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How to efficiently manage delays in main and sub Zaps for processing records

  • August 20, 2026
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Have a main zap calling multiple sub-zaps. Using delays and delay que. cannot process more then a hand full of records without delays and it failing. Any suggestions? Need to process hundreds. Delays don’t seem to wait until complete then run next loop, all hit at same time. Thank you.

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Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • August 20, 2026

Hi ​@Jazzy3 

Guide to reference:

 


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  • Author
  • Beginner
  • August 25, 2026

set this all up and ran with 219 records and all are on hold with Throttling. any other suggestions? it a pretty elaborate salesforce and multiple sub zaps with API calls within them. runs great on few records, but it did before this. anything over 30 or so and it craps out with throttling. i am also wasting an enormous number of credits. Thanks


Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • August 25, 2026

@Jazzy3 

For us to have true context, post screenshots showing how your Zap steps are outlined and configured in the CONFIGURE tab while in EDIT mode with the field mappings visible.


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  • Author
  • Beginner
  • August 26, 2026

finally got it working but man is it slow. like 2 mins a record. using a single table to write all the records from a Salesforce report then processing them. granted its calling 7 sub zaps and a few of them are using APIS for data validation. any ideas to speed it up?

also posting screen shots and configurations is not practical. there are 100’s of them. should be a way to share a view of them or upload or something.

 

Thanks


Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • August 26, 2026

@Jazzy3 

Without context about how your Zap steps are outlined we have no means to be able to evaluate and advise. (e.g. record and share a Loom.com video)

 

The most reliable way to optimize is to convert the steps and logic to code (JavaScript/Python).

 

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