Updates

Hi folks, I’m Chris Geoghegan, a Lead Product Manager here at Zapier.I'm excited to tell you about some of the improvements we're making to our navigation! In brief, the navigation will take up a lot less space on desktop devices and will be much easier to use on mobile devices.You can expect to see these changes rolling out in the next couple weeks. Some of you may even see the new navigation now. Here's a preview of what to expect...The primary navigation has been consolidated into a single, vertical menu on the left side of your screen. You can expand and collapse this menu, giving you a lot more space to work. If you belong to multiple accounts, you can switch between those accounts in the upper right corner. Your current task usage is visible directly in the left-hand navigation.Left: default menu view, center: Primary Menu Expanded, right: Account Menu ExpandedWe've significantly reduced the amount of space navigation takes up on your mobile device while also making it easier to use.Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

Hey, Zapier Community -We're pretty excited about this new integration (in beta), and hope you will be, too! You can now use your Google Assistant to kick off Zap workflows with your voice. Change your Slack status, send tasks to your to-do list, add leads to your CRM: All by telling Google to "Talk to Zapier." Want to get started? Here's what you need to know:How to connect your Google Assistant Account to ZapierLearn about the integrations you can createLooking for inspiration?Make it so: Zap workflows you can trigger with your voiceHey Google, how can you and Alexa increase productivity at work? - Janine Anderson, managing editor

Hello everyone,We’re excited to announce a new version of our popular Schedule by Zapier integration! As a part of our Zapier Community, you will have early access to the integration before the official launch. We would love to get your feedback and hear your thoughts before making this new version live :) You might be wondering what’s new about this integration - well I’m glad you asked! The new Schedule by Zapier integration is nearly identical to the current integration with one key difference - the triggers use webhooks (instead of relying on polling intervals) so they’ll fire within seconds of the specified time.As you may be aware, the current Schedule by Zapier integration triggers might not run at the exact minute you specify. For instance, if you schedule a Zap to run at 5 PM daily, it will run the first time your Zap polls after 5 PM, which could be anywhere between 5:01 and 5:15 PM depending on your Zap's polling cycle. Thanks to the use of webhooks, this is no longer an issue with the new integration. To start creating Zap workflows with the new Schedule by Zapier integration, you can accept the invite here: https://zapier.com/developer/public-invite/19111/041ad44be08598ef0b66c940990f3a6d/Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback––we’re always happy to help! Thanks again for being a part of our Zapier Community and looking forward to hearing what you think :) Best,Matt LuksoZapier App Engineer

Hello!I'm the managing editor here at Zapier, and I wanted to invite you to a live Zapier 101 webinar and demo this week. Join us at 10 a.m. PST on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, to learn how to use Zapier to cut down on repetitive tasks that take up your time so you can spend more time on work that matters. Join this webinar to:Understand the power of Zapier's automated workflows (Zap workflows)Create your first ZapLearn our core use cases for your industry or roleExplore the most popular apps we work with🙌 Want to join? Here's the link to register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/3115791912209/WN_ZzbduJeySHa7pq5aOK2fIg

Are you having use cases for workflows that need mobile input from you or your team members?Think approval workflows, kicking-of Zap workflows via buttons, sharing links or photos from your phone into Zap workflows.The Zapier for iOS app is going into beta testing!Setup Zap ButtonsYou can configure your own mobile buttons with any number of fields to pass into a Zap. The fields can be of different types like text, numbers, dates, photos, ...It kinda works like Push by Zapier for the browser but with more configuration options and natively on iOS.You can also trigger Zap Buttons by sharing photos or links directly using the iOS share sheet.Receive NotificationsDefine Zap workflows that send notifications to your phone. They appear both as push messages as well as in an Inbox tab.React to NotificationsYou can define ways to respond to notifications by defining a number of reply fields. Again the fields can be of any type like dates or photos.This is great for approval workflows or anything that happens and needs quick feedback from your phone.Excited to see what you build with this!

