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PingMi Zapier integrationAutomate PingMi with Zapier.

The PingMi Zapier integration, in plain words. PingMi gives Zapier 1 trigger, 3 actions and 0 searches. Here is what each one does for a product team, what it costs on your plan, how to connect the account and where things go wrong.

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Overview

What the PingMi Zapier integration actually does

The integration plugs PingMi, the tool that turns product feedback into insights a team can act on, into Zapier, a service that chains apps together without code. One click in PingMi can start work in another app, and other apps can push feedback into PingMi without anyone copying and pasting.

Three results, each tied to a real operation. First, a ticket for every idea you push forward: Create Issue starts a Zap (the automation you build in Zapier) when someone in PingMi creates an issue from an idea, and the next step can open it in the tracker your developers already use. Second, feedback collected elsewhere ends up as insights: Create Insight files one directly, while Find Insights hands raw feedback to PingMi so it can analyze it and draw the insights out. Third, tickets that point back to their idea: Link Idea attaches a task or issue to an idea, so whoever opens the idea can follow the work it produced.

What it does not do matters just as much. PingMi has no search step on Zapier, so a Zap cannot look up an existing idea or insight before acting. Nothing updates, nothing deletes. And the only event that sets a Zap off is that issue click: a new insight or a new idea in PingMi starts nothing. Zapier covers the path out of PingMi well, and the path back in only through those three actions.

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Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Eight words come back on every Zapier screen. Here they are, in plain terms, with PingMi as the example.

Zap
The automation you build in Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event that starts the Zap. With PingMi, it is creating an issue from an idea; once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
Action
What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or files something for you, like an insight in PingMi.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully, and the count on your plan is a count of those.
Polling vs instant
A polling trigger is checked on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself when the event happens. PingMi's trigger is instant.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go 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 PingMi account, linked to Zapier one time, then reused by every step of every Zap that works with PingMi.
Cost

What a PingMi Zap costs in tasks

PingMi is not a premium app on Zapier, so it works from the free plan. The bill is counted in tasks, and only actions count.

  • Create Issue trigger0 tasks
  • Each successful action1 task
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
  • Paid plan required for PingMiNo

The Create Issue trigger never costs a task. Each action that succeeds costs one, so a Zap running Create Insight and then Link Idea eats two per run; an action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but only two-step Zaps: one trigger, one action. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap turns multi-step, which needs a paid plan. The polling grid below never touches PingMi, since its only trigger is instant.

Connect

Connect your PingMi account

  1. 01

    Open Apps and add a connection

    In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. In the dialog that appears, type PingMi in the search box and pick it from the results.

  2. 02

    Sign in to PingMi

    Click Add connection. PingMi opens in a new tab: sign in there with the account your product team works in. Without a PingMi account of your own, this step goes nowhere.

  3. 03

    Grant access

    Approve the access Zapier asks for on that account. If the Zap has to touch ideas or insights someone else owns, check first that your user has read or write rights on them. Every PingMi step then reuses this connection.

First Zap

Your first PingMi Zap, step by step

GoalEach time a teammate creates an issue from an idea in PingMi and it meets your condition, file an insight in PingMi that records it.

  1. 01

    Pick the trigger

    Build a new Zap, choose PingMi as the app that starts it and Create Issue as the event. Select your PingMi connection and give the trigger the name it asks for.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items from your PingMi account, so the rest of the Zap gets built on a real issue rather than a guess.

  3. 03

    Add the filter

    Add a Filter step and set the field to look at, the rule and the value, so only the issues you care about go through. The Zap is now multi-step, so a paid plan applies.

  4. 04

    Add Create Insight

    Add the PingMi action Create Insight. Its Description box is required: map into it what the trigger carried, or type a value, so the insight says something a reader can use.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Test the action and read what PingMi sent back. If it looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on. From then on, every issue created from an idea sets it off.

Triggers

The PingMi trigger

1 event starts a Zap when something happens in PingMi, and one of them is instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

Create Issue

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when you click create issue from idea in PingMi”

This one starts a Zap from inside PingMi: when you click to create an issue from an idea, Zapier receives the event and the actions after it take over. It is the only way PingMi can set a Zap off, so every automation that begins in PingMi begins here.

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 grooms ideas in PingMi and wants each one promoted to an issue to show up in the tracker your developers live in.
Watch out
setup asks for a Connection Name, your own unique name for this trigger, and that box is required.
Actions

PingMi actions

PingMi gives you 3 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Create Insight

Action

In Zapier“Creates an insight in PingMi”

Files a new insight in PingMi from whatever the trigger carried, so feedback collected in another tool lands where the product team reads it.

