Maslo Zapier integrationAutomate Maslo with Zapier.
The Maslo Zapier integration gives you 3 triggers, 2 actions and 0 searches. All three triggers are instant, so a challenge event starts your Zap even on the free plan. Here is what each one does, what it costs and where it trips people up.
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What the Maslo Zapier integration actually does
Maslo runs sales challenges for your team; Zapier is the glue that moves data in and out of it without you copying anything by hand. The integration listens for three challenge events in Maslo and can write two things back: a user, and a challenge score. Everything else stays inside Maslo itself.
Three results you can build with it. A roster that keeps itself current: a new line in your spreadsheet becomes a Maslo player through Create or Update User, and someone already in Maslo has their profile updated rather than created. Scores that arrive on their own: Update Challenge Performance pushes a figure from another tool into a running challenge so nobody retypes results by hand. A wrap-up when a challenge closes: Challenge Ended hands the outcome to whatever tool your team reads next.
What Zapier does not do for Maslo: it cannot look anything up. There is no search step on this app, so a Zap cannot fetch an existing challenge or check whether a user is already there before acting. It cannot create a challenge either; New Challenge only reacts once one exists. And it will not import the challenges that were running before your Zap was switched on.
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Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Eight words come back on every line of this page. Here they are in plain English.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one starting event, then one or more steps that run every time that event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it, here a challenge starting, moving or ending.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or updates something for you, such as a user in Maslo.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully; your plan gives you a count of those.
- Instant trigger
- A trigger the app reports itself: it calls Zapier the moment the event happens, so nothing waits for a scheduled check.
- Polling trigger
- A trigger Zapier checks on a timer, asking the app for new items at a fixed interval. None of Maslo's triggers work this way.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets a condition you set, and stops it quietly 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 Maslo Zap really costs
Maslo is not a premium app, so it works from the free plan. The bill is counted in tasks, not in Zaps.
- Premium appNo, available on the free plan
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- Trigger type3 instant, 0 polling
The trigger never costs a task, and neither does Zapier listening for it. Each action that succeeds counts once, so a Zap that creates a user and then updates a score uses two tasks per run. An action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap stops at two steps: one trigger, one action. Add a filter or a second action and you need a paid plan. The interval grid below is how often Zapier checks polling triggers on each plan; it does not apply to Maslo's three triggers, which are all instant.
Connect your Maslo account to Zapier
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. A connection is your Maslo account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every Zap step that touches Maslo.
- 02
Pick Maslo in the dialog
Type Maslo in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. You need a Maslo account first, with access to the challenges and users you want the Zap to touch.
- 03
Sign in and allow access
A new tab opens on Maslo. Sign in there, then grant Zapier access to the account. When the tab closes, the connection shows up in your list and any Zap can use it.
Your first Zap: log every score change in a spreadsheet
GoalEach time the performance of a Maslo challenge is updated and passes your filter, a new row is added to your tracking spreadsheet.
- 01
Create the Zap on Maslo
Start a new Zap, pick Maslo as the app and Challenge Performance Updated as the event. Choose your connection, then paste your Platform ID.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test: Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account. Pick a real one, so the mapping that follows uses actual values.
- 03
Add a filter
Add a filter step from the plus icon and fill its three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, the value. Updates that fail the rule stop there. This makes the Zap multi-step.
- 04
Add the spreadsheet row
Choose your spreadsheet tool and its add-row action, then map the challenge values from the test into the columns. Check at test which values Maslo actually returns.
- 05
Test, then publish
Run the action once and check that the row appeared in your sheet with the right values. When it looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on.
Maslo triggers
3 events start a Zap when something happens in Maslo, and 3 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
Challenge Ended
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a challenge ends.”
Starts your Zap when a challenge reaches its end in Maslo, which is the moment to hand the outcome to the people or tools that care about it.
Challenge Performance Updated
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a challenge's performance is updated.”
Fires whenever the performance figures of a challenge change in Maslo, so every move on the leaderboard can be passed along to another tool.
New Challenge
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new Challenge is Created.”
Kicks off the Zap as soon as someone creates a challenge in Maslo, before any score has moved.
Maslo actions
Maslo gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create or Update User
ActionIn Zapier“Creates or updates a user.”
Adds a person to your Maslo platform, or refreshes their profile when they already exist, in a single step.
Update Challenge Performance
ActionIn Zapier“Updates a Challenge Performance.”
Writes a new performance figure into a challenge that is already running, so the leaderboard moves without manual entry.
When a Maslo Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Maslo and lists no app-specific limit. What breaks is the general Zapier behaviour, plus the two IDs this app asks for.
Four cases are worth knowing before you publish: three come from Zapier itself, one from the IDs Maslo requires. When a run fails, our Zapier troubleshooting guide is the next stop.
Old challenges never show up
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you publish it. Challenges that ended or started before that are not picked up; moving that backlog is a separate job.The Zap keeps restarting itself
A Zap that writes into the place its own trigger watches can set itself off again and eat tasks fast. Keep what the Zap reads apart from what it writes.A big batch is held back
When a trigger suddenly sends a huge batch, after a bulk import for example, Zapier's flood protection can hold those runs back instead of firing them all.Missing Platform or Challenge ID
Every operation needs the Platform ID, and Update Challenge Performance also needs the Challenge ID. Both live in your Maslo dashboard; without them the step cannot be set.
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