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The Onsight Zapier integration gives you 2 triggers, 0 actions and 0 searches. Onsight can start Zaps when leads or contacts appear, but Zapier cannot write anything back into it. Here is how that plays out, what it costs and what to watch.

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Overview

What the Onsight Zapier integration does

Onsight is built to move your leads into a CRM or another tool without copy-paste. On Zapier it plays one role only: the starting point. When a lead or a contact appears in your Onsight account, Zapier picks it up and hands it to the app of your choice.

Three results you can get from the two triggers. A CRM that fills itself: every new lead from New Leads becomes a record in your sales tool, so nobody has to export a list by hand. A sales alert: the same trigger can post a message to your team channel, so a rep sees the lead without opening Onsight. A clean contact list: New Contact feeds your newsletter or your spreadsheet with each person added to Onsight.

Now what Zapier does not do here. Onsight has no action in Zapier, so no Zap can create, update or tag anything inside Onsight. There is no search either, so a Zap cannot look up an existing Onsight lead. The flow is one-way: out of Onsight, into something else. And both triggers are polling triggers, which means a lead does not travel the second it lands: it waits for Zapier's next check.

If your project needs Onsight to receive data, this integration will not help. If it needs Onsight leads to reach your other tools without a manual export, it fits well. For a broader view of the platform, read our Zapier review. To compare with a self-hosted option, see n8n vs Zapier.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Seven Zapier words appear on this page. Here is each one, defined once.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one starting event, then one or more steps that run every time that event happens.
Trigger
The event that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it. With Onsight, a new lead or a new contact.
Action
What the Zap does after it starts: write, send or create something. Onsight has none, so the action always lives in another app.
Task
What Zapier bills: one action completed successfully. Your plan counts tasks, never triggers or checks.
Polling vs instant
Polling: Zapier checks on a timer and keeps only new items. An instant trigger is pushed by the app itself instead. Both Onsight triggers poll.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on only when the 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 makes one, and it then needs a paid plan.
Cost

What an Onsight Zap costs

Onsight is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan. The trigger never costs a task: only the action in the receiving app does.

  • Free plan100 tasks per month
  • Free plan ZapsTwo steps: one trigger, one action
  • OnsightNot a premium app
  • Onsight triggers2 polling, 0 instant

Zapier checking Onsight for new leads is free, however often it looks. Each lead that reaches your CRM counts as one task, and an action that fails is not billed. The free plan stops at two steps, so one Onsight trigger plus one action fits, but adding a filter to keep only some leads, or a second action, makes the Zap multi-step and paid. Because both triggers are polling triggers, your plan also sets how long a lead waits before Zapier sees it.

Connect

Connect Onsight to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open the Apps page

    In Zapier, go to the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. A connection is your Onsight account linked once, then reused by every Zap that starts from Onsight.

  2. 02

    Select Onsight

    Search Onsight by name in the dialog that opens, pick it, then click Add connection. Signing in then happens in a new tab, on the Onsight side, with your usual Onsight login.

  3. 03

    Sign in and allow access

    Log in with your Onsight account and grant Zapier access. You need your own account, plus read access on any leads or contacts you do not own and want the Zap to see.

First Zap

Your first Onsight Zap

GoalEach new Onsight lead becomes a contact in your CRM, then your sales team gets a message about it.

  1. 01

    Build: start from Onsight

    Create a Zap, choose Onsight as the starting app and New Leads as the event. Select the Onsight connection you just set up.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent leads of your Onsight account, so you map the next steps on a real lead, not a placeholder.

  3. 03

    Add the CRM action

    Add your CRM as the next step, pick its create action, and map the lead details Onsight returned into the CRM fields. Check that nothing required is left empty.

  4. 04

    Add the team message

    Add a messaging app as a third step. With two actions, the Zap becomes multi-step and needs a paid plan. On the free plan, stop at the CRM step.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Test each step once and open your CRM to check the record. When it looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on. From then on, each new lead follows.

Triggers

Onsight triggers in Zapier

2 events start a Zap when something happens in Onsight. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.

