Lone Worker by Ok Alone Zapier integrationAutomate Lone Worker by Ok Alone with Zapier.
The Lone Worker by Ok Alone Zapier integration gives you 0 triggers, 5 actions and 0 searches. Everything runs one way: another tool reports what a worker is doing, and Zapier starts, updates or closes that worker's shift in Ok Alone for you.
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What the Lone Worker by Ok Alone Zapier integration does
Ok Alone looks after people who work with no colleague nearby: check-ins, reminders, location and calls for help all go through that one service. The Zapier integration lets a Zap (an automation you build once: a starting event in one app, then the steps that follow) drive those shifts from your other tools. It writes into Ok Alone and never reads out of it.
Three results come out of it. First, shifts that open on their own: when your scheduling tool records that someone is on duty, Start a Shift opens the shift in Ok Alone, and End Shift closes it when the entry says the work is over. Second, check-ins that do not depend on someone remembering the app: an event elsewhere can fire Check In for the worker. Third, a location trail fed from outside: Add Location records a point on the shift, and Request Help raises a call for help from a tool other than Ok Alone.
Now what it does not do. Zapier offers no trigger for this app, so nothing that happens inside Ok Alone can start a Zap: a missed check-in or a help request raised in the app stays invisible to your other tools. There is no search either, and no action to edit or delete a worker. Everything Zapier does here is push an event into a shift.
To weigh Zapier against the other options, see our Zapier review and n8n vs Zapier. We have no dedicated n8n or Make page for this app yet.
Zapier words in one minute
Seven terms come back on this page. Here is each one in plain words.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one starting event, then one or more steps that run every time that event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap; once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it. Ok Alone has none, so it always comes from another app.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you. Ok Alone offers five of them.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. The number attached to your plan counts exactly those.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked on a timer set by your plan. An instant trigger is pushed by the app itself the moment the event happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets a condition you set, and stops it there otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap with more than one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What it really costs
Lone Worker by Ok Alone is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan. You pay in tasks, and only the actions spend them.
- Tasks on the free plan100 per month
- Steps on the free plan2 (one trigger, one action)
- Premium appNo
- Task per successful action1
Every Ok Alone action that goes through counts as one task: a shift started, a check-in, a location, a help request, a shift ended. A failed action counts for nothing, and neither does the trigger or the checks Zapier runs for new data. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and two-step Zaps only. A Zap that starts a shift and adds a location in the same run has two actions, so it is multi-step, needs a paid plan and costs two tasks. The interval grid below applies to the trigger of the other app that starts your Zap, since Ok Alone has none; an instant trigger there ignores it.
Connect your account in three steps
- 01
Find the app
In your Zapier account, open Apps and click + Add connection. Type Lone Worker by Ok Alone in the search box of the dialog and pick it. You need an Ok Alone account first; Zapier only links it.
- 02
Sign in to Ok Alone
Click Add connection. A tab opens on the Ok Alone side: sign in with the account that manages the workers whose shifts the Zap will touch. If those workers sit under someone else, your login needs write access to them.
- 03
Grant access
Allow Zapier to act on the account. The connection then appears on your Apps page, and any Zap using one of the five actions reuses it instead of asking you to sign in again.
Your first Zap: open a shift from your schedule
GoalWhen your scheduling tool records a new entry for a worker on duty, a shift opens for that worker in Lone Worker by Ok Alone, and only for entries flagged as solo work.
- 01
Pick the starting event
Create a Zap and choose your scheduling tool as the trigger app, with its new-entry event. This is what will start every run, so point it at the calendar or list where duty entries land.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent entries of the connected account, so you can pick a real one and map fields from actual data instead of guessing.
- 03
Add a filter
Click the plus icon and add Filter. Fill the three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, and the value to compare with. Entries that fail stop here. The Zap is now multi-step.
- 04
Add Start a Shift
Add an action, choose Lone Worker by Ok Alone, then Start a Shift. Map the worker from the entry so that Ok Alone knows whose shift to open, then check each field once.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test the action and open Ok Alone to confirm the shift is there, for the right person. When it looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on.
The five Lone Worker by Ok Alone actions
Lone Worker by Ok Alone gives you 5 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
End Shift
ActionIn Zapier“End a shift for a worker in Ok Alone”
Closes the current shift of a worker in Ok Alone, so the service knows that person is off duty and no longer expects check-ins from them.
Request Help
ActionIn Zapier“Request help for a worker in Ok Alone”
Raises a request for help for a worker inside Ok Alone, from a signal that came through another tool rather than from the worker's own phone.
Add Location
ActionIn Zapier“Add a location for the worker's shift”
Pins a position on the worker's shift, built from coordinates that an earlier step carried, so the shift shows where that person has been.
Check In
ActionIn Zapier“Check in a worker in Ok Alone”
Logs a check-in for a worker on shift, the same signal the person would otherwise send from the app to say all is fine.
Start a Shift
ActionIn Zapier“Start a worker shift in Ok Alone”
Opens a new shift for a worker in Ok Alone, the point from which the service starts following that person.
When it breaks
Zapier ties no help article to this app. The risks below are the general ones that hit any Zap, read through the lens of a safety tool that receives events.
Most failures here start in the tool that sends the event, not in Ok Alone. When a run goes wrong, see our Zapier troubleshooting page.
Shifts already under way are ignored
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Entries already in your schedule never open a shift; handling them is a separate job.Missing coordinates, no location
Add Location needs both Latitude and Longitude. If the incoming data lacks one, the action fails, costs no task, and the point is simply never recorded.A bulk import gets held back
After a bulk import or a migration, the trigger can suddenly return a huge batch. Zapier's flood protection can hold that batch instead of opening every shift.The same entry will not fire twice
On a polling trigger Zapier remembers what it has already seen. That blocks duplicates, but an entry you edit later will not start the Zap again.
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