HubSpot gives you two different "default dashboard" controls, and the one you want depends on what "land on" means. To change the page a user sees right after signing in, go to the profile picture → Profile & Preferences → Profile tab → Defaults section, and pick a default page from the dropdown — this is per-user and cannot be forced on others. To choose which dashboard opens inside the dashboards area, go to Reports → Dashboards → Manage dashboards, hover the dashboard, and use Actions → Set as default. There is no admin switch that assigns one landing page to every user in the portal — team-wide consistency comes from onboarding and dashboard design, which this guide covers, along with the rollout approach Vantage Point uses in HubSpot onboarding engagements.
During CRM onboarding, this request comes up constantly: "When our team signs in, we want them looking at this dashboard — their pipeline, their queue, their numbers — not a generic home screen." It is a good instinct. The first screen a user sees sets what they pay attention to, and a role-relevant dashboard is one of the cheapest adoption wins available. HubSpot supports it — just not the way most admins expect.
The sign-in landing page is a per-user preference, not an account setting:
HubSpot's documentation is explicit that this applies only to you. Each user picks their own landing page, which is why "set it once for the whole company" is not a button you will find.
The second control decides which dashboard is presented first inside the reporting area:
Pair the two settings and the experience is close to what stakeholders imagine: the user lands in the reporting area (their chosen default page), and the first dashboard they see is the default one. What you cannot do is reach into another user's profile and set either value for them.
No — and the community threads asking for a global default home page make clear this has been a standing request. The practical consequences:
Since you cannot mandate the landing page, make the intended one obviously worth using:
Vantage Point builds role-based HubSpot dashboards, reporting architecture, and the onboarding checklists that make defaults stick as part of HubSpot implementation and optimization engagements. If your portal has years of dashboard sprawl or a team that never quite adopted reporting, our managed services team can run the cleanup and the rollout. Senior consultants only — no junior handoffs; the experts you meet are the experts who deliver.
A working session is usually enough to design role-based dashboards, clean up the sprawl, and write the onboarding steps that make them the default in practice. Contact Vantage Point to schedule one.
No. The default page is a per-user setting found under Profile & Preferences → Profile tab → Defaults, and HubSpot's documentation notes it applies only to the user who sets it. Admins cannot push a global landing page; the standard practice is to make it a step in your onboarding checklist.
Go to Reports → Dashboards → Manage dashboards, hover the dashboard, open its Actions dropdown, and choose Set as default, then confirm. That dashboard becomes the one presented first in the dashboards area.
The default page controls which area of HubSpot you land in after signing in — a per-user profile preference. The default dashboard controls which specific dashboard appears first within the dashboards tool. Setting both gives you the full "sign in and see my numbers" experience.
Almost always a permissions issue: the dashboard was not shared with them or their team. Check the dashboard's sharing and access settings before assigning it as anyone's landing view — defaults cannot override visibility.
The default-page preference lets users choose the HubSpot area they land in; deep-linking into a specific record is what bookmarks and the mobile app recents are for. In practice, teams that ask for a record-level landing usually want a role-based dashboard with filtered record tables, which the default page plus default dashboard combination handles.
Assign an owner to the reporting area, review dashboards quarterly, and retire unused ones. Re-check the set-as-default dashboard after any reporting reorganization, and re-run the onboarding step when roles change. Default drift is a governance issue, not a settings issue.
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