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OnSefy Zapier integrationAutomate OnSefy with Zapier.

The OnSefy Zapier integration gives you 0 triggers, 1 action and 0 searches. So OnSefy never starts a Zap: another app hands it a user, and OnSefy runs its fraud check on that person. Here is how it fits, what it costs and where it trips.

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Overview

What the OnSefy Zapier integration is for

OnSefy is a fraud detection service built to spot fake users before they finish onboarding. With Zapier, you can send it the people who sign up through your other tools, one by one, without writing code. Zapier carries the user's details over, and OnSefy runs its check on them.

Three outcomes you can aim for with the single action on offer, Validate User. One: a screened waitlist, where every person who joins through a form is checked before anyone on your team spends time on them. Two: a cleaner CRM, where a lead is checked on its way in from a landing page, so suspicious entries can be routed to a review step. Three: a trial gate, where each new trial signup goes through OnSefy before your team sends the welcome sequence.

Now the limits. OnSefy has no trigger in Zapier, so nothing on the OnSefy side can start a Zap. It has no search either. Whatever the check returns, Zapier does not decide anything with it on its own: if you want to block, flag or route a user, you build that in later steps, in other apps. And what the result looks like, field by field, is not described on the Zapier listing, so test it before you rely on it.

If your project needs to act on a verdict automatically, plan for a paid plan from day one, because acting on it means at least a second step. For an honest look at the platform, read our Zapier review. If you would rather have the flow built for you, our Zapier agency handles it.

Vocabulary

Zapier words, explained once

The page uses seven Zapier terms. Each one is defined here, then used as is.

Zap
An automation on Zapier: one starting event, followed by one or more steps that run each time that event comes up.
Trigger
The event that sets a Zap off. With the Zap on, Zapier waits for it. OnSefy has none, so a form, CRM or app plays that part.
Action
The work the Zap does once started: a step that creates, sends or checks something. Here, running a user through OnSefy.
Task
What Zapier bills: one action that completes successfully. Plans are counted in tasks, never in Zaps or checks.
Polling vs instant
Zapier checks a polling trigger on a timer. An instant trigger is pushed by the app itself, right when the event takes place.
Filter
A step that only lets the Zap carry on when the data meets the condition you set. Otherwise the run stops there.
Multi-step Zap
A Zap that goes beyond one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action is enough to make one, and that needs a paid plan.
Cost

How much an OnSefy Zap costs

OnSefy is not a premium app: it runs on Zapier's free plan. You pay in tasks, and the trigger itself is free.

  • Free plan100 tasks per month
  • Free plan ZapsTwo steps: one trigger, one action
  • OnSefyNot a premium app
  • Trigger costNo task

Every user OnSefy checks successfully through the Zap counts as one task; a check that fails is not billed. Watching the source app for new signups costs nothing. The real ceiling is elsewhere: the free plan stops at two steps. A Zap that checks the user and then does something with the result has three, so it needs a paid plan. How quickly the check runs after a signup depends on the source app's trigger: polling triggers follow the grid below.

Connect

Connect OnSefy to Zapier

  1. 01

    Go to Apps

    Open the Apps page of your Zapier account and click + Add connection. A connection is your OnSefy account linked once, then reused by every Zap step that calls OnSefy.

  2. 02

    Find OnSefy

    In the dialog, search OnSefy by name, pick it from the results, then click Add connection. The sign-in itself takes place in a new tab, on the OnSefy side.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Log in to your OnSefy account and allow Zapier in. You need your own OnSefy account, plus read or write access to anything you do not own and want the Zap to use.

First Zap

Build your first OnSefy Zap

GoalEach new signup on a form is checked by OnSefy, then posted to your team so a person can look at it.

  1. 01

    Build: choose the source

    Create a Zap and pick the form tool your signups go through as the starting app. Connect that account the same way you connected OnSefy.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test: Zapier brings back the three most recent entries of the connected account. Pick one that holds a name and an IP address.

  3. 03

    Add Validate User

    Add OnSefy with Validate User, then map the name and the IP address from the form entry into the two required fields. Leave the rest as it is for now.

  4. 04

    Add the team alert

    Add a second action that posts the result to your team. With two actions, the Zap is multi-step and needs a paid plan. Read what the test returns before mapping it.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Test each step once and check what came back. When the alert reads right, click Publish to turn the Zap on. From then on, every new entry gets checked.

