Predictive Forecasting: HubSpot + QuickBooks
Can you trust your forecast for next month? askotter reads HubSpot and QuickBooks together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does predictive forecasting with HubSpot and QuickBooks work for a small business?
askotter reads HubSpot and QuickBooks side by side so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account. Forecasts that update as your numbers change, with a likely range attached.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From HubSpot
- Contacts and companies, Deal pipeline and stages, Email campaign performance.
- From QuickBooks
- Income and expense data, Accounts receivable/payable, Cash flow statements.
- Status
- QuickBooks is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing HubSpot or QuickBooks. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Can you trust your forecast for next month?
Most small business forecasts are last year's numbers in a spreadsheet. They miss that your ad spend doubled this quarter or that the busy season started early.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads HubSpot and QuickBooks side by side, so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our digital marketing services work.
How HubSpot and QuickBooks records line up
HubSpot and QuickBooks both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Both tools can hold a phone number. Numbers are normalised to one international format before matching, which catches customers who never gave an email.
Shared between the two: the customer email address, the phone number and the company or account.
What predictive forecasting uses from each
Predictive forecasting needs enough history to see the seasonal pattern.
From HubSpot that means open deals by stage and expected close date. From QuickBooks it means monthly revenue and expenses by category.
QuickBooks is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
HubSpot on its own
HubSpot sees the contact and the deal. It cannot see money collected outside it, or ad spend on platforms it is not connected to.
Timing. HubSpot updates contact and deal properties as they change, and keeps the original source and first page seen on each contact.
Access. A HubSpot private app or OAuth connection with read-only CRM scopes.
QuickBooks on its own
QuickBooks sees what was billed and paid. It has no idea which marketing produced the customer.
Timing. QuickBooks shows revenue when invoices and sales receipts are entered, which can trail the sale in a busy month.
Access. The QuickBooks Online Accounting API with read-only OAuth access.
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Questions about HubSpot + QuickBooks
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How is askotter's Predictive Forecasting different from what HubSpot shows on its own?
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