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How to Use Zapier to Automate Everything

By Joey Blanco · November 28, 2017
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You found workflow automation tool Zapier, which puts you ahead of the pack. Now you can start building workflows and connecting all your apps. But where should you start? Which apps should you link together with a Zap (that's our word for the app connections you can build)?

Want to build efficient workflows and add productivity to your days? Try Zapier for free!

To help you start using Zapier—and find new ways to be more efficient—we collected our customer stories and sorted them by field. If you're a marketer, see how fellow marketers automate social media posts or instantly add emails to newsletters. Work at a nonprofit? Read how other nonprofits do more with less (and save more than just time, too).

Steal these workflows and you'll give yourself back hours to focus on the things that matter.

If you're already building amazing, automated workflows, share your story with us! Fill out that form and your company and workflows could be featured on here, too.

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Customer Support

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • How a Marketing Engineer at a Real Estate Brokerage Doubles Their Output

  • How a Real Estate Broker Uses Automation to Reduce Follow-Up Time by 90%

  • A Growing Startup Uses Automation to Keep Its Team Small

  • Calendly Saves 10 Hours Every Week with Automation

  • How a Tech Support Company Cuts Out 5 Hours of Manual Work Every Week

  • A Family Business Cut Out 90% of the Time Spent on Manual Work

  • How to Keep Your Sales and Support Teams Happy and Efficient with Automation

  • BarkBox Keeps Its Pack Together with Automated Emails and Team Notifications

  • Intercom Saves Their Teams Four Hours Every Week with Automation

  • Streak Automatically Links Customer Data with Support Requests

  • How One eCommerce Company Automatically Prints from Anywhere

  • ScholarMatch Tracks Donations Across Databases & Email Automatically

  • How MeUndies Connects Multiple Teams with Different Project Management Tools

  • How Fortified Bicycle Automatically Texts Their Facebook Leads

  • Snap Kitchen Automates Customer Care and Saves Hours Every Week

  • How Automation Helps Olark Give Sales a Human Touch

Designers

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • InVision Saves 10 Hours Each Week with Automated Workflows

  • A Graphic Design Firm Made Their Multi-Step Sales Process Automatic

  • How an AI Company Conducts Research Studies Efficiently with Typeform

Developers

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • How the Palm Beach Tech Association Automates Social Media Marketing

  • How MeUndies Connects Multiple Teams with Different Project Management Tools

  • Snap Kitchen Automates Customer Care and Saves Hours Every Week

eCommerce

  • How an eCommerce Business Automatically Segments Customers for Email Campaigns

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • A Small Team Closes More Deals and Saves 2 Hours Per Day with Zapier

  • Zapier Saves a Startup's Founder 40 Hours—Each Month

  • How an eCommerce Entrepreneur Prototyped His Product With Zapier

  • How the Co-founder of an eCommerce Business Automates Contacts, Invoices, and Orders

  • How a Solopreneur Automates Her Work to Focus on Her Students

  • An eCommerce Store Automates Their Work to Increase Reliability

  • How Love Your Melon Fights Against Pediatric Cancer with Automated Workflows

  • A Digital Marketing Company Automates Facebook Leads and Saves Hours Every Week

  • How a One-Person Business Automates its Onboarding Process

  • eCommerce Businesses Leverage Facebook Lead Ads to Connect with Customers

  • A Family Business Cut Out 90% of the Time Spent on Manual Work

  • How to Keep Your Sales and Support Teams Happy and Efficient with Automation

  • How an eCommerce Business Saves 40 Hours Every Week with Automation

  • How a Smoothie Company Built a Thriving Community with Email and WooCommerce

  • How a Small Online Company Went From Manual Processes to an Automated, Turnkey Operation

  • An eCommerce Business Creates a Transaction Database Automatically

  • How a Nonprofit Automatically Creates CRM Contacts and Builds Mailing Lists from Donations

