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The Instamojo Zapier integration listens to your payments and hands them to the rest of your tools. It offers 2 triggers, 0 actions and 0 searches: Zapier reads Instamojo, it never writes back. That one fact shapes every Zap you can build here.

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Overview

What the Instamojo Zapier integration does for your payments

The integration is a one-way bridge. When a payment lands on Instamojo, or when a buyer walks away halfway, Zapier notices it on its next check and passes the details to another app you choose. Instamojo stays the source; everything else is where the information ends up.

Three results come up again and again. First, a clean sales log: New Successful Payment feeds a spreadsheet or an accounting tool, one line per paid order. Second, a recovery list: New Dropped-Off Payment collects the buyers who started paying and stopped, so someone can follow up while the intent is still warm. Third, a team alert: either trigger can post to a chat channel, so the person shipping the order hears about it without opening the Instamojo dashboard.

Now the part the app page skips. Zapier can't do anything inside Instamojo. There is no action to create a payment link, no action to refund, and no search to look up an older order. If the job is to change something in Instamojo, this integration is the wrong tool, and no setting will change that.

The other limit is timing. Both triggers are checked on a timer, never pushed, so a payment shows up in your other app after a delay that depends on your plan (more on that below). If you also weigh other platforms, the Instamojo Make integration page covers the same app on Make, and the Make vs Zapier comparison lays out the general trade-offs.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Seven words come back on every line of this page. Here they are in plain English, once.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time that trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event that starts the Zap. Here, a new payment on Instamojo, successful or dropped off. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
Action
What the Zap does after it starts: writing a row, sending a message, moving data. Instamojo has none, so actions come from other apps.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One action that completes successfully counts as one task, and your plan is a monthly count of those.
Polling vs instant
A polling trigger is checked on a timer by Zapier. An instant one is reported by the app the moment it happens. Both Instamojo triggers poll.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap carry on only when the incoming payment meets a rule you set, and stops it otherwise. Adding one needs a paid plan.
Connection
Your Instamojo account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every Zap that needs it, so you never sign in twice.
Cost

What an Instamojo Zap really costs

Good news first: Instamojo is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan.

  • Trigger checkFree, never counted
  • Each successful action1 task
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
  • Premium appNo

Watching Instamojo costs nothing. The trigger never uses a task, however often Zapier checks. What counts is each action that succeeds in the other app, one task per action; a failed action is not billed. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and checks every 15 minutes, but it stops at two steps: one trigger, one action. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap needs a paid plan, even for one sale.

Connect

Connect your Instamojo account in three steps

  1. 01

    Open the Apps page

    In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. You need an Instamojo account of your own, or access to the one whose payments the Zap should read.

  2. 02

    Find Instamojo

    Type the name in the dialog, pick Instamojo from the list, then click Add connection. Zapier then hands you over to Instamojo for the sign-in step itself.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Log in to Instamojo in that tab and allow Zapier to reach the account. The connection then appears on your Apps page, ready for any Zap that starts with a payment.

First Zap

Your first Zap: log every course sale and tell the team

GoalPicture a teacher who sells video courses through Instamojo and wants each paid order kept in a sheet for the accountant, with a heads-up in the team chat.

  1. 01

    Build: pick the trigger

    Create a Zap, choose Instamojo as the app and New Successful Payment as the event, then select the connection you made earlier.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent payments of the account, so you map the next steps on a real order and see which values it carries.

  3. 03

    Add the spreadsheet action

    Choose Google Sheets and its row action, then drop the values the test brought back into the matching columns of the sheet the accountant reads.

  4. 04

    Add the chat alert

    Add a second action, Slack and its channel message, and reuse the same payment values in the text. This second action makes the Zap multi-step, so a paid plan is required.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Run each step once and read what came back. When the new row in the sheet looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on.

Triggers

Instamojo triggers on Zapier

2 events start a Zap when something happens in Instamojo. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.

1

New Dropped-Off Payment

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new dropped-off payment is created.”

Spots buyers who started a payment on Instamojo and did not finish it. Each one becomes a fresh run of your Zap, with the details Instamojo recorded for that attempt, ready to send to an email tool or a CRM.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
you sell a workshop or a digital product and want a short, friendly reminder to reach people who left at the checkout step.
Watch out
a buyer may come back and pay on their own between two checks, so word the reminder in a way that still reads well if they already did.
2

New Successful Payment

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new successful payment is created.”