Actions

OnSefy action in Zapier

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

1

Validate User

Action

In Zapier“Validates a user by checking email, phone, IP, and other signals using OnSefy's fraud detection API.”

Sends one person to OnSefy so it can judge whether they look like a genuine user or a fake one. OnSefy's own description says the check weighs signals such as email, phone and IP.

When to use it
right after a free-trial signup lands in your form tool, before your team or your email sequence spends anything on that account.
Watch out
the name and the IP address are both mandatory, and a source app that does not record the IP leaves this step unfillable.
When it breaks

Where an OnSefy Zap goes wrong

Zapier links no help article to OnSefy, and no OnSefy-specific limit is documented. The traps below come from Zapier's general behavior.

Keep these four in mind before you send real signups through. When something misbehaves, our Zapier troubleshooting page goes further.

  • Earlier signups are not checked

    A Zap only handles what happens after you publish it. Users who signed up before are never sent to OnSefy, and screening that backlog is a separate job.

  • A loop eats your tasks

    If a later step writes back to the very place the trigger watches, the Zap fires itself again and again, and each lap runs another check and uses another task.

  • A bulk import gets held

    If the source suddenly returns a large batch, after an import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold the run back rather than checking everyone.

  • No double check on polling

    With a polling trigger, Zapier remembers the items it has seen, so the same signup does not start the Zap twice. When duplicates do show up, they usually come from the source app itself.
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FAQ

OnSefy Zapier integration: common questions

01Is the OnSefy Zapier integration free?
Yes, on the free plan, with limits. OnSefy is not a premium app, so connecting it costs nothing. The free plan includes 100 tasks per month and Zaps of two steps, one trigger and one action. That covers a simple signup check. Once you want to act on the result, with an alert, a filter or a CRM update, the Zap becomes multi-step and needs a paid plan. No price is given here, since plan grids change too often to publish.
02How many tasks does checking a user cost?
One task per successful Validate User step. The trigger in the source app is free, and Zapier looking for new signups is free too, however often it looks. A check that fails is not counted. If the Zap then posts the result somewhere, that second action is counted on its own, so each signup uses two tasks. Plan your volume on that basis: count one task per signup for the check alone, two once the result is posted somewhere.
03Does OnSefy check users in real time through Zapier?
That depends on the app that starts the Zap, since OnSefy has no trigger of its own. If the source offers an instant trigger, it tells Zapier itself and the check runs straight after. If it uses a polling trigger, Zapier checks on a timer: every 15 minutes on the free plan, 2 on Professional, 1 on Team and Enterprise. So a signup can wait up to that interval before OnSefy sees it.
04What does it take to connect OnSefy to Zapier?
An OnSefy account, plus access to anything you do not own and want the Zap to use. From the Apps page of Zapier, click + Add connection, search OnSefy, sign in on the tab that opens and grant access. Before you build anything, also confirm that your source app records two things for each user, a name and an IP address. Both are required by Validate User, and the step cannot run without them.
05Can Zapier block a fake user with OnSefy?
Not on its own. Validate User runs the check, but no OnSefy action in Zapier blocks, deletes or flags anyone. Acting on the verdict happens in the steps you add after it, in other apps: a message to your team, a tag in a CRM, a filter that stops the rest of the Zap. Each of those makes the Zap multi-step and needs a paid plan. And since the Zapier listing does not describe the result field by field, read the test output first.
06What if the OnSefy operation needed is not in Zapier?
Then this integration cannot do it, whatever you try in the editor. OnSefy offers one action in Zapier and nothing else: no trigger to react to a fraud alert, no search to look up a past check. The realistic options are to keep OnSefy as a check in the middle of a Zap started elsewhere, to handle the missing part inside OnSefy itself, or to look at another automation tool. What this page lists is the full visible set at the date of reading.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for OnSefy?
Choose on criteria, not on brand. On Zapier, OnSefy gives you a single user check that runs on the free plan in a two-step Zap. Weigh three questions: will you act on the result automatically, which means a multi-step Zap and a paid plan; how many signups per month you expect, since each check is a task; and whether your source app captures the IP address. Then see how the other tools handle the same three points.
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