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While getting paid is a reason to celebrate, what follows after a PayPal transaction is a little less exciting—and often requires a lot of manual work. Here's how to automate it.

7 ways to automate PayPal 

PayPal is a great solution for selling products/services online, however there's no way to follow up with your new customers. This PayPal ActiveCampaign integration helps with this by automatically adding PayPal customers as new contacts in ActiveCampaign. With this integration you'll build a handy list of your customers that you can use to keep them in the loop on new products, features and company news.

PayPal is a fast, safe way to send money, make an online payment, receive money or set up a merchant account. With over 150 million active registered accounts, PayPal helps people and businesses receive and make payments in more than 100 currencies in 203 markets.

Triggers when a payment is completed successfully.

Successful Sale

Triggers when a payment is completed successfully (with line item support).

Successful Sale (Line Items)

Refunded Sale

Triggers when a new merchant transacation is created, regardless of status.

All Merchant Transactions

ActiveCampaign is a customer experience automation (CXA) platform that helps businesses meaningfully engage customers. Access pre-built automations that combine transactional email and email marketing, marketing automation, ecommerce marketing, and CRM for powerful segmentation and personalization across social, email, messaging, chat, and text.

ActiveCampaign

Triggers when a Custom Object record is created or updated.

New or Updated Custom Object Record

Triggers when a custom object record is deleted in ActiveCampaign

Custom Object Record Deleted

Triggers when a deal task has been completed.

Deal Task Completed

Triggers when a new account is added or an existing account's details are updated.

New or Updated Account

Triggers when an automation sends out webhook data. To add a webhook in ActiveCampaign, navigate to your Automations section, add or edit an automation, and create a new "Webhook" action.

New Automation Webhook

Triggers when a contact email address bounces from a sent campaign.

New Campaign Bounce

Triggers when a contact clicks a link in a campaign message (will only run once for each unique link).

New Campaign Link Click

Triggers when a contact opens a campaign (will trigger once per contact per campaign).

New Campaign Open

Triggers when a new campaign starts sending.

New Campaign Starts Sending

Triggers when a contact unsubscribes as a result of a campaign email sent to them.

New Campaign Unsubscribe

Triggers when a new contact note is added.

New Contact Note

Triggers when a new contact task is created.

New Contact Task

Triggers when a new deal note is created.

New Deal Note

Triggers when a new deal task is created.

New Deal Task

Triggers when a new deal is created or existing deal is updated.

New Deal Added or Updated

New Contact

Triggers when a new contact is added to a list.

New Contact Added to List

Triggers when an existing contact details are updated.

Updated Contact

Triggers when a new contact is added or existing contact's details are updated.

New or Updated Contact

Triggers when a a Tag is added or removed from a Contact

Tag Added or Removed From Contact

Find Account

Finds a contact by email address, ID, or phone.

Find Contact

Find Contact Task

Finds an existing deal by title or email.

Find Deal

Looks for a Deal and if found, returns the User that owns the Deal

Find Deal Owner

Find Deal Task

Find User

Create Account

Update Account

Creates a new account or updates an existing account.

Create or Update Account

Creates a new contact, or updates an existing contact.

Create or Update Contact

Create Deal (Deprecated)

Adds an existing contact into any automation.

Add Existing Contact to Automation

The contact will be removed from this active automation

Remove Contact From Automation

Create Campaign

Adds a contact to an ActiveCampaign account

Add Contact to Account

Add Contact Note

Add/Remove Tag From Contact

Create or Update Contact Task

Creates a new custom object record or update an existing record

Create or Update a Custom Object Record

With a deal ID and a contact ID set the corresponding contact as a secondary on the deal. Optionally set the role. If the Deal has no Primary contact set, this contact will be set as Primary if you DO NOT select a role.

Add Secondary Contact to Deal

Create Deal

Add Note to Deal

Create or Update Deal Task

Update Deal

Subscribes a Contact to a List it is not currently associated with, or Unsubscribes a Contact from a list is currently associated with.

Subscribe or Unsubscribe Contact From List

Creates a custom website or application event.

