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Ownly Zapier integrationAutomate Ownly with Zapier.

The Ownly Zapier integration gives you 2 triggers, 0 actions and 0 searches. Both triggers are instant, so a new home or a new lead in Ownly starts your automation right away, even on the free plan. Ownly sends, other apps receive.

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Overview

What the Ownly Zapier integration actually does

The Ownly Zapier integration is a one-way bridge. Ownly tells Zapier when a home is created or when a lead comes in, and Zapier hands that event to any other app you use. Nothing flows back: on Zapier, Ownly has no action and no search, so it can start a workflow but never be the step that gets written to.

Three things people build with it, each tied to a real trigger:

A lead alert for the sales team. New Lead fires, and a message lands in the channel your sales reps already watch. Nobody has to open Ownly to spot a new buyer.

A lead log outside Ownly. Same trigger, different destination: each new lead becomes a row in a spreadsheet or a contact in your main CRM, so reporting lives where the rest of your numbers live.

A heads-up when inventory grows. New Home fires when a home is created in Ownly, and the marketing or site team gets told, so a new listing does not sit unnoticed.

What Zapier does not do here matters just as much. It cannot create, update or delete anything in Ownly. It cannot look up an existing home or lead either. If your plan is to push data into Ownly, this integration will not get you there, and that is worth knowing before you sketch anything.

No Ownly page exists yet in our n8n or Make catalogs. For the wider picture, see Make vs Zapier and n8n vs Zapier.

Vocabulary

Zapier words you will meet on this page

Seven terms, one line each. Once defined here, they are used as-is in the rest of the page.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time that event happens.
Trigger
The event in an app that starts the Zap. Here, a new home or a new lead in Ownly. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
Action
The step that does the work once the Zap has started: it writes, sends or moves something for you, in another app here.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One task equals one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan counts those, nothing else.
Polling vs instant
A polling trigger is checked on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app the moment the event happens. Both Ownly triggers are instant.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets a condition you set, and stops it quietly otherwise.
Connection
Your Ownly account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every Zap and every step that needs Ownly.
Cost

What an Ownly Zap really costs

Good news first: Ownly is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan.

  • Premium appNo, free plan works
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
  • Trigger cost0 tasks
  • Ownly triggers2, both instant

The trigger never costs a task. You only pay when an action in the next app succeeds, and a failed action is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but only two-step Zaps: one trigger, one action. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap becomes a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan. The polling grid (Free 15 minutes, down to 1 on Team and Enterprise) does not apply here: both triggers are instant.

Connect

Connect Ownly to Zapier in three steps

  1. 01

    Open your connections

    In your Zapier account, go to the Apps page, then click + Add connection. You need an Ownly account first, plus access to any homes or leads you do not own yourself.

  2. 02

    Find Ownly

    Type Ownly in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A sign-in tab for Ownly then opens right next to your Zapier window.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Log in to Ownly in that tab and allow Zapier to reach the account. The connection then shows up in your list, and every future Ownly step in any Zap reuses it.

First Zap

Your first Zap: route qualified Ownly leads to Slack

GoalEach new Ownly lead that meets your condition becomes a message in your sales channel.

  1. 01

    Pick the trigger

    Start a new Zap, choose Ownly as the app and New Lead as the event, then select the Ownly connection you just made in the previous section.

  2. 02

    Test it on real data

    Run the trigger test. Zapier brings back the three most recent leads of the account, so pick one and use it for the mapping that follows.

  3. 03

    Add a filter

    Click the plus icon, choose Filter, then set the field to look at, the rule and the value. A text rule only works on text, so match the rule to the data.

  4. 04

    Add the action

    Add Slack as the next step, pick the channel, and map the lead details coming from the Ownly step into the text of the message.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Test the action and read what came back. When the message looks right, click Publish. The filter makes this a multi-step Zap, so it needs a paid plan.

Triggers

The 2 Ownly triggers

2 events start a Zap when something happens in Ownly, and 2 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

New Home

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new home is created.”

Starts your Zap each time a home is created in Ownly, so the listing can be announced, logged or handed to another team without anyone copying it by hand.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
your site or marketing team needs to know about new inventory before buyers start reserving it.
Watch out
homes created before the Zap was published are never picked up, so plan a separate import if your catalog is already full.
2

New Lead

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new lead is created.”

