Zapier

Makkelijk tools connecten als marketeer

Opmerkingen: Het is een fijne tool om te gebruiken. Alles werkt intuïtief en er zijn veel artikelen te vinden over het gebruik van Zapier. Ik heb al veel mensen enthousiast gemaakt over de tool.

Pluspunten:

Zapier helpt me om tools met elkaar te verbinden zonder kennis van API's of development. Binnen een paar klikken heb je tools met elkaar verbonden. Daarnaast zijn er genoeg video's en artikelen te vinden over het koppelen als het niet in een keer lukt.

Minpunten:

Zapier is redelijk duur als je het bijvoorbeeld vergelijkt met Pebbly. De andere kant is dat je bij Pebbly wel minder mogelijkheden hebt. Onderzoek dus goed waarvoor je de tool wilt gebruiken, zodat je goed kunt vergelijken.

Zapier the best application integrator

Opmerkingen: As a digital marketer, I use many applications that I cannot keep an eye on all day or manually pass information from one application to another and I also need all the data to be synchronized. Zapier makes my day easier, connecting the applications that I use, it executes tasks automatically according to the rules that I establish. I love it helps me save a lot of time and money by hiring programmers.

Pluspunten:

Zapier changed the way I deal with applications and tasks. What I liked the most is the automation of work processes, another of its advantages is that Zapier includes a large list of applications to connect. Also that the Zaps are only executed with a filter rules. The user interface is nice so that anyone with basic knowledge can use it without the need to hire a programmer.

Minpunten:

The negative aspects of Zapier is that at the beginning it is difficult to take advantage of Zapier, due to the learning curve, the free version is very limited (the number of 'Zaps and applications), also something that I did not like is the customer support that sometimes does not provide solutions.

Zaps for the win!

Pluspunten:

Zaps integration connects APIs seamlessly. Using and configuring the Zaps is really easy and serves our purposes.

Minpunten:

The pricing model is a bit too expensive if you need lots of zaps

Easy-to-Use Automation and Integration

Opmerkingen: Two things stand out for me:
1) Most support requests were met with what appeared to be an automated apology that they couldn't resolve my issue.
2) Zapier makes money based on the purchases of an allotment of monthly tasks. Some tasks lack flexibility requiring the use of more tasks than one might imagine. They are always happy to sell you more tasks, but requests for more robust functionality always seemed to be met with a shoulder shrug.

Pluspunten:

The feature that met our needs was the ability to respond to an http request in a variety of ways (email, save to spreadsheet being the most common). I am an experienced programmer with over 15 years experience and was happy to have a solution that did not require writing a lot of code. In general the ability to rapidly design and implement a solution for a specific requirement was a big time-saver.

Minpunten:

Unfortunately, some common programming tasks such as creating and writing to a spreadsheet seemed in surmountable. In the end, I chose to manually create the worksheets I projected would be used to eliminate potentially complicated workarounds. Also, there is a limit on the number of levels of logical branching which caused some headaches such that I eventually migrated the functionality to Google Scripts which offers a richer feature-set despite the increase in coding.

Helps me integrate everything

Opmerkingen: We connect Shopify with other tools like Slack, google sheets, google forms, and other software that doesn't play nice with each other. It is a low cost low maintenance way to do this.

Pluspunten:

We are using this daily to connect various apps and automate simple things that shouldn't be done manually. The basic functionality is very easy to set up. We have paid a developer to help with some more complicated workflows.

Minpunten:

We had to pay for the higher tier plan (professional plan) as otherwise the custom logic and apps like shopify don't work. Also the Zapier Transfer feature wants to charge for every piece of data, and doesn't actually work fully. Seems to still be in beta so we went through all the work to get it started then it wouldn't run. IMO the Transfer feature should charge a prorated smaller amount since it's one group data transfer.