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- Rob (AI host): Your new rep runs demos on Zoom for a quarter, and nobody notices the recordings never reached HubSpot. Dana (AI host): HubSpot's help article shows where an admin decides who syncs, and which meetings never will. Rob (AI host): Stay for the one toggle that covers every user, and the meeting type that quietly opts out. Narrator (AI voice): This is Sidekick's What Just Shipped, presented by Sidekick Strategies. Narrator (AI voice): Your hosts, Rob and Dana, are AI. Narrator (AI voice): The voices are synthetic, the research is real, and humans check every claim before it reaches you. Rob (AI host): Rob and Dana here, your AI hosts. Rob (AI host): Today it's HubSpot's Zoom integration, and how recordings and transcripts get from Zoom into HubSpot. Rob (AI host): HubSpot's help article on it was updated at the end of September. Dana (AI host): Switching seats: today I'm playing a hypothetical RevOps manager whose sales team keeps growing, and who gets asked why a rep's calls are missing. Rob (AI host): Good seat for this one. Rob (AI host): Why it matters: if sync depends on someone remembering a checkbox per person, new hires fall through. Dana (AI host): Plans first. Who can use the integration? Rob (AI host): HubSpot lists it for all products and plans, free included. Dana (AI host): And what does it actually do? Rob (AI host): It syncs webinar registrations and attendance, lets a workflow add registrants to Zoom webinars, and shows Zoom cloud recordings on contact timelines. Dana (AI host): Contact timelines specifically. Rob (AI host): That's the record HubSpot's article names. Dana (AI host): Who can install it? Rob (AI host): Someone with App Marketplace permissions, or a Super Admin, in HubSpot. Rob (AI host): And they need admin permissions in the Zoom account too. Dana (AI host): So two admins might need to be in the room. Rob (AI host): Possibly, if those are different humans. Dana (AI host): What has to be true in Zoom before recordings show up? Rob (AI host): The Zoom account has to support cloud recording and audio transcripts, and both settings have to be on in Zoom. Dana (AI host): And on the person level? Rob (AI host): Each user connects their individual Zoom user account to HubSpot, and the cloud recording has to stay available in Zoom for it to sync. Dana (AI host): That second part is easy to miss. Dana (AI host): Delete it in Zoom too early, and there's nothing to sync. Rob (AI host): Right. And participants need a valid email address. Rob (AI host): HubSpot matches them to existing contacts by email, and creates contacts for the ones it doesn't find. Dana (AI host): Any meeting types that won't sync at all? Rob (AI host): Personal Meeting IDs. Rob (AI host): HubSpot says recordings from a meeting on a Personal Meeting ID won't sync, so use a scheduled meeting with a unique meeting ID. Dana (AI host): That one catches people who reuse the same link for everything. Rob (AI host): Another linking detail. Rob (AI host): If your HubSpot and Zoom user accounts share an email address, they link automatically and can't be unlinked. Rob (AI host): You can only switch to a different Zoom user account. Dana (AI host): Worth knowing before anyone shares a login. Rob (AI host): So where does an admin actually set who syncs? Dana (AI host): Walk me through it, step by step. Rob (AI host): Settings, then Integrations, then Connected Apps, then Zoom. Open the Settings tab, then Global settings. Dana (AI host): And then? Rob (AI host): Turn on the Sync meeting data toggle. That covers present and future meetings for all users. Rob (AI host): Then you choose whether recordings and transcripts sync for none, all, or selected Zoom users. Dana (AI host): Selected users. That's still person by person. Rob (AI host): In HubSpot's article, yes. Rob (AI host): There's also a User management tab where an admin opens User settings for one person and checks Sync this user's meeting recordings and transcripts. Dana (AI host): What about meetings that already happened? Rob (AI host): HubSpot says past meetings need a manual sync. Dana (AI host): Where does a person do that? Rob (AI host): In their own Meetings settings, under Manage individual meetings. Rob (AI host): Search by the Meeting ID of a meeting they organized, then click Sync now. Dana (AI host): What about webinars? Rob (AI host): A separate toggle, Sync webinar data, with the same none, all, or selected users choice. Rob (AI host): Webinars sync to marketing events, and the Zoom account needs the webinar add-on. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): Hey, it's George B. Thomas from Sidekick Strategies. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): Full honesty, this is my AI voice clone, made with my permission. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): Call data only helps when every system agrees on who owns what. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): Sidekick's RevOps and integration work connects your tech stack to HubSpot, with sync rules and error monitoring, so data flows automatically. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): And it starts with the humans, not the tools. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): Find RevOps and Integration under services at Sidekick Strategies dot com. Dana (AI host): Okay, the headline. Dana (AI host): Our research says you now pick Zoom user roles, and everyone in a role syncs automatically. Rob (AI host): That's what our write-up describes, plus a user table showing each person's role and sync status. Dana (AI host): And HubSpot's article? Rob (AI host): We couldn't confirm the role control there. Rob (AI host): The help article, last updated at the end of September, still describes none, all, or selected users. Rob (AI host): If your account shows the role selector, it may simply be newer than the documentation. Dana (AI host): Either way, check who's in a role before you switch it on. Rob (AI host): Agreed. A broad role can include people outside sales or service. Dana (AI host): And if an account doesn't show a role selector? Rob (AI host): Then selected users it is. Rob (AI host): Adding each new hire to that list belongs on the onboarding checklist. Dana (AI host): Is there a way to block whole groups, like contractors? Rob (AI host): Exclusions. You add email domains, and meetings from users with that domain don't sync. Dana (AI host): And when one person picks the do-not-sync option? Rob (AI host): Then no recordings or transcripts sync, but meetings still log as activities on the participants' contact records. Dana (AI host): One more. Auto-recording? Rob (AI host): Each user can turn on Enable auto-recording of meetings in Zoom. Rob (AI host): That gives HubSpot permission to switch on auto-recording in their Zoom account, and sync still has to be on for recordings to reach HubSpot. Dana (AI host): And the tenant rule? Rob (AI host): You can only connect one Zoom account to a single HubSpot account. Dana (AI host): And connecting one Zoom account to several HubSpot accounts? Rob (AI host): HubSpot doesn't recommend it if there's sensitive or private information that shouldn't be visible to every connected account. Dana (AI host): What if a rep's sync options are grayed out? Rob (AI host): That means an admin turned the setting off at the global level, so the fix sits in Global settings, not with the rep. Dana (AI host): Where can a new admin see everything the app does? Rob (AI host): The Feature discovery tab. Rob (AI host): It lists Zoom links for meetings, cloud recordings and transcripts, segmenting contacts by Zoom webinar properties, and promoting a webinar with a workflow. Dana (AI host): Alright, rollout plan, hypothetical RevOps manager. Rob (AI host): Step one: confirm cloud recording and audio transcripts are on in Zoom. Dana (AI host): Step two: in Global settings, turn on Sync meeting data and pick all users or selected users. Rob (AI host): Step three: add exclusion domains for anyone who shouldn't sync. Dana (AI host): Step four: move reps off Personal Meeting IDs, and manually sync any past meeting that matters. Dana (AI host): Manager's verdict: worth a settings check this week, starting with who's selected for recording sync. Rob (AI host): Check who syncs before the next hire starts. Dana (AI host): HubSpot's Zoom help article and our research are linked in the show notes, and there's more at Sidekick Strategies dot com. Rob (AI host): Thanks for digging into the settings with us. Dana (AI host): Go find the missing recordings. Narrator (AI voice): Sidekick's What Just Shipped is presented by Sidekick Strategies, with AI hosts Rob and Dana and AI-generated music. Narrator (AI voice): We're independent, and not affiliated with HubSpot. Find our research at Sidekick Strategies dot com.