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The Navigatr Zapier integration comes down to 0 triggers, 1 action and 0 searches: Issue a Badge. Navigatr is a digital badge platform, and Zapier can hand out a badge to someone each time another app reports the right event.

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Overview

What the Navigatr Zapier integration is for

Navigatr is a platform for issuing digital badges to people. Zapier links it to your other tools through a Zap: an automation made of one trigger (the event that starts it) and one or more actions (what it then does for you). Here, the trigger always comes from another app, and Navigatr is the action.

Badges that go out without a manual step. Issue a Badge sends a badge to a recipient as soon as the step runs: first name, last name, email address, plus the IDs of your provider account and of the badge. Whatever tool records that a person qualifies can start it.

One badge per qualifying row. If the people to reward sit in a sheet, a new row can start the Zap, and a filter can keep only the rows that meet your condition before the badge goes out.

A record of who got what. Add a second action after Issue a Badge and the same Zap writes a line in your log, so you can see later which badge went to whom.

What Zapier does not do here: Navigatr has no trigger, so no Zap can react to something happening in Navigatr itself, and it has no search, so a Zap cannot look up a badge or a recipient there. Issuing is the whole integration. To weigh Zapier against other tools, open our Make vs Zapier comparison.

Vocabulary

Zapier words, in plain English

Seven words cover this page. Each gets one line here, then is used as is.

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. Navigatr has none, so the trigger always belongs to another app.
Action
What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, such as issuing a badge.
Task
The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Every badge issued by the Zap is one task.
Polling vs instant trigger
Polling: Zapier checks an app on a timer. Instant: the app calls Zapier when the event happens. It depends on the other app here.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived 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.
Cost

What a Navigatr Zap costs

Navigatr is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan. Each badge issued is a task.

  • Trigger0 tasks
  • Each badge issued1 task
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
  • Premium appNo

The trigger never costs a task, and neither does Zapier checking the other app. Every successful Issue a Badge counts once; a badge that fails to go out is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and two-step Zaps, which fits one trigger plus Issue a Badge. A filter or a logging step makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. Navigatr has no trigger, so the interval grid below only matters if the trigger of the other app is a polling one.

Connect

Connect Navigatr to Zapier in three steps

  1. 01

    Open the Apps page

    In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. A connection is your Navigatr account linked once, then reused by every step that issues badges.

  2. 02

    Pick Navigatr

    Type Navigatr in the search box of the dialog, select it and click Add connection. A new tab opens, and the sign-in of the next step happens there, not in Zapier.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Sign in to Navigatr in that tab and give Zapier access to the account. You need an account on the app, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.

First Zap

Your first Navigatr Zap: badges from a sheet

GoalEach new row in your sheet that meets your condition sends a Navigatr badge to the person on that row.

  1. 01

    Set the trigger

    Create a Zap, pick your spreadsheet and its new row event, then test it so Zapier brings back real rows to map from in the next steps.

  2. 02

    Add the filter

    Click the plus icon, choose Filter, and set the field to look at, the rule and the value. A filter makes the Zap multi-step, so this step needs a paid plan.

  3. 03

    Add Issue a Badge

    Pick Navigatr and Issue a Badge. Map first name, last name and email from the row, then type your Provider ID and the Badge ID of the badge to send.

  4. 04

    Test the action

    Run the test of the action and read what came back before going further. Check that each of the five required fields received a value from the row or from what you typed.

  5. 05

    Publish

    Click Publish to switch the Zap on. Only rows added after that moment will start it. For a guided build on your own account, see our Zapier training.

Actions

The Navigatr action

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

1

Issue a Badge

Action

In Zapier“Issue a new badge to a recipient”

Sends one badge from your Navigatr account to one person. Five fields are required: Recipient First Name, Recipient Lastname, Recipient Email Address, Provider ID and Badge ID.

When to use it
another app already records that someone qualifies, and the badge should follow without anyone opening Navigatr.
Watch out
one run issues one badge, so a trigger that fires twice for one person sends two.
When it breaks

When a Navigatr Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to Navigatr and no app-specific limit is published. What can go wrong comes from how Zapier works and from the fields the action requires.

These four cases are the ones to check on a Navigatr Zap. If a Zap still misbehaves after that, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.

  • No look back

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. People who qualified before that never get a badge from it; that backlog is a separate job.

  • A required field with nothing in it

    Issue a Badge needs a first name, a last name, an email, a Provider ID and a Badge ID. Check at the test that each one is filled by the step before.

  • A sudden flood

    After a bulk import or a migration, a trigger that suddenly returns a huge batch can be held back by Zapier's flood protection.

  • A Zap that sets itself off

    A Zap that writes into the place its own trigger watches can start itself again and again and burn through your tasks. Keep any log apart from the trigger's source.
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FAQ

Navigatr and Zapier: the questions people ask

01Is the Navigatr Zapier integration free?
Yes. Navigatr is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan, which gives 100 tasks a month and an unlimited number of Zaps of two steps each: one trigger and one action. A Zap that issues a badge whenever your form gets a new answer fits that. The Zap on this page does not, because it carries a filter; a filter or a second action makes a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan.
02How many tasks does a Navigatr Zap use?
One per badge issued, and nothing for the trigger. Every successful Issue a Badge is one task; if it fails, it is not counted. So a Zap that rewards a hundred people uses a hundred tasks, which is the whole monthly allowance of the free plan. Any extra action, such as writing a line in a log, adds its own task. Zapier also notes that a few apps and a few actions take more than one task when they complete.
03How fast does a Navigatr Zap start?
It depends on the other app. Navigatr has no trigger, so every Navigatr Zap starts from a trigger in another app, and that trigger decides the timing. If it is instant, the other app tells Zapier itself and the Zap starts without waiting. If it is a polling trigger, Zapier checks at the interval of your plan, 15 minutes on the free plan. In the editor, a Zap built on an instant trigger shows a lightning bolt.
04What does it take to connect Navigatr to Zapier?
An account on Navigatr, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch. Open Apps in Zapier, click + Add connection, pick Navigatr, sign in in the tab that opens and grant access. Before building, also collect two values Issue a Badge requires: your Provider ID, which the field's help says you find by logging in to Navigatr with your admin account, and the Badge ID.
05Where do the Provider ID and Badge ID come from?
From your Navigatr account. Both fields are required by Issue a Badge. The help text of the Provider ID field says to log in to Navigatr with your admin account to find it; the Badge ID identifies the badge you want to send. Since Navigatr has no search on Zapier, no earlier step can look them up for you: you type them into the action, and the runs of the Zap use those values.
06What if the Navigatr operation you need is not listed?
Check the Navigatr page on Zapier, which shows the current list. Today it holds a single action, Issue a Badge, with no trigger and no search. If you hoped to react to something in Navigatr, or to look up a badge, Zapier cannot do it with this app for now. Before building a workaround, compare how another automation tool would handle the same need, and check whether the event you want to react to exists in one of your other apps instead.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Navigatr?
Choose on criteria, not on a ranking. On Zapier, the first question is whether one action is enough: if all you need is to issue a badge when something happens elsewhere, it is. Then look at the cost, one task per badge, and at the timing, which depends on the trigger of the other app. Ask the same questions of Make and n8n, operations available, timing, cost per run, before deciding.
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