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Invoicing.plus Zapier integration: 2 triggers, 3 actions and 1 search to plug this French invoicing tool into the rest of your work. What each one does, what it costs in tasks, and where it tends to break before you go live.

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Overview

What the Invoicing.plus Zapier integration actually does

It links your Invoicing.plus account to your other apps through Zapier, without code. A Zap (the automation you build on Zapier) watches for validated invoices or new payments, then creates customers, creates invoices or fetches a PDF for you. Six operations in total, and the whole page is about those six, nothing more.

Three results come up again and again. A PDF archive that fills itself: New Invoice starts the Zap, PDF Invoice fetches the file, and a storage app files it where your accountant looks. A payment alert: New Payment starts the Zap and a message or a spreadsheet row tells the team the money is in. A billing hand-off from sales: Find Customer checks an email address, Create Customer adds whoever is missing, then Create Invoice bills them, as long as the item already sits in your account.

What Zapier does not do here matters just as much. Neither trigger is instant, so nothing reaches Zapier the second it happens in Invoicing.plus. No action updates or deletes an invoice, none records a payment, and no step creates the items that Create Invoice asks for. If one of those gaps is a deal-breaker, our Zapier review and the Make vs Zapier comparison show how the platforms differ on coverage and pricing logic.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary, in one minute

Eight words you will meet in the editor. Each one is used on this page exactly as defined here.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event that starts a Zap. With this app, it is a newly validated invoice or a newly recorded payment in Invoicing.plus.
Action
What the Zap does once started: the step that creates a customer or an invoice, or fetches a PDF, on your behalf.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One action that completes successfully is one task, and your plan is a monthly count of those.
Polling vs instant
Polling: Zapier asks the app for new items on a timer. Instant: the app calls Zapier itself. Both Invoicing.plus triggers poll.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets a condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
Search step
A step that looks up something that already exists in an app, like a customer by email, so later steps can reuse it.
Connection
Your Invoicing.plus account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step of every Zap that touches the app.
Cost

What an Invoicing.plus Zap really costs

Invoicing.plus is not a premium app, so it runs on Zapier's free plan. The trigger never costs a task, however often Zapier checks. Only a successful action is billed.

  • Trigger check0 tasks
  • Each successful action1 task
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two steps per Zap
  • Premium appNo, works on Free

The free plan gives 100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps, and two-step Zaps only: one trigger, one action. Add a filter, a Find Customer step or a second action and you have a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan. In practice, New Invoice plus PDF Invoice fits on Free, but filing that PDF in a folder does not. Every action that succeeds counts on its own, so a Zap with two actions burns tasks twice as fast. An action that fails is not counted.

Connect

Connect Invoicing.plus to Zapier in three steps

  1. 01

    Open the Apps page

    In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. You need an Invoicing.plus account first, plus read or write access to anything you do not own but want the Zap to touch.

  2. 02

    Pick Invoicing.plus

    Type Invoicing.plus in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the Invoicing.plus side, where the rest happens.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Log in to Invoicing.plus in that tab and allow Zapier to reach the account. The connection then appears in your list, and every Invoicing.plus step of every Zap reuses it.

First Zap

Your first Zap: every validated invoice saved as a PDF

GoalEach invoice you validate in Invoicing.plus lands as a PDF file in a Google Drive folder.

  1. 01

    Start the build

    Create a new Zap. Building means picking the app and event that start it, then the app and action that follow, then mapping fields between them.

  2. 02

    Set the trigger

    Choose Invoicing.plus as the app, New Invoice as the event, then the connection you added earlier. No other setting is needed at this stage.

  3. 03

    Test it on a real invoice

    Run the test: Zapier brings back the three most recent invoices of your account. Pick one you recognise, since it feeds the mapping of every step below.

  4. 04

    Fetch the PDF

    Add PDF Invoice as the first action and map the invoice ID from the trigger into its required field. Test it and check that a file comes back.

