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PickFu Zapier integrationAutomate PickFu with Zapier.

The PickFu Zapier integration gives you 2 instant triggers, 1 action and 2 searches. Enough to react when a poll is created or completes, publish a new poll from another app, and pull the results of a poll into the rest of your tools without copying anything by hand.

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Overview

What the PickFu Zapier integration is for

PickFu lets you put a question in front of real people and collect their opinion quickly: which cover, which headline, which product photo. Zapier is the service that chains apps together. The integration links both, so a poll that starts or ends in PickFu can set off work in your other apps, and another app can launch a poll.

Three results worth building. Results that reach the team: Poll Complete starts the Zap, Get Poll Results fetches the answers, and the next step posts them where people decide. A poll launched from your pipeline: a design marked ready in another tool triggers Create Poll, with the question and the sample size already set. A log of every test: New Poll fires for each poll your team creates, so a spreadsheet or a project board keeps track of what is being tested.

What Zapier does not do here. There is a single action, and it only publishes Open-Ended or Head-To-Head polls with 1 to 4 options; any other poll format stays in PickFu. You cannot edit, stop or delete a poll from a Zap. And a Zap never looks back: polls created or finished before you switch it on are never picked up, and moving that backlog is a separate job.

If you are still choosing a tool, Zapier review and Make vs Zapier cover the wider question.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in plain words

A handful of Zapier words come back throughout this page. Here they are, before you open the editor.

Zap
The automation you set up: one event that starts it, then one or more steps that run again each time that event comes back.
Trigger
The event in an app that starts the Zap. With the Zap switched on, Zapier waits for that event to happen.
Action
What the Zap does once started: the step that creates, sends or updates something in an app for you.
Task
What Zapier bills you for: one action that went through. Your plan allowance is a number of these.
Polling vs instant
Zapier checks a polling trigger on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself as the event happens. Both PickFu triggers are instant.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap continue only when the data that arrived meets a condition you chose, and stops it otherwise.
Search step
A step that looks up something that already exists in an app and passes what it found to the steps after it.
Cost

What a PickFu Zap costs

PickFu is not a premium app on Zapier, so it runs on the free plan. Your Zapier bill follows the number of actions that succeed, never the number of polls.

  • Free plan100 tasks per month, unlimited Zaps
  • Free plan Zap shapeTwo steps: one trigger, one action
  • TriggersNever cost a task
  • Failed actionNot counted

Triggers cost nothing, and an action that fails is not counted. Each action that works is counted on its own: fetch results, then post them, then log them, and that is three tasks per completed poll. The free plan builds two-step Zaps only, one trigger and one action. Add a search such as Get Poll Results, or a filter, and the Zap becomes multi-step (anything past one trigger and one action), which needs a paid plan. The interval grid only concerns polling triggers; both PickFu triggers are instant, so it does not apply.

Connect

Connect PickFu to Zapier in 3 steps

  1. 01

    Start a new connection

    In Zapier, open the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. A connection is your PickFu account linked once, then reused by every PickFu step you add later.

  2. 02

    Find PickFu

    Type PickFu in the search box of the dialog, pick it, then click Add connection. You need a PickFu account, plus access to any polls you do not own but want the Zap to read.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    A new tab opens on PickFu. Sign in with the account your team uses for polls and allow Zapier in. The connection then appears in every PickFu step of the editor.

First Zap

Your first Zap: a follow-up poll when one ends

GoalWhen a poll completes, fetch its results and publish a follow-up poll that narrows the choice.

  1. 01

    Set the trigger

    Create a Zap and pick PickFu with Poll Complete as the event. Choose your connection, then the Poll owner: all completed polls, or only yours.

  2. 02

    Test it on a real poll

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the account, so you set the next steps on a poll that actually ran.

  3. 03

    Fetch the results

    Add Get Poll Results and map the poll from the trigger rather than typing it. This search makes the Zap multi-step, so it needs a paid plan.

  4. 04

    Publish the follow-up

    Add Create Poll. Write the new question (up to 255 characters), pick the sample size, and use the results returned by the search to choose its options.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Test each step once and read what came back before going further. When the follow-up poll looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on.

Triggers

The 2 PickFu triggers

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

1

New Poll

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when someone on your team creates a poll.”

Starts the Zap each time a poll is created on your PickFu team, before any answer comes in. It is the hook for anything that should know a test is under way: a line in a tracking sheet, a heads-up to the person who owns the product, a card on a project board.

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 team runs many polls and you want one shared record of what is being tested.
Watch out
Poll owner is required; set to only yours, polls created by colleagues never start the Zap.
2

Poll Complete

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a poll completes (collects all responses or is manually stopped).”

Fires when a poll is done, either because it collected all its responses or because someone stopped it by hand. This is the trigger most teams want, because it marks the moment the answers are ready to be read and shared. Pair it with Get Poll Results to carry the answers forward.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
results should land in front of the decision maker without anyone checking PickFu.
Watch out
a poll stopped by hand also fires it, so its results may be partial.
Actions

The PickFu action

PickFu gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Create Poll

Action

In Zapier“Publish an Open-Ended or Head-To-Head poll with 1-4 options”

Publishes a poll from another app: an Open-Ended poll or a Head-To-Head with 1 to 4 options, sent to the number of respondents you pick.