Fires for each payment that goes through on Instamojo. This is the trigger behind most setups: a sales log, an invoice in your accounting tool, a welcome email for a new student, or a ping to whoever packs the parcel.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
every paid order has to show up somewhere else without anyone retyping it.
Watch out
Zapier remembers what it has already seen, so the same payment never starts the Zap twice, but a payment made before the Zap was published is never picked up at all.
When it breaks

When an Instamojo Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to Instamojo, so the problems you will meet are the general ones of a polling trigger.

None of them shows up as an error message. The Zap simply stays quiet, or arrives late, which is why each case below is worth knowing before a client asks where their order went. If a Zap misbehaves anyway, the Zapier troubleshooting page is the next stop.

  • Past payments never come through

    The Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Orders taken last week stay in Instamojo; moving that backlog is a separate job, outside the Zap.

  • A sale shows up late

    Both triggers are checked on a timer. On the free plan a payment can wait up to 15 minutes before the Zap runs; Professional checks every 2 minutes.

  • A big batch gets held back

    If a trigger suddenly returns a huge pile of payments, after a migration for instance, Zapier's flood protection can hold the batch back instead of running it all.

  • The second step is refused on the free plan

    The free plan builds two-step Zaps only. A filter, or a second action such as a chat alert after the sheet row, turns the Zap multi-step and needs a paid plan.
Need help

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FAQ

Instamojo Zapier integration: frequent questions

01Is the Instamojo Zapier integration free?
Yes, as long as the Zap stays simple. Instamojo is not a premium app, so the free Zapier plan accepts it. That plan gives 100 tasks a month and builds Zaps of two steps: one Instamojo trigger and one action in another app. The moment you add a filter or a second action, for example a chat alert after the spreadsheet row, the Zap becomes multi-step and requires a paid plan. Instamojo's own fees are a separate matter that this page does not cover.
02How many tasks does an Instamojo Zap use?
One per successful action, and nothing for the trigger. Zapier checking Instamojo for new payments is free no matter how often it happens. If a payment starts a Zap with one action, that is one task. With three actions, every action that succeeds counts on its own, so the same payment costs three tasks. An action that fails is not billed. On the free plan, 100 tasks cover about 100 paid orders a month in a one-action Zap.
03Does Instamojo send payments to Zapier in real time?
No. Both triggers are polling triggers: Zapier asks Instamojo for new payments at a fixed interval and keeps only the ones it has not seen. That interval is 15 minutes on the free plan, 2 minutes on Professional and 1 minute on Team and Enterprise. On paid plans you can also run a check by hand from the editor. The type is set by Instamojo's API, so no option in Zapier turns these triggers into instant ones.
04What do you need to connect Instamojo to Zapier?
An Instamojo account, plus access to the one whose payments the Zap should read if it is not yours. In Zapier, open the Apps page, click + Add connection, search for Instamojo, then click Add connection. A tab opens where you sign in to Instamojo and grant Zapier access. The connection is saved once and reused by every Zap built on it, so you do not repeat the sign-in for each new automation.
05Why do older Instamojo payments not appear in Zapier?
Because a Zap only sees what happens after it is switched on. Payments recorded before you clicked Publish are ignored, and there is no setting to go back in time. The test step does show the three most recent payments, but only so you can map fields on a real example; it does not send them through the Zap. Getting your history into a sheet or a CRM is a separate, one-off job that the Zap does not do.
06What if the Instamojo operation you want is missing?
Then Zapier cannot do it for this app today. The integration lists two triggers and nothing else: no action, so nothing can be created, changed or refunded in Instamojo, and no search, so an older payment cannot be looked up mid-Zap. If the job requires writing into Instamojo, plan for a manual step there, or look at whether the other platforms list an operation that fits before building anything around it.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Instamojo?
It depends on what the job needs, not on a ranking. Judge on the criteria this page documents: on Zapier, Instamojo offers two payment triggers, both checked on a timer, no action and no search; the free plan accepts it but stops at two steps; and each successful action costs one task. Compare those points with what Make and n8n list for Instamojo before choosing. If reacting to sales is all you need, Zapier already covers it.
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