Hi All! On Monday, Jan 6th we are kicking off our #21DaysofAutomation challenge on Twitter where we are encouraging our followers to get back time in their daily lives by discovering one thing a day they can automate with Zapier. We want to make it easier for anyone to understand how automation can save them time this year.We encourage users to share their best automations with us using #21DaysofAutomation. We will be re-posting interesting ideas to our followers throughout the month.I'm curious, what was the first Zap you set up? 

Hello everyone!If you're reading this, I'm sure you have seen that we've implemented our new theme to the Zapier Community! Notable changes:Our home page now contains easier navigation for categories and recent discussions belowQuestions with "Accepted" answers are now marked with a green "Solved" labelUpvote buttons, tagging, emojis, post editing tools, and user roles are much more prominently labeledWe hope you enjoy the new UI! If you have any questions or notice any bugs, please do let us know in this thread. Thank you to everyone who gave feedback over the past few months to help us make these improvements happen! 😊

We want to bring you closer to the team at Zapier and as part of that we will facilitate AMA's (Ask Me Anything's) that allow you to put your questions to the folks that work here!Our first AMA is coming up, and it's a big one: CEO and Co-founder of Zapier Wade Foster will be answering your questions on December 4th!How it works Post your questions to Wade as comments in this thread between now and Wednesday, December 4th. Wade will jump in on Wednesday morning (PST) and will spend around an hour answering the questions.The questions can be about absolutely anything: how the company got started, our plans for the future, what it's like being the CEO of a fully remote company, anything! So that we can make the most of this opportunity, have a few requests for you:Please, keep things civil.Read through any comments below to avoid repeating questions.If you like a question that someone has asked, give it a vote!

Hi all!I’m Fred and I work at Zapier as a Program Manager.Today, we're excited to announce that based on your feedback, we've increased Zap polling speeds on several of our plans. This means that Zap workflows that use a polling trigger will check for new data more frequently. Woohoo!Based on internal research and customer feedback, we've launched a new Professional plan that offers 2-minute polling intervals and a new Team plan that offers 1-minute polling intervals. You can read more about Faster Polling time here: https://zapier.com/blog/updates/2236/introducing-faster-polling-times#ChangesFaster Polling Times are available on these new plans, so depending on the plan you’re currently on you’ll have to upgrade to the new plans to benefit from these faster polling times. You can read more about our new plans here: https://zapier.com/blog/updates/2225/zapier-update-new-plansWe hope you’ll enjoy this new feature and if you have any questions we’re here to help you! Have a great day 😊Fred

Hi Everyone,Alex here from our Comms team! I thought you might be interested in our latest app release, Retrograde by Zapier.https://zapier.com/apps/retrograde-by-zapierWhat is Mercury in Retrograde? An astrological phenomenon where Mercury appears to go backward in its orbit when observed from Earth. Mercury is the planet that rules communication and formal contracts and agreements—as well as all types of code, transportation, shipping, and travel. During this time, you can expect frequent misunderstandings, issues with tech, travel problems, and disagreements with friendsWhat does Retrograde by Zapier do?Never wonder if Mercury is in or out of retrograde again. Set up a Zap to receive a text message alert on the day Mercury enters retrograde or leaves retrograde.Are you tired of explaining what “Mercury in retrograde” means to your co-workers? Now, whenever they ask you to explain, Zapier can automatically answer for you via Slack.We all know that Mercury rules communication, code, and travel, which is a recipe for a disaster at work. Set up a Zap with a Slack reminder to request a personal day to get your life together. You'll thank us later.Need a reason to connect with an old flame? Mercury spinning backward in its orbit is the perfect excuse for not being held accountable for your actions. A Zap will text and remind you to reach out to someone you’ve lost touch with (don't worry, we won't remind you why you lost touch in the first place).This isn’t the time to take responsibility for your words. Automatically send a Tweet letting your followers know Mercury is in Retrograde and communication isn't a strong point right now. How did this come about?This app is the product of many different teammates coming together to support a kooky idea that came up during one of our infamous company retreat brainstorms.Please feel free to share on social media! We have it up on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. We hope you enjoy!

