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Every lead collected somewhere else can land in hotcalls.ai without copy and paste. The hotcalls.ai Make integration offers 1 action, Create Lead, and no trigger. This page is for people who have never built an automation: connect the account, then build a first flow that feeds it.

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What you can automate

What can the hotcalls.ai Make integration do for you?

The hotcalls.ai Make integration lets Make add leads to your hotcalls.ai account for you. Make runs a scenario, which is the automation you build: a chain of modules that runs on a schedule or when an app calls Make. Here, the last link of that chain is the Create Lead module, fed by data coming from another tool.

A form that fills your lead list. A prospect submits a form in another app, and the scenario passes the name and contact details to Create Lead. A module is one brick of a scenario, and this one is the only brick hotcalls.ai offers. Pages like the 123FormBuilder Make integration show what the upstream side can look like.

A spreadsheet row that becomes a lead. Your sales team keeps a sheet of contacts to reach. Each new row travels as one bundle, one item passed from a module to the next, and Create Lead turns it into a lead.

A booking or chat that turns into a follow-up. When a person books a slot or writes to you on a messaging app, the scenario can hand that contact to hotcalls.ai so nobody slips through.

What Make cannot do here: hotcalls.ai has no trigger, so nothing in Make reacts to events inside hotcalls.ai, and the Make documentation for this app is marked as limited. If you also weigh n8n, read n8n vs Make before choosing, and the Make training covers the basics of the editor.

Connect

How do you connect hotcalls.ai to Make?

  1. 01

    Add the module and create a connection

    In your scenario, add the hotcalls.ai Create Lead module and click Create a connection. A connection is your hotcalls.ai account linked to Make once, then reused by every hotcalls.ai module you add later.

  2. 02

    Name it so you can find it again

    Giving the connection a name is optional, but it helps as soon as you manage more than one account. Something like the team or the client it belongs to is enough to tell them apart in the list.

  3. 03

    Authorize Make, then save

    Depending on what the window asks, either approve access on the hotcalls.ai page or paste the key hotcalls.ai gives you. Click Save, and the connection appears in the module, ready to use.

First scenario

Your first scenario with hotcalls.ai

GoalWhen a new contact shows up in another app, Make creates the matching lead in hotcalls.ai.

  1. 01

    Create a new scenario

    Open the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module. That first module is the source of your contacts, since hotcalls.ai has no trigger of its own.

  2. 02

    Pick the app that brings the contacts

    Search for the form, sheet or CRM your leads come from, choose its module and link your account with Create a connection. Make then lists what it can read there.

  3. 03

    Add Create Lead

    Click the + on the right of the first module, search for hotcalls.ai and choose Create Lead. Connect your account, then map the contact data from the previous module into the fields Make shows you.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once to run the scenario a single time. Open each module to read the bundles it received, then check in hotcalls.ai that the lead arrived with the right details.

  5. 05

    Schedule and switch it on

    Set the schedule on the first module (a new scenario runs every 15 minutes by default) and switch the scenario on. Each run of Create Lead on one bundle counts as one operation on your plan.

Modules

What the hotcalls.ai module does

hotcalls.ai gives you 1 module. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

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Create Lead

ActionIn the docs only

This action adds a new lead to your hotcalls.ai account, built from the data of the module placed before it. It is the only way Make writes to hotcalls.ai.

When to use it
after a form, a sheet row or a booking, when a person should become a lead without retyping.
Watch out
the Make documentation for this module is limited and describes none of its fields, so run it once with a test contact and confirm the result inside hotcalls.ai before switching the scenario on.
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FAQ

Questions about the hotcalls.ai Make integration

01Is the hotcalls.ai Make integration free?
Yes, on the Make side. hotcalls.ai is a standard app, so it is available from the Free plan onward. That plan allows 2 active scenarios, at least 15 minutes between two scheduled runs, up to 5 minutes per run, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of data transfer. Paid plans (Core, Pro, Teams and Enterprise) lower the interval to 1 minute and remove the cap on active scenarios. Your hotcalls.ai subscription is a separate matter that this page does not cover.
02What does it take to connect hotcalls.ai to Make?
A hotcalls.ai account and a Make account. The Make documentation lists no specific prerequisite for this app. You add the Create Lead module, click Create a connection, optionally name it, then either authorize Make on the hotcalls.ai page or paste the key hotcalls.ai provides, and click Save. The same connection then serves every hotcalls.ai module in your scenarios. If the window asks for a key you cannot locate, hotcalls.ai support is the right place to ask.
03Can a hotcalls.ai scenario react in real time?
Not from hotcalls.ai itself, because the app has no trigger module. The scenario has to start elsewhere. You can open it with the trigger of the app where your contacts appear, such as a form or a messaging tool; if that trigger is instant, the app calls Make through a webhook as soon as something happens. Otherwise Make checks on the scenario's schedule, every 15 minutes by default, and down to 1 minute on paid plans.
04What if a hotcalls.ai module is missing in Make?
Then Make alone will not cover it. The hotcalls.ai app only has Create Lead and no Make an API Call module, so you cannot reach other parts of hotcalls.ai from the same app. Two options remain: check whether another app in your stack can handle that step, or ask the team for help designing the flow. The Make documentation for hotcalls.ai is also limited, so test each change with Run once before relying on it.
05Make or n8n for hotcalls.ai: which one fits?
It depends on your criteria rather than on a winner. In Make, hotcalls.ai offers a single Create Lead action and no trigger, which suits a simple flow where another app collects the contact and hands it over. Many apps also exist as n8n nodes, so check whether hotcalls.ai has one and what it covers before you commit. Then compare the two tools on the steps your process really needs, the editor your team is comfortable with and how you prefer to test.