r/HighLevel

I just got started with GoHighLevel and there is a lot going on haha. I’ve looked around the dashboard, watched a few YouTube videos, and I can tell there’s a steep learning curve ahead.

I’m looking for recommendations on

- The best beginner-friendly course (free or paid)

- Any active communities (Facebook groups, Discord, Skool, etc.) where beginners actually get help

- Any creators or educators you’d personally vouch for

I want to make sure I’m learning from the right sources instead of wasting time on outdated or surface-level content. Thanks in advance for resources/recommendations!

I know it's possible to have a custom URL for the agency, but I was wondering if someone here was able to find a workaround or tool that can customize the URL for a non-agency subaccount? Would appreciate the help!

Trying to figure something out in GoHighLevel.

I’m sending personalized mortgage quote images to contacts through a workflow, but every time it sends, it shows up as a link instead of the actual JPEG/image.

I want each contact to get their own custom quote image automatically without having to click a link to view it.

Is there a way to have the image actually display in the text/email through automations? Or is GHL only able to send image URLs?

Hello!

We are currently building a setup for our cold outreach.

1 domain for sending outreach
1 sub domain for sending transactional emails
1 sub domain for reports/assessments from funnels

What's the best approach here? Should we purchase email domains through Google Workspace or from different platform? and connect them to GHL, or is it better to operate directly through GHL mail services?

We're planning to send out high volume outreach. Thank you!

I work as a media buyer and I’ve been inside several agencies.

One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of agencies are great at selling, running ads, getting clients results, and building funnels…

But the onboarding process is still surprisingly messy.

To be honest, not many of them have a really smooth client onboarding system.

Some still use Google Forms.
Some ask for access manually through email or Slack.
Some send the client a checklist.
Some collect the info in one place, then copy it manually into GHL or internal docs.

And the problem is not that Google Forms are bad.

The problem is that the first few days after a client signs should feel fast, professional, and organized.

Instead, it often turns into:

“Can you send your Facebook access?”
“Can you fill this out?”
“Can you give us domain access?”
“Where is your logo?”
“Who owns the ad account?”
“Can you resend that?”

From the client’s side, that doesn’t feel premium.

And from the agency’s side, it slows down fulfillment before the work even starts.

That’s why I started building something for this.

The idea is simple:

One onboarding link for the client.
They fill everything in one clean flow.
The agency gets the info structured.
A launch checklist is created.
The right team members get notified.
And the important fields can sync into GHL, instead of someone manually copying things around.

I’m not trying to make this a big pitch.

I’m genuinely curious how other agency owners handle this.

If you run a GHL agency or lead gen agency:

How do you currently take a client from “signed” to “ready to launch”?

And do you feel like your current process is actually smooth, or just “good enough”?

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Hey everyone,

Unfortunately, the enterprise recruitment agency where I’ve served as the Lead Automation Architect for last 3+ years is closing its doors. While it’s a tough transition, I am looking to bring my enterprise-level GoHighLevel experience to a scaling agency, SaaS, or high-volume business that is hitting GHL's native limits and needs serious engineering.

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Most GHL "experts" know how to build basic email campaigns and simple workflows. I specialize in bypassing native limitations, building serverless data pipelines, and engineering massive multi-tenant architectures.

Here is a breakdown of what I’ve built and managed:

1. Global Master Snapshots Architecture: Engineered and maintained enterprise V1 and V2 "Master Snapshots" to deploy uniform workflows, custom values, and trigger links, custom fields, calendars, custom menu's, dashboard updates across 150+ active sub-accounts simultaneously

2. Automated Account Provisioning: Built complex Pabbly workflows utilizing GoHighLevel's V2 API to automatically create sub-accounts, load master snapshots, and populate baseline custom values upon signup and handover to account onboarding team with Core SOP's to complete the account setup.

3. Seamless V1 to V2 Migrations: Designed and executed staged migration pipelines to update legacy V1 accounts to V2 environments without breaking live funnels

4. Custom GHL UI Modifications: Wrote custom CSS and JavaScript to hide native GoHighLevel features (like SaaS billing menus and launchpads) and embedded custom portals directly into the platform interface.

5. Distribution System (Leads): Engineered a centralized routing architecture that captured all raw leads globally, calculated daily sub-account quotas, and dynamically dripped leads based on priority weightings using cloudflare, hookdeck, google appscript, sheets and supabase

6. Global Deduplication Engine: Built logic to automatically catch duplicates across all external vendor uploads and internal routing, preventing subscribers from receiving identical leads.

7. Third-Party Vendor API Integrations: Developed API parsers and webhooks to automatically ingest high-volume applicant data from JazzHR, ZipRecruiter, and CSVBox into a centralized account and thereby distributing to subscribers accounts.

