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Usetiful with HubSpot: A Powerful Integration for Product-Led Growth

 The new Usetiful + HubSpot integration is something special for product, marketing, and customer success teams who want to achieve the Holy Grail of product-led growth (PLG). 

By connecting Usetiful’s in-app onboarding and user engagement tools with HubSpot’s powerful CRM and automation capabilities, teams can create a seamless, data-driven user journey that works from first touch to adoption and retention.


If that sounds like something your SaaS product needs, this article is for you.

What is Usetiful, and how does it work with HubSpot?

Usetiful on HubSpot Marketplace


Usetiful is a leading digital adoption platform that helps organizations build intuitive onboarding tours, smart tips, interactive checklists, in-app banners, and more, with no coding required. 

These onboarding features are seamlessly integrated into your app or website, creating a consistent and intuitive experience that empowers users to learn about the features and functions that make your app valuable.


With the HubSpot integration, you can now map your contacts and companies in HubSpot to visitor and account data in Usetiful. The upshot here is that you can create a unified view of your users and connect product usage with marketing, sales, and customer success initiatives.


The potential benefits here are immense, including unlocking real-time usage insights, personalization at scale, and next-level reporting. In other words, companies operating without lavish marketing budgets can move beyond basic CRM or onboarding tools to build a truly integrated, product-led growth engine.


Key benefits for Product-Led Growth teams

These are tough times in the SaaS world, so product, marketing, and customer success teams need all the help they can get. Thankfully, the Usetiful + HubSpot integration was built to help Growth or Go-to-Market teams work better, not harder.

#1. Unified customer view & segmentation

Syncing contact properties and product usage data between HubSpot and Usetiful provides a single source of truth. By eliminating data silos, you get the big picture you need for more informed, evidence-driven decisions.


Additionally, enhanced segmentation facilitates highly personalized onboarding and engagement flows that are tailored to each user’s role, company, lifecycle stage, and more.

#2. Automated, Personalized Onboarding

Modern users want onboarding that meets them where they are and content that is relevant to their goals and objectives. You can use the integration to trigger onboarding content, checklists, and product walkthroughs in Usetiful based on HubSpot lifecycle stages, custom properties, or other relevant information.


In a PLG context, automating repetitive onboarding tasks frees up customer success teams to focus on higher-value activities.

#3. Data-Driven Product Adoption

You can also monitor in-app activity and sync usage data to HubSpot for real-time reporting, lead scoring, and targeted outreach. Similarly, you can use product usage as a signal to trigger win-back campaigns, upsell opportunities, or CSM outreach, driving higher conversion from free trials to paid accounts.

#4. Enhanced Customer Success & Retention

Customer success teams get a 360° view of user health. This opens the door to proactive outreach and personalized support based on actual product engagement, which is a real difference maker. 


Automated workflows and health scoring are ideal tools for reducing churn and increasing retention, which is crucial for PLG teams that lack the continuous influx of prospects from PPC marketing and similar channels.

#5. Scalability & Efficiency

Integrated workflows help reduce manual data entry and context switching. By streamlining operations, you can support rapid business growth without needing to add more resources.

Perhaps more significantly, automation ensures that onboarding and engagement remain consistent and of high quality.


Setting up the Usetiful HubSpot integration

Here’s how you can connect Usetiful with HubSpot and unlock PLG.


This guide will cover two distinct processes, which are:


  1. Connecting HubSpot to Usetiful

  2. Syncing HubSpot Properties as Usetiful Tags


Part 1: Connecting HubSpot to Usetiful


Step 1: Enable the HubSpot Integration in Usetiful

Log in to your Usetiful account.


Navigate to Integrations > HubSpot.


Click Connect to HubSpot and authorize the connection.


Now you’ve established a secure link between the two platforms.


Step 2: Configure Sync Direction

Next, you need to control where data originates and how each system "talks" to each other.


Choose: 


HubSpot → Usetiful: Contacts flow from HubSpot to Usetiful, which is recommended for personalization.


Usetiful → HubSpot: User activity data, such as product tour completions, flows back to HubSpot.


Step 3: Map Default Fields

Usetiful automatically maps common HubSpot properties (e.g., email, firstname) to user profiles. This ensures that basic contact information, such as names or emails, syncs correctly.


