Pappers Zapier integrationAutomate Pappers with Zapier.
The Pappers Zapier integration offers 0 triggers, 0 actions and 7 searches: look up a company from its SIREN or SIRET, find executives, documents or BODACC publications, and hand the results to your CRM or spreadsheet, with no copy-paste from the website.
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What the Pappers Zapier integration actually does
Pappers gathers company information and makes it searchable. On Zapier, it is a lookup tool and nothing else: seven searches that fetch data on companies, their executives, their documents and their BODACC publications, so the next step of your Zap can use it. It never starts a Zap and never writes anything.
Three results people build with it. Enriched leads: a new company lands in your CRM with only its SIREN, and Find a Company Based on Siren or Siret brings back what Pappers knows about it. Prospect lists: Search for Companies Based on Criteria returns several matching companies at once, ready for a sheet. Paperwork on demand: Find Documents Based on Criteria locates filings and Download a Document fetches one as a PDF.
Now the part to know before you start. Pappers has no trigger and no action. Every Pappers Zap therefore starts in another app, and a Zap that contains a search is multi-step: on Zapier, that means a paid plan, even if Pappers itself is open to every plan. Budget for it before you build.
Nor does Zapier write into Pappers, and nothing tells you when a company changes; you only get what you ask for, when your Zap asks.
To weigh the tool itself, see the Zapier review and Make vs Zapier.
Zapier vocabulary, in plain words
Seven words you will meet in the editor. Each one is explained here once, then used as is on the rest of the page.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more steps that run each time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event that starts the Zap. Pappers has none, so with Pappers it is always an event in another app, like a new form entry.
- Action
- What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, here always in another app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan gives you a set number each month.
- Search step
- A step that looks up something that already exists, here company data in Pappers, so later steps can use what it found.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A search makes a Zap multi-step, and multi-step Zaps need a paid plan.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets your condition, and stops it quietly otherwise.
What a Pappers Zap really costs
Pappers is not reserved for paid plans. But because it only offers searches, and a search turns any Zap into a multi-step one, a working Pappers Zap needs a paid Zapier plan.
- Reserved for paid plansNo, but searches require one
- Steps on the free plan2 (one trigger, one action)
- Tasks on the free plan100 per month
- Trigger cost0 tasks
Zapier bills tasks, and a task is an action that completes. The trigger, in whatever app it lives, costs nothing. Each successful action counts once, so a Zap with three actions uses three times what a one-action Zap uses, and a failed action is not counted. The free plan, 100 tasks a month and two steps per Zap, cannot hold a trigger, a Pappers search and an action. How fast the Zap starts depends on the trigger of the other app, following the grid below when that trigger polls.
Connect your Pappers account in three steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. A Pappers account is required before you start; without one, there is nothing to link.
- 02
Pick Pappers
Type Pappers in the search box of the dialog, choose it from the results, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the Pappers sign-in. Keep that tab open until it is done.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Log in with your Pappers credentials and allow Zapier to reach the account. The connection is saved, and every Pappers search in every Zap reuses it. Nothing to repeat later.
Your first Zap: enrich every new company with Pappers data
GoalA new row in a sheet with a SIREN becomes a full company record in your CRM.
- 01
Build: start in another app
Create a Zap and pick the app where new companies arrive, a sheet here, with its event. Pappers cannot start a Zap, so the first step always lives elsewhere.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account, so you pick a real row that carries a SIREN or a SIRET.
- 03
Add the Pappers search
Add Find a Company Based on Siren or Siret, select your Pappers connection and map the identifier from the trigger. This step makes the Zap multi-step: a paid plan is needed.
- 04
Add the action
Add the step that creates the company in your CRM, and map what the Pappers search found into its fields. That action is the one that costs a task.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test each step once and read what Pappers sent back. When the record looks right in your CRM, publish the Zap to switch it on.
Pappers searches
7 search steps look for data that already exists in Pappers, so a later step can use it.
Searches sit at the bottom of the action list in the editor, under SEARCH. Pappers has seven, no find-or-create variant, and most of its searches return several results at once, which makes the third setting below the one to watch. Most of its searches also carry a garder message d'erreur option: it keeps the error messages Pappers sends back, so the Zap carries on instead of stopping.
Find a Company Based on Siren or Siret
SearchIn Zapier“Retrieve the informations available of a company.”
Fetches the information Pappers holds on one company, from its SIREN or SIRET, which is required. It is the most direct lookup of the seven.
Search for Executives Based on Criteria
SearchIn Zapier“All parameters are optional and are used to filter the search. The different executives will be returned in a results table.”
Returns a table of executives matching the criteria you set. Every criterion is optional, so you narrow the search as much as your data allows.
Find Documents Based on Criteria
SearchIn Zapier“All parameters are optional and are used to filter the search. The different documents will be returned in a results table.”
Lists company documents that match your criteria, all of them optional, in a results table.
Search for Companies Based on Criteria
SearchIn Zapier“All parameters are optional and are used to filter the search. The different companies will be returned in a results table.”
Builds a list of companies matching the criteria you pick, every one optional, and returns it as a results table.
Find BODACC Publications Based on Criteria
SearchIn Zapier“All parameters are optional and are used to filter the search. The different bodacc publications will be returned in a results table.”
Looks up BODACC publications that fit your criteria, all optional, and returns them in a table.
Suggestions / Autocomplete
SearchIn Zapier“Find companies that match the start of a text search (autocomplete type).”
Finds companies whose name starts with the text you give it, the way a search box suggests as you type. The text field is required.
Download a Document
SearchIn Zapier“Download a document based on a token You must provide the document token. The document will be sent to you in a PDF format.”
Retrieves one document as a PDF, from its document token, which is required.
The three settings every search exposes
- Successful if no search results are found?Left on its default, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap there and the steps relying on it are skipped. Switched on, the Zap carries on empty-handed.
- Create X if it doesn't exist yet?This box turns a search into a find-or-create. No Pappers search offers it, since Pappers only reads company data.
- If multiple search results are found?Three ways out when several items match: keep the first one (the default), stop the Zap, or hand all of them on at once.
When a Pappers Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to Pappers, so the cases below are the general traps, seen through a lookup-only app.
With Pappers, most surprises come from what the search gets, or does not get, from the step before it. When a run truly fails, the Zapier troubleshooting page is a sensible next stop.
Existing records are not enriched
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Companies already in your CRM stay as they are; enriching that backlog is a separate job.Writing back where the trigger watches
If the Zap writes the Pappers data into the very place its own trigger watches, it sets itself off again and again and burns through your tasks fast.A bulk import gets held back
When the trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after an import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold the run back instead of looking up everything.An empty search stops everything
By default, a Pappers search that finds nothing ends the run and skips the following steps. Switch on the no-results setting to carry on; garder message d'erreur does the same when Pappers returns an error.
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