LMN Zapier integrationAutomate LMN with Zapier.
The LMN Zapier integration offers 3 triggers, 3 actions and 1 search. Push leads from your website into the LMN CRM, log calls and to-dos against the right contact, and send new estimates or contact changes to the other tools your landscaping business runs on.
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What the LMN Zapier integration does for you
LMN (Landscape Management Network) is business management software built for landscape contractors, with a CRM, estimates and follow-up tasks in one place. The Zapier integration connects it to your other apps: a contact, an estimate or a note changing in LMN starts an automation elsewhere, and your other tools can create contacts, notes and to-dos in LMN for you.
Three outcomes cover most setups. First, web leads that land in the CRM: a new entry in your website form goes through Find Contact, which can create the contact if it is missing, then Create ToDo/Note adds a call-back to-do on that contact. Second, estimates everyone can see: Estimate Created or Updated sends each new or edited estimate to a spreadsheet or a team message, so nobody has to ask where a quote stands. Third, contact preferences kept in sync: when someone unsubscribes in your email tool, Find Contact fetches their Lead ID and Update Contact ticks the Do Not Email box on the LMN contact.
Now what Zapier does not do here. All three triggers work by polling, so nothing reaches Zapier the instant it happens: on the free plan, a new estimate can wait up to 15 minutes before the Zap sees it. Create Contact only makes contacts of type Lead or Client; vendors, subcontractors and other types stay a manual job. And the ID that links every action to a contact, the LMN Lead ID, is invisible on screen, so your Zaps have to carry it from a trigger or fetch it with a search.
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Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Eight words carry the rest of this page. Here they are once, in plain English, so nothing slows you down later.
- 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 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 once it has started: the step that creates, updates or sends something in an app for you.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully, and your plan counts nothing else.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a timer. An instant one is reported by the app the moment it happens. All three here poll.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Search step
- A step that looks up something already stored in an app, so the steps after it can use what it found.
- Connection
- Your LMN account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step of every Zap that needs it.
What it really costs
LMN is not a premium app, so it runs on the free plan. You pay in tasks, and only some steps produce them.
- Premium appNo, works on the free plan
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- Trigger checksFree, whatever the frequency
- Find ContactMakes the Zap multi-step
The trigger never costs a task, and Zapier checking LMN for new contacts, estimates or notes is free however often it looks. Each successful action counts once, so a Zap that creates a contact and then a to-do uses two tasks per lead; a failed action is not billed. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and Zaps of two steps only, one trigger and one action. Add a filter, the Find Contact search or a second action and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. Since every trigger here polls, the grid below sets how fast your Zaps react.
Connect LMN to Zapier
- 01
Open your apps and add a connection
In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. You need an LMN account first, plus access to any contacts or estimates you do not own yourself.
- 02
Pick LMN
Type LMN in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new browser tab opens on the LMN side, ready for your login details.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Sign in to your LMN account in that tab and grant Zapier access. The connection then shows in your list, and every Zap reuses it without asking again.
Your first Zap: copy each LMN contact and its hidden ID
GoalWhen a contact is created or updated in LMN, add a row with its details and Lead ID to your spreadsheet, then send your team an email.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap, choose LMN as the app that starts it and Contact Created or Updated as the event, then pick the connection you added.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent contacts from your LMN account, so you map the next steps on a real contact instead of a blank one.
- 03
Add the spreadsheet row
Add your spreadsheet as the action and map the name, the contact details and the LMN Lead ID into their columns. That saved ID is what later Zaps will need.
- 04
Add the email
On a paid plan, add your email tool as a third step. The free plan stops at two steps, so on Free keep the spreadsheet row only.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test each step once and read what came back before moving on. Then click Publish to switch the Zap on for the next contact.
LMN triggers
3 events start a Zap when something happens in LMN. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
Task/Note Created or Updated
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a Communication Note, ToDo, or Customer Request is created or updated in LMN.”
Starts your Zap whenever a communication note, a to-do or a customer request is added or changed in LMN. It turns the follow-up work your team logs into events other apps can pick up.
Estimate Created or Updated
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new LMN estimate is created, or an existing LMN estimate is updated.”
Your Zap starts each time an estimate is created in LMN or an existing one is changed, and the next steps receive its details.
Contact Created or Updated
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when an LMN Contact gets created or their contact information gets updated.”
Fires when a contact is added to LMN or when their contact information changes. This is also where your Zaps can pick up the LMN Lead ID, the hidden identifier the actions ask for.
LMN actions
LMN gives you 3 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create ToDo/Note
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a communication note or to-do in LMN”
Logs something against a contact: a to-do, a customer request, or a history note for a phone call, an email or a plain note.
Create Contact
ActionIn Zapier“Creates an LMN contact, including a jobsite address”
Adds a contact to the LMN CRM with its primary person and a jobsite address, ready for an estimate.
Update Contact
ActionIn Zapier“Updates LMN contact information for existing contacts.”
Changes the details of a contact that already exists, including its Do Not Email and Do Not Mail boxes.
LMN search
1 search step looks for data that already exists in LMN, so a later step can use it.
A search step fetches something that already exists so later steps can use it. In LMN it sits at the bottom of the Action event list, under SEARCH. Three settings decide what happens when the result is not what you expected.
Find Contact
SearchFind or createIn Zapier“Finds an LMN CRM contact based on information like name, email or ID. Optionally, can also Create a CRM Contact if none was found.”
Looks up an LMN CRM contact by name, email or ID and hands its details, Lead ID included, to the next steps. The editor also shows Find or Create Contact: it is this same search with the creation box ticked, so a missing contact is created on the spot.
The three settings every search exposes
- Successful if no search results are found?Left on its default, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap and skips the steps that needed it. Switched on, the Zap carries on with empty values.
- Create X if it doesn't exist yet?Ticking it turns the search into a find-or-create: the setting above disappears and the step asks for what it needs to create the missing contact.
- If multiple search results are found?Keep the first match, which is the default, stop the Zap, or pass every match on at once.
When it breaks
Zapier links no help article to LMN and lists no rate limit of its own for it. The problems below are the ones every Zap can meet, seen through contacts, estimates and notes.
Most surprises come from polling timing and from Zaps that write where they read. If a Zap keeps misbehaving, the Zapier troubleshooting page is the next stop.
Older contacts are skipped
A Zap reacts only to what happens after you publish it. Contacts and estimates already in LMN stay out; moving that history is a separate job.A Zap that sets itself off
Update Contact behind Contact Created or Updated writes where the trigger watches, so each run can start the next and drain your task count fast.A big batch held back
After a bulk import of contacts into LMN, a trigger can suddenly return a huge batch, and Zapier's flood protection may hold it back.No double start
Zapier remembers what a polling trigger has already returned, so the same item does not start the Zap twice for the same change.
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