Tightly Make integrationAutomate Tightly with Make.
Purchase orders, suppliers and restock suggestions can move on their own. The Tightly Make integration gives you 10 modules: 2 triggers, 3 actions and 5 searches. This guide shows how to link your account and build a first working scenario.
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What can the Tightly Make integration automate?
The Tightly Make integration links your Tightly account to Make, a visual tool where you chain apps together without code. Each automation you build there is called a scenario. It reads purchase orders, suppliers, contacts and locations from Tightly, and it can create suppliers or update an order when something happens elsewhere.
Purchasing follow-up without copy and paste. Put Watch created purchase orders at the start of a scenario and every new order becomes a bundle, meaning one item passed from a module to the next. From there, send it to your accounting tool, a shared sheet or a chat channel so the team hears about it.
A supplier list that stays in sync. When a vendor is approved in your CRM or a form, Create suppliers adds it to Tightly. List suppliers helps you check what already exists before you add anything.
Restock decisions in front of the right people. List replenishment recommendations returns what Tightly suggests, and a scenario can pass those items to a buyer's inbox or a planning sheet.
Two limits are worth knowing. Both triggers are scheduled, so Make checks Tightly on the scenario's clock and does not hear about orders the moment they appear. And the Make documentation for this app says its content was AI-generated from Tightly's docs, so check important details with Tightly. For the wider picture, read the Make review, see how plans compare in Make pricing, or weigh the two tools in n8n vs Make.
How do you connect Tightly to Make?
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Get your Tightly credentials
Log in to Tightly first. For user-level access, register your user with the Tight API and retrieve the OAuth 2.0 access token. For partner-level access, open the section where partner credentials live and note your client ID and client secret.
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Add a Tightly module in Make
In a scenario, add any Tightly module and click Create a connection. A connection is your Tightly account linked to Make once, then reused by every Tightly module. You can type a label in Connection name, which helps when you run several accounts.
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Paste the credentials and save
Enter the token or the client ID and secret you copied, or follow the on-screen instructions. Once saved, the module can read your Tightly data, and Make offers lists of what it finds instead of making you type values by hand.
Build your first scenario with Tightly
GoalWhen a new supplier is approved in another app, Make creates that supplier in Tightly.
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Create the scenario
On the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module. Pick the app where suppliers get approved, such as your CRM or a form tool, and choose the module that picks up a new record.
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Add Create suppliers
Click the + on the right of that first module, search for Tightly and pick Create suppliers. Click Create a connection if you have not linked your account yet, using the credentials from the step above.
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Map the supplier data
Fill the Tightly module with data from the previous module: click inside a field and select the matching value from the first app. Make shows what the earlier module returned, so there is nothing to retype.
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Test with Run once
Add a test record in the source app, then click Run once. It runs the scenario a single time. Open the bubble above each module to read the bundles it received and check the supplier now shows up in Tightly.
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Schedule and switch on
Click the clock on the first module to set Scheduling. A new scenario checks every 15 minutes by default, and the Free plan cannot go lower. Then switch the scenario on so it keeps running without you.
Tightly triggers in Make
2 modules start a scenario when something happens in Tightly. A scheduled trigger is checked by Make on the scenario's schedule; an instant one is called by Tightly as soon as it happens.
Watch created purchase orders
triggerIn the docs onlyThis trigger starts your scenario with each purchase order newly created in Tightly, so the rest of the flow works on fresh orders only. Every order arrives as its own bundle, ready to be mapped into the next module.
Watch updated purchase orders
triggerIn the docs onlyChanges matter as much as new orders, and this trigger hands your scenario each purchase order that was modified in Tightly. Use it to keep a status, a delivery date or a sheet in step with what buyers do in the app.
What the Tightly modules do
Tightly gives you 8 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create suppliers
ActionIn the docs onlyAdds a new supplier to Tightly from data that lives elsewhere, so vendor records stop being typed twice. It is an action: one bundle in, one supplier created.
List contacts
SearchIn the docs onlyReturns the contacts stored in your Tightly account so a scenario can reach the right person. As a search, it can send back zero, one or several bundles, and each one travels through the rest of the flow.
List locations
SearchIn the docs onlyPulls the locations set up in Tightly, which is handy when a scenario must know where stock or an order belongs. The module is a search, so expect one bundle per location it finds, not a single combined answer.
List purchase orders
SearchIn the docs onlyGives you the purchase orders already in Tightly on demand, rather than waiting for a trigger to spot new ones. That makes it the pick for catching up, rebuilding a sheet or feeding a report.
List replenishment recommendations
SearchIn the docs onlyBrings Tightly's restock suggestions into Make, so the people who buy see them where they already work. Each recommendation comes back as its own bundle, which you can route, filter or collect.
List suppliers
SearchIn the docs onlyReads the supplier list from Tightly and hands each supplier to the next module as a bundle. It answers the question “who do we already buy from?” inside a scenario.
Make an API call
ActionIn the docs onlyReaches any endpoint of the Tightly API with the connection you already set up, so you are not stuck when the listed modules fall short. It is the escape hatch of this app in Make.
Update a purchase order
ActionIn the docs onlyChanges an existing purchase order in Tightly with data from earlier in the scenario. You avoid opening each order to edit it by hand when the source of truth sits in another tool.
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