Getting started with Flowchester.

Flowchester is installed as a HubSpot app from the Marketplace. You'll authenticate with OAuth — no API keys, no manual webhook configuration.

1. Click Install from HubSpot Marketplace.
2. Pick the HubSpot account you want to protect. Only one portal per subscription — if you manage several, install separately on each.
3. Review the permissions Flowchester requests (read/write contacts, read conversations) and approve.
4. You'll land on the Flowchester billing page. Pick a plan and complete Stripe checkout.

As soon as your subscription is active, default rules start blocking. You don't need to configure anything else to see value.

The moment your subscription is active, Flowchester blocks contacts that match these patterns without any setup:

• Noreply addresses — noreply@*, no-reply@*, donotreply@*
• Bounce replies — mailer-daemon@*, postmaster@*, bounce*@*
• Common notification senders — notifications@*, alerts@*, updates@*
• CC'd thread participants — anyone who landed on a HubSpot email thread only because they were in CC/BCC, not addressed directly.

These rules can't be deleted, but you can disable them individually if you want to let something through.

Every portal has its own noise. To block it:

1. Open the dashboard at app.flowchester.com.
2. Go to Rules in the sidebar.
3. Click Add rule. Pick what to match on: domain (e.g. @typeform.com), local part (e.g. accounts-noreply@*), or full pattern.
4. Save. The rule is live within a few seconds.

Tip: before creating a rule, check the decision log to find recent contacts that you'd want to block. The dashboard shows what it caught and what slipped through — let data, not intuition, drive your rules.

Every block is recorded — email address, which rule matched, when it happened, where the contact came from (form, email, chat, API).

If a block looks wrong, click Un-block. The contact is restored in HubSpot and the log updates to show the reversal. We keep 30 days of history so you can audit decisions later.

Go to Billing in the sidebar → Manage subscription. This opens the Stripe customer portal in a new tab. From there you can:

• Upgrade from Starter to Pro (or back down)
• Update your payment method
• Download past invoices
• Cancel (takes effect at the end of the current billing period)

Cancelling stops new blocks immediately. Your decision log stays accessible for 7 days so you can export it if needed.