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When you make online sales and process with Stripe, you need to also record the income in Wave to keep your bookkeeping up to date. This integration will create an Income transaction in Wave for each new Stripe payment processed, ensuring that your online captured sales are correctly recorded in Wave. Sales income and payment card processing fees are captured separately, so you have fully accurate records.

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Add transactions in Wave for new Stripe sales

Who doesn't want to build a backup of all their invoices or keep track of them in a separate system? That's just smart business! Build a database automatically with this Zap: Zapier will take your new invoices from Wave and send their information to new rows in Google Sheets. In just a few minutes, you'll have your own backup database ready to go.

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Add new Wave invoices to Google Sheets rows

Wouldn't you want to also add new customers to your email marketing list? Of course, but that adds a few extra steps in your day, which can be time consuming.  Zapier can take care of that for you. All you need to do is worry about nurturing the personal relationship, and let integration automatically create a Mailchimp subscriber every time a new customer is created in your Wave account.

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Create Mailchimp subscribers from new Wave customers

Prevent duplication of data entry when new contacts are created in WooCommerce. When new contacts are created in WooCommerce, the customer trigger event automatically  invokes the create customer action in Sage Accounting. This results in the customer being created in your Sage Accounting business.

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Add new WooCommerce customers to Sage Accounting

When new orders are created in WooCommerce, this automation creates a sales invoice in Sage Accounting. Set up this Zap to streamline your invoicing workflows with no added clicks or keystrokes.

Create Sage Accounting sales Invoices for new WooCommerce orders

Keep your sales process flowing smoothly by instantly updating your Pipedrive deals whenever Sage Accounting sales quotes are modified. This workflow ensures important quote changes are reflected in your deal details, eliminating the manual cross-referencing between your accounting and CRM systems. Streamline your work routine and save valuable time by having all the necessary updates at your disposal in Pipedrive.

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Update Pipedrive deals whenever Sage Accounting sales quotes are updated

One of the best ways to stay in touch with clients is to send them periodic updates via email. This FreshBooks Mailchimp integration adds new FreshBooks clients to a subscriber list on Mailchimp list so that you can reach out to them at any point, saving you the effort of doing it yourself.

Subscribe new Freshbooks clients to a Mailchimp list

When you have new clients added to your accounting tool, you'll want the details added to your email tool for follow up. This integration makes it easy by automatically adding/updating a subscriber in Mailchimp when there is a new client added in FreshBooks New. Following up with your newest clients has never been easier.

Add or update Mailchimp subscribers for new clients in FreshBooks New

If your organization uses Slack for team communications and FreshBooks to receive payments, then you can use Zapier to automatically post new FreshBooks payments to Slack in a chat message. Pick what you want the message to include, and the Slack channel where you want it shared. Then, you'll get notifications in Slack about new FreshBooks payments automatically.

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Post new FreshBooks payments to a Slack channel

Sending emails about the latest news and offers to customers is an integral part of expanding your business. Let this automation do the work of building up your audience: Turn it on, and every new customer you add to Zoho Books will also be subscribed to a list on Mailchimp, guaranteeing your newsletters always reach the widest possible audience.

Subscribe new Zoho Books customers to a list on Mailchimp

If you're focused on running your store, administrative tasks like accounting take up valuable time. Get a little help through Zapier automation. This workflow will trigger with every new order you receive on WooCommerce, automatically creating an invoice on Zoho Books from the details so your paperwork can move as fast as your business.

Create invoices in Zoho Books from new WooCommerce orders

Keep your Google Ads Customer Match Lists fresh with this integration that automatically adds a new contact to a Google Ads Customer Match list from new entries in Zoho Books

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Add Contact to Customer List With Email in Google Ads for New Customer in Zoho Books

Automatically created paid invoices in Xero when your Stripe customers are charged with this Stripe Xero integration. After you set up this integration, every time there is a new Stripe charge, a new Xero invoice is created. It's automatic accounting at its best.

Create Xero invoices for new Stripe payments

If you manage your online store with WooCommerce and your books with Xero, this integration is here to make the two systems work in harmony. Each time you make a sale with WooCommerce, an invoice will be automatically generated for you in Xero. 

Create Xero invoices for new WooCommerce orders

Instead of manually copying and pasting data to create a new invoice in Xero every time a new order is placed on Shopify, use Zapier to create new invoices for you. Once you integrate these two applications, from that point forward, new orders on Shopify will automatically have matching invoices in Xero.

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