Manage workflow settings

From a workflow's Settings tab, you can manage when actions should execute, set unenrollment triggers, add associated campaigns, and allow Salesforce enrollment.

To access a workflow's settings:

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Automation > Workflows.
• Hover over the workflow, then click Edit.
• In the workflow editor, click the Settings tab.

To watch an overview of workflow settings, check out the video below:

See the full HubSpot Academy lesson: Workflows deep dive

General

In the General section, you can manage the days of the week and times that actions can execute, allow contacts to be enrolled from Salesforce, and associate contact-based workflows with HubSpot campaigns. 

Set times for actions to execute

By default, workflow actions will execute as soon as an enrolled record reaches the action. To specify when actions can take place:

• Select Specific times.
• Select a day from the dropdown menu. Then use the dropdown menus to specify the time range for actions to execute. Times are based on the timezone selected in your account settings. 
• To add more action execution times, click Add hours.

When a record reaches an action outside of the set time frame, the action will be rescheduled:

• The workflow will attempt to reschedule the action for the same time on the next available day. However, if the time of the action is outside the specified time frame, the workflow will instead reschedule the action for the earliest available time on the next available day.

• To prevent workflow overload, actions are rescheduled to execute within a 15-minute window. For example, if the next available time is 9:00 AM, actions will be rescheduled for times between 9:00 - 9:15 AM.

Delays and if/then branches aren't rescheduled, but the action that follows will. For example:

• A deal-based workflow is set to only execute actions Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
• A deal enters a 2-day delay on Thursday, then exits the delay on Saturday.
• After exiting the delay on Saturday, the deal proceeds to the next step, which is an if/then branch.
• The deal is checked against the if/then branch, then proceeds down the YES branch. The next action is then rescheduled for Monday between 9:00 - 9:15 AM.

When records are rescheduled for an action, the action will show a count of those records, such as 1 contact in this action. To view the specific records and when they're rescheduled to proceed, click the action, then in the right panel, click the [Object] in action tab.

Set pause dates to prevent actions from executing

You can set a workflow to prevent actions from executing on specific dates. On those date, when a record reaches an action, the action will pause until the next available date. 

For example,  you created a workflow for an upcoming marketing campaign. If your campaign is running in November, you may not want to send out emails during the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. You could add a pause date so that your email actions won't send out emails on November 26th. Contacts who reach the email send action on that date will be sent their email the next day at midnight instead.

Pause dates take other date settings into account when rescheduling actions. For example,  a workflow is set to only execute actions Monday - Wednesday from 9AM to 5PM. If you add a pause date that takes place on a Wednesday, actions on that day will be rescheduled for the next Monday at 9AM.

Please note: records will still enroll and enter delays and if/then branches on paused days. Once they enter the workflow or leave the delay or if/then branch, they will pause at the next action. 

To add a pause date to your workflow:

• Under On what upcoming days do you want to pause actions from executing? click + Add dates. 
  
  
• Select a date by clicking the date field. You can only select days in the future, starting with tomorrow's date. To pause actions on the same date every year, select the Annually checkbox.
  
  
• Add more dates by clicking + Add dates, or click Save to save your changes.

When records are scheduled for an action, the action will show a count of those records, such as 1 contact in this action. To view the specific records and how long they're scheduled to pause, click the action, then in the right panel, click the [Object] in action tab.

Allow enrollment from Salesforce

In contact-based workflows, if you've installed the Salesforce integration and added the HubSpot Visualforce window, you can choose to enroll Salesforce leads and contacts that have synced to HubSpot. To enroll Salesforce leads or contacts, select Yes, allow enrollment from Salesforce.

Learn more about enrolling your Salesforce leads or contacts into HubSpot workflows directly from Salesforce.

Associate your workflow with a HubSpot campaign

If you're a Marketing Hub Professional or Enterprise user, this contact-based workflow setting allows you to associate your workflows to any of your campaigns. Click the Campaigns associated with dropdown menu and select a campaign name.

When a campaign is associated with a workflow, the following data will be available in the campaign:

• The number of enrolled contacts.
• The number of contacts that joined the goal list. Learn more about setting up workflow goals.
• The overall workflow conversion rate. This is calculated by dividing the Joined goal list number by the Started workflow number, then multiplying by 100 to get a percentage.

Unenrollment and suppression

Settings in the Unenrollment and suppression section allow you to control which records enroll and when.

In company, deal, quote, and ticket-based workflows, you can set the criteria that unenrolls active records and also prevents them from enrolling or re-enrolling.

In contact-based workflows, you can manage the enrollment of merged contacts, remove contacts that no longer meet enrollment criteria, and prevent enrollment of contacts in specific lists.

Set unenrollment triggers for companies, deals, quotes, and tickets

In company, deal, quote, and ticket-based workflows, unenrollment triggers will remove actively enrolled records from the workflow and prevent them from enrolling or re-enrolling.

• Click Set unenrollment triggers.
  
• In the right panel, set your unenrollment triggers. Then, click Apply filter. Learn more about unenrollment triggers in workflows.
• Add more unenrollment triggers as needed, then click Save.

Remove enrolled contacts from other workflows

This contact-based workflow setting allows you to decide what will happen to enrolled contacts who are also enrolled in another workflow. By default, contacts will not be removed from other workflows.

• Do not remove them from other workflows: contacts will remain enrolled in other workflows.
• Remove them from all other workflows: once the contact is enrolled in this workflow, they will be removed from all other workflows.
• Remove them from a specific workflow: once the contact is enrolled in this workflow, they will be removed from any workflow you select from the dropdown menu. Click the Remove them from specific workflows dropdown menu to select the specific workflow(s).

Allow merged contacts to enroll

When you merge contacts, the merged contact may then meet enrollment triggers for workflows. The default behavior for enrolling merged contacts depends on when the workflow was created:

• Workflows created before March 2021 will enroll contacts as a result of a merge by default.
• Workflows created after March 2021 will not enroll contacts as a result of a merge by default. However, merged contacts can enroll in the future if they meet the enrollment triggers again and re-enrollment is enabled. 

To update merged contact enrollment in a workflow, select Yes or No for this setting.