When to use it
a form, a support inbox or a sales call note produces feedback that already says something clear.
Watch out
the Description box is required; map something meaningful into it, or the step has nothing worth filing.
2

Find Insights

Action

In Zapier“Analyze product feedback and create insights in PingMi”

Hands raw product feedback to PingMi, which analyzes it and creates the insights it draws out. Unlike Create Insight, you send material, not a conclusion.

When to use it
long feedback, such as survey answers or support threads, that nobody has had time to read through.
Watch out
despite its name it is an action, not a search: it writes into PingMi and costs a task each time it succeeds. Field to analyze is required.
When it breaks

When a PingMi Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to PingMi, and no limit specific to the app is documented. What can break is what can break on any Zap.

Four cases to know before you publish. None of them shows up as an obvious error on the first test, which is why they deserve a read now. For a step-by-step way to debug a Zap, see Zapier troubleshooting.

  • Nothing from before the Zap

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Issues created from ideas earlier are never picked up; moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • The Zap that feeds itself

    When an action writes into the very place the trigger watches, the Zap keeps setting itself off and burns through your task count fast.

  • A sudden flood held back

    After a bulk import or a migration, a trigger that suddenly delivers a huge batch can be held back by the flood protection Zapier applies.

  • A filter that never passes

    Filter rules are typed: a text rule only works on text, a number rule only on numbers. Pick the wrong type and the filter blocks every issue.
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FAQ

PingMi Zapier integration: common questions

01Is the PingMi Zapier integration free?
Yes, as long as the Zap stays small. PingMi is not a premium app, so it works on the free Zapier plan, which gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps. The catch is the size of each Zap: the free plan only builds two-step Zaps, one trigger and one action. Create Issue followed by Create Insight fits. Add a filter, a second action or a search step from another app and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. No prices appear on this page because Zapier's grids change too often to publish.
02How many tasks does a PingMi Zap use?
One per successful action, and nothing for the trigger. Create Issue costs no task at all, however many times your team clicks it. Each action that goes through counts once, so a Zap that runs Create Insight and then Link Idea uses two tasks per run. An action that fails is not counted against the plan. The useful sum is the number of actions in the Zap multiplied by the number of runs, compared with the 100 tasks of the free plan or the count of your paid one.
03Does the PingMi trigger fire in real time?
Yes. Create Issue is an instant trigger: PingMi reports the event to Zapier itself, so the Zap starts right away on every plan. The polling intervals of the plan grid, 15 minutes on Free down to 1 on Team and Enterprise, only apply to triggers Zapier has to check on a timer, and PingMi has none of those. In the editor, a Zap built on an instant trigger shows a lightning bolt. The type comes from the app and cannot be switched from the editor.
04What does it take to connect PingMi to Zapier?
A PingMi account and a Zapier account, nothing more. From the Apps page in Zapier, add a connection, pick PingMi, sign in to PingMi in the tab that opens and grant Zapier access. If the Zap will touch ideas or insights someone else owns, your PingMi user also needs read or write rights on them. The connection is made once, then every PingMi step of every Zap reuses it, so there is no need to reconnect for each new automation.
05What does Link Idea need before it can run?
Three required boxes and a real ticket. Link Idea asks for an Issue Name, an Issue Link and a Source Type, and the link has to point to a task or issue that already exists in another tool. In practice an earlier step creates that ticket, or the trigger test brings back something to map. Left empty, or filled with something that is not a link, the box gives PingMi nothing to attach to the idea. Test the step before publishing to see exactly what PingMi sends back.
06What if the PingMi operation you want is missing?
Then Zapier alone will not cover it. PingMi offers one trigger and three actions on Zapier, with no search, no update and no delete. A Zap cannot look up an existing idea or insight, and a new insight in PingMi starts nothing. The options are to rethink the flow around the four operations that exist, to check whether another automation tool reaches what is missing, or to ask PingMi to add it to its Zapier app. Check the lists on this page before designing anything around a step that is not there.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for PingMi?
It depends on your criteria, not on a winner. Zapier fits when the job starts from the issue button in PingMi, since that trigger is instant on every plan, and when a two-step Zap on the free plan is enough. It fits less when the flow has to read existing data back from PingMi, because there is no search step. Before choosing another tool, check that it offers a PingMi connector with the operations your flow relies on. This page covers Zapier only.
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