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08 / 09

Investing in your future growth

01 · Operations

A Structured Approach to Implementation

Our phased methodology ensures a controlled transition from Upsales to HubSpot. We begin with comprehensive discovery, blueprinting your processes, then configure and migrate data, concluding with user acceptance testing and role-based training. This structured path minimises disruption and builds confidence across your teams.

02 · Leadership

Senior Expertise Guiding Your Project

Your project benefits from direct engagement with senior consultants, each with over five years of HubSpot experience. They act as strategic partners, translating your commercial challenges into effective HubSpot solutions and ensuring the implementation aligns with your broader business objectives.

03 · RevOps

Prioritising Core CRM for Business Continuity

We will prioritise the core CRM setup, data migration, and sales environment activation to ensure a smooth transition from Upsales. This focus guarantees your sales team has a fully functional HubSpot environment before your current contract ends, safeguarding business operations.

04 · Sales

Driving Adoption Through Targeted Training

A successful implementation means your team embraces the new system. We provide role-based training for all 12 users, ensuring they understand how HubSpot supports their daily tasks and helps them achieve their targets, fostering high adoption and reliable data.

Your implementation and protection engagement

One continuous engagement covering implementation, launch and the first 12 months of senior post-go-live support.

£15,456+ VAT

Total first-year commitment

Fixed implementation
£12,000
12-month Silver Protection Plan (£288 per month)
£3,456

This includes a 20% introductory saving on the initial 12-month Protection Plan term.

01

Implementation and launch

Strategy, configuration, integration, enablement and go-live.

£12,000 + VAT

02

12-month protection

Senior post-go-live support, troubleshooting, guidance and prioritised platform improvements.

£288 + VAT per month

Payment structure

  • 01

    Payment 1

    On engagement

    £6,000
  • 02

    Payment 2

    At Day 30

    £6,000
  • 03

    From go-live

    Silver Protection Plan, monthly subscription across the initial 12-month term

    £288 per month

VAT is applied at the point of invoice.

12-month post-go-live support

Protection Plan · Silver

Two hours per month of senior HubSpot support, fixes, small improvements and reactive troubleshooting across a 12-month subscription. Separate from the £12,000 + VAT implementation investment.

Initial term
12 months from go-live
First-year investment
£3,456 + VAT across 12 months
Monthly subscription
£288 + VAT per month

What happens after 12 months?

We will hold your monthly subscription pricing from the first phase until you cancel. If you later resume beyond this, it would revert to our rate card pricing. Following the initial 12-month term, the Silver Protection Plan automatically continues on a rolling monthly basis at £360 + VAT per month, unless cancelled in accordance with the agreement terms.

What's included

Key stages of your project

  • 01Strategic discovery across sales, marketing and customer success
  • 02HubSpot architecture and visual blueprint
  • 03Property architecture, lifecycle stages, teams and permissions
  • 04One new-business sales pipeline
  • 05One customer onboarding or renewal pipeline
  • 06University stakeholder model using contact, company and deal associations
  • 07Upsales migration covering agreed companies, contacts and opportunities
  • 08Migration of agreed Upsales activity history where the source export provides supported activity data, usable timestamps and reliable parent-record identifiers.
  • 09A representative activity-history export will be tested before production migration to confirm field quality, record associations and the activity types that can be reliably retained
  • 10Suppression-list and marketing-contact status configuration
  • 11Test migration and record-count reconciliation
  • 12Sales task automation and forecasting
  • 13Up to three priority nurture journeys
  • 14One combined fit and engagement scoring model
  • 15Marketing-to-sales handover and SLA automation
  • 16Up to 12 supporting workflows across sales, marketing and customer success
  • 17Three reporting views covering leadership, sales and marketing/customer success
  • 18Configuration of the supported HubSpot and Microsoft Teams connection, subject to the client’s Microsoft licences, tenant permissions, recording and transcription policies, user permissions and consent requirements.
  • 19Microsoft Teams Phone calls can be logged against existing HubSpot records where users are correctly mapped and telephone numbers match. The exact requirements for scheduled meetings, Teams Phone calls and PSTN calls will be confirmed during discovery.
  • 20Lusha integration
  • 21Webflow tracking and agreed form connections where the new website is ready
  • 22Role-based training for approximately 12 users
  • 23User acceptance testing and go-live support
  • 2430-day post-go-live support period

