Build Once, Deploy Everywhere: Share Smart Lists Across Sub-Accounts
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Tabatha Mccown
Right now, agencies and multi-location businesses using GHL are forced to recreate the same smart lists repeatedly across different users and sub-accounts, which creates massive inefficiency, inconsistent targeting, and hours of wasted manual work every time a new list criteria needs to be deployed. Adding smart list sharing capabilities would solve this by allowing agencies to build a smart list once in a parent account or master location and instantly push it to selected sub-accounts or specific users, ensuring every team member and client location works from the same audience definitions, segmentation logic, and qualification criteria without rebuilding from scratch. This is better than the current manual approach because shared smart lists eliminate human error in recreating complex filter combinations, ensure brand consistency in how leads are categorized across all locations, remove the bottleneck of having one admin build lists for every sub-account individually, and allow for instant updates across all shared instances when criteria needs to change rather than editing dozens of separate lists one by one. The integration would save time by enabling instant deployment of proven audience segments to new sub-accounts during onboarding, allowing franchise networks to roll out corporate-approved lead scoring models to all locations simultaneously, supporting multi-user teams to collaborate on list building without duplicating efforts, and providing version control that updates shared lists everywhere when the master is modified. This feature would dramatically reduce operational overhead for agencies managing hundreds of sub-accounts, would improve data integrity for franchise systems that need consistent lead qualification across locations, would accelerate new client setup by eliminating repetitive list configuration tasks, and would position GHL as the only CRM that truly understands scale, ultimately increasing platform stickiness while reducing support tickets from users struggling to manually replicate complex segmentation logic across their accounts.
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