Fires on every lead Ownly records and passes it to whichever app follows, which is how a buyer's interest reaches a salesperson outside the platform.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
reps live in a chat tool or a separate CRM and should hear about a lead without opening Ownly.
Watch out
on the free plan you get one action after this trigger, nothing more; sorting leads with a filter means moving to a paid plan.
When it breaks

When an Ownly Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to Ownly, and no app-specific limit is documented. What can go wrong comes from how Zapier itself works.

Four cases cover most surprises with a trigger-only app like this one. Our Zapier troubleshooting page is there when the cause is still unclear.

  • Old leads never show up

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Homes and leads created earlier stay where they are, and moving them is a separate job.

  • A bulk import gets held back

    If a migration or a mass import creates a huge batch of homes at once, Zapier's flood protection can hold the trigger back instead of running everything.

  • A filter needs a paid plan

    The free plan builds two-step Zaps only. A filter, a second action or a search turns the Zap into a multi-step one, which needs a paid plan.

  • Nothing can be written back

    Ownly has no action on Zapier. A Zap can read a new home or lead, but it cannot update that record or change its status inside Ownly.
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FAQ

Ownly Zapier integration: FAQ

01Is the Ownly Zapier integration free?
Yes, it works on the free Zapier plan, because Ownly is not a premium app. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap is limited to two steps: one trigger and one action. That is enough to send each new Ownly lead to one other app. The moment you want a filter to sort leads, or a second action to notify two places at once, the Zap becomes multi-step and you need a paid plan. You still pay nothing for the Ownly side itself, since triggers never cost a task.
02How many tasks does an Ownly Zap use?
The Ownly trigger uses none. A task is counted only when an action in the next app completes successfully, so a Zap with one action uses one task per new home or lead, and a Zap with three actions uses three. An action that fails is not counted against the plan. Because Ownly only has triggers on Zapier, every task you spend lands in another app: the message, the row or the contact that the Zap creates. A few apps and actions take more than one task, so check the destination app if the count looks off.
03Do Ownly triggers work in real time?
Yes. Both New Home and New Lead are instant triggers: Ownly reports the event to Zapier itself, so the Zap starts right away instead of waiting for a scheduled check. This holds on every plan, including the free one, and the polling interval grid does not apply. In the editor, a Zap built on an instant trigger shows a lightning bolt. The type is set by Ownly's side of the integration and cannot be switched from the editor, so there is no setting to look for.
04What do you need to connect Ownly to Zapier?
An Ownly account, plus read or write access on any homes or leads you do not own yourself and want the Zap to see. In Zapier, open the Apps page, click + Add connection, search for Ownly, then click Add connection. Sign in to Ownly in the tab that opens and grant Zapier access. The connection is stored once and reused by every Ownly step afterwards. No extra setting is documented for this app, and Zapier attaches no help article to it.
05Can Zapier create a lead or a home in Ownly?
No. On Zapier, Ownly has 2 triggers and 0 actions, so a Zap can react to a new home or a new lead but cannot create, update or delete anything inside Ownly. It cannot search Ownly either, because the app has no search step. In practice, Ownly is always the first step of the Zap, and the work happens in the apps that follow. If a project depends on writing into Ownly, this integration does not cover it, and the gap is worth settling before building anything.
06What if the Ownly event you need is not on Zapier?
Then it is not available through this integration. Zapier only offers New Home and New Lead for Ownly, and no hidden or extra operation exists in the editor. A reservation, a price change or an update to an existing lead has no trigger of its own here. The honest options are to work from the two events that exist, for example by filtering New Lead on a paid plan, or to look at what Ownly itself offers outside Zapier. Asking Ownly whether more events are planned is also a fair move.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Ownly?
Decide on criteria, not on a ranking. First, availability: on Zapier, Ownly offers two instant triggers and works on the free plan, so check whether the other tool lists Ownly at all before comparing anything else. Second, direction: if you only need to push Ownly events outward, two triggers may be all it takes. Third, step count: a single destination fits the free plan, while filters or several destinations mean a paid Zapier plan. Then weigh who will maintain the automation and how comfortable that person is with each editor.
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