Magic Minutes Zapier integrationAutomate Magic Minutes with Zapier.
The Magic Minutes Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 0 actions and 0 searches. It picks up the actions agreed in a meeting once that meeting is closed, and hands them to your other tools. It works on the free plan; here is the timing, the cost and the traps.
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What the Magic Minutes Zapier integration actually does
The Magic Minutes Zapier integration takes the follow-ups recorded in Magic Minutes, the meeting management tool, out to the rest of your stack. It has exactly one job: when a meeting is closed, each new action from it can start a Zap. A word of caution: in Magic Minutes, an action means a to-do from the meeting, not a Zapier step.
Three results you can get from that single trigger. Follow-ups that reach the task tool: New Action turns each to-do agreed in the meeting into a task in the tool your team already works from. A shared log of commitments: the same trigger adds one row per action to a spreadsheet, so you can look back at who agreed to what. A nudge in the team chat: each action can post a short message once the meeting closes, so nobody waits for the minutes to be circulated.
Now what Zapier does not do here. Magic Minutes has no Zapier action and no search step, so a Zap cannot create a meeting, add an agenda item or update an action from another tool. Nothing fires while the meeting is still open either: the trigger only sees actions once the meeting is closed. And since it is a polling trigger, each closed meeting waits for Zapier's next check.
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Zapier words in one minute
Seven words come back all over this page. Here they are once, 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 that starts the Zap, here a new meeting action. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
- Action (Zapier)
- What the Zap does once it has started, in another app. Not to be confused with a Magic Minutes meeting action.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan's count is a count of those.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked on a timer for items Zapier has not seen. An instant one is reported by the app right when it happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when the incoming data meets your condition, and stops it otherwise.
- Search step
- A step that looks up something already in an app for the steps after it. Magic Minutes offers none.
What a Magic Minutes Zap really costs
Magic Minutes is not a premium app: it runs on the free plan, within that plan's limits.
- Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps, checks every 15 minutes, two steps per Zap
- This appNot premium: available on the free plan
- BilledEach successful action in the next app; the trigger costs nothing
The New Action trigger costs nothing, however often Zapier checks for new actions. Each action of your Zap that succeeds in another app counts as one task, and a failed one is not billed. Since each to-do of a meeting starts the Zap once, a one-action Zap costs as many tasks as the meeting has to-dos. The free plan stops at two steps, though: add a filter or a second action and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. Plan for that early.
Connect Magic Minutes to Zapier
- 01
Open your apps
In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. A connection is your Magic Minutes account linked once, then reused by every Zap that uses it.
- 02
Pick Magic Minutes
Search for Magic Minutes in the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the Magic Minutes side, so have the login of an existing account ready.
- 03
Sign in and allow access
Sign in to Magic Minutes in that tab and grant Zapier access. If you want actions from meetings you do not own, your account needs read access on them first.
Your first Magic Minutes Zap, step by step
GoalEvery action agreed in a meeting becomes a task in your task list, once the meeting is closed.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap, pick Magic Minutes as the app that starts it and New Action as the event, then select the connection you set up above.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent actions from closed meetings, so you map fields on a real follow-up, not an empty template.
- 03
Add a filter
From the + in the editor, add Filter and fill its three boxes: the field to look at, the rule and the value to compare with. A text rule only works on text.
- 04
Add the task
Add your task list tool and its create-task action, map the action text and any details you need, then test the step once and check the task.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish. With the filter, the Zap has three steps, so it needs a paid plan even though Magic Minutes itself runs on the free one.
Magic Minutes trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Magic Minutes. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
New Action
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Trigger will fire on new Actions once a Meeting is closed.”
Fires for each new action, the to-dos agreed in a meeting, once the meeting has been closed and Zapier's next check picks it up. Each action then travels to the next step of your Zap with its details, ready to become a task, a row or a message.
When a Magic Minutes Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to Magic Minutes and documents no app-specific limit. What goes wrong comes from the meeting lifecycle and from polling.
The four cases below cover what people hit first. Otherwise, see our Zapier troubleshooting page.
The meeting is still open
New Action only fires once a meeting is closed. Actions added to an open meeting stay invisible to Zapier until someone closes it.Older actions never arrive
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Actions from meetings closed earlier stay out; that backlog is a separate job.A big batch gets held back
If the trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after an import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection may hold that batch back.The same action never repeats
Zapier remembers what it already saw on a polling trigger, so an action that already started the Zap will not start it a second time.
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