Paycove Zapier integrationAutomate Paycove with Zapier.
The Paycove Zapier integration offers 5 triggers and 1 action, and all five triggers are instant. A new quote or invoice, an accepted quote, a full or partial payment, or a deal you push by hand can start a Zap, and a Zap can create an invoice or quote in Paycove.
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What the Paycove Zapier integration does for your billing
Paycove handles quotes, invoices and payments in one place. Linking it to Zapier lets each milestone, a quote signed, an invoice settled, an instalment received, start work in your other tools, and lets those tools draft documents in Paycove. A Zap is the automation you build: one trigger, then the actions that run each time. Paycove is not reserved for paid plans.
Three outcomes come up again and again. A signed quote that moves the project forward: Quote Accepted fires when the client accepts or an admin marks it accepted, so the kickoff can be scheduled without waiting for someone to notice. Payments your bookkeeping sees: Invoice Paid and Partial Payment Paid report full and scheduled payments, whether the client paid or an admin marked it paid. Documents drafted from other tools: Create Invoice / Quote builds an invoice or a quote, with its contact, from data that started elsewhere.
There is also a trigger you control: Manually Send Deal fires only when you push a deal out of Paycove yourself, which suits the cases you want to handle one by one.
What Zapier does not do here: there is one action, so a Zap cannot update, send or cancel an existing document. There is no search step to find a contact first. And Deal Created watches the very documents Create Invoice / Quote produces, which makes a loop easy to build by accident.
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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, such as a quote being accepted. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
- Action
- What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, here an invoice or a quote in Paycove.
- 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. All five Paycove triggers are 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 Paycove account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step of every Zap that touches Paycove.
What a Paycove Zap really costs
Zapier bills tasks, and only completed actions count. The Paycove trigger is free, and so is the wait.
- TriggerNever costs a task
- Successful action1 task each
- Failed actionNot counted
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
- Paycove on free planYes, not reserved for paid plans
Each action that succeeds is one task, so a Zap that drafts an invoice and then logs it uses two per accepted quote. A failed action is not counted, and a few apps and actions take more than one task when they complete. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and builds only two-step Zaps; a filter or a second action calls for a paid plan. The interval grid below concerns polling triggers, and Paycove has none.
Connect your Paycove 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 Paycove account first; Zapier does not create one.
- 02
Pick Paycove and sign in
Type Paycove, select it, then click Add connection. Sign in to Paycove in the tab that opens, with the account whose quotes, invoices and payments the Zap should see.
- 03
Grant access
Allow Zapier to reach the account. If some documents belong to a colleague, check that your login can read and create them, or the Zap will only ever see your share.
Your first Paycove Zap: turn an accepted quote into an invoice
GoalWhen a client accepts a quote in Paycove, draft the matching invoice and log the deal in the sheet your team uses to plan work.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap. With two actions it is multi-step and needs a paid plan; on the free plan, keep only the Paycove action to try it out.
- 02
Set the trigger
Choose Paycove as the app and Quote Accepted as the event, then your connection. A lightning bolt in the editor marks an instant trigger.
- 03
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent accepted quotes from your account, so you map the next steps on a real one rather than blank sample data.
- 04
Add the invoice
Add Create Invoice / Quote, choose invoice, then map the name, the line item, the quantity and the price from the quote. Check the price format before going on.
- 05
Log, test, publish
Add the spreadsheet step, test each step once and read what came back in Paycove, then click Publish to switch the Zap on.
Paycove triggers on Zapier
5 events start a Zap when something happens in Paycove, and 5 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.
Deal Created
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new invoice or quote is added to Paycove.”
Each new invoice or quote added to Paycove starts the Zap. In Paycove both are deals, so this one trigger covers every new document, whatever its type.
Invoice Paid
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when an invoice is paid or marked paid by admin.”
Fires when an invoice is settled, either because the client paid it or because an admin marked it paid. That makes it the closing signal for most billing workflows.
Partial Payment Paid
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a scheduled payment is paid by customer or marked paid by admin.”
When one scheduled payment in a plan is paid by the customer or marked paid by an admin, the Zap gets it. It lets you follow instalments rather than waiting for the whole invoice.
Quote Accepted
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when the quote was accepted by user or marked accepted by admin.”
The client accepts a quote, or an admin marks it accepted, and the Zap receives it. This is the moment a proposal turns into a commitment.
Manually Send Deal
Instant triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when deal is manually pushed from Paycove.”
Unlike the four others, this trigger waits for you: it fires only when a deal is pushed out of Paycove by hand. You decide which deals go through and when.
Paycove actions on Zapier
Paycove gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Invoice / Quote
ActionIn Zapier“Creates an invoice or quote and contact (and optional organization).”
Builds an invoice or a quote in Paycove, creates the contact with it, and can add an organization if you fill that part. A required box makes you pick invoice or quote.
When a Paycove Zap breaks
Zapier lists no help article and no rate limit specific to Paycove. What breaks comes from the way every Zap works, plus one Paycove pair that loops.
Four cases to know before you publish. If one of them catches you anyway, our Zapier troubleshooting page is the next stop.
Deal Created feeding itself
A Zap that starts on Deal Created and runs Create Invoice / Quote writes the very thing its trigger watches. Each new document starts the Zap again, and tasks go fast.No catch-up on old documents
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Quotes accepted and invoices paid earlier never come through; moving that history is a separate job.Admin clicks count as events
Invoice Paid, Partial Payment Paid and Quote Accepted also fire when an admin marks the document by hand, so a wrong click runs the Zap like a real payment.Bulk imports held back
After a bulk import or a migration, a trigger that suddenly returns a huge batch can be held back by Zapier's flood protection. Keep the Zap off during the import.
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