HubSpot Sales Hub Locks Core Features Behind Forced Upgrades, With Broken Softphone and Weak Support
A sales team found HubSpot Sales Hub's softphone and power dialer broken from day one, received no effective technical support, and discovered many workflow-critical actions require an unadvertised upgrade from Professional to Enterprise — while locked into an annual contract they could not exit without paying for 11 unused months.
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