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Mailjoy Zapier integrationAutomate Mailjoy with Zapier.

The Mailjoy Zapier integration gives you 6 triggers, 4 actions and 1 search. Every trigger is instant, the app works on the free plan, and below you will find what each operation does, what it costs and where it trips people up.

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Overview

What the Mailjoy Zapier integration does for you

The Mailjoy Zapier integration connects Mailjoy, the platform for postcard and letter campaigns, to the rest of your tools through Zapier. A Zap (the automation you build on Zapier) starts on an event in one app and then does something in another, every time that event happens again.

Three results come up first. A heads-up when mail is on its way: Contact Added to Mailing List posts a note in your team chat, so whoever follows up knows a postcard is heading to that person. A mailing list fed by your other tools: a form or a sales tool sends its contacts to Create/Update Contact, with the postal address Mailjoy needs. A record of what worked: New Conversion writes each conversion of a campaign into a spreadsheet, next to the rest of your numbers.

Now the limits. Through Zapier, Mailjoy only knows contacts by their email: a contact without one cannot be found, updated or removed by a Zap. No action designs, sends or schedules a campaign; that stays inside Mailjoy. And a Zap never goes back in time, so the contacts already in your lists are not replayed when you switch it on.

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Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Eight words carry this page. Each is explained once here, then used as is.

Zap
The automation you build: 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 on, Zapier waits for it and does nothing before.
Action
What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or removes something for you.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completed successfully, and your plan counts those.
Polling vs instant
A polling trigger is checked on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself, the moment it happens.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
Search step
A step that looks up something already in an app, so the steps after it can use what it found.
Connection
Your Mailjoy account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step of every Zap that touches Mailjoy.
Cost

What Mailjoy costs you in Zapier tasks

Mailjoy is not a premium app, so it runs from the free plan. Zapier bills in tasks, and only actions that succeed are counted.

  • Free plan100 tasks per month, unlimited Zaps
  • Free plan limitTwo steps: one trigger, one action
  • Premium appNo, Mailjoy runs on the free plan
  • Mailjoy triggers6 instant, 0 polling

The trigger never costs a task, and an action that fails is not counted. Every successful action counts on its own: three actions in one Zap use three times what a single action uses. The free plan stops at two steps, one trigger and one action. A filter, a search or a second action turns it into a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan. The interval grid below is for polling triggers only: it does not apply to the six Mailjoy triggers, which are all instant.

Connect

Connect Mailjoy to Zapier in three steps

  1. 01

    Open the Apps page

    In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. You need a Mailjoy account first, plus access to anything in it you do not own yourself but want a Zap to touch.

  2. 02

    Pick Mailjoy

    Type Mailjoy in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the Mailjoy side, and that is where you sign in.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Log in to Mailjoy in that tab and let Zapier use the account. The connection then shows on the Apps page, and every later Zap reuses it without asking again.

First Zap

Your first Mailjoy Zap

GoalEach time a contact joins a chosen Mailjoy mailing list, your team chat gets a message, so the people who follow up know mail is on its way.

  1. 01

    Create the Zap

    Start a new Zap, choose Mailjoy as the app that starts it and pick Contact Added to Mailing List. Select your connection, then the list to watch.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent contacts added to that list, so you build the next step on a real one, not a blank sample.

  3. 03

    Add the chat action

    Add the action of your team chat, pick the channel, then drop the contact details that came from Mailjoy into the text of the message.

  4. 04

    Test the message

    Run the action test once and open the channel. If the message names the right contact, the mapping is correct and nothing else needs to change.

  5. 05

    Publish

    Click Publish to switch the Zap on. From then on, every contact added to that list sends one message, which counts as one task.

Triggers

Mailjoy triggers

6 events start a Zap when something happens in Mailjoy, and 6 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

Contact Added to Mailing List

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a contact is added to a specific mailing list.”

