Mapsly Zapier integrationAutomate Mapsly with Zapier.
The Mapsly Zapier integration gives you 2 actions, and no trigger or search. One creates or updates a record in a Mapsly object, the other deletes one. That is little, but it is enough to keep Mapsly fed from your other apps. Here is how, what it costs and where it trips.
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What the Mapsly Zapier integration actually does
The Mapsly Zapier integration lets Zapier, a tool that runs automations between apps, write into Mapsly. Mapsly is a customizable map for geo-analysis, routing and territory management, with automatic assignment. Through Zapier, records from your other apps reach a Mapsly object without anyone importing them by hand, and records you no longer need can be removed.
Three results you can build with the 2 actions. First, new entries placed on the map: each response or row from another app goes to Create/Update Record, which creates the record in the Mapsly object you choose. Second, a record that stays current: the same action can also update a record that already exists, so a change at the source can reach Mapsly; check at test how it recognizes that record. Third, a cleanup that follows the source: Delete Record removes a record from an object, as long as you can hand it the record's ID.
What Zapier does not do for Mapsly: there is no Mapsly trigger, so nothing that happens in Mapsly can start a Zap; the Zap always starts in another app. There is no search either, so a Zap cannot look up a Mapsly record to get its ID. That ID has to come from somewhere else, which is the main limit of Delete Record. And a Zap only sends what happens after you switch it on, never what already sat in the source app.
Before you commit, our Zapier review is worth a read.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Seven words keep coming back on this page. Here they are in plain English, once.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Mapsly has none on Zapier, so the trigger always comes from another app.
- Action
- What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you. Both Mapsly operations are actions.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One action your Zap completes successfully counts as one task, and your plan is a number of those.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a timer for anything new. An instant trigger is reported by the app the moment it happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes it one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What a Mapsly Zap really costs
Mapsly is not a premium app on Zapier, so it works on the free plan. The bill is counted in tasks, and only finished actions count.
- Premium appNo, Mapsly runs on the free plan
- Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited two-step Zaps
- One record writtenOne action, so one task when it succeeds
- Failed actionNot counted
The trigger never costs a task, and neither does Zapier checking the other app for new items, however often it looks. Each Mapsly action that succeeds is one task; one that fails is not counted. A Zap with three actions uses three times what a one-action Zap uses. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each limited to two steps: a trigger from another app and one Mapsly action. A filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. Mapsly has no trigger of its own, so the interval grid below concerns the app that starts your Zap, and only when its trigger is a polling one.
Connect your Mapsly account to Zapier
- 01
Open your connections
In Zapier, go to the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. A connection is your Mapsly account linked once, then reused by every step that uses Mapsly.
- 02
Pick Mapsly
Type Mapsly in the search box of the dialog that opens, select it in the results, then click Add connection. A new browser tab opens on the Mapsly side.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Sign in to Mapsly in that tab and allow Zapier to use the account. You need a Mapsly account of your own, plus read or write access to anything you do not own and want the Zap to touch.
Your first Mapsly Zap, step by step
GoalSend each new spreadsheet row to Mapsly as a record, but only the rows your filter lets through.
- 01
Build: start in the other app
Create a Zap and pick your spreadsheet as the app that starts it, with its new row event. Mapsly has no trigger on Zapier, so it can only come second.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent rows of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real one.
- 03
Add the filter
From the plus icon, add Filter and set the field to look at, the rule and the value. Pick a text rule for text and a number rule for numbers, or it never passes.
- 04
Add the Mapsly action
Add Create/Update Record, choose the Mapsly object, then map the row's columns into the fields the step offers. Read them carefully at test, since only the object is marked as required.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test the action and check the record in Mapsly. Then publish the Zap to switch it on. With a filter, this Zap is multi-step and needs a paid plan.
Mapsly actions on Zapier
Mapsly gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Delete Record
ActionIn Zapier“Delete record in a Mapsly object”
Removes one record from a Mapsly object, chosen by its ID.
Create/Update Record
ActionIn Zapier“Create new or update existing record in a Mapsly object”
Writes a record into the Mapsly object you pick: it creates a new one, or updates the existing one, in a single action.
When a Mapsly Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Mapsly, and no Mapsly-specific limit is documented. What breaks first are the general Zapier rules below, plus the required fields of the two actions.
Mapsly only receives, so the trigger side of these cases lives in the app that starts your Zap. When a run fails and you cannot see why, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
Older entries never come through
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Rows or responses that already existed are not sent to Mapsly; loading that backlog is a separate job.A Zap that sets itself off
A Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches can start again and again. If you save Mapsly's answer back to the source sheet, make sure that edit cannot fire the Zap.A bulk import gets held back
When the trigger app suddenly returns a huge batch, after an import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold the runs back.The same entry only fires once
On a polling trigger Zapier remembers what it has already seen, so the same entry does not start the Zap twice.
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