LiteTracker Zapier integrationAutomate LiteTracker with Zapier.
The LiteTracker Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger and 1 action, and no search. Enough to turn a form answer or a spreadsheet row into a LiteTracker story without retyping it. It runs on the free plan; the catches are below.
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What the LiteTracker Zapier integration actually does
The LiteTracker Zapier integration links your LiteTracker account to Zapier, a service that runs automations between apps without code. Zapier can read your project list and create stories for you. That is the whole menu: one trigger, one action, both usable on the free plan, since LiteTracker is not a premium app.
A story for every new row. Each row added to your spreadsheet becomes a story in the project you pick, through Create Story. Nobody copies lines across by hand anymore, and nobody forgets one on a busy day either.
The right project, without picking it each time. Instead of fixing one project in the Project field, you map a project ID carried by an earlier step, so each story lands where it belongs.
Only the requests that matter. A form submission goes through a filter first, and only the ones that meet your condition end up as stories. The rest stop there and cost nothing.
What Zapier won't do here. There is no search, so a Zap can't find an existing story or check for a duplicate before creating one. Nothing edits, moves or closes a story either. And the only trigger works by polling, so nothing reaches Zapier instantly. If you are still choosing a tool, start with n8n vs Zapier or Make vs Zapier.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Eight words you will meet in the editor, in plain English. Once read, the rest of the page uses them without a reminder.
- Zap
- Your automation on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is switched on, Zapier waits for that event and nothing else.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or creates something for you, such as a new story.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully; your plan counts those, nothing else.
- Polling vs instant
- Polling: Zapier checks the app on a timer and keeps only new items. Instant: the app tells Zapier itself, the moment it happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when the incoming data meets the condition you set, and stops it there otherwise.
- Connection
- Your LiteTracker account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step, in every Zap, that talks to LiteTracker.
- Multi-step Zap
- Anything beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter turns a Zap into one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What it really costs
Zapier bills tasks, and with LiteTracker the maths stays short: only Create Story can cost you anything.
- Premium appNo, it works on the free plan
- Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps
- Steps per Zap on Free2: one trigger, one action
- Cost of the trigger0 tasks
List Projects never costs a task, however often Zapier checks. Each story created successfully counts as one task, and a creation that fails is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps, and Zaps of two steps only: one trigger, one action. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap goes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. The grid below is how often Zapier checks List Projects on each plan.
Connect LiteTracker to Zapier in 3 steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. You need a LiteTracker account already, plus access to any project you don't own but want the Zap to touch.
- 02
Pick LiteTracker
Type LiteTracker in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the LiteTracker side to finish the link there.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Sign in to LiteTracker in that tab and grant Zapier access to your account. The connection then sits on the Apps page, and every LiteTracker step you build reuses it.
Your first Zap: a starter story for the projects you select
GoalFor each project List Projects hands over that Zapier has not seen yet, create a first story inside it, but only when the project passes your filter.
- 01
Create the Zap and set the trigger
Start a new Zap, choose LiteTracker as the app that starts it and List Projects as the event. Select your LiteTracker connection when Zapier asks for it.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent projects of your account. Check that a project you just created is among them: this trigger was built to feed a dropdown, so only the test tells you.
- 03
Add the filter
Click the plus icon, add Filter, then fill its three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, the value to compare with. A text rule only works on text. This step makes the Zap multi-step, so it needs a paid plan.
- 04
Add Create Story
Add LiteTracker again as the action, with Create Story as the event. In Project, map the project ID that List Projects returned rather than picking a fixed one from the list.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test the action, then open LiteTracker and look for the story. If it landed in the right project, click Publish to switch the Zap on.
The LiteTracker trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in LiteTracker. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
List Projects
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Fetches projects for dropdown.”
List Projects hands the Zap the projects your LiteTracker account can see. Zapier describes it as the list that feeds a dropdown menu: it was built to fill the Project picker, not to announce that a project was created.
The LiteTracker action
LiteTracker gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Story
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a new story in a project.”
Create Story adds a new story to the project you choose, filled with whatever the earlier steps carried.
When it breaks
Zapier attaches no help article of its own to LiteTracker, so what goes wrong here is Zapier's general kind of trouble.
Four cases come up with this pair. None is specific to LiteTracker, and each one can cost you stories or tasks. If one bites, our Zapier troubleshooting page is the next stop.
Older projects never show up
The Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Projects that already existed stay invisible to List Projects; moving that backlog is a separate job.The Zap keeps setting itself off
A Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches starts itself again and again, and your task count drains fast. Keep the action away from what the trigger reads.A bulk import gets held back
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a migration or a mass import, Zapier's flood protection can hold those items back instead of running them all.One project, one run
Zapier remembers what List Projects has already returned, so the same project never starts the Zap twice, even though it still shows up on every later check.
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