8. Supabase (PostgreSQL) Data Warehousing: Migrated massive CRM data loads into Supabase databases, building custom tables to track candidates, internal events, and telecom logs

9. Event-Driven Queuing Pipelines: Setup Cloudflare Workers and Hookdeck to catch, queue, and retry massive webhook payloads, preventing server crashes during heavy lead distribution

10. Stripe Billing API Syncing: Integrated the Stripe API into your custom databases to pull customer subscriptions, product variations, and billing cycles to power your internal billing dashboard

11. Telnyx Outbound SMS & Voice Integration: Bypassed native LC telecom limits by integrating Telnyx directly into workflows via API, severely dropping costs for SMS and Voicedrops

12. Apple iMessage Fallbacks (Hiublue): Designed fallback engines routing failed SMS communications directly through Apple iMessage to completely bypass telecom carrier spam filters

13. "AM Message Router" Application: Engineered a dynamic GoHighLevel marketplace app to seamlessly switch contacts between standard SMS, Telnyx, and iMessage natively

14. Dynamic Calendar Caching (Redis/Upstash): Built a system using Upstash to store location IDs and dynamically render calendar availability via API, replacing hardcoded CRM links

15. Advanced Link Cloaking: Configured Cloudflare redirect scripts using 4-digit location ID combinations to securely route users and prevent carrier blacklisting and get away from standard trigger links to prevent spam filters.

16. RAG-Powered Custom Support Agents: Built N8N workflows integrated with vector databases to load helpdesk articles and automatically answer customer support tickets.

17. Conversational AI Bots: Developed isolated AI bots designed specifically to respond to interested leads and convert based on intent and pipeline stages using RAG powered knowledge database in supabase and N8N and GHL V2 API.

18. Inbound Sentiment Classifiers: Engineered automated workflows to read inbound candidate messages and use LLMs to classify their intent (e.g., DND, questions, hostile) directly into Supabase

19. Deep Behavioral Tracking: Wrote custom JavaScript injected into landing pages to capture granular engagement metrics—such as precise page load speeds, scroll depth percentages, and video watch duration—pushing the data back into the CRM

20. Automated Reputation Management: Deployed a web-scraping AI via N8N that actively searched hiring company names on Google to perform sentiment analysis and flag negative PR links in real-time

21. Business Intelligence Dashboards: Wrote advanced SQL queries combining CRM data and built live, multi-tenant performance dashboards in Databox and Looker Studio

22. Custom Front-End Portals: Utilized Bolt.new and React/Vue to build independent full-stack web applications, such as a custom task management portal for the team to monitor the AI replies, fix the answers and keep the AI knowledge base clean and updated

23. Agile Sprint Management: Managed the Core Dev and GHL Dev team backlogs using ClickUp and Canny.io. Routinely moved tasks through the pipeline, prioritized bug fixes, closed completed items, and structured 90-day roadmaps

24. Leading Meetings: Regularly attended and led daily Dev Standups, as well as weekly Leads and Subscribers syncs, to communicate complex technical updates to non-technical stakeholders.

25. Engineering Quality Control (QC): Built exhaustive Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), testing checklists, and recorded hundreds of Loom videos to train the QC team on how to safely deploy workflow updates and audit accounts.

26. Hiring & Developer Management: Personally screened, hired, and directed external front-end and back-end engineers, database specialists and no-code developers. Conducted code reviews, managed GitHub repository access, oversaw database schema designs, and delegated complex tasks.

My Tech Stack: GoHighLevel (V2 API & OAuth), Supabase, N8N, Pabbly Connect, Hookdeck, Cloudflare Workers, Google Apps Script, Telnyx, and custom JavaScript/HTML/CSS, clickup, canny.io, bolt.new, etc

Is it possible for me to create a sub account (automations, contacts, forms, website, funnels, etc) and then later on transfer it to someone’s else’s account?

If I were to build it out for them but then wanted to hand it off later down the road so they can take over control of it under their own account. Is that possible?

So i am using a 3rd party answering service provider. If i don't pick up, they will do that for me and then send me details of the new lead in an sms.

Now i created 2 workflows:

1. Inbound sms action -> customs code to extra lead details -> custom outbound webhook.

2. Inbound webhook -> create contact -> create opportunity

Now why i used 2 workflow, cuz the contact in the context window of the workflow was automatically getting used for find the contact in create contact action and instead of creating a new contact it was updating the contact from which i got the sms.

Let me know if you guys have already done this type of automation before or have a better way to do the same.

Thank you!

Most people use GoHighLevel as a CRM with some automations. Which is fine.

But GHL is quietly the 3rd largest CRM by user count. That’s a massive installed base that most builders aren’t thinking about as a distribution layer.

The second you start actually working with the API…Custom objects, dynamic workflows, real-time webhooks etc - it becomes a completely different tool.

The velocity you can move at when you treat it like infrastructure instead of a platform is kind of insane.
Building for those users is an unlock most people are sleeping on.

If you’re deep in GHL dev work and want to nerd out, drop a comment. Curious how others are using it at this level.

Running into this with a few car sales/dealership setups in GHL where leads from ads come in and even reply once, but then disappear before it turns into a test drive or sale. The ads and funnels seem fine, but the conversation just loses momentum after the first interaction. Starting to think the biggest gap is moving leads naturally from inquiry → conversation → booking instead of just blasting follow-ups. What’s working for others right now, especially through SMS/iMessage style follow-up?