  5. 05

    File it in Drive

    Add Google Drive with Upload File and map the PDF from the previous step. This third step makes it a multi-step Zap, so a paid plan is required.

  6. 06

    Publish

    Once each step has returned what you expected, click Publish to switch the Zap on. Only invoices validated from that moment are picked up.

Triggers

Invoicing.plus triggers: what starts a Zap

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

1

New Invoice

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new invoice is validated.”

Starts your Zap each time an invoice reaches the validated stage in Invoicing.plus. That moment, rather than the first keystroke on a new document, is what Zapier watches, and the invoice then travels down the Zap so later steps can reuse it.

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
your accountant wants a copy of every validated invoice in a shared folder without asking for it each month.
Watch out
invoices validated before you publish the Zap are never picked up, so move the backlog by hand once.
2

New Payment

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new payment is filled.”

Wakes the Zap when a payment is recorded in your Invoicing.plus account, which makes it the natural starting point for anything that should follow money coming in: a thank-you, an alert, a line in a cash sheet.

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
the sales rep who closed the deal should hear the client has paid, without logging in to the invoicing tool.
Watch out
a payment recorded just after a check waits for the next one, so on Free it can surface up to 15 minutes later.
Actions

Invoicing.plus actions: what the Zap can do

Invoicing.plus gives you 3 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Create Customer

Action

In Zapier“Create a customer in the system”

Adds a new customer record to Invoicing.plus from data another app hands over. Only the Name is mandatory, so even a short form entry is enough.

When to use it
a deal closes in your CRM and the client should exist in Invoicing.plus before anyone bills them.
Watch out
put Find Customer in front of it to check the email first, or returning clients get added again.
2

Create Invoice

Action

In Zapier“Creates a Invoice in the system”

Builds an invoice in your account from inside a Zap. It insists on two identifiers, a Customer ID and an Item ID, both pointing to records that already exist.

When to use it
a signed quote or a confirmed order should turn into an invoice with no retyping.
Watch out
neither field takes a name; get the customer ID from Find Customer or Create Customer earlier in the Zap.
3

PDF Invoice

Action

In Zapier“Get invoice pdf file”

Retrieves the PDF file of an existing invoice from its invoice ID, so a later step can store or send the document itself.

When to use it
right after New Invoice, to drop each document in a shared folder or attach it to an email.
Watch out
it only fetches the file; storing or sending it is another action, and another task.
Searches

Invoicing.plus search: finding a customer

1 search step looks for data that already exists in Invoicing.plus, so a later step can use it.

Searches sit at the bottom of the action-event list, under the SEARCH heading. Some action fields also offer + Add search step, which inserts the lookup just before and wires its result in for you.

1

Find Customer

Search

In Zapier“Finds customer by Email”

Looks up a customer already stored in Invoicing.plus from an email address, the one field it requires, and hands the record to the steps that follow.

When to use it
before Create Invoice, to turn the email of whoever paid or signed into the Customer ID the invoice asks for.
Watch out
it adds a step, so the Zap becomes multi-step and leaves the free plan.

The three settings every search exposes

  1. Successful if no search results are found?
    Left on its default, a search that finds nobody stops the Zap there and the steps that depended on it are skipped. Switched on, the Zap carries on empty-handed.
  2. Create X if it doesn't exist yet?
    This box turns a search into a find-or-create. Invoicing.plus offers no such variant, so you will not see it on Find Customer: a missing customer needs your own Create Customer step.
  3. If multiple search results are found?
    Three ways out when several customers match: keep the first one (the default), stop the Zap, or pass all of them on at once.
When it breaks

When an Invoicing.plus Zap breaks

Zapier links no help article to this app, so the known failure points are the ones every Zap shares. Here is how each one shows up with invoices and payments.

Most problems below are about timing and loops, not about the connection. If a Zap still misbehaves after these checks, the Zapier troubleshooting page goes through the general method.