Create Tracked Event

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

API Request (Beta)

Add new PayPal customers to ActiveCampaign as contacts

Easily keep in touch with all your customers with this integration. Once active, for each new successful sale made through PayPal, this Zap will automatically add the customer to your mailing list in Mailchimp.

Share your ideas with Mailchimp email newsletters—then use its landing page and form builders to grow your lists and take marketing further with drip and transactional emails.

Mailchimp

Triggers when a new campaign is created or sent.

New Campaign

Triggers when a recipient opens an email in a specific campaign.

Email Opened

Triggers when a recipient clicks a pre-specified link in your campaign.

Link Clicked

Triggers when a new audience is added to your MailChimp accounts.

New Audience

Triggers when a new customer is added to a selected store.

New Customer

Triggers when a new subscriber is added to an audience.

New Subscriber

New Order

Triggers when any current subscriber unsubscribes from an audience.

New Unsubscriber

Triggers when a subscriber is added to a Tag within a List.

New Subscriber With Tag

Triggers when a subscriber is added to a segment or tag within an audience.

New Subscriber in Segment or Tag

Triggers when a subscriber is added or updated in an audience.

New or Updated Subscriber

Find a Campaign

Find Customer

Find Tag

Searches for a new subscriber on your MailChimp audience.

Find a Subscriber

Find or Create Campaign

Find or Create Tag

Find or Create Subscriber

Archive Subscriber

Get report details for a specific sent campaign.

Campaign Report

Get report details for a specific link clicks.

Click Report

Create Tag

Creates a custom event for an existing subscriber.

Create Custom Event

Creates a new audience in your MailChimp account.

Create Audience

Add a new subscriber to an audience of your choosing. Can be used to update an existing subscriber too.

Add/Update Subscriber

Unsubscribe or delete a contact by email address within an audience.

Unsubscribe or Delete Contact action

Removes a subscriber by email address from a tag within an audience.

Remove Subscriber from Tag

Sends a campaign to all subscribers in an audience, segment, or tag.

Send Campaign

Adds a new note to an existing subscriber.

Add Note to Subscriber

Add an email address to a tag within an audience. Note: the email address **must already be subscribed to the audience**, or this will fail.

Add Subscriber to Tag

Add new PayPal customers to Mailchimp

You know your happy customers want to hear more from you, but it’s not always easy to find the time to manually add them to your mailing list. Use this Zapier integration to automatically add an AWeber subscriber whenever a successful sale is completed in PayPal so you can spend more time crafting your messages.

AWeber provides professional email marketing software and services. AWeber's easy signup forms and autoresponders make it easy for you to stay in touch with your customers.

AWeber

New Account

Triggers when a new custom field is added to a list.

New Field

Triggers when a new list is added to an account.

New List

Triggers when a new subscriber is added to a list.

Find Subscriber

Find a List

Finds or creates a specific find subscriber.

Unsubscribes an email address from a list of your choosing.

Unsubscribe Email

Create Subscriber

Update Subscriber

Add PayPal customers to your Aweber email lists

Send marketing emails to everyone who purchases your products by having PayPal add your customers to your GetResponse account.

With an all-in-one suite of online marketing tools, GetResponse is the perfect solution to help you grow your business.

GetResponse

Triggers when a new autoresponder is created.

New Autoresponder

Triggers when a new landing page is created.

New Landing Page

Triggers when a new newsletter is created.

New Newsletter

Triggers when a new contact is added to any list.

New Form

Find List

Create Contact

Create Newsletter

Remove Contact

Update Contact

Create New GetResponse Contacts from PayPal Sales

Make sure you follow up with your new PayPal customers by letting Zapier add them to your Salesforce account as new contacts. Whenever someone new purchases your PayPal products, this integration will copy their contact info and use it to make a new Salesforce contact for you, automatically. You'll never have to copy and paste customer info again.

Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship manager (CRM) application.

Salesforce

Triggers when a new Attachment is added to a case.

New Case Attachment

Triggers when a field is updated on the object specified. It will output the old and new field values.

New Field History Tracking Event

Triggers when an attachment, note, or content document is added or updated on any record of the specified Salesforce object.

7 ways to automate PayPal

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