Paced Email Zapier integrationAutomate Paced Email with Zapier.
The Paced Email Zapier integration gives you 2 triggers and 2 actions, with no search. Both triggers are instant and the app runs on the free plan. Here is what each step does, what it costs and the one confusion to clear up first.
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What the Paced Email Zapier integration is for
The Paced Email Zapier integration connects Paced Email, the service that holds your incoming mail on custom aliases and hands it back as daily, weekly or monthly digests, to the rest of your tools. A digest goes out or an inbox is created, Zapier hears about it and runs the steps you set.
Three results worth building. A digest that reaches more than one person: Digest Created starts a Zap that uses Send an Email to forward a heads-up to a colleague. Aliases created on demand: a new client in your CRM triggers Create Inbox Alias, so every project gets its own paced address with the rhythm you pick. An inventory that keeps itself: Inbox Created logs every new alias to a sheet, wherever it was made.
What Zapier does not do here: there is no search, so a Zap cannot look up an existing alias. There is no action to change or delete an alias, and none to read the messages waiting in a digest. A Zap also ignores the past; aliases and digests that existed before you switched it on never come through.
Both triggers are instant, which means the free plan reacts as fast as any paid one. If you prefer another tool, the same app has a Paced Email Make integration page, and the Make vs Zapier comparison sits next to it.
Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Seven words come back all over this page. Here they are, once, in plain English.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time that trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is switched on, Zapier waits for exactly that event.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something on your behalf in an app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. Each action your Zap completes successfully is one task, and your plan is a count of those.
- Instant vs polling
- An instant trigger is reported by the app the moment it happens. A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a fixed timer.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets your condition, and stops it there otherwise.
- Connection
- Your Paced Email account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step of every Zap that touches Paced Email.
What a Paced Email Zap really costs
Triggers are free. Every action that succeeds costs one task, and an action that fails is not counted.
- Trigger0 task
- Successful action1 task each
- Free plan100 tasks a month, 2-step Zaps
- Paced Email triggers2 instant, 0 polling
A Zap with three actions therefore spends three times what a one-action Zap does. The free plan comes with 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each limited to two steps: one trigger and one action. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap turns multi-step, which needs a paid plan. Paced Email is not a premium app, so the free plan is enough to start. The polling grid below never applies here, because both Paced Email triggers are instant.
Connect Paced Email to Zapier in three steps
- 01
Open your connections
In Zapier, go to the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. A dialog with a search box appears. All you need beforehand is a Paced Email account.
- 02
Pick Paced Email
Type Paced Email in the dialog, select it and click Add connection. A new tab opens; sign in there with the Paced Email account your Zaps should use.
- 03
Grant access
Allow Zapier into the account. If the aliases you want to send from are not yours, make sure this login can still write to them, or Send an Email will have nothing to pick.
Your first Paced Email Zap: forward a heads-up when a digest goes out
GoalEach time Paced Email sends a digest, and only when it matches your condition, a short email goes to a colleague.
- 01
Build: pick the trigger
Start a Zap, choose Paced Email as the app and Digest Created as the event, then your connection. With a filter in the middle, this Zap is multi-step and needs a paid plan.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent digests of your account, so you set up the rest on a real digest rather than a blank.
- 03
Add the filter
Click the plus icon, add Filter, then fill the three boxes: the field to check, the rule, the value. Pick a text rule for text and a number rule for numbers.
- 04
Add Send an Email
Add a Paced Email action, Send an Email. Choose the alias to send from, fill To with your colleague's address and write a short Body.
- 05
Test, then Publish
Test the action and check the email arrived. Then click Publish to switch the Zap on. Each digest that passes the filter costs one task.
The 2 Paced Email triggers
2 events start a Zap when something happens in Paced Email, and 2 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
Digest Created
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new digest is sent.”
Starts your Zap when Paced Email sends out a new digest, the bundle of messages an alias has been holding back. The trigger follows the digest, not the individual emails inside it.
Inbox Created
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new inbox is created.”
Reacts each time a new inbox, meaning a new alias, appears in your Paced Email account, whether you made it by hand or through another Zap.
The 2 Paced Email actions
Paced Email gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Inbox Alias
ActionIn Zapier“Generates a new inbox alias”
Makes a brand new alias in Paced Email, ready to collect mail and release it as a digest.
Send an Email
ActionIn Zapier“Sends an email from your chosen email alias”
Sends a message from one of your Paced Email aliases, so the reply goes back to an address you already pace.
When a Paced Email Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Paced Email, and the app documents no limit of its own. What goes wrong is what goes wrong on any Zap, applied to aliases and digests.
Four cases to know before you publish. For anything else, the Zapier troubleshooting page covers the usual causes.
Old aliases and digests never show up
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Aliases that already existed and digests already sent are not picked up; listing those is a separate job.The Zap keeps restarting itself
Inbox Created feeding Create Inbox Alias, or Send an Email aimed at your own alias with a Digest Created Zap behind it: each run feeds the next and eats tasks fast.A burst of new aliases stalls
Create many aliases at once through another Zap, and Inbox Created returns a large batch in one go. Zapier's flood protection can hold it back.The filter never lets anything through
Filter rules are typed: a text rule only works on text, a number rule only on numbers. Picking the wrong type is the usual reason a filter blocks every digest.
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