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Linksun Zapier integrationAutomate Linksun with Zapier.

The Linksun Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 1 action and 0 searches. That covers both directions for contacts: new ones leave Linksun for your other tools, and leads from elsewhere land in it. It runs on the free plan, since Linksun is not a premium app.

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Overview

What the Linksun Zapier integration does for you

The Linksun Zapier integration plugs Linksun, the CRM built to follow solar sales projects, into the rest of your apps through Zapier. A Zap (an automation on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens) watches for something, then does the follow-up work for you. With Linksun, that work is all about contacts.

A contact filed straight from a lead form. Someone fills in a form on your site, and Create Contact puts them in Linksun with their name and phone, so nobody on the team retypes the form. A contact list mirrored in a spreadsheet. New Contact V2 picks up each contact added in Linksun and lets the next step copy it into a sheet your whole team can read. A ping for whoever calls back. The same trigger can feed a message to a shared inbox, so a new prospect gets a call before the interest cools.

What Zapier does not do here matters just as much. The app has no search, so a Zap cannot look up a contact that already exists in Linksun. It cannot update or delete one either. Contacts go in, new contacts come out, and the solar projects themselves stay out of reach. Linksun has no dedicated n8n or Make page on this site yet; if those gaps are a dealbreaker, the n8n vs Zapier comparison is the next read.

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: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time that trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it and nothing else.
Action
What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something on your behalf.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One task equals one action your Zap completes successfully, and your plan counts those.
Polling vs instant
A polling trigger is checked on a timer for new items. An instant one is reported by the app the moment it happens.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap continue only when the incoming data meets your condition, and stops it otherwise.
Connection
Your app account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step of every Zap that touches that app.
Cost

What a Linksun Zap really costs

Good news first: Linksun is not a premium app, so the free plan is enough to start. From there, everything is counted in tasks, and the trigger never uses one.

  • Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps, two steps per Zap
  • TriggerCosts nothing, however often Zapier checks
  • Create ContactOne task per contact created successfully
  • Premium appNo: works from the free plan

New Contact V2 never costs a task, however often Zapier checks Linksun. Each Create Contact that succeeds counts one task; a failed one counts nothing. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and Zaps of two steps only. Add a filter or a second action and you have a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan. Since New Contact V2 is a polling trigger, the grid below sets how long a new contact waits before Zapier sees it.

Connect

Connect your Linksun account in three steps

  1. 01

    Open your connections

    In your Zapier account, go to the Apps page and click + Add connection. You need a Linksun account first, plus access to any data you do not own and want the Zap to touch.

  2. 02

    Pick Linksun

    Type Linksun in the search box of the dialog, select it in the results, then click Add connection. A new browser tab opens on the Linksun side for the sign-in.

  3. 03

    Sign in and allow access

    Log in to Linksun in that tab and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection (your account linked once) is then offered in every Zap step that uses Linksun.

First Zap

Your first Zap: new Linksun contacts into your mailing list

GoalEvery new contact in Linksun lands in your mailing tool, but only when it passes the rule you set in a filter.

  1. 01

    Set the trigger

    Create a new Zap, pick Linksun and New Contact V2, fill in the Name and Phone it asks for, then test it. Zapier brings back the three most recent contacts, so you map on a real one.

  2. 02

    Add a filter

    Click the plus icon, add a Filter, and set its three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, the value to compare. This makes the Zap multi-step, so it needs a paid plan.

  3. 03

    Add the mailing step

    Pick your mailing tool as the action app and its add-subscriber event. Map the contact's name and the other details from the Linksun test result into its fields.

  4. 04

    Test, then publish

    Run the action once and check the new subscriber in your mailing tool. If it looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on for every new Linksun contact.

Triggers

The Linksun trigger

1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Linksun. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.

