{"id":61,"date":"2017-10-25T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocrm.io\/blog\/how-to-connect-your-app-to-hundreds-of-other-saas\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:01:03","slug":"zapier-crm-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocrm.io\/blog\/zapier-crm-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Zapier CRM Integration: The Magic of Manual Triggers in SaaS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Intro<\/strong>:\u00a0Zappier CRM Integration: Discover the latest noCRM.io Zapier Manual Triggers update and connect to a variety of apps to boost your experience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At noCRM.io we believe that <b>SaaS software should be great at doing ONE thing,\u00a0<\/b>and when it comes to something else &#8211; out of the main scope \u2013 leave it to another great app. We think that <b>having several <a href=\"\/blog\/saas-tools-for-sales-development-representatives\">well-designed apps<\/a> beats having one big monolithic app<\/b>. It costs less, is easier to setup, and it always meets the exact needs of its core users.<\/p>\n<p>The drawback of this approach is that <b>data tends to be isolated<\/b>, making the global flow of information inside a company harder to manage. To avoid this problem, SaaS software editors need to be sure that their app is connected to the rest of the ecosystem. However, building a stable connection to a single app is already a difficult task, let alone connecting it to hundreds of apps.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where well-known no-code services, like Zapier, come in. <a href=\"https:\/\/zapier.com\/\">Zapier allows you to call actions on other apps when something happens in your app<\/a>. So it is a way to automate tasks and workflows between apps. For example, when someone subscribes to your newsletter, you might want to add them automatically to your CRM or to one of your prospecting lists. These automations hel<\/p>\n<p>p streamline your sales processes easily.<\/p>\n<p>While Zapier is great for automation, <b>you don\u2019t always want to execute actions automatically<\/b>. For instance, what if a user wants to send a specific template email to one of their prospects at a time of your choosing? <b>The answer is: with a manual trigger<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea here is to fire a webhook manually. This might sound odd as webhooks are designed for automation but it works perfectly! <b>This very simple approach allows app developers to benefit from all the incredible work Zapier has done at connecting apps<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/youdontneedacrm.com\">noCRM.io the core goal is to enable salespeople to manage leads efficiently<\/a> and sometimes they need to send template emails to their leads or transfer them to other teams using other apps. To do this on demand, we have to define a specific trigger for webhooks<b> that can be fired manually directly from the lead detail page<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h2>How does this technically work?<\/h2>\n<p>1\/ The admin of the account creates a new Zap on Zapier connecting noCRM.io with Gmail in order to send out a template email.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/638f54eafff8007612538e0254ecb47a\/tumblr_inline_oydwaoSXBM1qec3ag_540.png\" alt=\"noCRM.io Zapier Manual Triggers\" width=\"450\" height=\"219\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>2\/ With the Manual Trigger selected, Zapier fires a request to our API which then creates the infamous webhook with a manual trigger.<br \/>\nOn our end, we have written some additional code that <b>adds an additional entry in the leads\u2019 Actions menu of the customer creating the zap<\/b>. This entry will have the label entered in the Zap\u2019s \u201cEvent Name\u201d field (here \u201cSend Template One\u201d) and when selected, will fire the webhook in Ajax.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/03c02c007f4c58bfee46e8d7dba66023\/tumblr_inline_oydwccVrXI1qec3ag_540.png\" alt=\"noCRM.io Zapier Manual Triggers\" width=\"251\" height=\"213\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>3\/ A request is then issued to Zapier with all the lead information which will be used to personalize the email and send it via Gmail.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>This is one example but it demonstrates how simple it can be to enhance your app with a lot of features coming from other apps that your customers use.<\/p>\n<p>From the user\u2019s perspective, it is great as everything is done directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/zapier.com\">Zapier<\/a> without having to do anything in <a href=\"https:\/\/youdontneedacrm.com\">noCRM.io<\/a>. 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