L2S Zapier integrationAutomate L2S with Zapier.
The L2S Zapier integration has 1 action and no trigger. That single action, Create Shortened URL, turns any long link that reaches a Zap into a tracked short link, with UTM tags, a custom key, a title and tags. Here is how to start it, what it costs and where it fails.
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What the L2S Zapier integration does
L2S shortens links and builds QR codes with click statistics. On Zapier it does one thing: it creates a short link from a long one each time another app hands it a URL. You never start a Zap from L2S itself; something in another tool starts it, and L2S comes second.
Three results worth setting up. Campaign links tagged without spreadsheets of UTM codes: a new row in your planning sheet calls Create Shortened URL with its UTM parameters filled in, so every link is trackable from day one. Short links for every new page: when your CMS publishes an article, the Zap shortens its address for your social posts. Tidy link libraries: titles and tags set by the Zap keep your L2S account sorted by campaign or client.
Here is what Zapier does not do with L2S. There is no trigger, so a click or a new link inside L2S cannot start anything. There is no search, so a Zap cannot check whether a link already exists before creating another. And nothing edits or deletes a link: the integration only creates, so cleaning up old links stays a manual job inside L2S.
If you are comparing tools before you build, see our n8n vs Zapier comparison and our Zapier review. Keep the scope in mind: L2S offers a single action on Zapier and no trigger.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Six terms you will meet on this page, in plain English.
- 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 in an app that starts the Zap. L2S has none, so the trigger always comes from another tool you use.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it starts. Here it is Create Shortened URL, the step that produces the short link for you.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One action that succeeds equals one task, and your plan counts them month by month.
- Polling vs instant
- Zapier checks a polling trigger on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by its app at once. The other app decides which one you get.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when the incoming data meets your condition, and stops it the rest of the time.
What it costs to shorten links with Zapier
L2S is not a premium app, so the free Zapier plan can use it. You pay in tasks: one per short link created.
- Free plan100 tasks per month, unlimited Zaps
- Free plan Zap size2 steps: one trigger, one action
- Premium appNo, available on every plan
- Cost per short link1 task when it succeeds
The trigger from the other app costs nothing, and neither does Zapier checking that app for news. Each Create Shortened URL that succeeds counts one task; one that fails is not billed. The free plan allows Zaps of two steps, which is exactly one trigger and this one action. Add a filter, for example to shorten only some rows, and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. If the trigger app works by polling, the grid below sets how soon the link appears.
Connect L2S to Zapier in 3 steps
- 01
Add a connection
Go to the Apps page of your Zapier account and click + Add connection. A connection is your L2S account linked once, then reused by every Zap that shortens links.
- 02
Choose L2S
Type L2S in the search box of the dialog, select it and click Add connection. A new tab then opens on the L2S side so you can sign in there with your account.
- 03
Sign in and allow access
Log in to your L2S account in that tab and grant Zapier access. You need an L2S account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own and want the Zap to fill.
Your first Zap: a tracked short link for each new campaign row
GoalEach row you add to your campaign sheet gets a short L2S link with its UTM tags.
- 01
Pick the trigger
Create a Zap and choose the app and event that start it, here a new row in your campaign sheet. L2S has no trigger, so the start always comes from another tool.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent rows, so you map the next step on a real line with a real destination address.
- 03
Add the L2S action
Add Create Shortened URL, choose your L2S connection and map the long link into the URL field. Add the UTM parameters, a custom key, a title or tags if you use them.
- 04
Test the action
Run the step once and open the short link that came back, to check it lands on the right page with the right tags before you go any further.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish to switch the Zap on. With one trigger and one action, it stays a two-step Zap and runs fine on the free plan.
L2S action
L2S gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Shortened URL
ActionIn Zapier“This action creates a shortened URL using the L2S platform. You can also add UTM parameters, a custom key, title, and tags to the URL for enhanced tracking and organization.”
Turns a long address into an L2S short link, and can stamp it with UTM parameters, a custom key, a title and tags as it goes.
When the L2S Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to L2S. The failures below are the ones every Zap meets, read through this single action.
Most of them only show once the Zap is live. If links stop appearing, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
Old rows never get a link
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Rows, pages or records that already existed are not shortened; handling that backlog is a separate job.A missing destination
The destination URL is the one required field. A blank cell or plain text in its place makes Create Shortened URL fail for that run.A big import held back
Pasting hundreds of rows at once can make the trigger return a huge batch, and Zapier's flood protection may hold it back instead of shortening everything.A loop through your sheet
If the Zap writes the short link back into the same sheet its trigger watches, it can start itself again and again and burn through your tasks.
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