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The MIP Zapier integration counts 0 triggers, 1 action and 0 searches. MIP sits at the receiving end of a Zap: something happens in another app, and Create Contact adds the person to MIP. Here is how to set it up, what it costs and where it trips.

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Overview

What the MIP Zapier integration does for you

The MIP Zapier integration lets your other apps add contacts to MIP, a marketing platform that brings together customer records, customer data, AI, social media and marketing automation. On Zapier, the automation you build is a Zap: an event in one app starts it, then one or more steps follow every time. With MIP, those steps end with a new contact.

Form leads that land in MIP. A new entry in your form tool starts the Zap, and Create Contact puts the person straight into MIP. Nobody exports a file or retypes an email address.

Event sign-ups turned into contacts. When your registration tool records a new attendee, the same action adds them to MIP, so the people who signed up are already there when the marketing work starts.

One entry point for several sources. Build one Zap per source, each ending with Create Contact, and MIP becomes the place where contacts from all of them meet.

What Zapier does not do here. MIP has no trigger and no search on Zapier, and a single action. A Zap cannot start from something that happens in MIP, cannot check whether a contact already exists, and cannot update or delete one. Which fields Create Contact asks for shows up when you set the step; check them at the test. To see how Zapier stands against other tools, see our n8n vs Zapier comparison, and if you would rather learn the editor first, see our Zapier training.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Eight words come back throughout this page. Here they are once, in plain English, so the rest reads without a dictionary.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event in an app that starts a Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it. MIP has none, so it always comes from another app.
Action
What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you. Create Contact is MIP's only one.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully, and the allowance on 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 what it has not seen before.
Instant trigger
A trigger the app reports itself: it calls Zapier the moment the event happens, so nothing waits for the next check.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on 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, a filter or a search makes one, and it then needs a paid plan.
Cost

What a MIP Zap really costs

MIP is not a premium app, so it works from the free plan. The trigger, which comes from another app, never costs a task, and neither does Zapier checking for new data.

  • Free plan100 tasks a month
  • Zaps on the free planUnlimited, two steps each
  • Premium appNo
  • Cost of one Create Contact1 task when it succeeds

Each Create Contact that succeeds counts as one task; one that fails is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each capped at two steps: one trigger, one action. A filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. The grid below sets how often a polling trigger is checked: it applies to the trigger of the other app when that trigger is a polling one.

Connect

Connect your MIP account to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open Apps and add a connection

    In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. You need a MIP account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.

  2. 02

    Pick MIP in the dialog

    In the dialog, type MIP in the search box and select it, then click Add connection. A new tab then opens, and the sign-in happens there, on the MIP side.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Sign in to MIP in that tab and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection is made once, and every Create Contact step in every Zap you build afterwards reuses it.

First Zap

Your first Zap: form leads added to MIP

GoalEvery new form entry that meets your condition becomes a contact in MIP, without an export.

  1. 01

    Start from your form

    Create a Zap and pick your form tool and its new-entry event as the trigger. Connect the account, then test it: Zapier brings back the three most recent entries, so you map a real one.

  2. 02

    Add the filter

    Click the plus icon, choose Filter, then fill the three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, the value to compare with. A filter makes this a multi-step Zap, so it needs a paid plan.

  3. 03

    Add Create Contact

    Add the MIP action Create Contact and connect your MIP account. Map each field it asks for from the form answers you saw in the trigger test, and check at the test which ones are required.

  4. 04

    Test before going further

    Run each step once and read what came back before moving on. If the result of Create Contact is not what you expected, go back to the mapping of the fields.

  5. 05

    Publish

    Publish the Zap to switch it on. From then on, each new entry that passes the filter becomes a MIP contact. Entries received before publishing are not picked up.

Actions

The MIP action

MIP gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Create Contact

Action

In Zapier“Create a contact in the system”

Adds a new contact to your MIP account, filled from whatever the earlier steps of the Zap carried: a form answer, a sheet row, a sign-up.

When to use it
when people show up in another tool first and should end up in MIP without anyone typing them in again.
Watch out
MIP offers no search on Zapier, so the Zap cannot check first whether the contact already exists. Check at the test which fields the action asks for.
When it breaks

When a MIP Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to MIP, and no limit of the app itself is documented. What trips a MIP Zap are the general rules every Zap follows.

Three of them matter when MIP sits at the end of the chain. Read them before you publish, and keep our Zapier troubleshooting guide at hand for the rest.

  • No catch-up on old entries

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Entries made before you published never reach MIP, and moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • A Zap that feeds its own trigger

    A Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches can set itself off again and again, and burn through the task count fast. Keep the two apart.

  • Flood protection on big batches

    When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back before it reaches MIP.
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FAQ

MIP and Zapier: the questions people ask

01Is the MIP Zapier integration free?
Yes. MIP is not a premium app, so it runs on Zapier's free plan. That plan gives 100 tasks a month and an unlimited number of Zaps, each limited to two steps: one trigger and one action. A Zap where a new form entry runs Create Contact fits inside it. Add a filter, a second action or a search and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. No price is quoted here, since plan grids change too often to stay right.
02How many tasks does a MIP Zap use?
One task per contact created, provided the action succeeds. The trigger from your other app costs nothing, and neither does Zapier checking for new data. A Zap that turns each new event sign-up into a MIP contact costs one task per sign-up. If you add a second action, for example a message to your team, each sign-up costs two tasks and the Zap needs a paid plan. An action that fails is not counted against your plan.
03Does MIP work in real time with Zapier?
MIP has no trigger, so the timing of a MIP Zap depends entirely on the trigger of the other app. If that trigger is instant, the app reports the event to Zapier itself and the interval grid does not apply. If it is a polling trigger, Zapier checks at the interval of your plan: 15 minutes on Free, 2 on Professional, 1 on Team and Enterprise. The other tool's app page on Zapier shows the free-plan interval on each of its polling triggers.
04What does it take to connect MIP to Zapier?
An account on MIP, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch. The connection is made once, from the Apps page of your Zapier account: click + Add connection, search for MIP, pick it, click Add connection, sign in on the tab that opens, then grant access. After that, every Create Contact step in every Zap reuses it, so a second source does not mean connecting again.
05Can a MIP Zap start from something that happens in MIP?
No. MIP offers no trigger on Zapier, so nothing that happens inside MIP can start a Zap. Every MIP Zap begins in another app, such as a form tool or a spreadsheet, and ends with Create Contact. The same holds the other way round: with no search, a Zap cannot read data back from MIP or check a contact before writing. In these Zaps, MIP is a destination, and only that.
06What if the MIP operation you need is not there?
Then this integration cannot do it by itself. MIP's page on Zapier shows the current list of triggers and actions, and that is the list to check before you build. A Zap can still wrap Create Contact with steps from other apps, for example a filter before it, on a paid plan since that makes the Zap multi-step. Updating, deleting or finding a contact in MIP is not covered by the single action on offer.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for MIP?
Choose by criteria, not by a winner. On Zapier, MIP brings one ready-made action, Create Contact, works from the free plan, and relies on the trigger of another app, whose type sets the timing. Billing counts tasks, one per contact created. Before choosing another tool, check whether it offers MIP at all and with which operations: this page cannot vouch for that. Then compare how many steps your exact flow would need in each tool, and who will maintain it.
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