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Pushover Make integrationAutomate Pushover with Make.

What if the important events in your other tools reached your phone on their own? The Pushover Make integration gives you 2 action modules, so any scenario can end with an alert on your devices. This page shows how to link your account and build your first alert, step by step.

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What you can automate

What does the Pushover Make integration actually do?

The Pushover Make integration lets Make, a no-code automation tool, send notifications to the phones and computers where you run Pushover. You build a scenario (the automation itself, a chain of modules) and place a Pushover module at the end, so the alert goes out whenever the earlier steps have something to report.

A support ticket that cannot wait. Your help desk flags a ticket as urgent, and Send a Message pushes a short summary to the person on duty. Nobody has to keep the inbox open to catch it.

A big order in your online store. A sales tool records a large purchase, and the same module tells the owner with the customer name and the amount pulled from the order.

A lead from your website form. Someone fills in the contact form, and the sales rep gets the name on their phone before opening the CRM.

Pushover has no trigger in Make: it never starts a scenario by itself, it only speaks at the end of one. The start comes from another app or from the schedule of the scenario. When the listed module is not enough, Make an API Call reaches the rest of the Pushover API with the same account link.

If you already work in n8n, the Pushover n8n integration covers the same app, and n8n vs Make helps you pick a tool. New to scenarios? The Make training starts from zero.

Connect

How do you connect Pushover to Make?

  1. 01

    Collect your two keys in Pushover

    Log in to Pushover and copy the user key shown on your dashboard. Then click Create an Application (or Create a New Application), fill in the details, submit, and copy the API token the new application displays.

  2. 02

    Open the connection window in Make

    In your scenario, add a Pushover module and click Create a connection. A connection is your Pushover account linked to Make once, then reused by every Pushover module. The Connection name field is optional but helps later.

  3. 03

    Paste the credentials and save

    Enter the credentials you copied from Pushover, or follow the instructions Make shows on screen. Once saved, the connection appears in the module, and every other Pushover module in your account can pick it from the list.

First scenario

Your first scenario: an alert on your phone when something happens

GoalWhen something happens in the app you choose, Make pushes an alert to your phone with Send a Message.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the +. Pushover has no trigger, so the first module comes from the app where your events happen.

  2. 02

    Pick the start

    Search that app, choose its trigger and link your account there. This is the moment you want to hear about: a new order, an urgent ticket, a form sent.

  3. 03

    Add Send a Message

    Click the + on the right of that module, search Pushover and pick Send a Message. Click Create a connection and paste your user key and API token.

  4. 04

    Write the alert

    Type the message and map data from the previous module into it, a customer name or an amount, so you understand the alert without opening anything.

  5. 05

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once. Read the bundles each module received (a bundle is one item passed between modules), then check your phone: the alert should be there.

  6. 06

    Schedule and switch on

    Set the schedule on the first module (every 15 minutes by default) and switch the scenario on. From now on, each new event lands on your phone.

Modules

What can the Pushover modules do?

Pushover gives you 2 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

Pushover1

Make an API Call

Action

In Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.”

Here you send your own authorized request to the Pushover API, reusing the connection you already set up, so you reach parts of Pushover that no listed module covers.

When to use it
your scenario needs a Pushover feature beyond sending a written message, and you know which endpoint of their API handles it.
Watch out
Make builds nothing for you here, so you write the request yourself from the Pushover documentation and check the answer after a Run once.
Pushover2

Send a Message

Action

In Make“Sends the written message to your pushover devices.”

This module takes the text you write, often filled with data from earlier steps, and delivers it to the devices registered on your Pushover account. It is the natural last step of an alert scenario.

When to use it
something happens in another tool, a paid invoice or a failed backup, and a person needs to know without watching a screen.
Watch out
it runs once per bundle, so a step that outputs many rows sends just as many alerts unless you filter or group them first.
Need help

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FAQ

Pushover and Make: common questions

01Is the Pushover Make integration free?
Yes, on the Make side. Pushover is a standard app, so it is available on the Free plan. That plan allows 2 active scenarios, a minimum of 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 and Enterprise) bring the interval down to 1 minute and allow unlimited active scenarios. Pushover itself needs an active account, and its subscription is described on its own pricing page.
02What do you need to connect Pushover to Make?
You need an active Pushover account and a registered application inside it. From the Pushover dashboard, copy your user key, then create an application and copy the API token it displays. In Make, add a Pushover module, click Create a connection, give it a name if you want, and paste those credentials. The connection is then shared by both Pushover modules, so you only do this once per Pushover account, not once per scenario.
03Can Pushover start a Make scenario in real time?
No. Pushover has no trigger module in Make, so it cannot start a scenario at all. It only acts as a final step. To start the flow, use a trigger from the app where the event happens, or set a schedule on the first module, every 15 minutes by default. Whether the whole chain reacts instantly then depends on that first app: an instant trigger, called by the app through a webhook, starts right away, while a scheduled one waits for its next check.
04What if a Pushover module you need is missing in Make?
It depends on what you need. Only two modules are listed: Send a Message and Make an API Call. The second one is the way out, because it can call any endpoint of the Pushover API with the connection you already have. You write the request yourself from the Pushover documentation, then test it with Run once. If the feature does not exist in the Pushover API, no Make module can add it.
05Make or n8n: which one fits Pushover better?
It depends on the tool your team already runs. Pushover exists in both, so the choice is less about Pushover than about where the rest of your automations live. In Make, you get two modules, Send a Message and Make an API Call, both reachable from the Free plan, and a visual scenario editor with a Run once test. If your other flows already sit in n8n, adding Pushover there keeps everything in one place. Compare the two tools on your own use cases before moving anything.
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