ProfitWell Zapier integrationAutomate ProfitWell with Zapier.
The ProfitWell Zapier integration gives you 0 triggers, 4 actions and 0 searches. Another app starts every Zap, and ProfitWell receives the change: a new customer, a plan moved up or down, a cancellation, or a lookup of what a customer pays. Here is how each one behaves.
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What the ProfitWell Zapier integration actually does
It keeps ProfitWell's subscription figures in line with what happens in your other tools. Zapier, the automation service, watches an app such as your billing system or CRM; when a customer signs up, changes plan or leaves, a Zap writes that change into ProfitWell, or asks ProfitWell what that customer is worth.
Three results teams build with it. Revenue figures that include every signup: a paid subscription recorded in a billing tool or a CRM goes in through Add Customer, with the plan, its interval and its value. Upgrades and cancellations that land on the right date: a plan change recorded elsewhere runs Upgrade/Downgrade Subscription, and a cancellation form runs Churn Subscription, each with its effective date. MRR at hand when it matters: before a support agent answers, Get Customer Info pulls the customer's MRR and plan from an email address.
What Zapier does not do with ProfitWell: nothing that happens in ProfitWell can start a Zap, because there is no trigger. A churn spotted in ProfitWell will not alert anyone through Zapier. There is no search step either; the one lookup available is an action, which matters for cost, as the next sections explain.
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Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Seven words cover everything below. Each one keeps exactly this meaning on the rest of the page.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it. ProfitWell has none, so another app plays this role.
- Action
- What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you. All four ProfitWell operations are actions.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan's allowance is a count of these.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked on a timer set by your plan. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself the moment the event happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets your condition, and stops it otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action, a filter or a search makes it one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What ProfitWell Zaps cost in tasks
Each ProfitWell action that succeeds is one task, including Get Customer Info, because on this app the lookup is an action. The trigger costs nothing, and so do Zapier's checks of the other app.
- Free plan100 tasks a month
- Steps on the free plan2 (one trigger, one action)
- Premium appNo
- One ProfitWell action1 task, lookup included
An action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps, polling every 15 minutes and no premium apps; ProfitWell is not one, so it runs for free. The catch: free Zaps have two steps. Looking up a customer's MRR and then posting it somewhere is two actions, so a multi-step Zap on a paid plan, and it costs two tasks per run. On paid plans polling triggers check every 2 minutes on Professional and every minute on Team and Enterprise.
Connect ProfitWell to Zapier in three steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, open Apps and click + Add connection. Search for ProfitWell in the dialog and select it. Every later Zap that writes to ProfitWell reuses this one connection.
- 02
Sign in to ProfitWell
Click Add connection. ProfitWell opens in a new tab; sign in with the account that holds your subscription data. If you work on a company account you do not own, make sure you have write access to it first.
- 03
Grant access
Approve the access Zapier asks for. The ProfitWell connection then appears in your Apps list and can be picked in the action step of any Zap. Nothing else needs setting up.
Your first Zap: every paid signup counted in ProfitWell
GoalAdd each new paying subscriber from your billing tool to ProfitWell, with plan and value.
- 01
Create the Zap
Start a new Zap. For step one, pick your billing tool and its new-subscription event, then connect that account the same way you connected ProfitWell.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent subscriptions of the connected account; choose a real one with an email, a plan and an amount, so the mapping uses true values.
- 03
Add Add Customer
Add the action, choose ProfitWell and
Add Customer, then your connection. Map the email, the plan ID, the interval (month or year), the value and the start date from step one. - 04
Test the action
Run the action test, then look for the customer in ProfitWell. Check the plan and the value read the way your finance team expects before you switch anything on.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish. From now on each new subscription adds one customer and uses one task. Subscribers who signed up before publishing are not sent; moving them is a separate job.
ProfitWell actions on Zapier
ProfitWell gives you 4 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Add Customer
ActionIn Zapier“Adds a new customer to your Profitwell account.”
Creates a customer in ProfitWell together with their plan: email, plan ID, interval, value and an effective date, all five required.
Churn Subscription
ActionIn Zapier“Churn Subscription.”
Marks a subscription as cancelled from the date you give, which is what makes churn appear in ProfitWell's numbers.
Get Customer Info
ActionIn Zapier“Get MRR and plan info on customer.”
Fetches a customer's MRR and plan details from their email address and hands them to the steps that follow.
Upgrade/Downgrade Subscription
ActionIn Zapier“Upgrade or Downgrade subscription.”
Moves an existing subscription to another plan or value, from a given date, so expansion and contraction show up in the figures.
When a ProfitWell Zap breaks
Zapier ties no help article to ProfitWell, so these are the failures every Zap can meet. On revenue data, they cost more than a missed alert.
A wrong MRR figure does not need a crash: a Zap that did exactly what it was told, at the wrong moment or twice, is enough. Four general cases are worth knowing; for the rest, see the Zapier troubleshooting page.
Past subscribers are missing
A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is published. Customers who signed up before are never added, so backfilling ProfitWell is a separate job.A migration floods the Zap
When the billing tool suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back instead of writing it all.No double counting from polling
On a polling trigger Zapier remembers what it has already seen, so the same subscription does not add the same customer twice.A loop that inflates usage
A Zap that writes back into the place its own trigger watches sets itself off again and again, spending a task on every turn.
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