Chatbots: What are they and how can you use them in marketing? Tomorrow, Thursday, September 26th, 2019 from 9am-4:30pm Pacific, Zapier Product Director Vicky Volvovski & Andrew Warner from Mixology will be running live, interactive session where they'll answer these questions and more.If you're interested, you can learn more and sign up, here: http://botacademy.com/zapier

Hello everyone,👋 I am an engineer on the Companies team.  I just wanted to give you all an update on a new feature in the Company Plan.Previously Company admins could either restrict or allow an app for the entire account. This meant that if just one member needed access to an app the entire account would need access.Now admins can still restrict apps but add member / team exceptions. For instance if only the marketing team should be allowed to use Salesforce in Zap workflows then the admin could add a restriction for Salesforce and an exception for the marketing team. This would restrict everyone at the company from using Salesforce except for members of the marketing team.We will continue to add features to the Company Plan in the near future.  We would love to hear your feedback.

Hello everyone,Fred here, from the Product Marketing team. I thought you might be interested in our latest release! We just launched a Company plan on Zapier that lets you capture all your team member under the same account and gives you more ways to customize security settings, data retention, approved apps, and more.With a Company account, you have a set of options that you can enable depending on your needs:SAML Single Sign On to sign in to Zapier using your company’s identity provider.Access Control for Apps to pick and choose which apps your team members can connect to Zapier.Custom Data Retention settings, where you can restrict how long your task history is retained.Account Capture so you can see all of your team members who signed up on their own under your corporate account.User Provisioning to help you easily manage Zapier access for your team members.Teams to create and manage multiple teams with their own folders in one single account.The Company plan starts at $600 per month and includes unlimited Zap workflows, unlimited team members, and up to 100,000 tasks per month. You can learn more here: https://zapier.com/companies.We’ll be adding more features in the coming months, so if you have any feedback I would love to hear from you.Please let us know if you have any questions!Have a wonderful day 😊

Sometimes, you need your Zap workflows to respect other timezones outside of the timezone you've set for your account. A little history Zap workflows used the account owner's timezone when running / calculating times because there was only ever one user who could edit the Zap.We introduced Team accounts, which allowed multiple users to collaborate on Zap workflows It then was unclear which timezone a Zap uses as we gave no indication of this. This becomes a bit confusing when multiple users from multiple timezones edit a Zap.We've now added help text below the time field to indicate the Zap's timezone when editing.The Zap's timezone can be changedClassic EditorBeta EditorYour Task History now shows the Zap's timezoneCheck it out and let us know what you think!

Hi, everyone! I'm the product manager for Zapier's Support Experience team and just wanted to share that we just launched a completely redesigned help center at zapier.com/help.The new help center features:New information architecture, with all information organized in a clear hierarchy of categories and subcategories. Each category and subcategory have landing pages, and each doc page shows where it falls in the hierarchy in its breadcrumbs. New page templates and docs that have been redesigned to minimize distraction and make it easier to process dense information. Many docs have been completely rewritten, and the long sprawling pages of the old docs have been broken up into tutorials and reference docs targeted that serve specific purposes. A new feedback system that timestamps all ratings and feedback provided by users so we can measure progress over time, and makes it possible to see when a piece of feedback from a user has been resolved. Improved search that allows you to filter out app docs and that does a better job of surfacing relevant content. Embeddable FAQs that can show up on /help, category, subcategory and document pages. These FAQs provide short answers to common questions and let us write once / publish everywhere. A single shared content base with the Editor Guide. The docs in /help are now the same as the docs that you can find in the editor.This is a big release, but is really just the first step towards building a great new help center, continuously improving based on user feedback and what we learn. We'll be monitoring feedback and ratings closely, so if you have any feedback on docs, please leave it in the feedback boxes at the bottom of each one—we read all of it!And note: we've added redirects from all old URLs to new corresponding docs, so any old links you have bookmarked or posted anywhere should still work.And if you have any general comments, feedback or questions, chime in in the comments below!