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You find you need to do anything fancy but there is no way to uniquely identify users apart from their email address? Well here is a hokey-pokey work-around.

What this does is just base64 encodes the vid property to a custom property that we can actually use. I don't like the idea of directly exposing the vid. So this obfuscates it slightly. However, it is still easy to decode in pretty much any programming language as far as I am aware of.

One example of a use case is adding it as query string in a url from a link in an email. We can then use it to identify the user that clicked the email on the target page.

Install

Using composer:

composer require focuscanada/hubspot-custom-id

Usage

1. Create a new contact property for the custom ID

Name it something like custom_id, and make it a single line text field.

2. Create a new smart list

You will need to create a new smart list that contains only contacts where the custom_id property is unknown. Remember the ID of that list. (It should be the number as the last component of the url when editing the list)

3. Use it (example)

<?php

require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

use Focus\HubspotId\SyncService;
use Fungku\HubSpot\HubSpotService;

$hubspot_api_key = 'demo';
$hubspot_list_id = '12345';
$hubspot_property = 'custom_id';

$hubspot = HubSpotService::make($hubspot_api_key);
$sync = new SyncService($hubspot, $hubspot_property);

$sync->syncList($hubspot_list_id);

4. Make a workflow (optional)

If you don't want it to run just as something like a cron job, or manually. Then you can deploy it to a server somewhere and create a workflow to access your script as a webhook.

Credits

• The idea came from these instructions on hubhacker.com.
• The original idea thread on the Hubspot forums.
• Uses ryanwinchester/hubspot-php for the API.