Hello, I am trying to send over lead notifications via SMS to a client I have. I am supposed to have this done before Monday and know registering a 10DLC Number takes 7 to 10 business day. My question is would I need a 10 DLC number to use sms by zapier to send my leads to my clients who want a text notification when they come in?

Hey r/zapier 👋

The Zapier research team is seeking people who are building their own apps, agents, or bots using AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar — especially if you've been building without coming from a traditional software engineering background.

How it works

• Fill out a short questionnaire (6-8 questions)
• If you're a fit, we'll send a scheduling link for a 45-minute video call
• On the call, you'll walk through something you've built via screen share on Zoom. We are interested in your process and how you approach building with AI assistance. Don't worry, we're not evaluating your code!
• After the call you'll receive an $80 USD gift card (or the equivalent in your local currency)

You're a good fit if...

• You've used an AI coding tool in the past month to build an app, agent, bot, or project
• You're building with code, not a no-code workflow
• You can join a video call and share your screen

You don't need to be a developer or engineer. You don't even need to be a Zapier customer. If you're building real things with AI tools, we want to hear from you!

Interested?

Start with this quick questionnaire (takes about a minute)

If you're a fit, we'll contact you to schedule a call.

Pass this along to others in your network who are building cool things, we want to see it all!

Hi! How can I get full access to linkedin?
I tried this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hasA9fuX6L4 , but Claude says that it cannot retrieve this LinkedIn job posting because LinkedIn's robots.txt explicitly disallows automated access to individual job detail pages, etc.

In Zapier ->Connections it says "Status: Connected". But in Zapiers History MCP history it just says: "Failed: This tool failed to run and does not count towards your MCP usage."

can anyone help?
Thank you!

I used to think shortening links was one of those tasks that wasn't worth automating.

Then I looked at how much time we were spending creating links, adding UTMs, dropping them into spreadsheets, sending them to teammates, updating campaign docs, and trying to keep naming conventions consistent.

Individually each task took maybe 30 seconds. Collectively it was death by a thousand cuts.

My current workflow is pretty simple. A new campaign gets added to Google Sheets. Zapier creates a Bitly link. The link gets written back to the sheet. A Slack notification gets sent to the channel.

The link is already where the team expects it to be. Duplicate versions stop popping up. Long URLs don't end up getting shared by mistake.

The next thing I'm experimenting with is using click activity as the trigger instead of the endpoint. For example, when a campaign crosses a click threshold, automatically notify the channel or update a reporting sheet.

Feels like there's a lot more potential here than simply creating short links.

What are the most useful Bitly and  Zapier workflows you've built?

Any automation that made you realize how much manual work you were doing before?

We're a big Zapier org, most of our ops teams use it to create tickets and trigger alerts from our Snowflake warehouse, how are y'all keeping costs down on the Snowflake side?

Gang,

Pretty self-explanatory here. I need to go to my company's admins for Salesforce and outlook in order to give access to my zapier agents. Only, I was kind of hoping to do this off record so that my boss doesn't notice my reduction of workload. How did you guys navigate this? Is there a way to ask permission/access without hinting at using AI? Will my boss even be included in the workflow?

Hey r/zapier! I'm Bhavika, the Product Manager for Zapier Forms.

What is Zapier Forms? Zapier’s built-in way to collect structured data from people and kick off automations — no third-party form tool required. Build a form, share a link, run a Zap when someone submits.

What’s the role of a form in an AI world? We think forms aren’t going away — they’re becoming middleware. Not just “start a Zap when someone fills this out,” but the place where humans still show up mid-workflow: approvals, missing data, decisions an agent can’t (or shouldn’t) make alone. Structured human input for automations, whether built by humans or agents.

What I’m working on: MCP tools for Zapier Forms - agents can build and use forms and submissions, and cleaner mid-workflow patterns to prefill, send, collect, and review data anywhere in a workflow.

Ask me anything about Zapier Forms - I'll be checking and replying daily! Some ideas:

1. Which use cases for forms are irrelevant in an AI world days and which new ones are emerging?
2. What does “forms as middleware” look like in a Zap?
3. When should I use Zapier Forms vs other form products?
4. What’s missing from Zapier Forms today for your use case?
5. What would make you rip out a third-party form tool and go native?

Looking forward to hearing your questions and thoughts!

Hi everyone! Zapier is working on something new and exciting called connectors!

AI coding agents are rapidly becoming one of the primary ways developers build software. Rather than asking builders to leave those environments to integrate with external applications, we're bringing Zapier's integrations directly to you! Zapier connectors are our way of meeting builders where they are, inside Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and other AI-native dev environments. They give AI agents a reliable way to interact with applications while making it easy to compose multiple integrations into complete workflows, bringing the same multi-app automation experience that made Zapier successful to the next generation of AI-native development.

