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The nocal Zapier integration gives you 3 triggers, 2 actions and 0 searches. React the moment an event is created, changed or cancelled in your nocal calendar, and write events back from your other tools, with no code. Here is what each piece does, and what it costs.
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What the nocal Zapier integration actually does
nocal is a calendar app for planning your week, with calendars, notes and tasks side by side. Connected to Zapier, your agenda stops being an island: what happens in nocal can update your CRM or your team chat, and what happens elsewhere can land in nocal as an event, without retyping anything.
Three results people usually build first. A team heads-up for every new meeting: New Event posts the details in your team channel as soon as you book something. A clean CRM after cancellations: Event Cancelled marks the deal or the client record so nobody prepares for a call that will not happen. Bookings that block your week: Create Event drops a slot into nocal each time a client books through another tool.
The good news first: all three triggers are instant, so the free plan's waiting time never applies to them. Now what the official page does not say. nocal is listed as a beta app on Zapier, so expect changes. Create Event writes to your primary calendar only. There is no search, so Update Event needs the event picked from a recent list or its ID carried from an earlier step. And there is no delete action.
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Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Seven words come back on every line. Here they are in plain English.
- Zap
- The automation you build in 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 switched on, Zapier waits for that event.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that creates, writes or updates something for you in an app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task equals one action your Zap completed successfully, and your plan counts those.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a timer. An instant trigger, like all three of nocal's, is sent by the app the moment it happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap continue only when the incoming data meets your condition, and stops it otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action turns it into one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What a nocal Zap really costs
nocal works on the free Zapier plan: Zapier does not keep it for paying customers. You pay in tasks, and only the actions count.
- Trigger0 tasks
- Each successful action1 task
- Free plan100 tasks a month
- Free plan Zap size2 steps
- nocal triggersInstant, on every plan
None of the three nocal triggers costs a task, and since they are instant, the check interval of your plan does not slow them down either. Each action that succeeds counts as one task, and in a Zap with three actions every success counts on its own. A failed action is not billed. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and Zaps of two steps only: one trigger, one action. Add a filter, say to keep only client meetings, and the Zap is multi-step, which needs a paid plan.
Connect your nocal account in three steps
- 01
Open your connections
In Zapier, go to the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. A connection is your nocal account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every Zap that touches your calendar.
- 02
Pick nocal
Type nocal in the search box of the dialog, select it and click Add connection. You need a nocal account, plus access to any shared calendar you do not own but want the Zap to touch.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
A tab opens on nocal. Sign in with the account that holds your calendar and allow Zapier to act on it. Back in Zapier, the connection appears in the list, ready for any nocal step.
Your first Zap with nocal
GoalPost every new client demo booked in nocal to the sales channel in Slack.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap, choose nocal as the app that starts it and New Event as the event. A lightning bolt shows it is an instant trigger.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test: Zapier brings back the three most recent events of your account, so you pick a real one to map in the next steps.
- 03
Add the filter
Click the plus icon, add a Filter and set it to continue only when the event title contains the word Demo. Other events stop here.
- 04
Add the message
Add Slack and write the message with the event's title and start time. With a filter in the middle, this is a multi-step Zap on a paid plan.
- 05
Test, then publish
Send a test message once and read what came back in the sales channel. When it looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on.
The 3 nocal triggers
3 events start a Zap when something happens in nocal, and 3 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
Event Cancelled
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when an event is cancelled.”
Fires when an event in your nocal calendar gets cancelled, and passes on what Zapier receives about it. It is the one to build on when a cancelled slot should free up something elsewhere.
New Event
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new event is created.”
Starts a Zap each time an event is created in nocal. This is the usual entry point for logging meetings, briefing a team or preparing a document ahead of a call.
Updated Event
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when an event is updated.”
Reacts when an existing nocal event is edited, a reschedule for instance. Useful when the rest of your tools must follow the calendar instead of drifting out of sync after a reschedule.
The 2 nocal actions
nocal gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Event
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a new event on the primary calendar.”
Adds a new event to your primary nocal calendar, timed and placed in the right zone.
Update Event
ActionIn Zapier“Updates an existing event.”
Changes an event that already sits in nocal, including switching it to an all-day event.
When a nocal Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to nocal, so the cases below come from how every Zap behaves, plus the rules written into the nocal actions themselves.
Instant triggers spare you the wait, not the traps. Most failures come from loops between the triggers and the actions of the same calendar, or from the fields the actions require. If a run stops, start with our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
The calendar feeds itself
Updated Event triggers a Zap that runs Update Event on the same calendar: each change fires the trigger again, and your tasks burn away fast.Past events never arrive
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you publish it. Events booked or cancelled earlier never come through; moving them is a separate job.A bulk import gets held back
Import a whole calendar at once and the trigger suddenly sends a huge batch: Zapier's flood protection can hold those runs back.The time zone is refused
Create Event needs a start and an end time zone as IANA names, like America/New_York. An offset or a city name typed freely will not fit the field.
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