PayBee Zapier integrationAutomate PayBee with Zapier.
The PayBee Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger and 0 actions, and that trigger is instant. Every donation, ticket purchase or auction payment processed in PayBee can start a Zap that carries the transaction into the other tools your nonprofit runs on.
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What the PayBee Zapier integration is for
It links your PayBee account, the fundraising events platform built for nonprofits, to Zapier, so each transaction PayBee processes can start work in another tool. A Zap is the automation you build there: one trigger, then the actions that run each time. PayBee is not reserved for paid plans, so a two-step Zap runs on the free plan.
One trigger, New Transaction, but three useful outcomes. A donor list that keeps itself current: each gift lands as a row or a contact in the tool your team already uses for donors. A ticket count the organisers can read: ticket purchases flow to the place where the event team plans the room. An auction ledger: auction payments reach whoever reconciles the money after the event.
The flow only goes one way. PayBee has no action on Zapier, so a Zap cannot write anything back into PayBee: no new guest, no new campaign, no update. There is no search step either. PayBee is always the starting point, and the work happens in the next app.
One choice matters before you build. The trigger fires on every kind of transaction, and PayBee lets you narrow which ones it sends from its own dashboard, in the Zapier integration settings. Narrowing there keeps the Zap at two steps; narrowing with a Zapier filter makes it multi-step.
For the wider picture, see our Zapier review and n8n vs Zapier.
Zapier words you will meet on this page
Eight terms, one line each, in plain words. After this block they are used without a reminder.
- Zap
- The automation you set up on Zapier: one trigger, followed by one or more actions that run each time the trigger event takes place.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. With PayBee, it is a transaction being processed; Zapier waits for it once the Zap is on.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, in another app since PayBee has none.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully, and your plan counts those.
- Polling vs instant
- Zapier checks a polling trigger on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself when the event happens. New Transaction is instant.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it there otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes it one, and it then needs a paid plan.
- Connection
- Your PayBee account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every Zap that starts from PayBee.
What a PayBee Zap really costs
Zapier bills tasks, and only completed actions count. The PayBee trigger itself is free.
- TriggerNever costs a task
- Successful action1 task each
- Failed actionNot counted
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
- PayBee on free planYes, not reserved for paid plans
Each transaction that reaches a Zap with one action costs one task when that action succeeds. Add a second action and the same donation costs two. A failed action is not counted, and looking for new data costs nothing however often Zapier checks. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and only two-step Zaps, so a Zapier filter pushes you onto a paid plan. The interval grid below concerns polling triggers; New Transaction is instant.
Connect your PayBee account in three steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. A dialog opens with a search box. You need an existing PayBee account first; Zapier does not create one.
- 02
Pick PayBee and sign in
Type PayBee, select it, then click Add connection. Sign in to PayBee in the tab that opens, with the account that runs the events whose transactions you want to send on.
- 03
Grant access
Allow Zapier to reach the account. If the events belong to a colleague's account, make sure your login can read them, or the Zap will only ever hear about what you own.
Your first PayBee Zap: log every donation in a spreadsheet
GoalWhen PayBee processes a donation, add it as a new row in the sheet your finance volunteer keeps, with no copy-paste after the event.
- 01
Narrow the transactions in PayBee
In the PayBee dashboard, open the Zapier integration settings and keep only the transactions this Zap should receive. Doing it here keeps the Zap at two steps.
- 02
Create the Zap and set the trigger
Start a new Zap, choose PayBee as the app and New Transaction as the event, then pick your connection. A lightning bolt in the editor marks the instant trigger.
- 03
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent transactions from the account, so you map fields on a real one instead of blank sample data.
- 04
Add the spreadsheet action
Add the spreadsheet app as the action, choose the sheet, then map the transaction values the test returned into the columns you want to fill.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test the action once and check the new row in the sheet. When it looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on before the event opens.
PayBee trigger on Zapier
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in PayBee, and one of them is instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
New Transaction
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when new transaction is processed on PayBee. It could be donation/ticket purchase/auction payment etc. You can filter the transactions by editing Zapier integration in the PayBee Dashboard/Integration.”
Each time PayBee processes a payment, whether a donation, a ticket bought for a gala or a winning auction bid, this trigger hands the transaction to your Zap. It is the only way into PayBee data from Zapier, so every PayBee Zap starts here.
When a PayBee Zap breaks
Zapier lists no help article and no rate limit specific to PayBee. What breaks comes from the way every Zap works.
Four cases are worth knowing before your next event. If one hits you anyway, start from our Zapier troubleshooting page.
No catch-up on past transactions
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Gifts and tickets processed earlier never come through; moving that history is a separate job.Every transaction type comes in
Donations, ticket purchases and auction payments all start the same trigger. Narrow them in the PayBee dashboard, or with a filter, which needs a paid plan.Large batches held back
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back. Keep the Zap off during that kind of operation.No loop back into PayBee
A Zap that writes where its own trigger watches restarts again and again. PayBee has no action, so that loop cannot come from PayBee; check the app you write to.
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