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Hype Zapier integrationAutomate Hype with Zapier.

The Hype Zapier integration gives you 6 triggers, 0 actions and 0 searches. Hype can start a Zap whenever a member signs up, changes, leaves or pays, but Zapier cannot write anything back into Hype: the work happens in your other tools.

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Overview

What the Hype Zapier integration is for

Hype is where your community signs up, subscribes and pays. Plugging it into Zapier lets those moments start a Zap (the automation you build on Zapier: one starting event, then the steps that follow) in the rest of your stack: your sheet, your inbox, your team chat. Hype is the starting point, never the destination.

Three things you can build. A member list that updates itself: Contact Created and Contact Updated copy new sign-ups and profile changes, newsletter choices included, into the spreadsheet or CRM your team already reads. A dunning alert: Payment Updated fires when a saved card fails a charge, so someone can reach out before the member slips away. A churn log: Payment Deleted records every subscription set to end at the close of its period.

Now what Zapier does not do here. Hype has no action and no search on Zapier: a Zap can listen to Hype, but it cannot create a contact, edit a member or record a payment there. If your idea needs to change something inside Hype, Zapier will not get you there. And two trigger names mislead: read their notes below before you build on them.

The good news is speed. All six triggers are instant, which matters more than anything else if you are on the free plan. For a broader view of the tool itself, see our Zapier review.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary, minus the jargon

The terms this page relies on, defined once.

Zap
Your automation on Zapier. One event starts it, then one or more steps run each time that event happens again.
Trigger
The event that starts a Zap. Hype offers six of them, all about members and their payments.
Action
The step that does the work after the trigger. With Hype, every action lives in another app, since Hype offers none.
Task
The unit Zapier bills: one action that completed successfully. Your plan gives you a monthly number of them.
Instant trigger
The app itself tells Zapier the moment the event happens. Nothing waits for a timer, on any plan. All Hype triggers work this way.
Polling trigger
A trigger Zapier checks on a timer, asking for new items at a fixed interval set by your plan. Hype has none of these.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap carry on only when the incoming data meets your condition, and stops it otherwise.
Multi-step Zap
Anything beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes one, and it needs a paid plan.
Cost

What a Hype Zap costs

Hype is not a premium app, so it runs on Zapier's free plan. You pay in tasks, and only for what happens after Hype.

  • Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps
  • Zap size on FreeOne trigger and one action
  • Hype triggersInstant, never billed
  • HypeNot a premium app

The Hype trigger itself never costs a task. Each action in your other apps that succeeds costs one; an action that fails is not counted. A Zap that posts a Slack alert and then logs a row in a sheet uses two tasks per event. The free plan stops at two steps, one trigger and one action, so that Zap needs a paid plan. The interval grid below only governs polling triggers: since all six Hype triggers are instant, it does not slow them down.

Connect

Connect Hype to Zapier in three steps

  1. 01

    Go to your connections

    Open the Apps page of your Zapier account and click + Add connection. A connection is your Hype account linked once, then reused by every Zap that listens to it.

  2. 02

    Pick Hype

    Search for Hype in the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. You need a Hype account of your own, or access to the one your community runs on.

  3. 03

    Sign in and approve

    Log in to Hype in the tab that opens and grant Zapier access. If the community belongs to a colleague, check that your login has the rights to its members and payments.

First Zap

Your first Hype Zap: catch failed payments

GoalEvery time a saved card fails a charge in Hype, the team gets a Slack message and the case lands in a follow-up sheet.

  1. 01

    Start with Hype

    In the Zap editor, pick Hype and the event Payment Updated as the trigger, then choose the Hype connection you just added.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test: Zapier brings back the three most recent payment events from your account, so you map the next steps on a real one.

  3. 03

    Add the Slack alert

    Add Slack as the first action and write a short message for the channel that handles billing, using the member details the test returned.

  4. 04

    Log it in a sheet

    Add Google Sheets as a second action to keep a row per failed charge. Two actions make this a multi-step Zap, so it needs a paid plan.

  5. 05

    Test and publish

    Test each action and check the message and the row. When both look right and reach the right people, click Publish to switch the Zap on.

Triggers

The 6 Hype triggers, and what they really fire on

6 events start a Zap when something happens in Hype, and 6 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

Contact Created

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a user registers with a community through Pico or is otherwise created.”

Starts your Zap when someone joins your community through Hype, or when a contact is added to it some other way. It is the entry point for anything you do with new members: welcoming them, tagging them in your CRM, counting sign-ups.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a coach running a paid community wants each new member added to a welcome sequence in their email tool.
Watch out
people who joined before the Zap was published are not picked up.
2

Contact Deleted

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a user's data is removed from a community.”

Fires when a member's data is removed from your community. Use it to clean up the copies of that person you keep elsewhere, so your other tools stop treating them as an active member.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a newsletter writer keeps a member sheet and wants departed people flagged there instead of lingering as subscribers.
Watch out
Hype has no action on Zapier, so the cleanup itself has to happen in the other app, step by step.
3

Contact Updated

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a user's data is updated, including changing newsletter preference values.”