  • How One eCommerce Company Automatically Prints from Anywhere

  • How Fortified Bicycle Automatically Texts Their Facebook Leads

  • Snap Kitchen Automates Customer Care and Saves Hours Every Week

  • A Subscription Box Business Built Automated Workflows Instead of Hiring Developers

Education

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • How Clearbit & Zapier Help an Admissions Team Double Their Efficiency

  • How a Solopreneur Automates Her Work to Focus on Her Students

  • A Graduate Program's Office Automates Lead Generation to Increase Consistency and Save Hours

  • Boss Mom Saves 5+ Hours Each Week Automating Projects, Enrollment, and More

  • How a Whitewater Rafting Business Automatically Processes Forms

  • How a Coding Bootcamp Automates Invoice Creation and Cuts Out Manual Work

  • How a Nonprofit Automatically Creates CRM Contacts and Builds Mailing Lists from Donations

  • ScholarMatch Tracks Donations Across Databases & Email Automatically

Freelancers

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • How to Save Hours Every Week with Webhooks

  • How a Consulting Agency Reduced Time Spent Creating Leads by 25%

  • How Automation Helps Authors Reach Their Audience

  • A Small Legal Team Gets by Without Administrative Staff

  • A Family Business Cut Out 90% of the Time Spent on Manual Work

  • Organize an Online Conference Single-Handedly with Automation

  • How the Palm Beach Tech Association Automates Social Media Marketing

  • InVision Saves 10 Hours Each Week with Automated Workflows

Government

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Human Resources

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • One Zap Saves a Web Designer 5+ Hours Every Week on Invoices

  • How a Whitewater Rafting Business Automatically Processes Forms

  • Bambu by Sprout Social Efficiently Curates Content for Enterprise Clients

  • MeisterLabs Built a Workflow in Slack to Manage Vacation Requests

  • BarkBox Keeps Its Pack Together with Automated Emails and Team Notifications

Information Technology

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • How to Save Hours Every Week with Webhooks

  • A Stanford IT Team Built Time-Saving Workflows During an Efficiency Competition

  • How a Consulting Agency Reduced Time Spent Creating Leads by 25%

  • How Love Your Melon Fights Against Pediatric Cancer with Automated Workflows

  • How a Tech Support Company Cuts Out 5 Hours of Manual Work Every Week

  • How an AI Company Conducts Research Studies Efficiently with Typeform

  • How MeUndies Connects Multiple Teams with Different Project Management Tools

  • The Scheduling Tips That Help Give Sight to the Blind

Journalists

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • Bambu by Sprout Social Efficiently Curates Content for Enterprise Clients

  • Organize an Online Conference Single-Handedly with Automation

  • How youthSpark Created an Automated System Without Developers

Lawyers

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • Financial Planners Save $200 Every Week with Zapier

  • A Small Legal Team Gets by Without Administrative Staff

Marketers

  • A Digital Agency Saves 30 Hours a Week Automating with ManyChat and Zapier

  • How an eCommerce Business Automatically Segments Customers for Email Campaigns

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • How a Marketing Engineer at a Real Estate Brokerage Doubles Their Output

  • Ruler Analytics Uses Automation to Democratize Data with Customers

  • A Small Team Closes More Deals and Saves 2 Hours Per Day with Zapier

  • How Clearbit & Zapier Help an Admissions Team Double Their Efficiency

  • How the Bootstrapped Dollar Flight Club Uses Zapier to Manage Leads

  • How a Dog-Friendly Business Creates Contacts with Automation

  • An eCommerce Store Automates Their Work to Increase Reliability

  • A Graduate Program's Office Automates Lead Generation to Increase Consistency and Save Hours

