MarcomGather Zapier integrationAutomate MarcomGather with Zapier.
MarcomGather Zapier integration: 4 triggers, 1 action, no search. MarcomGather is where a brand keeps and shares its digital assets. Zapier plugs it into your other tools through a Zap, an automation that waits for an event and then does a job for you.
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What the MarcomGather Zapier integration does for you
The MarcomGather Zapier integration watches your MarcomGather library and account for four kinds of new items (assets, groups, lightboxes, users) and lets other tools react to them. In the other direction, it can push files into your library with one action, Create Assets. It cannot look anything up in MarcomGather.
Three results people build with it. A team that hears about new files: New Asset starts a Zap when an asset is uploaded, and a message goes to the channel where your designers and marketers talk. A library fed from elsewhere: a file saved in another tool reaches MarcomGather through Create Assets, with its name, size and link mapped in. A record of who joined: New User writes each new account into a shared sheet, which gives whoever runs the library a list to review.
What Zapier does not do here matters too. There is no search step for MarcomGather, so a Zap cannot check whether an asset is already there before it acts; when it is, the action's Override Existing Asset setting decides between updating it and adding a duplicate. There is no action to delete, move or share an asset. And none of the four triggers is instant: Zapier checks MarcomGather on a timer, so a new asset appears in your Zap after the next check, not the moment it is uploaded.
On the free plan that check runs every 15 minutes, so plan your Zaps for that pace. If you are still sizing up Zapier as a tool, see our Zapier review.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Eight words carry the rest of this page. Here is each one, once, in plain terms.
- 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. Once the Zap is on, Zapier keeps watching for it without you.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or creates something in an app for you.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completed successfully, and your plan counts those.
- Polling trigger
- A trigger Zapier checks on a timer: it asks the app for new items at a fixed interval and keeps only the unseen ones.
- Instant trigger
- A trigger the app reports itself, the moment the event happens. None of MarcomGather's four triggers works this way.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when the data meets a condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action makes one, and it needs a paid plan.
What a MarcomGather Zap really costs
The trigger costs nothing, however often Zapier checks MarcomGather. Only an action that succeeds is billed, and a failed one is not counted against your plan.
- Any MarcomGather trigger0 tasks
- Each successful Create Assets1 task
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- MarcomGather on the free planYes
MarcomGather is not one of the apps Zapier keeps for paid plans, so it runs on the free plan: 100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps, two steps each. New Asset plus one message fits. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. All four triggers are polling triggers, so the grid below sets how often Zapier looks for new items on each plan, and on paid plans that pace can be changed.
Connect MarcomGather to Zapier in three steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. You need a MarcomGather account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own and want the Zap to touch.
- 02
Pick MarcomGather
Type MarcomGather in the search box of the dialog, choose it, then click Add connection. A new browser tab opens on the MarcomGather side, where you finish the link.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Log in to MarcomGather in that tab and let Zapier use the account. The connection then sits on the Apps page and serves every MarcomGather step in every Zap.
Your first Zap: only the right new assets reach the team
GoalWhen a new asset lands in MarcomGather, keep only the ones that match your condition and post a message about them in your team chat.
- 01
Set the trigger
Build a new Zap and pick MarcomGather as the starting app, with New Asset as the event. Choose your MarcomGather connection so Zapier knows which library to watch.
- 02
Test it on a real asset
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent assets of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real upload rather than on a guess.
- 03
Add the filter
Add a Filter step from the plus icon 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 message
Add the action of your team chat and write the message from what the test returned for the asset. Check in the test result which fields MarcomGather actually sends.
- 05
Test and publish
Test each step, read what came back, then click Publish. The filter makes this a multi-step Zap, so it runs on a paid plan. For guided practice, see our Zapier training.
The four MarcomGather triggers
4 events start a Zap when something happens in MarcomGather. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
New Asset
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new asset has been uploaded in MarcomGather.”
Starts your Zap each time someone uploads a fresh asset to your MarcomGather library, and passes that asset to the steps that follow.
New Group
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new group is created in MarcomGather.”
Your Zap runs when a group is created in MarcomGather, so another tool can log it or tell someone about it.
New Lightbox
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new lightbox is created in MarcomGather.”
Picks up every lightbox someone creates in MarcomGather and hands it to the next step of the Zap.
New User
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new user is created in MarcomGather.”
Fires a Zap for each user added to your MarcomGather account, which turns an account change into something your other tools can follow.
The MarcomGather action
MarcomGather gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Assets
ActionIn Zapier“Creates assets in my MarcomGather library.”
Puts a file into your MarcomGather library from a link, a name and a size that an earlier step provides.
When a MarcomGather Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to MarcomGather, so these are the failures every Zap can run into.
Most of them come from how Zaps work, not from MarcomGather. If a run still looks wrong after these checks, read our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
Last month's assets never show up
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Assets uploaded before that are not picked up, and moving that backlog is a separate job.A library that feeds itself
A Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches, like New Asset with Create Assets, can set itself off again and again and burn through tasks.A bulk upload held back
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold those runs back.No double start on one asset
On a polling trigger, Zapier keeps track of what it has already seen, so the same asset does not start the Zap a second time.
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