Nucleus Zapier integrationAutomate Nucleus with Zapier.
The Nucleus Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, instant, 0 actions and 0 searches. One event, and an important one: someone joins a campaign on your church website. Here is where that person can go next, what it costs and what to watch.
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What the Nucleus Zapier integration is for
The Nucleus Zapier integration connects Nucleus, the website builder and communications tool churches use to help people take their next step, to the other tools your team relies on. You build a Zap: an automation with one trigger and one or more actions, which runs each time the trigger event happens.
With a single trigger, the value is in what you do with each new subscriber. Three results cover most needs. A welcome that never forgets anyone: New Subscriber adds the person to your email tool, so the first message goes out the same day. A follow-up list for volunteers: the same event adds a row to a shared sheet that your connections team works through. A heads-up for the right leader: a message lands in your team chat when someone signs up, so a person, not a machine, says hello.
Good news for a free plan: the trigger is instant. Nucleus tells Zapier as soon as someone subscribes, so the plan's check interval never delays the welcome.
What Zapier does not do here: Nucleus offers no actions and no searches on Zapier. A Zap can't add a subscriber to Nucleus, edit a page or send a Nucleus message. Nucleus is always the first step, and everything else happens in other apps. If you're comparing platforms, our Zapier review and Make vs Zapier help you weigh them.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Six words are enough for this page. Each is explained once, here, then used as is.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it: here, a new campaign subscriber in Nucleus.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you. With Nucleus, it always runs in another app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completed successfully. The allowance on your plan is a count of those.
- Polling vs instant trigger
- Polling: Zapier checks the app on a timer. Instant: the app reports the event itself the moment it happens. The Nucleus trigger is instant.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when the incoming data meets your condition, and stops it 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 Nucleus Zap really costs
Nucleus is not a premium app, so it runs on the free plan. You pay in tasks, and only for the actions that follow the trigger.
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- TriggerCosts nothing
- Failed actionNot counted
- Trigger speedInstant on every plan
The trigger never costs a task, whatever the number of subscribers. Each action that succeeds counts once, and one that fails is not billed. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap is limited to two steps: one trigger, one action. So one welcome Zap per subscriber fits the free plan; adding a sheet row and a chat message in the same Zap makes it multi-step and puts it on a paid plan, at three tasks per subscriber.
Connect your Nucleus account
- 01
Open your connections
In Zapier, open the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. A connection is your Nucleus account linked once, then reused by every Zap that starts from Nucleus.
- 02
Pick Nucleus
Type Nucleus in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. Right after, a new browser tab opens on the Nucleus sign-in screen.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Log in with your Nucleus account and allow Zapier to use it. You need your own account, plus access to the campaigns you don't manage yourself but want the Zap to follow.
Your first Zap: welcome every new subscriber
GoalEach new Nucleus campaign subscriber joins your email list and appears in a follow-up sheet for your team.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap, choose Nucleus as the app that starts it and New Subscriber as the event. Select the Nucleus connection you just set up.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent subscribers on the account, so you map the next steps on a real person. Add a test subscriber if there are none.
- 03
Add to your email list
Add your email tool as the action and map the subscriber's details from the trigger. On the free plan, stop here: two steps are the limit.
- 04
Log the follow-up
On a paid plan, add a spreadsheet row with the same details so volunteers can follow up. This second action makes the Zap multi-step.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test each step and read carefully what came back. Then click Publish to switch the Zap on for every new subscriber from now on.
The Nucleus trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Nucleus, and one of them is instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
New Subscriber
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a campaign subscriber is added in Nucleus.”
Starts your Zap each time someone is added as a subscriber to one of your Nucleus campaigns. For a church, that can be a first visitor raising a hand, so speed and a personal touch both count.
When a Nucleus Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Nucleus, so the failures below are Zapier's general limits, applied to an app with one instant trigger.
Each case below names the trap and how to avoid it. If a Zap still won't behave, our Zapier troubleshooting service takes it from there.
Existing subscribers never come through
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. People already on your campaigns stay in Nucleus; moving that list is a separate job.A big import is held back
Adding a long list of subscribers at once sends a sudden batch to Zapier. Its flood protection can hold that batch back instead of running the Zap for each person.The free plan stops at two steps
Adding a filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step. On the free plan, you can't publish it until you move to a paid plan.
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