  • Boss Mom Saves 5+ Hours Each Week Automating Projects, Enrollment, and More

  • A Growing Startup Uses Automation to Keep Its Team Small

  • Financial Planners Save $200 Every Week with Zapier

  • Vienna Greeters Reduces Errors and Hours with Automated Workflows

  • BuildASign.com Saves 5 Hours Every Week By Automating Contact & Lead Gen

  • How to Save Hours Every Week with Webhooks

  • How a Digital Marketing Consultant Converts More and Automates Onboarding

  • Museum Hack Uses Automated Workflows with Base CRM to Leave Manual Work Behind

  • How a Consulting Agency Reduced Time Spent Creating Leads by 25%

  • Livestorm Closes More Leads with Marketing Automation

  • How Automation Helps Authors Reach Their Audience

  • A Digital Marketing Company Automates Facebook Leads and Saves Hours Every Week

  • How a Whitewater Rafting Business Automatically Processes Forms

  • Bambu by Sprout Social Efficiently Curates Content for Enterprise Clients

  • MeisterLabs Built a Workflow in Slack to Manage Vacation Requests

  • How a Startup with a Strict Budget Automates their Nurture Emails

  • How Digital Marketers Stay On Top of New Leads with Automated Emails

  • eCommerce Businesses Leverage Facebook Lead Ads to Connect with Customers

  • How a Tech Support Company Cuts Out 5 Hours of Manual Work Every Week

  • A Family Business Cut Out 90% of the Time Spent on Manual Work

  • How to Keep Your Sales and Support Teams Happy and Efficient with Automation

  • How a Coding Bootcamp Automates Invoice Creation and Cuts Out Manual Work

  • How The Soldiers Project Trains Its Volunteers Faster

  • How the Palm Beach Tech Association Automates Social Media Marketing

  • How youthSpark Created an Automated System Without Developers

  • How a San Francisco Nonprofit Sends More Students to College with Airtable and Zapier

  • Mode Analytics Instantly Sends Leads to Marketing Automation

  • Customer.io Automatically Standardizes Form Submissions for Reporting

  • Hotjar Creates Databases Automatically for Accounting and Marketing

  • How Automation Decreased Lucidchart's QA Checks by 30%

  • Indiegogo Automatically Manages Their Leads and Contacts

  • How a Small Online Company Went From Manual Processes to an Automated, Turnkey Operation

  • An eCommerce Business Creates a Transaction Database Automatically

  • How a Nonprofit Automatically Creates CRM Contacts and Builds Mailing Lists from Donations

  • How Fortified Bicycle Automatically Texts Their Facebook Leads

  • A Subscription Box Business Built Automated Workflows Instead of Hiring Developers

Nonprofits

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • How Love Your Melon Fights Against Pediatric Cancer with Automated Workflows

  • How The Soldiers Project Trains Its Volunteers Faster

  • How the Palm Beach Tech Association Automates Social Media Marketing

  • How youthSpark Created an Automated System Without Developers

  • How a San Francisco Nonprofit Sends More Students to College with Airtable and Zapier

  • How a Nonprofit Automatically Creates CRM Contacts and Builds Mailing Lists from Donations

  • ScholarMatch Tracks Donations Across Databases & Email Automatically

Real Estate

  • A Realtor Reduces Her Time Spent Managing Leads by 40% with Zapier

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • How This Realtor Saves Four Hours a Week Through Automation

  • How Real Estate Agents Efficiently Manage New Leads

  • How a Marketing Engineer at a Real Estate Brokerage Doubles Their Output

  • How a Real Estate Broker Uses Automation to Reduce Follow-Up Time by 90%

  • How Real Estate Agents Use Facebook Lead Ads to Wrangle Leads

Sales

  • A Realtor Reduces Her Time Spent Managing Leads by 40% with Zapier

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • How This Realtor Saves Four Hours a Week Through Automation

