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Colete Online Make integrationAutomate Colete Online with Make.

Can Make book your shipments in Colete Online for you? Yes. The Colete Online Make integration gives you 5 action modules, no trigger, and works on the Free plan. This page shows how to link your account and build a first scenario that prices and creates an order.

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What you can automate

What can the Colete Online Make integration do for you?

The Colete Online Make integration lets a Make scenario (the automation you build, a chain of steps called modules) send work to your Colete Online account: ask for a price, create an order, pull its AWB, list services. Nothing is typed by hand once the scenario runs.

Quote before you commit. When a customer asks what delivery will cost, Get Price of an Order Request fetches the figure from Colete Online, so your reply or your checkout can show it without anyone opening the platform.

Turn a paid order into a shipment. A sale lands in your shop or a form, and Create an Order books it in Colete Online. Add Get AWB right after to fetch the AWB of that order and store it where your team works.

Keep your options in view. Get Services returns the services your account offers, handy when a scenario has to pick one before creating an order.

Know the limits first. The app has no trigger, so a scenario always starts from another app or from a schedule. Make's own documentation for Colete Online is marked as limited, which means the exact fields show up only once you open each module. For anything the 5 modules miss, Make an API call reaches the rest of the API. New to the tool? Read the Make review first, follow the Make training to go further, and see n8n vs Make if you are still choosing a platform.

Connect

How do you connect Colete Online to Make?

  1. 01

    Add a Colete Online module

    In your scenario, click the +, search for Colete Online and pick any of its modules. Then click Create a connection. A connection is your Colete Online account linked to Make once, then reused by every module of the app.

  2. 02

    Name the connection

    Give it a name you will recognize later, such as the shop or the account it belongs to. This step is optional, but it helps a lot when you run several accounts or share scenarios with a teammate.

  3. 03

    Authorize and save

    Depending on what the app asks for, either approve Make on the Colete Online page that opens or paste the key Colete Online gives you. Click Save, and the module is ready to fill.

First scenario

Your first scenario: price and book a shipment

GoalWhen a new order reaches your shop, Make asks Colete Online for a price, then creates the order in Colete Online.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    On the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the +. Pick the app where your orders arrive (your shop, a form, a sheet) and its module that returns new orders.

  2. 02

    Ask for a price

    Click the + on the right, search Colete Online and choose Get Price of an Order Request. Create the connection, then map the order data from the first module into its fields.

  3. 03

    Create the order

    Add Create an Order after it. Map the same customer and parcel data, and use what the price module returned. Each order travels as a bundle, one item passed from one module to the next.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once to run the scenario one time, then open each module to read the bundles it received. Test with a real but harmless order: Create an Order really books it.

  5. 05

    Schedule and switch on

    On the first module, set the schedule (every 15 minutes by default, 15 minutes minimum on the Free plan) and switch the scenario on. Each module run counts as one operation on your plan.

Modules

What each Colete Online module does

Colete Online gives you 5 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

Colete Online1

Create an Order

ActionIn the docs only

This one books a shipment for you: it creates a new order in your Colete Online account from data that came out of an earlier module, so nobody has to retype the address and parcel details.

When to use it
right after a sale or a confirmed request in another app, once you know the order has to ship.
Watch out
each run creates a real order, so test with Run once on a harmless example before switching the scenario on.
Colete Online2

Get AWB

ActionIn the docs only

You end up with the AWB of an order that already exists in Colete Online, ready to be saved, attached or sent on to the next module of the scenario.

When to use it
just after Create an Order, when your team or your customer needs that document without logging into the platform.
Watch out
the module needs an existing order to point at, so map the order reference returned by the previous module.
Colete Online3

Get Price of an Order Request

ActionIn the docs only

Here you get a price before anything is booked: the module sends the details of a possible shipment to Colete Online and returns what it would cost.

When to use it
when a customer or a checkout needs a delivery quote, or when a scenario should compare the cost before calling Create an Order.
Watch out
a price request books nothing, so a scenario that stops here leaves no order behind.
Colete Online4

Get Services

ActionIn the docs only

Think of it as the menu of your account: it returns the services Colete Online offers you, so a later module can pick the right one instead of relying on a value you typed once and forgot.

When to use it
when you build or adjust a scenario and need to see which services exist before pricing or creating orders.
Watch out
Make's documentation does not describe what it sends back, so click Run once and read the bundle before you map anything from it.
Colete Online5

Make an API call

ActionIn the docs only

Whatever the four other modules leave out, this one can reach: it calls any endpoint of the Colete Online API from your scenario, with the same connection you already created.

When to use it
when you need an operation the listed modules do not offer and the Colete Online API documents it.
Watch out
you write the request yourself, so keep the API reference of Colete Online open while you fill in the module.
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FAQ

Colete Online and Make: common questions

01Is the Colete Online Make integration free?
Yes, Colete Online is a standard app, so its modules work on Make's Free plan. That plan has its own limits: 2 active scenarios, at least 15 minutes between two scheduled runs, 5 minutes of execution per run, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of data transfer. Paid plans (Core, Pro, Teams, Enterprise) lower the interval to 1 minute and remove the cap on active scenarios. Usage is counted in operations, one per module run. Your Colete Online account itself is a separate matter this page does not cover.
02What do you need to connect Colete Online to Make?
A Colete Online account and a Make account. Make's documentation lists no specific prerequisite and is marked as limited for this app. In practice, you add a Colete Online module, click Create a connection, optionally name it, then either approve Make on the Colete Online page or paste the key the app gives you, and click Save. The connection is then shared by all 5 modules, so you set it up only once per account.
03Does the Colete Online Make integration react in real time?
No, because the app has no trigger module: nothing in Colete Online can start a scenario by itself. The scenario starts from another app instead, for example a new order in your shop or a new row in a sheet, or from the schedule on the first module, every 15 minutes by default. Colete Online modules then run as steps inside that flow. How quickly things happen depends on the trigger you choose from the other app.
04What if a Colete Online module is missing in Make?
It depends on what you need. The integration ships with Make an API call, which reaches any endpoint of the Colete Online API through the connection you already have, so an operation missing from the 4 other modules is often still possible. You will write the request yourself with the API reference at hand. Make's own guide for this app is incomplete, so expect to check fields directly in each module rather than in the documentation.
05Should you use Make or n8n with Colete Online?
It depends on the tool your team already runs. This page covers Make, where Colete Online offers 5 action modules, a shared connection and Make an API call for the rest. Before weighing n8n, check whether it has a Colete Online node and which operations that node covers. Then compare the two on what matters to you: the modules each one exposes, how you start a scenario without a Colete Online trigger, and who on your team will maintain it.
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