Part 2: Syncing HubSpot Properties as Usetiful Tags

Now, we have moved on to the next stage, which allows for advanced integration. For example, selecting specific HubSpot contact properties (like country, company, etc.) to be used as tags in Usetiful for more granular segmentation and targeting.


Step 4: Create Custom Properties in HubSpot (If Needed)

Tags work best with predefined, standardized values. Here’s how you can use them.


In HubSpot:


Go to Settings > Properties > Contacts.


Click "Create Property" (e.g., "Customer Tier") with options such as "Free," "Pro," or "Enterprise".


Use the Dropdown or Checkbox field types for tag-friendly values.


Step 5: Select Properties to Sync as Tags

Return to Usetiful’s HubSpot integration settings.


Under Advanced Options, toggle on Sync Contact Properties as Tags.


Choose specific HubSpot properties (e.g., "Customer Tier," "Industry").


This process converts HubSpot data into actionable Usetiful tags for segmentation.


Step 6: Configure Sync Rules

In Usetiful:


Set Sync Frequency. The default setting is real-time, but you can adjust it to suit your needs.


Here, you can also exclude specific properties, such as phone numbers or other sensitive data.


Part 3: Use Tags for Personalization

Step 7: Create Segments in Usetiful


In Usetiful, go to Segments > New Segment.


Add rules like:


Tag = "Enterprise" → Target premium users.


Tag = "Europe" → Show region-specific guides.


Segments allow you to tailor experiences automatically, which is perfect for PLG.


Step 8: Build Targeted Experiences

From here, you can match particular segments to various onboarding content, such as:


  • Product tours

  • Tooltips

  • Checklists


So, for example, you could trigger a product walkthrough for users that you’ve tagged for a “Trial”, and so on.


Use Cases for the Usetiful + HubSpot Integration

You know how to integrate with HubSpot and understand its benefits. Now it’s time to get more specific and take a look at the use cases that can help PLG teams win and keep customers. 

Integrated onboarding

The integration means you can automatically show Usetiful’s onboarding tours or checklists to new users based on their details in HubSpot, such as role, company, or their current position in the customer journey.


Instead of pushing users through generic welcome and onboarding flows, you can offer guidance that meets their needs and objectives. For example, different job roles engage with an app in unique ways. Instead of overloading users with support for features or functions they won’t use, you can ensure that when they log in, they see product tours that are relevant to their objectives.


In-App Engagement

Whenever users interact with your app, their activity is sent to HubSpot. This lets you see what features they’re using (or not using), where they might be getting stuck, and a whole host of other interesting data. 


Growth teams can use this data to trigger helpful emails, reminders, or content that can help keep users engaged.


Onboarding automation

Users often fail to complete onboarding for various reasons. However, when you integrate both platforms, you can automate emails or assign a task to your team to help users get back on track. 


You don’t have to manually track the users' onboarding journey. Instead, you can improve onboarding completion with a friendly nudge, a follow-up contact, or a piece of content that addresses the issue and ensures no one falls through the cracks.


Product adoption

You can also track how well users are adopting your product directly in HubSpot. If someone isn’t using a key feature, you can trigger a campaign to encourage them to try it out.


This benefit is that you can identify users who might need additional support or are at risk of leaving. With this information, you can step in early and provide them with what they need to become active users.


CSM outreach automation

When users reach a milestone or get stuck in onboarding, Usetiful can communicate with HubSpot and trigger Customer Success to reach out. 


The upside here is that users get personal and relevant attention when they need it. It’s a great way to marshal your time and resources, and ensure each interaction is meaningful.


Product usage data

Usetiful generates valuable data about how users are interacting with your product. Now that data is available in HubSpot, you can build custom dashboards to view trends, track onboarding success, and monitor user health.


Having a centralized, clear, and up-to-the-minute view of product usage means making better decisions and optimizing resource utilization.


Conclusion

The Usetiful + HubSpot integration is big news for teams embracing product-led growth. By connecting in-app engagement with CRM automation, SaaS teams can leverage personalization, efficiency, and scalability to drive user activation and retention, ultimately improving the bottom line. 


The integration is available in the HubSpot App Marketplace. If you’re ready to build better user onboarding journeys, download it today.







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