Pipedrive lacks event-driven automation on pipeline stage changes
Pipedrive does not support conditional automation triggers when deals move through pipeline stages, such as automatically sending emails or firing webhooks. Sales teams are forced to take manual steps that should be automated. The gap is structural — it reflects a missing event-action model rather than a configuration issue.
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