Online Car Store Zapier integrationAutomate Online Car Store with Zapier.
The Online Car Store Zapier integration sends every new lead and every car reservation from your dealer site to the rest of your tools. It offers 2 triggers, both instant, 0 actions and 0 searches. It works on the free plan, no upgrade needed.
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What the Online Car Store Zapier integration does for a dealer
Online Car Store is a site builder for car dealers and brands: each gets a ready-made web page to sell its vehicles. The Zapier integration links that site to your other apps: when a visitor leaves a lead or reserves a car, Zapier hears about it and passes the details on. It only listens. It never writes anything back into Online Car Store.
Three results dealers build with it. A lead sheet: New Lead fires when a form on the site is filled, and the contact lands in a spreadsheet the sales team works from. A CRM record: the same trigger creates the prospect in your CRM, so nobody retypes it. A reservation alert: New Reservation fires when a buyer books a car, and an email or a chat message tells the showroom straight away.
The good news for a small budget: both triggers are instant. The site tells Zapier itself when something happens, so even on the free plan, the 15-minute check that applies to most apps does not slow these Zaps down.
What Zapier does not do here matters as much. There is no action, so a Zap cannot create a car listing, update a price or close a reservation inside Online Car Store. There is no search either, so a Zap cannot look up a car or a past lead. The integration feeds your other tools; managing the stock stays in Online Car Store.
Still choosing between tools? The Make vs Zapier comparison and the Zapier review are a good start.
Zapier vocabulary in plain words
Seven words come back all over Zapier. Here they are before you open the editor.
- Zap
- The automation you build: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event that starts the Zap, like a new lead on your dealer site. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
- Action
- What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or moves something. Here it always runs in another app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan counts these and nothing else.
- Instant vs polling
- An instant trigger is reported by the app the moment it happens. A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a timer.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets your condition, and stops it otherwise.
- Connection
- Your Online Car Store account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every Zap that listens to it.
What these Zaps really cost
Both Online Car Store triggers are free to run: a trigger never costs a task. You pay only for what happens next, in your other apps.
- Trigger cost0 tasks
- Free plan100 tasks a month
- Steps on free2 (trigger + action)
- Premium appNo
Each action that completes successfully counts as one task, and an action that fails is not counted. A Zap that writes the lead to a sheet and then emails the showroom uses two tasks per lead. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and Zaps of two steps, one trigger and one action. Online Car Store is not a premium app, so it fits there. Add a filter, say to keep only some of the leads, or a second action, and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. The polling grid below does not apply to these two instant triggers.
Connect Online Car Store to Zapier in 3 steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. You need an existing Online Car Store account first: Zapier links an account, it never creates one for you.
- 02
Pick Online Car Store
Type Online Car Store in the search box of the dialog, select it and click Add connection. A new tab then opens on the Online Car Store side so you can sign in.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Log in with your Online Car Store details and allow Zapier to use the account. If the dealer site belongs to someone else, you need access to it too. The connection is then saved for every Zap.
Your first Zap: every new lead in a sheet
GoalEach lead left on the dealer site becomes a row in the sales team's sheet.
- 01
Pick the trigger
Create a Zap, choose Online Car Store as the app that starts it and New Lead as the event. Select the connection you added earlier.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test: Zapier brings back the three most recent leads of the connected account, so you map fields on a real lead rather than on an empty shape.
- 03
Add the action
Add the next step in your spreadsheet app, pick the sheet the sales team uses and map each column to a value from the lead the test brought back.
- 04
Test the action
Run the action once and check that the row really appears in the sheet with the right values in the right columns before going any further.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish to switch the Zap on. From then on, each new lead lands in the sheet right away, and the Zap stays on two steps, so the free plan covers it.
The 2 Online Car Store triggers
2 events start a Zap when something happens in Online Car Store, and 2 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
New Lead
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a lead in created in a form of OCS.”
This starts your Zap each time a visitor fills one of the forms on your Online Car Store site, and hands the details of that new lead to the steps that follow, so a salesperson can call back without opening the dealer back office.
New Reservation
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new Reservation of a car is created.”
Here the Zap waits for a buyer to reserve a car on your site. Each new reservation starts it and passes on what the reservation contains, which is the moment a showroom wants to act on before the buyer cools down.
When an Online Car Store Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Online Car Store, so the traps below are the general ones that hit any Zap.
They tend to surface once real leads replace your test form. If you are stuck, the Zapier troubleshooting page covers the common fixes.
Past leads never come through
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Leads and reservations that already existed are not picked up; moving them is a separate job.A loop eats your tasks
If a later step writes back into the very place a trigger watches, the Zap sets itself off again and again and burns through the task count fast.A bulk import gets held back
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back.One event, one Zap per trigger
New Lead and New Reservation are two separate triggers. A Zap starts on one of them only, so covering both takes two Zaps.
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