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Pingback Zapier integrationAutomate Pingback with Zapier.

The Pingback Zapier integration gives you 8 triggers, 0 actions and 0 searches. All 8 triggers are instant: new contacts, list moves, form conversions and email activity reach Zapier without waiting for a scheduled check, even on the free plan.

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Overview

What Pingback can start in Zapier, and what it cannot

Pingback on Zapier works in one direction. When a contact appears, changes, joins or leaves a segmented list, converts on a form, or receives, opens or clicks an email, Zapier hears about it and runs the steps you chose in your other tools. It listens to Pingback. It never writes back into it.

Three results people build with it. A hot-lead alert: Email Clicked watches one link in one email, and each click becomes a message for your sales team. A mirrored segment: Added to Segmented List and Remove From Segmented List keep a spreadsheet or another tool in step with a Pingback segment, entries and exits included. A form handoff: Conversion Created passes every new form conversion to the next tool in your sales process.

Now the limits. Zapier offers no action and no search for Pingback. A Zap cannot create a contact in Pingback, edit one, put it in a list or look it up. Pingback is always the first card of the Zap, and everything after it happens somewhere else. If your plan depends on writing into Pingback, this integration will not carry it (check the Make vs Zapier page before you commit to a tool).

The good news sits on the other side: every trigger is instant, so the free plan loses nothing on speed here.

Vocabulary

Zapier words, in plain English

Eight terms come back on this page. Here is what each one means for a Pingback user.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time that trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event that starts a Zap. With this integration it is always something in Pingback, such as a contact created or an email opened.
Action
What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or moves something. Pingback offers none, so it lives in another app.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully, and your plan counts nothing else.
Instant vs polling
An instant trigger is reported by the app itself. A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a timer. All 8 Pingback triggers are instant.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it right there otherwise.
Connection
Your Pingback account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step of every Zap that touches Pingback.
Multi-step Zap
Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter turns it into one, and it then needs a paid plan.
Cost

What a Pingback Zap costs you in tasks

A Pingback trigger never costs a task. Zapier only bills actions that went through.

  • Trigger cost0 tasks
  • Free plan100 tasks a month
  • Steps per Zap on Free2: one trigger, one action
  • Premium appNo, it works on Free

One email opened, one Slack message sent: one task. Add a second action and each success counts on its own, while an action that fails is not billed at all. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap stops at two steps, so adding a filter pushes you onto a paid plan. The polling grid below does not apply to this app: Pingback reports each of its events to Zapier itself, whatever your plan.

Connect

Connect Pingback to Zapier in three steps

  1. 01

    Find Pingback from the Apps page

    In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. A dialog lets you search apps by name: type Pingback and pick it in the results.

  2. 02

    Sign in to your Pingback account

    Click Add connection, then sign in to Pingback in the tab that opens. Use the account that holds the contacts, lists and emails your Zaps will watch, or one with read access to them.

  3. 03

    Grant access and reuse it

    Approve the access Zapier asks for on that account. From there, every Zap and every step that uses Pingback picks this same connection, so the sign-in happens once, not once per Zap.

First Zap

Your first Pingback Zap: a sales alert on new list members

GoalEach contact added to a chosen Pingback segment that passes your rule becomes a Slack message for the sales team.

  1. 01

    Pick the app and the event

    Start building: choose Pingback as the app that starts the Zap, then Added to Segmented List as the event, and select your Pingback connection.

  2. 02

    Choose the segment

    Pick the segmented list in the trigger settings. It is required, so the segment has to exist in Pingback before this step. The editor shows a lightning bolt: this trigger is instant.

  3. 03

    Test on real contacts

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real contact instead of a made-up one.

  4. 04

    Add the filter

    Click the plus icon, choose Filter, then fill the three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, the value. Pick a text rule for text, a number rule for numbers. This step makes the Zap multi-step.

  5. 05

    Add the Slack action and publish

    Add the action in the other app, map the contact details you saw in the test, run the step once and read what came back. Then click Publish to switch the Zap on.

Triggers

The 8 Pingback triggers

8 events start a Zap when something happens in Pingback, and 8 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

Added to Segmented List

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a contact is added to a segmented list.”

Starts a Zap each time Pingback puts a contact into the segmented list you picked. Your other tools learn who just entered that segment, and nobody has to export a file or copy names across.

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 contact joins your demo-request segment and the sales channel should hear about it while the interest is fresh.
Watch out
the segmented list is a required setting, so create the segment in Pingback before you build the Zap.
2

Contact Created

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new contact is created.”

Fires on every brand-new contact in Pingback, wherever it came from. It is the widest net of the eight, which makes it the natural start for copying your audience into a CRM or a sheet.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
you want one row per new subscriber in a shared spreadsheet that the whole team reads.
Watch out
contacts that existed before you publish the Zap are never sent, so move the backlog separately.
3

Contact Updated

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new contact is updated.”

Runs your Zap whenever an existing Pingback contact gets updated. Pair it with Contact Created when another tool must hold the latest version of each person, not only the first one.

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 contact edits their details and your CRM record should follow without a manual copy.
Watch out
to keep only the updates you care about, add a filter after it, which makes the Zap multi-step and needs a paid plan.
4

Conversion Created

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when you have a new conversion from a Form.”

