Sync ownership between contacts and companies

The Contact owner and Company owner properties assign users as owners of contact and company records. By default, these properties are independent of each other, so the user who owns a company record may not own the associated contacts. Turn on the sync ownership setting to maintain consistent ownership between associated companies and contacts.

To sync ownership between contacts and companies:

1. In your HubSpot account, click the settings icon in the top navigation bar.

2. In the left sidebar menu, navigate to Objects > Contacts.

3. In the Automation section, select the checkbox to Assign company owner to contact by default.

With this setting turned on:

• For a contact's primary company association, the Company owner property will update the Contact owner property.
• The Contact owner property won't overwrite the associated primary company's Company owner property when a value is present.
• You can manually assign a new contact owner. In this case, the Contact owner property won't revert back to the value in the associated Company owner property.
• The setting doesn't update the owner or records retroactively.
• The setting doesn't affect any custom HubSpot user field type properties.