  • How Real Estate Agents Efficiently Manage New Leads

  • How a Marketing Engineer at a Real Estate Brokerage Doubles Their Output

  • Ruler Analytics Uses Automation to Democratize Data with Customers

  • A Small Team Closes More Deals and Saves 2 Hours Per Day with Zapier

  • How a Real Estate Broker Uses Automation to Reduce Follow-Up Time by 90%

  • How the Bootstrapped Dollar Flight Club Uses Zapier to Manage Leads

  • How a Dog-Friendly Business Creates Contacts with Automation

  • How a Solopreneur Automates Her Work to Focus on Her Students

  • An eCommerce Store Automates Their Work to Increase Reliability

  • A Graduate Program's Office Automates Lead Generation to Increase Consistency and Save Hours

  • A Growing Startup Uses Automation to Keep Its Team Small

  • Financial Planners Save $200 Every Week with Zapier

  • Vienna Greeters Reduces Errors and Hours with Automated Workflows

  • BuildASign.com Saves 5 Hours Every Week By Automating Contact & Lead Gen

  • How to Save Hours Every Week with Webhooks

  • How a Digital Marketing Consultant Converts More and Automates Onboarding

  • Museum Hack Uses Automated Workflows with Base CRM to Leave Manual Work Behind

  • How a Consulting Agency Reduced Time Spent Creating Leads by 25%

  • Calendly Saves 10 Hours Every Week with Automation

  • How Love Your Melon Fights Against Pediatric Cancer with Automated Workflows

  • Livestorm Closes More Leads with Marketing Automation

  • How Automation Helps Authors Reach Their Audience

  • A Digital Marketing Company Automates Facebook Leads and Saves Hours Every Week

  • How a One-Person Business Automates its Onboarding Process

  • MeisterLabs Built a Workflow in Slack to Manage Vacation Requests

  • How a Startup with a Strict Budget Automates their Nurture Emails

  • How Digital Marketers Stay On Top of New Leads with Automated Emails

  • eCommerce Businesses Leverage Facebook Lead Ads to Connect with Customers

  • How Real Estate Agents Use Facebook Lead Ads to Wrangle Leads

  • RoverPass Saves 6 Hours Every Week with Automatic Slack Notifications

  • How a Tech Support Company Cuts Out 5 Hours of Manual Work Every Week

  • A Family Business Cut Out 90% of the Time Spent on Manual Work

  • How to Keep Your Sales and Support Teams Happy and Efficient with Automation

  • How a Coding Bootcamp Automates Invoice Creation and Cuts Out Manual Work

  • How youthSpark Created an Automated System Without Developers

  • Streak Automatically Links Customer Data with Support Requests

  • Mode Analytics Instantly Sends Leads to Marketing Automation

  • Customer.io Automatically Standardizes Form Submissions for Reporting

  • How Automation Decreased Lucidchart's QA Checks by 30%

  • Indiegogo Automatically Manages Their Leads and Contacts

  • How a SaaS Company Creates Leads Through the Magic of Automation

  • How an eCommerce Business Saves 40 Hours Every Week with Automation

  • A Graphic Design Firm Made Their Multi-Step Sales Process Automatic

  • How a Smoothie Company Built a Thriving Community with Email and WooCommerce

  • Send Follow Up Emails Automatically and Spend Time on Your Passion

  • How a Small Online Company Went From Manual Processes to an Automated, Turnkey Operation

  • How a Nonprofit Automatically Creates CRM Contacts and Builds Mailing Lists from Donations

  • How Automation Helps Olark Give Sales a Human Touch

  • The Scheduling Tips That Help Give Sight to the Blind

  • A Subscription Box Business Built Automated Workflows Instead of Hiring Developers

Small Business Owners

  • A Digital Agency Saves 30 Hours a Week Automating with ManyChat and Zapier

  • A Realtor Reduces Her Time Spent Managing Leads by 40% with Zapier

  • How an eCommerce Business Automatically Segments Customers for Email Campaigns

  • How to Use Zapier's Paths to Automate Decisions

  • Ruler Analytics Uses Automation to Democratize Data with Customers

  • A Small Team Closes More Deals and Saves 2 Hours Per Day with Zapier

  • Zapier Saves a Startup's Founder 40 Hours—Each Month

  • How Clearbit & Zapier Help an Admissions Team Double Their Efficiency

  • How an eCommerce Entrepreneur Prototyped His Product With Zapier

  • How the Co-founder of an eCommerce Business Automates Contacts, Invoices, and Orders