When to use it
a new mock-up is approved in your design tool and should be tested without anyone opening PickFu.
Watch out
Question and Sample size are required, and the question stops at 255 characters; a detailed question gets better answers.
Searches

The 2 PickFu searches

2 search steps look for data that already exists in PickFu, so a later step can use it.

Searches sit at the bottom of the action event list, under SEARCH. Some fields also offer + Add search step, which inserts a search right before the current step. Three settings decide what happens when the result is not what you expected.

1

Get Poll Results

Search

In Zapier“Fetch results for a specific poll ID.”

Fetches the results of one poll from its identifier, so the next steps can post, store or compare them.

When to use it
right after Poll Complete, to turn the finished poll into answers your team can read elsewhere.
Watch out
it needs the poll identifier, so map it from the trigger rather than typing it.

The three settings every search exposes

  1. Successful if no search results are found?
    Left on its default, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap and skips the steps that relied on it. Switched on, the Zap goes on without that value.
  2. Create X if it doesn't exist yet?
    Turns a search into find-or-create. PickFu exposes no such variant on Zapier, so this box never shows on its searches.
  3. If multiple search results are found?
    Three options when several items match: keep the first (the default), stop the Zap, or hand all of them on at once.
When it breaks

When a PickFu Zap breaks

Zapier lists no help article and no limit specific to PickFu. What goes wrong comes from Zapier's own rules, and these four cases cover most of it.

Each comes from how Zapier works, not from PickFu, so knowing them saves guesswork. When a run fails outright, Zapier troubleshooting walks through the usual fixes.

  • Earlier polls never show up

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Polls that ended before stay out; bringing them in is a separate job.

  • The Zap feeds itself

    A Zap on New Poll that also runs Create Poll starts again on its own poll, and the task count drains fast. Keep those two apart.

  • A large batch is held back

    When a trigger suddenly sends a very large batch, after an import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold the runs back.

  • The test shows the wrong poll

    A trigger test brings back the three most recent items of the account. If none is the one you expected, run a real poll and test again.
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FAQ

PickFu Zapier integration: common questions

01Is the PickFu Zapier integration free?
On Zapier's side, yes, within the free plan. PickFu is not a premium app, so a free account can use it, with 100 tasks per month and unlimited Zaps. The limit is the shape of the Zap: two steps only, one trigger and one action. A Zap that fetches results after a poll ends adds a search, which makes it multi-step and needs a paid plan. A Zap that only posts a notice when a poll completes stays within the free plan.
02How many tasks does a PickFu Zap use?
One per action that succeeds, each time the Zap runs. The two triggers, New Poll and Poll Complete, cost nothing however many polls your team creates or finishes. A failed action is not counted either. A Zap that only publishes a poll spends one task per run; one that fetches results, posts them and logs them spends three per completed poll. Count your polls per month, multiply by the actions in the Zap, and compare with your plan.
03Do PickFu triggers work in real time?
Yes. New Poll and Poll Complete are both instant triggers: PickFu tells Zapier itself when a poll is created or completes, and the Zap starts right away. The plan interval grid, from 15 minutes on Free to 1 minute on Team and Enterprise, only applies to polling triggers that Zapier checks on a timer. It does not apply here, so a free account reacts as fast as a paid one. The editor marks these Zaps with a lightning bolt.
04What does it take to connect PickFu to Zapier?
A PickFu account and a Zapier account. From the Apps page in Zapier, click + Add connection, pick PickFu, sign in in the tab that opens and grant access. Both triggers then ask for a Poll owner, either every poll of the team or only yours, so the account you connect decides what you can listen to. To read polls created by someone else, the account also needs access to them.
05Why does Poll Complete fire on a poll with few answers?
Because a poll counts as complete in two cases: it collected all its responses, or someone stopped it by hand. Both fire the trigger the same way. A poll stopped early therefore reaches your Zap with fewer answers than the sample size you picked. If that matters, read the results returned by Get Poll Results before passing them on, or add a filter on what came back, keeping in mind a filter makes the Zap multi-step.
06What if the PickFu operation you need is missing?
Then this integration does not offer it, and the editor has no way around that. Check whether the existing pieces cover it: Search Polls followed by Get Poll Results can reach a past poll, as long as the search is precise enough to land on it first. For poll formats other than Open-Ended or Head-To-Head with 1 to 4 options, Create Poll will not help, and the poll has to be set up in PickFu. Editing or stopping a poll from a Zap is not possible either.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for PickFu?
It comes down to your criteria rather than a ranking. Ask each tool three questions. Does it offer the events you want to start from? On Zapier, that is poll created and poll completed, both instant. Does it cover what you want to do? Here, one action and two searches. Does its plan fit the shape of your flow? On Zapier, adding a search or a second action needs a paid plan. Put every option through those same three questions.
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