Fires when someone lands on one specific mailing list you pick in the trigger, and passes that contact to the next steps. It is the natural start for anything that should follow a person entering a campaign audience.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a colleague or another tool must know as soon as a contact joins the list that will receive your next postcard.
Watch out
the List field is required, so one Zap watches one list; a second list means a second Zap.
2

Contact Created

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new contact is created.”

Starts the Zap whenever a brand-new contact appears in Mailjoy, whatever list it ends up on. The steps after it receive that contact's details, ready to copy elsewhere.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
you keep a master list of people outside Mailjoy and want each new contact there too, with no export.
Watch out
a Zap that writes back into Mailjoy where its own trigger listens can start itself again and again.
3

Contact Removed From Mailing List

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a contact is removed from a specific mailing list.”

Reacts when a contact leaves one mailing list you choose. The contact still exists in Mailjoy; only their place on that list is gone, and the Zap learns who it was.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
another tool should stop treating that person as part of the campaign audience as soon as they are taken off.
Watch out
like its twin, it needs the List field, and it watches only the list you selected.
4

Contact Updated

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a contact is updated.”

Goes off each time an existing contact's details change in Mailjoy, a corrected address for example. The Zap receives the contact as it now stands.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a second copy of your contacts lives elsewhere and must follow every change made in Mailjoy.
Watch out
keep this Zap from writing back into Mailjoy where its trigger listens, or it can set itself off over and over.
5

New Conversion

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a conversion event happens in a campaign.”

Reports each conversion event recorded in one of your Mailjoy campaigns. This is the trigger that ties physical mail to a result, and it hands the details of that conversion to the steps that follow.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
you want each campaign result logged next to your other numbers as soon as it happens.
Watch out
only conversions recorded after the Zap is published come through.
6

List Created

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new list is created.”

Tells your Zap that a new list now exists in Mailjoy. It carries the list itself, not its contacts, which makes it a tool for keeping track of how your audiences are organised.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a shared document or a team channel should know whenever someone sets up a new audience.
Watch out
to follow the people joining that list, use Contact Added to Mailing List instead.
Actions

Mailjoy actions

Mailjoy gives you 4 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Add to Mailing List

Action

In Zapier“Add a contact to a specific mailing list.”

Puts an existing contact, found by their email, on one of your mailing lists, so they join the audience of the next campaign sent to that list.

When to use it
an event in another tool should place the person on a specific mailing.
Watch out
both List and Email are required.
2

Create/Update Contact

Action

In Zapier“Create a new contact and set their list membership. Can be used to update an existing contact too.”

Creates a contact with a postal address and list memberships, or refreshes one that already exists. Whether it may overwrite is up to the Update Existing setting.

When to use it
new people reach you through a form or another tool and should be mailable from Mailjoy.
Watch out
set Update Existing to no and the Zap fails when the contact already exists.
3

Delete Contact

Action

In Zapier“Delete a contact from the Mailjoy database.”

Erases a contact from your Mailjoy database entirely, every list included. Nothing of that contact remains on the Mailjoy side once the Zap has run.

When to use it
a contact disappears from your main contact tool, and Mailjoy should follow.
Watch out
test it on a dummy contact first, since a wrong mapping deletes the wrong person.
4

Remove From Mailing List

Action

In Zapier“Remove a contact from a specific mailing list.”

Takes a contact off one list without deleting them from Mailjoy. Their other lists and their details stay as they were.

When to use it
someone has already converted, and the next postcard to that list should not reach them.
Watch out
the contact is matched by email; without one, there is nobody to remove.
Searches

Mailjoy search

1 search step looks for data that already exists in Mailjoy, so a later step can use it.

A search step finds a contact who already exists, so a later step can use them. In the editor, it sits at the bottom of the action list, under SEARCH. Three settings decide what happens next.

1

Find a Contact

SearchFind or create

In Zapier“Finds an existing contact.”

Looks a contact up by email and passes what Mailjoy holds on them to the next step, which is how a Zap reuses an address that no earlier step carried.

When to use it
the trigger brings only an email, and a later step needs the full contact.
Watch out
the editor lists it twice; the second line is this same search with the create box ticked, not another operation.