Assumptions

  • · Qualification Check will provide cleaned and approved migration data
  • · The client will provide a final field-mapping document and keep, merge or remove decisions
  • · Parent record IDs for agreed historical activities will be present and verified
  • · Qualification Check will provide a representative Upsales activity-history export during discovery
  • · The activity export must include the available activity type, date, content, owner and contact, company or opportunity identifiers
  • · Qualification Check will confirm which historical activity types need to be retained
  • · Any activity types that cannot be reliably exported or associated will be agreed before the production migration
  • · Any API extraction or custom migration development required because a suitable spreadsheet export is unavailable will be separately scoped
  • · The suppression list will be supplied and imported before marketing send functionality is enabled
  • · Marketing and non-marketing contact statuses will be agreed before production migration
  • · The client will provide timely access to Upsales, HubSpot, Microsoft Teams, Lusha and Webflow
  • · Qualification Check will provide access to a Microsoft Global or Teams administrator
  • · Their Microsoft administrator will approve the HubSpot app and complete the required tenant-level permissions
  • · Recording, transcription, Microsoft Graph transcript access, speaker attribution and attendance-report policies must be enabled by Qualification Check
  • · Relevant HubSpot and Microsoft Teams users must be correctly mapped
  • · Scheduled meetings must have a corresponding Teams or Outlook calendar event for recordings and transcripts to sync
  • · Conversation Intelligence and AI-generated summaries are available only to users with an assigned Sales Hub Professional or Enterprise seat
  • · Teams Phone call logging requires an existing HubSpot contact with an exactly matching telephone number, including country and area codes
  • · Transcription and AI summaries for Teams Phone or PSTN calls are not included unless confirmed as supported during discovery
  • · Qualification Check will nominate decision-makers from sales, marketing and customer success for discovery and sign-off
  • · Blueprint and data-mapping feedback will be provided within agreed review windows
  • · The HubSpot subscription and required seats will be active before configuration begins
  • · The core CRM migration will be prioritised ahead of the wider marketing and customer success rollout
  • · Webflow delivery is being managed as a separate project and must align with the agreed integration timetable
  • · The scope includes configuration and build within the limits listed above
  • · Any additional pipelines, workflows, journeys, dashboards or scoring models will be separately scoped
  • · Qualification Check’s Microsoft administrator is responsible for approving and configuring any Microsoft tenant permissions, licences, recording policies, transcription policies and consent settings required for the agreed Microsoft Teams functionality. Forbidden cannot control or guarantee the availability of these Microsoft-managed capabilities.
  • · Activity-history migration is subject to technical validation of a representative Upsales export. Unsupported activity types or records without reliable associations may be excluded or retained separately for reference.

Out of scope

  • · Power BI integration
  • · Custom integration with Qualification Check’s proprietary verification platform
  • · Claude or other in-house AI platform integration
  • · Advanced AI agents for prospect research or data hygiene
  • · Xero invoicing and payment reconciliation
  • · Replacement of Monday.com
  • · Partner or agent relationship-management build
  • · Custom API development
  • · Website design, Webflow development or replatforming
  • · Marketing campaign strategy and creative production
  • · Email, landing-page or content-template production
  • · Additional pipelines, workflows, dashboards, journeys or scoring models beyond the stated limits
  • · Manual cleansing or enrichment of source data
  • · Migration of unsupported activity types or records without usable parent IDs

6 months after go-live

What good looks like 6 months from now.

Not aspirations, the working state Qualification Check is investing to reach.

Sales01

Sales activities are automated.

Sales team members spend more time selling, with activity capture, data entry, and record-keeping automated directly within HubSpot.

Leadership02

Reporting provides clear visibility.

Leadership gains access to detailed, automated reporting on sales and customer success pipelines, enabling proactive forecasting and strategic decision-making.

Marketing03

Marketing becomes highly personalised.

Behaviour-triggered nurture journeys and dynamic content adapt to each segment, persona, and lifecycle stage, enhancing engagement at scale.

Operations04

Customer journeys are unified.

Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams now share a Single Source of Truth for each institution, improving collaboration and client management.

RevOps05

Data quality is consistently high.

Robust property architecture and data hygiene processes ensure that contact and company records remain clean, accurate, and trustworthy for all teams.

Agree next steps

A short working session locks in dates and confirms the architecture.