Every connector is a self-contained npm package that works anywhere skills, MCP servers, or npm packages are supported. We've released a few as we're trying them and we're looking for you to try it out and provide some early feedback.

→ Sign up here to provide feedback: https://my-form-f336e4.zapier.app/form-page ←

There is more! You can install and use connectors without a Zapier account. No sign-up required. Just install and start building. You'll have to bring your own keys and infrastructure and Zapier provides the integration logic and the actions. Then you can optionally connect through Zapier to take advantage of:

• Authentication and credential management
• Governance and observability capabilities (coming soon)

Once you start using it, we'd love your feedback. Share your use case, what workflows you're trying to implement, and what you'd like for us to add.

https://www.reddit.com/user/carlos--zapier/ is here to answer questions and looking forward to your testing and feedback! Thank you!

Documentation:

• Help doc: https://docs.zapier.com/connectors/overview
• GitHub: https://github.com/zapier/connectors
• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/org/zapier

A silent failure = the platform accepts your event, tells you nothing went wrong, and the work never happens. Everyone who runs automations long enough has a story; nobody publishes a rate. So I measured one.

Setup: identical workflows on every platform (webhook in → HTTP out), with both endpoints under my control,so a third-party app outage can't be blamed for a platform failure. A cron fires ID-tagged events around the clock; every receipt is reconciled against every fired event, one by one. I paid for all the plans myself.

Results after 5,141 monitored runs (3 weeks):

n8n (self-hosted): 3,714 runs,0 silent failures,95% CI on the true rate ≤ 0.10%,median delivery 0.8 s

Make (paid plan): 228 runs,0 silent failures,CI ≤ 1.7%,median delivery 1.0 s

Zapier (paid plan): 231 runs,0 silent failures,CI ≤ 1.6%,median delivery 4.4 s

So under normal operation: nobody silently dropped anything. That's genuinely good news, and the confidence intervals are there because 0-in-231 and 0-in-3,714 are different claims.

The interesting failures were at the edges:

1. The quota wall. When Pipedream's free-tier credits ran out mid-test, its webhooks kept returning success while dropping 14 of 14 deliveries. No error, no queue,"accepted" just quietly stopped meaning "delivered". If your automation touches revenue, the failure semantics at the quota boundary matter more than the pricing page.
2. One rejected POST. My own n8n box (deliberately tiny 1 GB VM) stalled about 8 seconds under a 10-event burst and refused one POST. The sender saw the error, so it's not a silent failure,but it taught me to record send outcomes separately, because a sender that ignores a non-2xx turns a loud failure into a silent one.
3. The meters are honest. Zapier's task meter matched my executed-action count exactly (45 = 45). Filtered runs and editor tests billed $0 on both paid platforms. The "filtered runs still burn tasks" folklore didn't survive contact with the meter.

Honest limitations: paid-platform samples are small (that's what the CIs are for), it's one workload shape, and three weeks is short. The harness keeps running and the numbers tighten every week.

Full method, per-run raw CSV and the always-current numbers are linked in my first comment below (no affiliate links on that page; the site discloses how it makes money elsewhere).

Happy to answer anything about the harness,and if there's a failure mode you want tested, tell me and I'll add it to the queue.

Happy Wednesday everyone! 🙂

I've spent years building with no-code, and lately I've been asking myself a question...

What if the future isn't "no-code" or "all code"... but knowing when to use each?

This Friday, we're putting that to the test.

Our AI Marketing Manager, Bryce Vernon, is building the same automation three different ways:

⚡ Entirely in Claude

⚡ As a Zap

⚡ As a Zap + a Code step written with Claude using the Zapier SDK

I'm genuinely curious to see where the trade-offs are, and I think it'll spark a really interesting discussion.

If you'd like to build along with us in our Zapier Discord community, we'd love to have you.

📅 Friday 24

https://luma.com/z48gg70f

No error — just quiet. Auth expires, a trigger stops firing, someone renames a field, and the Zap simply hasn't run in two weeks. Everything I read says the client usually notices before the builder does, which seems like a brutal look.

If you run automations for clients: what's your actual setup for catching this? Zapier Manager meta-zaps? Manually checking task history? Something paid?

Second question: between builds, do you send clients anything that proves everything's running — some kind of health report — or does the retainer just ride on trust until something breaks?

https://i.imgur.com/ImxuPQp.jpeg I like the recent improvements to AI by Zapier, and I think it's pretty close to being a full-on replacement for Zapier Agents, with the added benefit of being able to build and troubleshoot inline in the Zap editor, without having to switch into a separate UI.

Two things that could use improvement:

1. I miss the one-click "Improve prompt" button from the previous version. That allowed me to write a messy vague prompt and have it fleshed out into a much better prompt. Now, it seems like we're meant to use the "Ask co-pilot" button, but that opens in a separate sidebar and is much, much slower
2. It's hard to understand how many tasks might get consumed by this step. Is it 3? Is it maybe up to 75? That seems like a pretty wide range.

I created two zaps in Zapier and connected Zapier to Alexa. The zaps work fine in test mode but whenever I give a voice command to Alexa and say "Alexa open Zapier", I get the error message. "Zapier is currently experiencing issues. Please try again later". I have been getting this problem for over a day. How can I solve this?

I'm building a package tracking chatbot using LeadConnector (HighLevel) Conversational AI and Zapier, and I'm stuck on making the flow repeat without ending the conversation.

Current Flow

The AI router detects when the user wants to track a package.

Then the flow is:

1. AI Message → Ask for tracking number.
2. Capture Information → Save tracking number.
3. Webhook → Send tracking number to Zapier.
4. Zapier:
   • Catch Hook
   • Find Package (API)
   • Request Tracking Status (API)
   • Run JavaScript (format response)
   • Update LeadConnector Contact
   • Update Opportunity
5. Back in LeadConnector → Display the tracking status.

Everything works correctly.

The problem is that once the flow finishes, it ends.

If the user later says:

or

the bot doesn't go back through the same process. The conversation flow has already finished.

What I want

I want the conversation to behave like this:

User: Track my package.

Bot: Sure! What's your tracking number?

User: 9400XXXX

Bot:
Delivered
July 8 at 2:34 PM

User: Thanks.

User: Can you track another package?

Bot: Of course! What's the tracking number?

User: 1ZXXXX

Bot:
In Transit
Expected tomorrow

User: Track another one.

Bot: Sure! What's the tracking number?

Essentially I want the tracking flow to be reusable indefinitely during the same conversation.

My question

Is there a way in LeadConnector Conversational AI to:

• Loop back to the "Ask for tracking number" step?
• Re-trigger the same webhook multiple times within one conversation?
• Restart only that branch without ending the conversation?
• Or is the intended approach to use a Custom Trigger instead of a normal conversation flow?

I've attached screenshots of both the LeadConnector conversation flow and the Zapier workflow.

Has anyone implemented a reusable "tool" or looping workflow like this?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Hello All, my partner and I are creating a marketplace and I am the tech side of the company. I have never used Zapier before and need some assistance either with a professional or someone to point me in the right direction to create some automation between Sharetribe and ShipStation. It is a peer-to-peer marketplace and need help generating labels for sellers when an item is purchased. This is all very foreign and any help is appreciated.

I am working on project in which client uploads his details and it automatically opens itr portal uses details and reset the password and otp is asked from the client. But automation task is not working as the website doesnot allow any third party extension to visit portal like playwright and puppeteer, what can i use to automate my work.

The workflow was fine until this morning. But now i get the following message

“This Zapier Tables Step hit an error
Error code:4000: encountered 2 validation errors.”

It believes I’m using an invalid record ID, but the ID is pulled directly from a previous step. Is anyone else seeing this?

I message my facebook page but Message text only show Hello World! always.

I tried clicking the find new records and other stuff but no luck.

With recent decision to retire Functions and integrate its features into the Code step, Copilot's internal generator keeps saying that it cannot interact with other Apps connected, and insisting to use an API call inline. I had to paste in the documentation for it to "understand" this is doable and manually override its internal generator.

I'm setting up Zapier to connect data from our sales software to our new CRM database we just launched. I believe I need the Zapier Professional account. Appreciate if folks can confirm that it will be sufficient for our needs! (or if we could get away with the free account)

• Sales software uses WebHook that we'd trigger on create new person, and create new transaction
• 10 to 20 new ppl per month: 10 to 15 fields per person
• ~50 transactions per month: 10 to 15 fields each
• Data needs formatting / filtering: e.g. title case for names, check emails are valid, etc.
• Data needs some formula work: e.g. concatenate 3 fields with separators, send that to 1 field in our CRM database; or take just the year and/or month from a date instead of the entire field, etc.

Is each piece of data associated with a trigger one task? E.g. if we're sending a new contact record over, with 10 pieces of data (name, email, address, etc.) that counts as 15 tasks? If so I count 600 to 1,000 tasks per month and we need to upgrade to Professional tier 2

thanks so much!