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I feel like I’m losing my mind. I cannot find a solution for this. It seems like it should be trivial. What am I missing?

Background

  • On my website I have a simple form to subscribe to updates. There is one field only: email. The form fires the Subscribe Zap below via webhook.
  • I store the emails in a Zapier Table.

What’s Working

  • Zapier Table: Subscribers: A simple list of emails. Just one column.
  • Zap: Subscribe: Add a record and then send a confirmation email to the subscriber. The confirmation email includes a link (a webhook) to trigger the Unsubscribe Zap.
  • Zap: Unsubscribe: Looks for the email address in the table and removes it from the table if found.

What’s Failing

  • After the Unsubscribe Zap removes an address from the table, the browser displays the json response below. How do I instead show a human response such as “You have been unsubscribed.” 
    {"attempt":"0191dda2-d009-37cb-8895-ec6d6956a5b0","id":"0191dda2-d009-37cb-8895-ec6d6956a5b0","request_id":"0191dda2-d009-37cb-8895-ec6d6956a5b0","status":"success"}

Thank you.

Hi @TSlaughter 

You cannot control the webhook URL redirect/response.

You would need to use another app that allows the user to click a link and be redirected to a landing page, and in doing so fire the desired webhook URL behind the scenes either from the link click or from code on the landing page.

Thank you for the swift response. Can you expand on your suggestion? This is a WordPress site, and there are lots of paid plugins and subscription services that will handle a simple subscription. But I want to avoid additional expense and add additional functionality to the Zaps once they’re working.

What else can I do from a link in an email? Is there another way to trigger a zap?

@TSlaughter

Easiest would be for the link to direct the user to a prefilled form that upon submit, the form is configured to trigger a Zap.

You can use a Zapier Interface Form

https://zapier.com/interfaces

https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/categories/14490381804173-Interfaces

https://zapier.com/apps/interfaces/integrations#triggers-and-actions

 

 

Thank you very much. I was already exploring the Interface angle but hoped there was an easy way to keep this one-click simple.

The key takeaway, for me, is that it’s not possible. Thank you, Troy! It’s all working now.

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