Turns each new conversion from a Pingback form into the start of a Zap. Someone fills in the form, and the next tool in your process gets the hand-off straight away.

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 lead converts on a webinar sign-up form and your onboarding sequence in another tool should begin with that person.
Watch out
on the free plan the Zap holds one action, so a Slack alert plus a CRM entry means a paid plan or two separate Zaps.
5

Email Clicked

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a link is clicked inside the email.”

Reacts to a click on one link inside one Pingback email. Of the three email triggers, this one carries the clearest signal of intent, because the reader acted instead of just opening.

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 prospect clicks the pricing link in your nurture email and a rep should follow up.
Watch out
you must pick the email and type the exact link you added to its content, so copy the link from the email itself.
6

Email Delivered

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when the email is delivered.”

Fires when a chosen Pingback email reaches a contact's inbox. It confirms delivery, not reading, which makes it useful for records rather than for sales alerts.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
you keep a log of who received a contract reminder, and that log lives in a spreadsheet outside Pingback.
Watch out
the email is a required setting, and a large send means one task per delivery for every action that follows.
7

Email Opened

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when the email is opened.”

Starts the Zap when a contact opens the Pingback email you selected. It sits between delivery and click: the message got attention, even if nobody acted on it yet.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
an account manager wants a heads-up when a key client opens the renewal email.
Watch out
the email is required in the settings, and each open that starts the Zap costs one task per action that follows, so a big send to an engaged list adds up.
8

Remove From Segmented List

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a contact is removed from a segmented list.”

The mirror of Added to Segmented List: it fires when a contact leaves the segment you picked. Without it, a copy of your segment elsewhere only ever grows and slowly goes stale.

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 customer drops out of your active-trial segment and the sales team should stop chasing them.
Watch out
the segmented list is required, and it must be the same one as in your add Zap if the two are meant to stay in sync.
When it breaks

When a Pingback Zap breaks

Zapier ties no help article to Pingback and lists no limit of its own for it. What breaks is the general Zapier behaviour, and it bites harder on an app that only starts Zaps.

Four cases come back most often. If a Zap still misbehaves after these, the Zapier troubleshooting page is the next stop.

  • The old contacts never arrive

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Contacts, conversions and clicks from before stay in Pingback; moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • A bulk import gets held back

    Import a big batch of contacts and Contact Created suddenly reports a flood of events. Zapier's flood protection can hold that batch back instead of running it.

  • The filter never lets anything through

    Filter rules are typed: a text rule only works on text, a number rule only on numbers. Pick the wrong type and the condition never passes.

  • The Zap will not publish on Free

    The free plan builds two-step Zaps only. A filter or a second action after your Pingback trigger turns the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan.
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FAQ

Pingback Zapier integration: frequent questions

01Is the Pingback Zapier integration free?
Yes, it runs on the free plan. Pingback is not a premium app, so Zapier does not reserve it for paid plans. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, with one catch: each Zap holds two steps, one trigger and one action. A Pingback trigger followed by a single action in another app fits. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap becomes multi-step, which only a paid plan allows.
02How many tasks does a Pingback Zap use?
The trigger costs nothing; only the actions that follow are billed. Every time a Pingback event starts your Zap and an action completes, that counts as one task. A Zap with three actions uses three tasks per event, one per successful action. Actions that fail are not counted. On busy triggers such as Email Delivered on a large send, that adds up fast, so check the volume against your plan's monthly task count before switching the Zap on.
03Does Pingback trigger Zaps in real time?
Yes. All 8 Pingback triggers are instant: Pingback reports each event to Zapier itself, so the Zap does not wait for a scheduled check. The polling intervals of the Zapier plans, 15 minutes on Free down to 1 minute on Team and Enterprise, do not apply here. That is why the free plan loses nothing on speed with this app. In the editor, an instant trigger shows a lightning bolt.
04What does it take to connect Pingback to Zapier?
A Pingback account and a Zapier account. From the Apps page in Zapier, click + Add connection, search for Pingback, click Add connection, then sign in to Pingback and grant access. If the contacts, lists or emails belong to someone else, the account you sign in with needs read access to them. Also create the segmented lists and emails your Zaps will watch beforehand, because five triggers ask you to pick one.
05Why does Email Clicked never fire on a tracked link?
Most likely the link in the trigger does not match the one in the email. Email Clicked asks for two required settings: the email, and the exact link you added to its content. The trigger only reacts to that link. Copy it straight from the email in Pingback rather than retyping it. Also remember the Zap only sees clicks that happen after it is published, so test with a fresh click once the Zap is on.
06What if the Pingback action you need does not exist?
Then this integration cannot do it, because Zapier offers no Pingback action and no search at all. A Zap cannot create or edit a contact in Pingback, add someone to a list, or look a contact up. It can only start from one of the 8 triggers and act in other apps. If writing into Pingback is the core of your project, plan it outside Zapier, for instance directly in Pingback, rather than forcing it through a Zap.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Pingback?
Decide on criteria, not on a ranking. On Zapier, Pingback brings 8 instant triggers, works on the free plan and offers no action or search. So the first question is direction: if your Zaps only need to react to Pingback events, Zapier covers it. If you need to write into Pingback, check whether the other tool offers that for Pingback before you choose. Then weigh how many steps your Zaps need, since the free plan stops at two.
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