Contracts with a retroactive effective date

I just signed up for Revenue Hub for HUSH. As a growing agency we are still paying for licenses little by little, so I pulled the trigger this week and want to start using more of it, and contracts with a retroactive effective date sounds like exactly what the transition needs. It is in development, so forward-looking statement up front: effective billing dates separate when a contract starts from when billing starts, so existing and newly signed agreements can be represented accurately while you control when HubSpot begins billing.

The challenge this solves is switching systems that manage contracts or subscriptions. In tools designed for it, like beehiiv and Stripe for the Hubsessed subscriptions, you click some buttons on each side and everything stays active, nobody notices, and it still bills on time. That has not been available in HubSpot. Moving has meant tracking every start date in a super complex way and recreating the contract in HubSpot the moment it is ready, which is not really manageable. This is one more step toward managing ongoing contracts properly. I have a couple of clients I told to talk about this more next year, and a few jumping into Revenue Hub and contracts now, so I can see this landing on those projects in a good way. Looking forward to unboxing it.