1

New Contact

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new contact is added to your Onsight account”

Starts a Zap each time a contact is added to your Onsight account. The person then travels to whatever app comes next: a mailing list, a spreadsheet, a CRM. Only contacts added after the Zap is published are picked up.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one
When to use it
your marketing team wants every Onsight contact on the newsletter list without anyone exporting and importing a file.
Watch out
on the free plan a contact can wait up to 15 minutes before it moves, so do not promise an instant welcome email.
2

New Leads

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new lead is created (ie. from leadgen)”

Fires when a new lead is created in Onsight, for example one that comes out of your lead generation. This is the trigger to pick when the goal is getting fresh prospects in front of sales quickly. Each lead starts the Zap once.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one
When to use it
new prospects must land in your CRM pipeline and in front of a sales rep without a manual export.
Watch out
if a later step writes the lead back somewhere Onsight reads from, check you are not building a loop that eats tasks.
When it breaks

When an Onsight Zap breaks

Zapier links no help article to Onsight, and no Onsight-specific limit is documented. What goes wrong comes from Zapier's own rules.

Four cases to know before you count on the Zap. For deeper fixes, our Zapier troubleshooting page is the next stop.

  • Old leads never come through

    The Zap only reacts to leads created after you publish it. Everything already in Onsight stays put, and moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • A loop that eats tasks

    If a later step writes into the very place Onsight watches, the Zap sets itself off again and again, and every lap uses another task in the receiving app.

  • A big import is held back

    When Onsight suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold the run back instead of sending everything.

  • The same lead twice? No

    On a polling trigger, Zapier keeps track of what it has already seen, so one lead does not start the Zap twice. Duplicates in the CRM usually come from the CRM side.
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FAQ

Onsight Zapier integration: frequent questions

01Is the Onsight Zapier integration free?
Yes, on the free plan, with limits. Onsight is not a premium app, so connecting it costs nothing. The free plan gives you 100 tasks per month and two-step Zaps: one Onsight trigger and one action in another app. That covers the classic lead to CRM flow. Adding a filter, for example to send only some leads, or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. No price is quoted here because plan grids change too often.
02How many tasks does an Onsight Zap use?
One task per lead or contact that the next app receives successfully. The Onsight trigger itself costs nothing, and Zapier checking for new leads is free however often it happens. An action that fails is not counted. If your Zap creates a CRM record and then posts a message, each successful action counts on its own, so each lead uses two tasks. Size your plan on the number of leads you expect per month times the number of actions.
03Does Onsight send leads to Zapier in real time?
No. Both Onsight triggers are polling triggers: Zapier checks your account at a fixed interval and keeps only what it has not seen yet. That interval depends on your plan: 15 minutes on Free, 2 on Professional, 1 on Team and Enterprise. On paid plans you can also run a check by hand from the editor. The type is set by Onsight and cannot be changed in the editor, so a lead always waits for the next check.
04What does it take to connect Onsight to Zapier?
An Onsight account, plus read access on any leads or contacts you do not own and want the Zap to see. From the Apps page of Zapier, click + Add connection, search Onsight, sign in on the tab that opens and grant access. Once connected, the account is reused by every Zap that starts from Onsight. Remember that only leads created after the Zap is published will be sent, not the ones already in the account.
05Can Zapier push existing Onsight leads into a CRM?
No, not through these triggers. A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on, so the leads already sitting in Onsight are never picked up. Moving that backlog is a separate job, done outside the Zap and before you switch it on. Once that is done, publish the Zap and it handles every new lead from then on. Zapier also remembers what it has seen, so the same lead is not sent twice.
06What if the Onsight operation needed is not in Zapier?
Then Zapier cannot do it with this app. Onsight offers two triggers and nothing else: no action to create or update a lead, no search to look one up. Any change inside Onsight stays a manual job. The options are to keep Onsight as the starting point and do the rest in other apps, to handle the missing part in Onsight itself, or to look at another automation tool. The operations on this page are the full visible set at the date of reading.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Onsight?
Decide by criteria, not by brand. On Zapier, Onsight offers two polling triggers and works on the free plan for a simple two-step Zap. Weigh three things: how fast a lead must reach sales, since the interval depends on the plan; whether you need to write data back into Onsight, which Zapier cannot do here; and how many leads per month you expect, since each action is a task. Then compare those needs with what the other tools offer for Onsight.
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