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title: "What is Zapier"
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description: "What Zapier is and how it connects infoodle to 9,000+ apps: paid plan needed for Zaps over 2 steps, example automations, and links to triggers and actions."
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.infoodle.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Zapier

[Zapier](https://zapier.com/) is a product - external to infoodle - that enables you to automate tasks that connect thousands of products to infoodle without any technical knowledge. Zapier is a paid for service that is charged directly to you on a monthly basis dependent on the number of tasks that you perform. There is a free plan but to get the best out of it you will need a paid plan, for instance, usually a Zap (a single automation) requires more than 2 steps - and that requires a paid plan. See [their pricing page](https://zapier.com/pricing){target=`_blank`} for more information.

**Why would I use Zapier** Many organisations use a variety of software solutions to be able to solve their administrative needs. These are often online and many of them have integrations with Zapier. The more you can maintain a single source of truth for your data the better your outcomes will be. Software vendors like infoodle can build and maintain specific integrations to a few systems, but using tools like Zapier means that you can connect over 9,000 applications.

**Example usage** Some examples to get you thinking:

1. When a person is added to your Humanitix event, add them to infoodle
2. When an email is received in my Gmail account, summarise it with AI and add a note to my record in infoodle
3. When a new donation appears in Raisely, add that to infoodle

The example below will keep checking a Google Sheet. When it's changed by you or some other task it will pick up the details and pass to infoodle to add a new person. This example is a 2 step task.

![Image](https://cdn.document360.io/d198920d-a212-4177-85f9-e1abc92e7ab3/Images/Documentation/image-1UN9YZ78.png)

To see what features are available refer to the following:

- Triggers. [Which activities in infoodle can trigger a Zap](/v1/docs/processes-in-infoodle-that-trigger-zapier), i.e. what can start an automation task
- Read Actions. [What actions are available to get data out of infoodle](/v1/docs/actions-to-read-data-from-infoodle)
- Write Actions. [What actions are available to add or update data in infoodle](/v1/docs/actions-to-write-data-to-infoodle)