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The OTPLESS Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 0 actions and no search. That single trigger is instant: each signup or sign-in through OTPLESS on your site or app can start a Zap, and the rest of the work happens in your other tools.

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Overview

What the OTPLESS Zapier integration actually does

OTPLESS lets people sign up or log in to your website or app without a password or a one-time code, through social logins. Connected to Zapier, it does one job: it reports each new signup or sign-in, so your other tools learn about the user right away.

Three results you can build from that one event. A user list that keeps itself current: New User Signin starts the Zap and a spreadsheet action adds a row per signup. A CRM record from the first login: the same trigger feeds a CRM action, so sales sees a new account without exporting anything. A team alert on new signups: a chat action posts a message, handy while a product is young and every account counts.

The good news: the trigger is instant, so none of this waits for a timed check, even on the free plan.

What Zapier does not do with OTPLESS. There is no action and no search: a Zap cannot create, block or look up a user in OTPLESS. The flow only goes one way, out of OTPLESS. And the trigger does not tell a first signup from a returning sign-in by its name alone, which matters for your task count and for duplicate rows.

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Vocabulary

Zapier words, in plain English

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Zap
An 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, here a signup or sign-in. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
Action
What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something. With OTPLESS, actions live in other apps.
Task
The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan allowance is a count of those.
Polling vs instant
A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app the moment it happens, as with OTPLESS.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets your condition, and stops it otherwise.
Search step
A step that looks up something already stored in an app, so later steps can use it. OTPLESS offers none.
Cost

What an OTPLESS Zap really costs

OTPLESS is not a premium app, so it works from the free plan onward. The trigger is free; the action in the other app is what you pay for.

  • Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps, two steps per Zap
  • OTPLESS triggerInstant, outside the interval grid
  • Premium appNo, available on the free plan
  • BilledEach successful action in the next app, one task

The trigger never costs a task, and Zapier waiting for new sign-ins costs nothing either. Each action that completes in the next app counts as one task, and one that fails is not billed. Since every sign-in starts the Zap, a busy login page turns into a steady flow of tasks. The free plan builds two-step Zaps only, one trigger and one action. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. The interval grid below is for polling triggers; the OTPLESS trigger is instant and escapes it.

Connect

Connect your OTPLESS account to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open your connections

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

  2. 02

    Pick OTPLESS

    Search for OTPLESS in the dialog, select it and click Add connection. A new tab opens on the OTPLESS sign-in; use the account tied to the site or app whose logins you want.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Log in to OTPLESS in that tab and allow Zapier to reach the account. You need an OTPLESS account, plus read or write rights on anything you do not own but want a Zap to touch.

First Zap

Your first OTPLESS Zap, step by step

GoalAdd a spreadsheet row for each OTPLESS sign-in that passes your condition.

  1. 01

    Pick the trigger

    Build a new Zap, choose OTPLESS as the app and New User Signin as the event, then select your connection. The trigger has no required field.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent sign-ins of the account, so you map the next steps on a real user, not a guess.

  3. 03

    Add the filter

    From the plus icon, add Filter: the field to check, the rule and the value. A text rule only works on text, so pick the one that suits the field.

  4. 04

    Add the spreadsheet action

    Pick your spreadsheet app and its new-row action, choose the sheet, then map the columns to the details that came with the sign-in.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Test the action and check the row appears. Then click Publish to switch the Zap on. Because of the filter, this Zap needs a paid plan.

Triggers

The OTPLESS trigger

1 event starts a Zap when something happens in OTPLESS, and one of them is instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

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New User Signin

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when there's a new user signup or sign in on your website or application using otpless.”

Starts your Zap each time someone signs up or signs in on your website or app through OTPLESS. It is the only way into Zapier for this app, so every automation you build begins with a user arriving at your login screen.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
you want new users to show up in a CRM, a mailing tool or a sheet without exporting them from OTPLESS by hand.
Watch out
returning users fire it too, not just new ones, so each login spends a task on the action that follows.
When it breaks

When an OTPLESS Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article and no documented limit to OTPLESS. What breaks comes from the way the trigger works and from general Zapier behavior.

  • Your existing users are not sent

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. People who signed up before are never picked up; moving that base is a separate job.

  • Returning users fill the sheet

    The trigger covers sign-ins as well as signups. Without a filter, a regular user adds a row or a CRM update at each login, and each one costs a task.

  • A sudden burst gets held back

    When a trigger suddenly sends a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back instead of running every item.
Need help

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FAQ

OTPLESS Zapier integration: frequent questions

01Is the OTPLESS Zapier integration free?
Yes, it works on the free plan, because OTPLESS is not a premium app. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap stays at two steps: one trigger and one action. New User Signin followed by one action in another app fits. A filter, to keep only the sign-ins that meet your condition, makes the Zap multi-step, and that needs a paid plan. OTPLESS itself is not a premium app, so nothing else blocks you on Free.
02How many tasks does an OTPLESS Zap use?
One task per action that completes, and the trigger itself is free. Zapier waiting for sign-ins costs nothing either. Since OTPLESS has no action, the task is spent in the next app: a row, a CRM record, a message. A Zap with two actions costs two tasks per sign-in. The point to watch is volume: every login runs the Zap, so the free plan's 100 tasks can go faster than the number of real new users suggests.
03Does the OTPLESS trigger start the Zap instantly?
Yes. New User Signin is an instant trigger: OTPLESS itself tells Zapier when someone signs up or signs in, and the Zap starts right away. The polling interval of your plan, 15 minutes on Free, does not apply to it. The type is set by the app and cannot be changed from the editor. In the editor, a Zap built on an instant trigger shows a lightning bolt, which is a quick way to check.
04What do you need to connect OTPLESS to Zapier?
An OTPLESS account, plus read or write rights on anything you do not own but want a Zap to touch. From the Apps page of Zapier, click + Add connection, search for OTPLESS, confirm with Add connection, then sign in to OTPLESS in the tab that opens and grant access. The connection is then reused by every Zap that starts from OTPLESS, so you only set it up once per account.
05Why does the same OTPLESS user appear several times?
Because New User Signin fires on sign-ins, not only on first signups. A user who logs in three times starts the Zap three times, and each run carries out the action again: three rows, three CRM updates, three tasks. A filter between the trigger and the action can let only the runs you care about through, at the cost of a paid plan. Otherwise, pick an action in the next app that tolerates repeats.
06What if the OTPLESS operation you want is missing?
Then Zapier does not offer it for OTPLESS today. The integration has exactly one operation, the New User Signin trigger, with no action and no search. You cannot create, update or block a user in OTPLESS from a Zap, nor look one up. Whatever happens after a sign-in has to happen in another app. If the need is to act inside OTPLESS itself, this integration cannot reach it, and a manual step stays the only route.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for OTPLESS?
Decide by criteria. On Zapier, OTPLESS gives a single instant trigger, no action, no search, and a free plan limited to two-step Zaps. If sending each sign-in to one other tool is the whole job, Zapier covers it on the free plan. If you need a filter or several chained steps without paying, or to act inside OTPLESS, check first whether the other tool offers OTPLESS with those operations: this page only documents Zapier.
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