IPQualityScore Zapier integrationAutomate IPQualityScore with Zapier.
IPQualityScore Zapier integration: 5 actions, 0 triggers and 0 searches. Each action runs a fraud check on one value (an email, a phone number, a link, an IP address or a whole order) and hands the verdict to the next step of your automation.
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What the IPQualityScore Zapier integration does
With it, an automation sends one piece of data to IPQualityScore and gets a risk verdict back, with nobody pasting values into a dashboard. IPQualityScore never starts anything here: another app brings the email, the phone number, the link or the IP address, and IPQualityScore answers with a score.
Three typical results. A cleaner mailing list: Email Verification flags throwaway inboxes, spam traps and addresses that tend to complain, so a new signup can be tagged before it reaches your newsletter. A shorter call list: Phone Number Validation returns the carrier, the line type and whether the number is VOIP, which tells sales which leads deserve a call. A held order: Score Order, User, or Transaction rates a purchase from its IP address, and a risky one can wait for a human look before it ships.
What Zapier does not do for this app is just as telling. It cannot start a Zap from IPQualityScore, because the app has no trigger, and it cannot look anything up there, because it has no search. Every Zap begins in another tool. And on the free plan, the verdict lands at the end of a two-step Zap with nowhere to go: acting on it takes a filter or a second action, so a paid plan.
Same app, other platform: the IPQualityScore Make integration page covers the Make side of these checks.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Eight words come back on every line of this page. Here they are in plain English.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it. IPQualityScore has none, so another app plays this role.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or checks something for you. All five IPQualityScore operations are actions.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully, and the allowance on your plan is a count of those.
- Polling trigger
- A trigger Zapier checks on a timer. It asks the app for new items at a fixed interval and keeps only the ones it has not seen yet.
- Instant trigger
- A trigger the app reports by itself. It calls Zapier the moment the event happens, so nothing waits for the next scheduled check.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when the incoming data meets your condition, and stops it otherwise. Handy right after a risk score.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter turns a Zap into one, and from then on it needs a paid plan.
What a fraud check really costs
IPQualityScore is not a premium app, so it works on the free Zapier plan. The catch sits elsewhere.
- Premium appNo, free plan included
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- One successful check1 task
- Failed checkNot billed
The trigger never costs a task, and neither does Zapier looking for new data. Each IPQualityScore check that succeeds counts as one task; a check that fails is not billed. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month but stops at two steps. A filter on the score, or a second action that uses it, makes the Zap multi-step, so paid. If the app that starts your Zap uses a polling trigger, how often it checks depends on the plan, as the grid below shows. For a wider view of the tool, read the Zapier review.
Connect your IPQualityScore account
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. A connection is your IPQualityScore account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step that calls it.
- 02
Pick IPQualityScore
Type IPQualityScore in the search box of the dialog, select it from the results, then click Add connection. The only prerequisite at this point is an IPQualityScore account of your own.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
A new tab opens on IPQualityScore. Sign in, then allow Zapier to use the account. From now on, any Zap can pick this connection in its IPQualityScore steps without asking you to log in again.
Your first Zap: screen new signups by email
GoalCheck every new form signup with Email Verification and send only the risky ones to a Slack channel.
- 01
Set the trigger
Create a Zap and choose Typeform with New Entry as the event that starts it. Connect the form account, then select the signup form you want to watch.
- 02
Test it on a real entry
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent entries of that form, so pick one with a genuine email address: it becomes the sample you map from.
- 03
Add the IPQualityScore check
Add an action, choose IPQualityScore and Email Verification, then map the email answer of the form into Email Address, the only required field. Test the step once and read the verdict.
- 04
Keep only the risky ones
Add a Filter from the plus icon and point it at a field returned by the check. Use a number rule on a score and a text rule on text: a mismatched rule is why a filter never passes.
- 05
Alert the team and publish
Add Slack with Send Channel Message, build the alert from the fields of the check, test it, then click Publish. With four steps, this Zap runs on a paid plan.
The 5 IPQualityScore actions
IPQualityScore gives you 5 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Email Verification
ActionIn Zapier“Verify the deliverability of an email address and score its reputation. Detect disposable and abusive email addresses along with spam traps and complainers.”
Sends one address to IPQualityScore and tells you whether mail will actually reach it, along with a reputation score. It also spots disposable inboxes, known spam traps and people who tend to file complaints.
Phone Number Validation
ActionIn Zapier“Verify phone numbers worldwide and retrieve carrier details, line type, VOIP status, geographic data, risk scores, and much more.”
Checks a phone number from any country and comes back with its carrier, the kind of line, its VOIP status, where it is located and a risk score.
URL Scanning
ActionIn Zapier“Scans URLs and domains to identify phishing, malware, and suspicious links, including parked or hijacked domains”
Inspects a domain or a full link and reports phishing, malware or anything suspicious, including domains that sit parked or have been hijacked.
Score IP Address Reputation
ActionIn Zapier“Lookup IP address details and IP reputation to determine geo location and risk analysis, including an overall Fraud Score, recent abusive activity and status as a proxy, VPN, or TOR connection.”
Turns an IP address into a location and a risk profile: an overall fraud score, signs of recent abuse, and whether the visitor hides behind a proxy, a VPN or TOR.
Score Order, User, or Transaction
ActionIn Zapier“Score an order, transaction, or user to identify fraudulent orders, stolen credit cards, and high risk user behavior. Screen payment or user data for suspicious behavior in real-time.”
Rates a whole order, payment or user account for fraud: stolen cards, fake orders and risky behavior. It is the broadest of the five checks.
When an IPQualityScore Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article of its own to IPQualityScore, so the risks below are the ones every Zap shares, seen through a fraud check.
Most failures come from the data the trigger hands over, not from IPQualityScore itself. When a Zap keeps failing and the cause is not obvious, see Zapier troubleshooting.
Old signups are never checked
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you publish it. Leads and orders already sitting in your tools are not scored, and checking that backlog is a separate job.The Zap that feeds itself
If the check writes its verdict back into the sheet or the list its own trigger watches, the Zap fires again on its own output and burns through tasks fast.A bulk import gets held back
After a migration or a big import, the trigger can return a huge batch at once. Zapier's flood protection may hold it back instead of sending everything to a check.No double check on polling
On a polling trigger, Zapier keeps track of the items it has already seen, so the same lead never starts the Zap twice and never gets a second check.An empty required field
Each action needs one value to run. When the trigger brings an empty email, phone, URL or IP, the step fails. A failed action is not billed, but the item stays unchecked.Phone numbers without a country code
Numbers go through without their dialing code, yet IPQualityScore recommends including it. Local formats typed into a form are worth fixing before the check.
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