Melo Zapier integrationAutomate Melo with Zapier.
The Melo Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 0 actions and 1 search. The trigger is instant: a new real estate advert that matches your criteria reaches Zapier at once, and the search pulls matching properties into any Zap you build.
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What the Melo Zapier integration is for
Melo gives you access to real estate data. On Zapier it does two things: it starts a Zap whenever a new advert matches the criteria you set, and it looks up properties that match given criteria so a later step can use them. Melo only reads data here; nothing is written back.
An alert for every advert that fits. New Advert fires when a listing matching your transaction, property types and maximum price is created, so your team chat or inbox hears about it right away.
A running list of the market. The same trigger can feed a spreadsheet, one row per new advert, which gives you a log you can sort and share without opening Melo.
Context on demand. Search Properties returns properties matching a transaction, zipcodes, property types and publisher types, with an option to keep out listings whose price does not look coherent.
What Zapier does not do with Melo: there is no action at all, so a Zap never creates, edits or removes anything in Melo. Everything the Zap produces lands in your other tools, and the only Melo steps you will ever place are New Advert and Search Properties. If you also work with Make, see our Melo Make integration page; for the broader choice, see our Make vs Zapier comparison.
Zapier words in one minute
Eight words come back all over this page. Here they are, once, in plain English.
- 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 waits for that event and nothing else.
- Action
- What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, in Melo's case always in another app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully; your plan counts those.
- Polling vs instant
- Zapier checks a polling trigger on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself the moment the event happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Search step
- A step that looks up something that already exists in an app, so the steps after it can use what it found.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action, a filter or a search makes it one, and it needs a paid plan.
What a Melo Zap really costs
Melo is not a premium app, so it runs on the free plan. You pay in tasks, and the Melo trigger itself never produces one.
- Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps
- Steps per Zap on Free2 (one trigger, one action)
- New Advert trigger0 tasks
- Premium appNo
Watching for new adverts costs nothing, however many arrive. Each action that goes through counts once, and an action that fails is not counted. Since Melo has no action, the tasks are spent in the other app: one message or one row per advert. The free plan stops at two steps, so adding a filter or the Melo search makes a multi-step Zap that needs a paid plan. The grid below is how often Zapier checks a polling trigger; New Advert is instant, so it does not apply to it.
Connect your Melo account
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. A dialog with a search box opens: type Melo, then pick it from the list of results.
- 02
Sign in to Melo
Click Add connection. A tab opens on Melo: sign in with the account your Zaps will use. You need an account on Melo before you start, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.
- 03
Grant access
Allow Zapier to use the account. The connection is saved once and every Melo step reuses it, so the trigger and the search in any later Zap pick it up without asking again.
Your first Zap: alert the team about adverts that fit
GoalEach new Melo advert that matches your criteria, and passes one extra condition in a filter, is posted as a message in your team chat.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap, pick Melo as the trigger app and New Advert as the event, then choose the Melo connection you made earlier.
- 02
Set the criteria
Fill the required fields: a Title for the search, the Transaction, the Subscribed Events, a Price Maximum and the Property Types. Activate is optional.
- 03
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account, so you can see which details an advert carries.
- 04
Add a filter
Click the plus icon, add Filter, then set the field to look at, the rule and the value. Pick a number rule for numbers, a text rule for text.
- 05
Add the message, test, publish
Add your chat app with its send-message action, map the advert details in, test it, then click Publish. The filter makes it a multi-step Zap on a paid plan.
Melo trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Melo, and one of them is instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
New Advert
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new advert matching the given criteria is created.”
Starts a Zap each time Melo creates a new advert that matches the criteria you set in the step: the type of transaction, the property types and a maximum price. Its required Title field is described as the title of the created search, so give it a name you will recognise.
Melo search
1 search step looks for data that already exists in Melo, so a later step can use it.
A search step reads data that already exists in Melo and passes it to the steps after it. In the list of events, searches sit at the bottom under SEARCH. Three settings decide what happens when the result is not the one you expected.
Search Properties
SearchIn Zapier“Return properties matching given criteria.”
Returns properties that match the criteria you give: transaction, zipcodes, property types and publisher types are all required. Coherent Price keeps out listings whose price looks off. Furnished is optional and comes with no description, so check at the test what it changes.
The three settings every search exposes
- Successful if no search results are found?Left on its default, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap and skips the steps that relied on it. Switched on, the Zap carries on empty-handed.
- Create X if it doesn't exist yet?This box turns a search into a find-or-create. Melo offers no find-or-create variant and has no action, so its search only reads.
- If multiple search results are found?Keep the first match, which is the default, stop the Zap, or hand every match on at once.
When a Melo Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Melo and lists no limit specific to it. The cases below are the ones that hit every app.
Here are the general limits to know for a Melo Zap. If yours misbehaves for another reason, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
No backlog
A Zap only reacts to adverts created after you switch it on. Listings that already existed are never picked up, and moving them is a separate job.Flood protection
If a large batch of adverts arrives at once, Zapier can hold it back with its flood protection. It is a Zapier safeguard that applies to every app, not a limit set by Melo.Search that stops the Zap
On its default setting, a Search Properties step that finds nothing stops the Zap there. Switch on the no-results option if the next steps should still run.
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