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HubSpot email send frequency cap: limit how many marketing emails a contact gets

Three campaigns and two workflows can all hit the same contact in a week. A frequency cap puts a ceiling on it.

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Short answer

On the Send Frequency tab, choose Every email or A set number of emails, then a maximum per contact per day, week, two weeks, or month. HubSpot says the cap applies to regular marketing emails, workflow emails, and blog notifications, but not to transactional, one-to-one, feedback survey, or inbox emails. Exempt a specific email by clearing its frequency cap checkbox. It needs Marketing Hub Enterprise. My demo sends every email.

1. The Send Frequency tab

Open Send Frequency.

Send Frequency tab with the explanation and the Every email and A set number of emails options highlighted
The explanation (1) and the two options (2).

The page warns that if you use workflows for essential automated emails, you should turn the cap off for each of those emails.

2. What counts

  • Included: regular marketing emails, workflow emails, blog notification emails.
  • Not included: transactional, one-to-one, feedback survey, and conversations inbox emails.
  • To see who was skipped, open a sent email's Recipients tab, Not sent, and filter by Reached frequency cap.

3. Exempting an email

In the email editor's send options, clear Apply send frequency cap for this send. Use it for renewals, policy changes, and announcements everyone must get. Separate caps per brand need the Brands add-on.

Sources

New field notes by email

One email when a new article publishes.

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