  • One Zap Saves a Web Designer 5+ Hours Every Week on Invoices

  • How the Bootstrapped Dollar Flight Club Uses Zapier to Manage Leads

  • How a Dog-Friendly Business Creates Contacts with Automation

  • How a Solopreneur Automates Her Work to Focus on Her Students

  • An eCommerce Store Automates Their Work to Increase Reliability

  • Boss Mom Saves 5+ Hours Each Week Automating Projects, Enrollment, and More

  • A Pest Control Service Created an MVP With No Coding

  • A Growing Startup Uses Automation to Keep Its Team Small

  • Vienna Greeters Reduces Errors and Hours with Automated Workflows

  • How to Save Hours Every Week with Webhooks

  • How a Digital Marketing Consultant Converts More and Automates Onboarding

  • Museum Hack Uses Automated Workflows with Base CRM to Leave Manual Work Behind

  • A Stanford IT Team Built Time-Saving Workflows During an Efficiency Competition

  • How Automation Helps Authors Reach Their Audience

  • A Digital Marketing Company Automates Facebook Leads and Saves Hours Every Week

  • How a One-Person Business Automates its Onboarding Process

  • A Small Legal Team Gets by Without Administrative Staff

  • How a Whitewater Rafting Business Automatically Processes Forms

  • Bambu by Sprout Social Efficiently Curates Content for Enterprise Clients

  • How a Startup with a Strict Budget Automates their Nurture Emails

  • How Digital Marketers Stay On Top of New Leads with Automated Emails

  • eCommerce Businesses Leverage Facebook Lead Ads to Connect with Customers

  • RoverPass Saves 6 Hours Every Week with Automatic Slack Notifications

  • How a Tech Support Company Cuts Out 5 Hours of Manual Work Every Week

  • A Family Business Cut Out 90% of the Time Spent on Manual Work

  • How to Keep Your Sales and Support Teams Happy and Efficient with Automation

  • How a Coding Bootcamp Automates Invoice Creation and Cuts Out Manual Work

  • Organize an Online Conference Single-Handedly with Automation

  • How The Soldiers Project Trains Its Volunteers Faster

  • How the Palm Beach Tech Association Automates Social Media Marketing

  • Intercom Saves Their Teams Four Hours Every Week with Automation

  • InVision Saves 10 Hours Each Week with Automated Workflows

  • Streak Automatically Links Customer Data with Support Requests

  • Mode Analytics Instantly Sends Leads to Marketing Automation

  • Customer.io Automatically Standardizes Form Submissions for Reporting

  • Hotjar Creates Databases Automatically for Accounting and Marketing

  • Indiegogo Automatically Manages Their Leads and Contacts

  • How a SaaS Company Creates Leads Through the Magic of Automation

  • How an eCommerce Business Saves 40 Hours Every Week with Automation

  • A Graphic Design Firm Made Their Multi-Step Sales Process Automatic

  • How a Smoothie Company Built a Thriving Community with Email and WooCommerce

  • Send Follow Up Emails Automatically and Spend Time on Your Passion

  • How a Small Online Company Went From Manual Processes to an Automated, Turnkey Operation

  • An eCommerce Business Creates a Transaction Database Automatically

  • How a Nonprofit Automatically Creates CRM Contacts and Builds Mailing Lists from Donations

  • How One eCommerce Company Automatically Prints from Anywhere

  • How MeUndies Connects Multiple Teams with Different Project Management Tools

  • How Fortified Bicycle Automatically Texts Their Facebook Leads

  • How Automation Helps Olark Give Sales a Human Touch

  • The Scheduling Tips That Help Give Sight to the Blind

  • A Subscription Box Business Built Automated Workflows Instead of Hiring Developers

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