name and Contact Last Name: https://zapier.com/help/create/format/get-started-with-formatter#using-the-lookup-table

NOTE: Splitting Full Names by spaces may not work as expected due to these reasons:

1. Multiple first names
2. Multiple last names
3. Middle names
4. Name prefixes (e.g. Dr.)
5. Name suffixes (e.g. Jr.)

@Troy Tessalone mmh, ok but why won’t it let me choose the respective value in Hubspot

Is it because it is already retrieving these standard properties? How can I then define that the “ID” is one from the standard properties list?

@danielajk 

If the Deal Name is the same as the Contact Name, then try adding a Find Contact step to the Zap before doing a Create Association step: