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The Stackby Zapier integration gives you 3 triggers, 2 actions and 1 search to move rows in and out of your Stackby tables. This page covers what each one does, how many tasks it eats, and what to check before your first Zap goes live.

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Overview

What the Stackby Zapier integration does for your tables

Stackby keeps your data in tables, a bit like a spreadsheet that behaves like a database. Connecting it to Zapier lets a new or edited row start an automation on its own, and lets any other app write rows into Stackby. The table stops being a place you copy things into and becomes a place that fills itself.

Three results worth building first. A table that completes itself: New Row starts the Zap and Update Row writes back a status or a computed value. A clean shortlist from a big table: New Rows in a View only reacts to new rows added in the view you pick, so that view becomes your queue. An intake from other tools: Create Row drops each new lead, order or request into the right table.

What Zapier does not do for Stackby. All 3 triggers poll, none is instant, so a new row reaches your other apps after a delay set by your plan. There is no delete action, and nothing that creates a table, a stack or a column: the structure has to exist in Stackby first. Updating a row means pointing at a specific row, which is why the search step matters so much on this app.

The same app is covered on the Stackby n8n integration and Stackby Make integration pages if you are still choosing a platform. Everything below was read on Zapier's Stackby page (implementation StackbyCLIAPI@1.0.3) on October 1, 2026.

Vocabulary

Zapier words, in plain English

Seven terms carry the rest of this page. Here they are once.

Zap
The automation you build: one event that starts it, then one or more steps that run each time that event happens.
Trigger
The event in Stackby that starts the Zap, such as a new row. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
Action
The step that does the work once the Zap has started: it creates or changes something in Stackby or in another app.
Task
What Zapier counts against your plan: one action that completed successfully. Your monthly allowance is a number of tasks.
Polling vs instant
Polling: Zapier asks Stackby for new rows on a timer. Instant: the app calls Zapier itself. Every Stackby trigger polls.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap continue only when the incoming row meets a condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
Search step
A step that finds a row already in a Stackby table, so the next steps can read it or update it.
Cost

What a Stackby Zap costs

Stackby is not a premium app on Zapier, so it runs on the free plan. What you spend is counted in tasks.

  • Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps
  • Free plan stepsTwo: one trigger, one action
  • Stackby on the free planYes, it is not a premium app
  • BilledEach successful action

The trigger is free, and Zapier's checks for new rows are free too, however often they run. You pay one task each time an action succeeds; a failed action is not counted. Each successful action counts on its own, so a Zap that creates a row and then updates another one uses two tasks per run. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but stops at two steps, one trigger and one action. A filter or a search step makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan.

Connect

Connect Stackby to Zapier in three steps

  1. 01

    Go to Apps

    In Zapier, open Apps and click + Add connection. A connection is your Stackby account linked once, then reused by every Stackby step in every Zap you build.

  2. 02

    Select Stackby

    Search for Stackby in the dialog, select it and click Add connection. You need a Stackby account, plus access to any workspace you do not own but want the Zap to read or write.

  3. 03

    Sign in and allow access

    Sign in to Stackby in the tab that opens and grant Zapier access. From then on, the three triggers, both actions and the search can use this connection in any Zap you build.

First Zap

Your first Stackby Zap: complete each new row

GoalEach new row added to a Stackby table gets a follow-up column filled in, but only when the row matches your rule.

  1. 01

    Build: pick the trigger

    Start a Zap with Build, choose Stackby and the New Row event, then select your connection, the workspace, the stack and the table to watch.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run Test: Zapier pulls the three most recent rows of that table. Pick a real one, it is the row you will map fields from in the next steps.

  3. 03

    Add a filter

    From the plus icon, add a filter: the field to look at, the rule, the value. Watch the rule type, a text rule on a number never passes. The Zap is now multi-step.

  4. 04

    Add Update Row

    Add Stackby with Update Row, select the same workspace, stack and table, point to the row that came from the trigger and fill the column to complete.

  5. 05

    Test and Publish

    Test the action and check the row in Stackby. When it looks right, click Publish: the Zap is on and waits for the next new row.

Triggers

Stackby triggers

3 events start a Zap when something happens in Stackby. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.

1

New Row

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when there's a new row added.”

Any row added to the table you pick starts the Zap. It is the broadest Stackby trigger: every addition counts, whoever made it and whatever it contains.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
a recruiter who logs candidates in a Stackby table and wants each new name posted to the hiring channel.
Watch out
the workspace, stack and table are all required, each picked from the one before it.
2

New Rows in a View

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new row is added in a view.”

This one narrows the watch to a single view of a table, the layout you pick in Stackby, and only wakes up for new rows added there.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
an events team whose caterer works from one view of the bookings table and should hear about each new row that lands in it.
Watch out
the view must exist before you build; the trigger asks for it along with the workspace, stack and table.
3

Updated Rows

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Trigger when user update row”

Editing a row in the chosen table starts the Zap, which lets a change of status or a new value in a column set off the next move in another tool.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
a content team that moves an article to the next stage in Stackby and wants the editor notified without a message.
Watch out
if the same Zap also runs Update Row on that table, it edits what it watches and keeps setting itself off.
Actions

Stackby actions

Stackby gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Create Row

Action

In Zapier“Creates a new row in a table”

Adds a new row to a Stackby table, with the columns filled from whatever earlier steps brought in.

When to use it
a training company that wants each signup from its booking tool listed in a Stackby attendees table.
Watch out
the workspace, stack and table are required and must already exist; the action does not create them.
2

Update Row

Action

In Zapier“Updates a row based on search text”

Changes the content of one existing row, the one you point to, so a table can carry the latest status of each record.

When to use it
a product team whose support tool closes a ticket and wants the matching Stackby row marked as solved.
Watch out
the row is required, so usually a Search Row step placed just before has to find it.
Searches

Stackby search

1 search step looks for data that already exists in Stackby, so a later step can use it.

A search step finds a row that already exists in a table and passes it on, which is how an update reaches the right record. In the editor, it sits at the bottom of the Action event list, under SEARCH. Three settings decide what happens when the result is not what you expected.

1

Search Row

SearchFind or create

In Zapier“Search a row from table”

Looks inside one column of a table for a row that matches a value, then hands that row to the next steps.

When to use it
a sales team that receives a deal update by email address and needs the Stackby row of that contact before running Update Row.
Watch out
the editor also shows Create a row if search does not exist; that is this same search with creation ticked, not a separate operation.

The three settings every search exposes

  1. Successful if no search results are found?
    Left as is, an empty search stops the Zap and skips the steps that needed it. Switched on, the Zap carries on with nothing found.
  2. Create X if it doesn't exist yet?
    Ticked, the search becomes a find-or-create: the setting above goes away and the step asks for the fields needed to create the missing row.
  3. If multiple search results are found?
    Keep the first match (the default), stop the Zap, or pass every match on at once.
When it breaks

Where a Stackby Zap breaks

Zapier lists no Stackby-specific error. The traps come from how triggers are read.

These four limits apply to Stackby as to any polled app. You usually find out when a row is missing or when your task count jumps. Once a Zap has actually failed, our Zapier troubleshooting page takes over.

  • Old rows are never picked up

    A Zap only sees rows added or edited after you publish it. Rows that were already in the table stay out; moving them is a separate job.

  • A Zap that edits what it watches

    Updated Rows plus Update Row on the same table makes the Zap set itself off again and again, and burns through your tasks fast.

  • Bulk imports held back

    Importing a large file into a table at once can make the trigger return a huge batch, which Zapier's flood protection may hold back.

  • Same row, not twice

    Zapier remembers which rows it has already seen on a polling trigger, so one row does not start the Zap twice, even if it stays in the table.
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FAQ

Stackby and Zapier: common questions

01Is the Stackby Zapier integration free?
Yes, as long as the Zap has two steps. Stackby is not a premium app on Zapier, so it works on the free plan, which includes 100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps and a check for new rows every 15 minutes. The limit is the shape: one trigger and one action. As soon as you add a filter, a Search Row step or a second action, the Zap becomes multi-step, and publishing it needs a paid plan.
02How many tasks does a Stackby Zap use?
One task for each action that succeeds, and nothing for the rest. The trigger costs nothing, and neither do the checks Zapier runs on your table, however frequent. A Zap that creates a row in one table and updates a row in another uses two tasks every time it runs. An action that fails is not billed. Watch for loops: a Zap that updates the very table its Updated Rows trigger watches keeps running and eats tasks with every pass.
03Does Stackby send rows to Zapier in real time?
No. All three Stackby triggers are polling triggers: Zapier asks Stackby for new or changed rows at a fixed interval. That interval depends on the plan, 15 minutes on Free, 2 minutes on Professional, 1 minute on Team and Enterprise. Paid plans can also run a check by hand from the editor. The trigger type is set by the app, so there is no switch in Zapier to make it instant.
04What does it take to connect Stackby to Zapier?
A Stackby account and a Zapier account. From the Apps page, click + Add connection, pick Stackby, sign in to Stackby in the tab that opens and grant access. If the Zap must touch a workspace you do not own, you need read or write access to it. Then prepare the structure: every step asks for a workspace, a stack and a table, and the view trigger for a view, all of which must already exist in Stackby.
05Why can't Update Row find the right Stackby row?
Because Update Row needs to be told which row to change, and the trigger does not always carry it. When the data comes from another app, place a Search Row step before it: it looks in one column for the value you give, and its result feeds the row field. If several rows match, the search keeps the first by default, so pick a column whose values are unique, like an email or a reference.
06What if the Stackby operation you need is not on Zapier?
Then Zapier cannot do it for now. The list stops at three triggers, two actions and one search: there is no delete, and nothing that creates a table, a stack or a column. Two ways around it. Keep the structural work in Stackby and let the Zap handle only rows. Or look at what other platforms offer for Stackby, since each one exposes its own list of operations, and the right choice depends on that list.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Stackby?
Decide by criteria rather than by ranking. First, the operations: compare this page with what the other platform lists for Stackby and check that your flow is covered. Second, the cost model: Zapier bills each successful action, so short Zaps stay cheap. Third, who maintains the automation and which tool your team already uses. Laying both lists next to your actual flow settles it faster than any general verdict ever could.
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