The three settings every search exposes

  1. Successful if no search results are found?
    On its default, a search that finds nobody stops the Zap there. Switched on, the Zap carries on without a contact.
  2. Create X if it doesn't exist yet?
    Ticking it turns the search into a find-or-create: a missing contact is created, and the setting above no longer shows.
  3. If multiple search results are found?
    Keep the first match (the default), stop the Zap, or hand every match to the next steps at once.
When it breaks

When the Mailjoy Zap breaks

Zapier links no help article to Mailjoy and no app-specific limit is documented. The traps below are the ones any Zap can hit, applied to this app.

Most surprises come from what the Zap cannot see, or from a Zap that feeds itself. If a Zap still misbehaves, open our Zapier troubleshooting page next.

  • Contacts from before are left out

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Contacts and conversions already in Mailjoy never come through; moving them is a separate job.

  • A Zap that restarts itself

    Writing into the place your own trigger watches starts the Zap again, then again, and burns through tasks. Keep each Zap's actions away from what its trigger listens to.

  • A big import held back

    When a trigger suddenly receives a huge batch, after an import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold those runs back instead of firing them all.

  • Contacts without an email

    Through Zapier, Mailjoy contacts are reached by email only. One without an email cannot be found, added to a list, removed or deleted by a Zap.
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FAQ

Mailjoy Zapier integration FAQ

01Is the Mailjoy Zapier integration free?
Yes, it works on the free Zapier plan, since Mailjoy is not a premium app. The free plan gives 100 tasks per month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap is held to two steps: one trigger and one action. Add a filter, a search such as Find a Contact, or a second action, and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. Plan for that early if your idea involves looking a contact up before acting on them.
02How many tasks does a Mailjoy Zap use?
One task per action that completes, and nothing for the trigger. A Zap that waits for New Conversion and logs each one in a spreadsheet uses one task per conversion. Put three actions behind the same trigger and each conversion costs three. An action that fails is not counted. A few apps and actions take more than one task, so keep your monthly allowance in mind whenever you add a step.
03Is Mailjoy on Zapier real time?
Yes, for all six triggers. Each one is instant: Mailjoy tells Zapier the moment the event happens, and the Zap starts right away whatever your plan. The plan intervals, such as 15 minutes on Free, only concern polling triggers, and Mailjoy has none. In the editor, an instant trigger carries a lightning bolt, which is the quickest way to confirm it before you publish anything. Nothing to configure for that.
04What do you need to connect Mailjoy to Zapier?
A Mailjoy account you can sign in to, and access to anything in it you do not own but want the Zap to use. In Zapier, open Apps, click + Add connection, search for Mailjoy, click Add connection, then sign in to Mailjoy in the tab that opens and grant access. The connection is saved once and reused by every Zap you build afterwards. There is nothing to repeat for the next one.
05Why does Create/Update Contact fail on some contacts?
Usually because a required part of the postal address is missing. The action needs a first name, an email, Address Line 1, City, State and Zip Code, and State expects a US state, written out or as its two-letter code. If the earlier step does not carry all of these, the action cannot complete. The other common cause is the Update Existing setting: set to no, the Zap fails as soon as the contact already exists in Mailjoy.
06What if the Mailjoy operation isn't in the list?
The editor offers what this page lists: six triggers, four actions and one search. Nothing designs, schedules or sends a campaign from Zapier, and nothing reaches a contact without an email. A combination often covers the need, for example Find a Contact to fetch the full record behind an email, then an action in another tool. If no combination fits, the honest answer is that Zapier cannot do it with Mailjoy today, and another route needs studying before you build.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Mailjoy?
It depends on three criteria, not on a winner. First, the ready connector: Zapier offers Mailjoy with the eleven operations of this page, so check the other tool's catalog before comparing anything else. Second, billing: Zapier counts one task per successful action, easy to forecast on simple Zaps. Third, the number of steps your flows need, since the free Zapier plan stops at two. Weigh those three against your own flows before you pick.
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