  • Old invoices are never picked up

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Invoices validated last month stay where they are, and moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • A Zap that sets itself off

    A Zap that writes into the very place its trigger watches starts itself again and again. New Invoice followed by Create Invoice is the pairing to watch here.

  • A bulk import held back

    Load a big batch of invoices or payments at once, after a migration for instance, and Zapier's flood protection can hold the trigger back.

  • No second run for the same payment

    Zapier remembers what a polling trigger has already seen, so the same invoice or payment never starts the Zap twice. If you expected a rerun, that is why.

  • Find Customer comes back empty

    With the default setting, a search that finds no customer stops the Zap and Create Invoice is skipped. Switch the setting on only if the next steps can cope.

  • A failed action costs nothing

    When Create Invoice is rejected, say for a missing Item ID, the task is not counted. Fix the mapping before the next invoice comes through.
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FAQ

Invoicing.plus and Zapier: frequent questions

01Is the Invoicing.plus Zapier integration free?
Yes, as long as your Zap stays at two steps. Invoicing.plus is not a premium app, so it works on Zapier's free plan, which gives 100 tasks a month and checks polling triggers every 15 minutes. The catch is the shape of the Zap: the free plan allows one trigger and one action, nothing more. New Invoice followed by PDF Invoice fits. Adding a filter, a Find Customer step or a second action turns it into a multi-step Zap, and that needs a paid plan.
02How many tasks does an Invoicing.plus Zap use?
One task per action that succeeds, and nothing for the trigger. Zapier can check Invoicing.plus for new invoices or payments as often as your plan allows without counting anything; billing only starts when an action completes. A Zap running New Payment then one action costs one task per payment. A Zap that runs Create Customer then Create Invoice costs two tasks per run when both succeed. An action that fails is not counted against your plan.
03Is the Invoicing.plus integration real time?
No. Both triggers, New Invoice and New Payment, are polling triggers: Zapier goes to Invoicing.plus at regular intervals and keeps only what it has not seen yet. The interval depends on your plan: 15 minutes on Free, 2 on Professional, 1 on Team and Enterprise. On paid plans you can also run a check by hand from the editor. The type comes from the app's own API, so no setting in Zapier can make these triggers instant.
04What does it take to connect Invoicing.plus to Zapier?
An Invoicing.plus account and a Zapier account. From the Apps page in Zapier, click + Add connection, search for Invoicing.plus, then sign in to it in the tab that opens and let Zapier access the account. If the Zap has to touch data you do not own, you also need read or write access to it. Once linked, the connection is reused by every Invoicing.plus step of every Zap, so it is a one-time setup.
05Why does Create Invoice ask for a Customer ID and an Item ID?
Because the action builds the invoice from records that already exist in Invoicing.plus and identifies them by ID, not by name. Both fields are mandatory. For the customer, put Find Customer before it to turn an email into an ID, or Create Customer when the person is new. For the item, no Zapier action creates one, so it must already be in your Invoicing.plus account. Those extra steps make the Zap multi-step, which means a paid plan.
06What if the Invoicing.plus operation you need does not exist?
Then it is not available in Zapier, because the list is fixed: 2 triggers, 3 actions and 1 search. There is no update, no delete, no payment recording and no item creation. Often the closest result comes from chaining what exists: Find Customer plus Create Invoice covers most billing hand-offs, and PDF Invoice covers document sharing. Anything beyond that stays a manual step in Invoicing.plus, at least until the app adds operations to its Zapier integration.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Invoicing.plus?
It depends on three criteria rather than on a winner. Coverage first: on Zapier the app offers the six operations listed on this page, so check whether the other platform has a ready-made Invoicing.plus module before comparing anything else. Cost model next: Zapier bills each successful action as one task, which is easy to predict at small volumes. Zap shape last: anything past one trigger and one action needs a paid Zapier plan. Weigh those three against your volume and your team's habits.
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