1

New Contact V2

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Creates a Contact in the system”

This one starts your Zap whenever a contact shows up in Linksun, then passes that contact's details to every step after 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
you want each new Linksun contact copied to a sheet or announced to the team without anyone opening the CRM to check.
Watch out
unusually for a trigger, its setup asks for two required fields, Name and Phone. Test it on a real contact and read what comes back before you build the rest of the Zap on it.
Actions

The Linksun action

Linksun gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Create Contact

Action

In Zapier“Creates a Contact in the system”

Adds a fresh contact to Linksun from whatever the earlier steps carried, such as a form entry or a spreadsheet row.

When to use it
leads reach you outside Linksun and you want each of them in the CRM before the first call.
Watch out
name and Phone are both mandatory, so a source without a phone number leaves this step short.
When it breaks

When a Linksun Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to Linksun, so the cases below are the general limits that hit any Zap built on it.

None of them shows up as an error on day one. They show up as a contact that never arrived, or a task counter that climbs too fast. When a run looks wrong, the Zapier troubleshooting page is the place to start.

  • Old contacts stay where they are

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Contacts already in Linksun are never picked up; moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • A Zap that feeds itself

    Pair New Contact V2 with Create Contact in the same Zap and each new contact starts the Zap again, which burns through your tasks fast.

  • A bulk import gets held back

    If a huge batch of contacts appears at once after an import, Zapier's flood protection can hold the batch back instead of running every one.

  • No double runs on one contact

    Zapier remembers which contacts the polling trigger has already seen, so the same contact does not start the Zap twice.
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FAQ

Linksun and Zapier: the common questions

01Is the Linksun Zapier integration free?
Yes, as long as your Zap stays at two steps. Linksun is not a premium app, so the free plan accepts it, with 100 tasks a month and as many Zaps as you like. Each Zap on that plan is limited to one trigger and one action. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap becomes multi-step, which moves you to a paid plan. The trigger itself never counts against the 100 tasks; only Create Contact runs that succeed do.
02How many tasks does a Linksun Zap use?
One per successful action, and nothing for the trigger. A Zap that watches New Contact V2 and writes a spreadsheet row spends one task per new contact. A Zap that creates a Linksun contact from a form spends one task per contact created. If a step fails, it is not billed. A Zap with three actions spends three tasks for each contact, so keep Zaps short when the volume of contacts is high.
03Does Zapier see a new Linksun contact right away?
No. New Contact V2 is a polling trigger, which means Zapier checks Linksun on a timer instead of being told by the app. On the free plan that check happens every 15 minutes; Professional brings it to 2 minutes, Team and Enterprise to 1 minute. On paid plans you can also run a check by hand from the editor. The type is decided on Linksun's side, so no setting turns it into an instant trigger.
04What does it take to connect Linksun to Zapier?
A Linksun account you can sign in to, and access to any data you do not own but want a Zap to use. From the Apps page of Zapier you click + Add connection, search Linksun, confirm with Add connection, then log in to Linksun in the tab that opens and grant access. The connection is saved once and offered in every later step that uses Linksun, so you do not repeat this for each Zap.
05Why does Create Contact refuse a contact without a phone?
Because Phone is a required field on that action, just like name. Linksun expects both, so a source that sometimes leaves the phone empty, such as an optional form field, gives the step nothing to send. The clean fix is a filter before the action that only lets entries with a phone through. Keep in mind that a filter makes the Zap multi-step, so it needs a paid plan. Without it, the phone gap simply comes back on the next form.
06What if the Linksun operation for the job is missing?
Then Zapier cannot do it for this app today. Linksun exposes one trigger and one action, both about contacts: no search, no update, no deletion, nothing on projects. You can still build around it, for example by keeping a contact list in a spreadsheet that other Zaps read. If the missing step is central to the process, compare what other automation tools offer before investing time in workarounds. A short test on real data settles it fast.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Linksun?
It depends on what you weigh most. On Zapier, Linksun gives you a ready trigger and action that someone new to automation can set up from the editor, and the free plan covers a two-step Zap. If you need operations Linksun does not offer here, such as looking up or updating a contact, check what each other tool exposes for this app. Price, the number of steps per scenario and who maintains the automation are the other criteria to compare.
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