Origami Make integrationAutomate Origami with Make.
Can Make keep your Origami instances up to date without anyone copying data by hand? The Origami Make integration gives you 9 modules: 8 actions and 1 search. This guide shows how to link your account, build a first scenario and pick the right module.
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What can the Origami Make integration do for you?
The Origami Make integration lets a scenario (the automation you build in Make, a chain of modules) create, read, update and archive instances in your Origami account. Each module is one brick of that chain. Origami has no trigger in Make, so another app or the Make schedule starts the scenario.
A new record from outside, filed in Origami. A contact form or a sales tool sends its data, Create an Instance stores it, and Upload a file attaches the document that came with it. Nobody retypes anything.
A record that follows the rest of your stack. When a status changes in another tool, Search Instances finds the matching instance and Update an Instance writes the new value. Add Repeatable Item to Existing Instance appends a line instead of overwriting the whole record.
A team that hears about it. Send Push Notification closes the loop once the data is in place, and Archive an Instance tidies up records you no longer work on.
What Make does not give you here: a module that watches Origami for changes. Anything outside the listed modules goes through Make an API Call, with the same connection. Make's own documentation for Origami is flagged as AI-generated, so check important details with Origami. The same app often has an n8n node too; the n8n vs Make page explains how the two tools differ, and Make pricing covers the plans. If you prefer a guided path, see Make training.
How do you connect your Origami account to Make?
- 01
Generate the token in Origami
In Origami, open System Preferences, then User Management, and select the user Make will act as. Copy the email address shown, scroll to Allow API Access, click Generate Token and copy the token.
- 02
Add an Origami module in Make
In your scenario, add any Origami module and click Create a connection. A connection is your Origami account linked to Make once, then reused by every Origami module. The Connection name field is optional.
- 03
Paste the credentials and save
Enter the email and the API token you copied, or follow the on-screen instructions. Once saved, Make can read your Origami data and list what the module needs, so you pick from a menu instead of typing IDs.
Your first scenario with Origami in Make
GoalWhen a form tool receives a new entry, Make creates an Origami instance and sends a push notification about it.
- 01
Create the scenario
From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module. Since Origami has no trigger, this first slot goes to the app where the data starts, such as your form tool.
- 02
Add Create an Instance
Click the + on the right of the first module, search for Origami and pick Create an Instance. Click Create a connection and paste the email and token from the previous section.
- 03
Map the incoming data
Fill the module fields. Make lists what it can read in Origami once the connection exists, and you drag each value from the form entry into the matching field.
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Add Send Push Notification
Click the + again and add Send Push Notification. Reuse values from the previous modules so the message says which record was just created.
- 05
Test with Run once
Click Run once to execute the scenario one time. Open each module to read the bundles it received (a bundle is one item passing from module to module, here one form entry).
- 06
Schedule and switch it on
Set the schedule on the first module (every 15 minutes by default for a new scenario) and switch the scenario on. Each module run on one bundle counts as one operation on your Make plan.
What each Origami module does in Make
Origami gives you 9 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Add Repeatable Item to Existing Instance
ActionIn the docs onlyGoing by its name, it adds one new item to the repeatable part of an instance that already exists, so the record gains a line instead of a twin being created next to it.
Archive an Instance
ActionIn the docs onlyArchives an instance you no longer work on, so the record is set aside in Origami instead of lingering among the ones your team handles.
Create an Instance
ActionIn the docs onlyAdds a fresh instance to Origami from data arriving in the scenario, so a record exists the moment something happens elsewhere.
Get an Instance
ActionIn the docs onlyReads one instance you can already identify and hands its values to the next modules, so they work with current data instead of a stale copy.
Make an API Call
ActionIn the docs onlyCalls any endpoint of the Origami API from your scenario, with the same connection as the other modules, so you are not stuck when no listed module fits.
Search Instances
SearchIn the docs onlyLooks up instances in Origami and returns every match as a separate bundle, which gives you the records to act on next.
Send Push Notification
ActionIn the docs onlySends a push notification through Origami, so the people concerned learn about a change without opening the record to check.
Update an Instance
ActionIn the docs onlyChanges the values of an instance that already exists, which keeps Origami in step with the tool where the change really happened.
Upload a file
ActionIn the docs onlySends a file from the scenario into Origami, so the document sits next to the data instead of in someone's inbox.
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