Multi-Step Zaps by Zapier — The easiest way to build powerful workflows with your apps

I love this. I always tweet and talk about automation apps like Zapier and IFTT everywhere. They're both great, although I use Zapier more as their speed of new features added is faster now. For example, I take pre-orders for my book at https://makebook.io via Typeform, payment goes to Stripe, then Zapier pushes the customer details to MailChimp, and then Zapier sends people the first chapters to their email. Another one, when people sign up to Nomad List, automatically Zapier sends them an introduction via Slack. Also when I receive an invoice by email, Zapier tries to detect it and automatically files it in my bookkeeping spreadsheet on Google Docs. It still takes some manual editing after, but it saves time. I used to code all this stuff myself as little scheduled shell scripts, and I still do, but wherever possible I try to automate it via Zapier. It's not perfect, sometimes Zapier doesn't detect the correct API data for example making it useless, but most of the times it works and then it keeps working. The problem with coding your own scripts around APIs is that APIs keep changing, so sometimes your scripts will just stop working. Zapier checks APIs themselves, so that saves loaaaads of time. I'm a huge believer that the future of startups is less code, and Zapier is a tool that makes that future a little more real.

@wadefoster love this idea and have enjoyed the beta of this feature. Have you thought of creating company-supported "recipes"; i.e. A batch install of a multi-step app that sets up any necessary connections and makes it even easier to set up complex workflow?

Hey Product Hunt! Today we're launching a new version of Zapier the includes Multi-Step Zaps. This has been in development for nearly a year. We've had several thousand people testing in beta and it's been going great so we're releasing to everyone today. A quick example of something you could do is setup a Typeform survey so when a response is received it can trigger a chain of events like: - look up the respondent in Pipedrive CRM and add a note - upload an attached file to Box - log the entry in a Google Sheets spreadsheet, including a link to the new file - if critical feedback is given, open a Zendesk ticket. You can read more about the launch and effort behind this here: https://zapier.com/blog/workflow... I'll be around all day to answer questions if you have them. Wade P.S. You use this to do some cool stuff with Product Hunt too like setting up a Multi-Step Zap to post your PH upvotes to Twitter, Facebook, Slack and LinkedIn all at once.

This is so exciting, @wadefoster! I love Zapier - I cannot wait to explore the new multi-step zaps. I'm resisting the urge to dig in right now as I know I'll end up spending a few hours exploring the different permutations. :-)

I always felt there was a limitation to Zapier because of the inability to use multi-step zaps. This makes Zapier an even more powerful tool. Glad that's been taken care of and look forward to trying it.

I have been on the beta of Multi-stage zaps for over 6 months, and it's been incredible. It's now become our go-to backend, and that has helped us create growth experiments at a huge pace!

I spent the last year+ building this alongside @justindeal, @smbriones, and github/stevemolitor and we're very happy to see this finally ship today. Before, Zapier was only 1-to-1 integrations which limited it's power. Multi-Step Zaps open up a huge array of more useful Zaps like... - looking up data inside other apps to use in the workflow - if an item isn't found when looking it up, create it - transforming that data inside of Zapier (like dates, string manipulation) - executing custom javascript code in between steps (can do manipulation, API calls, etc.) This is the biggest change to the product since we launched the company back in 2011. Interested in the build process? Here's a look at how it came together: http://blog.invisionapp.com/rede... I'm excited to answer questions. Especially ones about the build process (like how we ran a 3 month beta). I'll be watching this thread throughout the day! Mike

Zapier is one of my favorite SAAS product. It makes my life so easy and free up so much time that I spend on boring tasks. Great work you guys.

Curious, but what's the difference between Zapier and IFTTT?

Tools like this are so useful - from IFTTT to Zapier --- what you put in, you get a multiplier of value out.

Zapier co-founder/CTO - crazy excited about this launch - it represents thousands of hours of work and a pretty much complete rebuild of our entire stack. One of my favorite features is new custom Code steps - both Python https://zapier.com/help/code-pyt... and Javascript https://zapier.com/help/code/#ho... are supported. I've been using it to replace dozens of crontabs and others are using it to inject custom scripting into workflows around Github, Bitbucket, Trello, Salesforce, etc. I especially like making Slack bots with it (we've made a few game moderator bots, pretty fun). I'll be around all day - happy to answer any questions. There is some cool tech under the hoods.

Huge Zapier supporter, and at any given time have 100+ running in the background stitching together all of my growth experiments, landing pages, and auto-reporting to Hipchat channels to the rest of the team.

This is so awesome I can't even contain myself. Making production app talk with other services without single line of code. Some things it is just so much easier to user Zapier. Now with multi step, it just got even better.

This is awesome! I have it on my todo list to set up a new zap today and I think is going to make it even easier. Perfect timing 👍 Congrats on the new feature launch!

I've been using Zapier for very simple tasks for awhile now. These new workflows are going to solve a LOT of problems for me. Think you might even blow IFTTT out of the water... Good work guys :)

HUGE Zapier fan. I was part of a feedback session with Eileen and scheduled waiting was my biggest request. It's there, and so is all of my onboarding backend. All of it. I also use it for non-work stuff too. I have a search for Reddit in the /r/freebies sub where anytime someone posts free stickers I get a text message. My laptop looks great. 4 months ago I was so blown away by Zapier, I wrote a thank you letter for them. http://www.ryantaylor.cc/zapier-...

Sounds great. Can't wait to try it! Any plans to drop a discount code for the PH community to celebrate the release?🎉🎉

This is freaking Awesome! I was just talking to the wife about automation and how cool would that be if people have access to all the devices including cars, kitchen equipments, etc.. and be able to automate tasks, life would be easier.

Love this. I didn't realise that I was using it in beta. I have set up a lot of zaps and this condenses the workflows a lot.

The natural progression of where we thought this product was going is finally here! Thanks Zapier! Really excited about the myriad of combinations now possible as well as the integration with physical, IoT services coming. Would love to see integration(s) with all of the various 'Conversational Commerce' platforms growing daily, maybe as one of the triggers for a set of actions. Thanks again!