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The magnews Zapier integration counts 2 triggers, 2 actions and 0 searches. Both triggers are instant, and both actions work on your databases: add or update a contact, or unsubscribe one. Here is the real cost, the connection, a first Zap and the traps.
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What the magnews Zapier integration is for
magnews runs your marketing across several channels, from one platform. Connected to Zapier, it does two things: it reports, the moment they happen, contacts joining or leaving a database, and it lets a Zap (the automation you build on Zapier) add, update or unsubscribe contacts in a database for you.
Three results come up again and again. A team that knows who just arrived: New Contact posts each fresh contact in your team chat, so nobody refreshes a list to see the latest sign-ups. A database that fills itself: Add/Update Contact takes people from a form or another tool and writes them into the right magnews database, updating them when they already exist. An opt-out that travels: Contact Unsubscribed tells your other tools someone left, and Unsubscribe Contact does the reverse when the opt-out happens elsewhere.
What Zapier does not do for magnews matters just as much. There is no search, so a Zap cannot look up a contact before acting on it. Nothing designs, schedules or sends a campaign, and nothing reads statistics: the four operations only move contacts in and out of databases. A Zap also starts empty, so contacts that existed before you switched it on are never replayed.
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Zapier words, explained once
The page uses seven Zapier terms. Each gets one plain line here, then the page uses it as is.
- 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 that starts the Zap, such as a new contact in a magnews database. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, like adding a contact.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. The count on your plan is a count of those.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself the moment the event happens. Both magnews triggers are instant.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Connection
- Your magnews account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step and every Zap that touches magnews.
What a magnews Zap really costs
magnews is not a premium app, so it runs on the free plan. Zapier bills in tasks, and only for actions that succeed.
- Contact Unsubscribed, New Contact0 tasks
- Add/Update Contact, Unsubscribe Contact1 task each time it succeeds
- Free plan100 tasks a month, 2-step Zaps
- Premium appNo
A contact joining or leaving a database costs nothing: triggers are free. Each successful action costs one task, so a Zap that runs Add/Update Contact uses one task per person; a failed action is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, limited to two steps each. A filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. The grid below shows how often Zapier checks polling triggers per plan. It does not apply to this app: both magnews triggers are instant.
Connect magnews to Zapier in three steps
- 01
Start from Apps
In Zapier, open Apps and click + Add connection. You need a magnews account, plus read or write access to any database you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.
- 02
Find magnews
Search for magnews in the dialog, select it and click Add connection. A new tab opens on the magnews side, where the sign-in with your usual account happens.
- 03
Sign in and allow access
Log in to magnews in that tab and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection then shows in your list, and every magnews step of every Zap reuses it.
First Zap: tell the team when the right contacts arrive
GoalYour team wants to hear about new contacts in one database only: each time one is added there and passes your filter, a message lands in the team chat.
- 01
Create the Zap and pick the trigger
Create a Zap, choose magnews as the app and New Contact as the event, then select your magnews connection from the account list.
- 02
Choose the database
Pick the database to watch in the required Databases field. Only contacts added to that database will start this Zap, so choose the one your team cares about.
- 03
Test on real contacts
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent contacts of that database, so you map the message on a real person rather than on placeholders.
- 04
Add the filter, then the message
Add Filter from the plus icon: the field, the rule, the value. Then add your chat app and write the message. A filter makes the Zap multi-step, so it needs a paid plan.
- 05
Test, then publish
Run each step once and read what came back. When the message reads well, click Publish. From now on, each contact that passes the filter is announced.
magnews triggers
2 events start a Zap when something happens in magnews, and 2 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
Contact Unsubscribed
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a contact unsubscribes from a database.”
Starts your Zap when someone leaves one of your magnews databases, and passes that person on so another tool can stop writing to them too.
New Contact
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new contact is added to a database.”
Fires as soon as a contact is added to the magnews database you chose, and hands that contact to the next steps of the Zap.
magnews actions
magnews gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Add/Update Contact
ActionIn Zapier“Add or update a contact in a database.”
Writes a person into the magnews database you pick: a new contact if nobody matches, or an update when a contact with the same key is already there.
Unsubscribe Contact
ActionIn Zapier“Unsubscribe contacts based on primary key (i.e. email, mobile phone, user code).”
Unsubscribes a person from a magnews database, found by its primary key: an email, a mobile phone or a user code depending on how that database is keyed.
When a magnews Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to magnews and lists no limit of its own for it. The cases below come from how Zapier works, applied to this app.
Most surprises with magnews fall into one of these four. Knowing them before you publish spares you a long search. For anything else, go to the Zapier troubleshooting page.
A Zap that feeds itself
If Add/Update Contact writes into the database a New Contact Zap watches, the Zap can set itself off again and again and burn through tasks fast. Point the action at another database.Existing contacts are not replayed
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Contacts already in a database stay as they are, and moving them is a separate job.A bulk import gets held back
After a large import or a migration, a trigger can suddenly return a huge batch, and Zapier's flood protection can hold the Zap back.The unsubscribe misses its target
Unsubscribe Contact needs the primary key of the database: an email, a mobile phone or a user name, depending on how that database is keyed. Send the matching value.
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