Reacts whenever a member's data changes, and that includes a switch in their newsletter preferences. This is the one to keep a mirror of your audience in sync with what people actually chose.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a podcast host wants opt-outs from the newsletter reflected in the separate mailing tool used for sponsor announcements.
Watch out
if your Zap writes back to a tool that also feeds Hype, the update can bounce around and start the Zap again.
4

Payment Created

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a payment is made from a user.”

Goes off each time a member pays you. A tip, a subscription, a plan switch: when the money comes in, your Zap can record it, thank the person or tell the team.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a creator wants every new payment logged in the bookkeeping sheet their accountant opens at the end of the month.
Watch out
when a member switches plans, Hype creates a new payment once the other plan starts, so the switch shows up here too.
5

Payment Deleted

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a user sets a subscription to cancel at period end. (Including on switch plan, a new payment will be created when the other plan activates).”

Despite its name, this one fires when a member sets their subscription to cancel at the end of the current period. Nothing has been refunded or erased yet: it is a notice that the revenue will stop.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a community manager wants a heads-up to send a personal note before the subscription actually lapses.
Watch out
it also fires on a plan switch, so a member upgrading can look like one leaving.
6

Payment Updated

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a saved payment method fails on a charge attempt.”

The name suggests any change to a payment, but this trigger fires when a saved payment method fails on a charge attempt. In practice, it is your failed-card alarm.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a course seller wants the support inbox to email members whose renewal just bounced, while they still remember signing up.
Watch out
do not count on it for refunds or amount changes; it only speaks up when a charge fails.
When it breaks

When a Hype Zap breaks

Zapier lists no help article for Hype, so the cases below come from the trigger definitions and from how every Zap behaves.

Most surprises with Hype are about meaning, not errors: a trigger that fires on something other than its name. The rest are the usual Zapier traps. When you need to dig deeper, start from Zapier troubleshooting.

  • Payment Deleted is a cancellation notice

    It fires when a subscription is set to end at the close of the period, and on plan switches. Treat it as a warning, not as a lost payment.

  • Payment Updated means a failed charge

    It fires when a saved card fails. A Zap built to track refunds or amount changes on this trigger will wait for events that never come.

  • No history

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Existing members and past payments are not replayed; moving them is a separate job.

  • Loops through a synced tool

    If your Zap writes into a tool that feeds back into Hype, the change can set the trigger off again and eat your tasks.

  • Bulk imports held back

    A sudden wave of new contacts, after an import or a migration, can trip Zapier's flood protection, which holds the batch instead of running each one.

  • Two steps on Free

    An alert plus a log row, or any filter, is a multi-step Zap. On the free plan it stays off until you upgrade to a paid plan.
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FAQ

Hype Zapier integration: questions people ask

01Is the Hype Zapier integration free?
Yes, as far as Zapier is concerned. Hype is not a premium app, so its triggers work on the free plan. That plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, with one limit nobody mentions: each Zap is two steps, one Hype trigger and one action in another app. Add a filter or a second action, say a Slack alert plus a sheet row, and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan.
02How many tasks does a Hype Zap use?
Only the actions count, one task per action that succeeds. The Hype trigger is free, however many members join or pay. A Zap that sends one email per new payment uses one task per payment. A Zap that sends the email and then logs a row uses two. An action that fails is not counted, so a broken step does not drain your plan, though you will still want to fix it.
03Is the Hype integration real time?
Yes, fully. All six Hype triggers are instant: Hype tells Zapier the moment something happens, and the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan. The interval grid that slows down polling triggers (every 15 minutes on Free) does not apply here. That makes Hype a good fit for the free plan when timing matters, for instance alerting someone about a failed card while the member is still around and reachable.
04What does it take to connect Hype to Zapier?
A Hype account, plus access to the community you want to watch if it belongs to someone else. From the Apps page of your Zapier account, you add a connection, search for Hype, sign in on the tab that opens and grant access. The connection is then reused by every Zap that listens to Hype. No setting has to be filled in on the triggers themselves, so the Hype side is quick.
05Why does Payment Deleted fire when nobody deleted a payment?
Because that is not what it watches. Payment Deleted fires when a member sets their subscription to cancel at the end of the current period, and also when they switch plans, since Hype then creates a new payment for the other plan. Read it as a cancellation notice. If your Zap labels these events as lost revenue, a member who simply upgraded will be counted as leaving, and your churn figures will be wrong.
06What if the Hype operation you need is missing?
Then Zapier does not offer it today. Hype exposes six triggers there, about contacts and payments, and no action or search. That means a Zap cannot add a member, edit a profile or record a payment inside Hype. If the event you want to react to is not one of the six, nothing in the Zap editor will create it; the app page on zapier.com shows the current list of what Hype offers.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Hype?
Judge it on criteria rather than a ranking. On Zapier, Hype gives you six instant triggers that work on the free plan, billed only when an action in another app succeeds, and nothing that writes back into Hype. If you need to change data inside Hype, or run several actions per event, check the catalog of each platform for Hype and count the steps and tasks your flow requires before choosing.
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