The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Use one of the Zap templates below to easily send new Grain recordings to Slack , Gmail , or Discord as soon as they become available.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

And then I tried onboarding a new teammate while on holiday; my "clear" instructions unleashed a flood of confused Slack messages. It's about making the invisible visible so that work can happen without the constant questions, dropped balls, and frantic Slack messages.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Today you can make calls using FaceTime, Messenger, WhatsApp, or dozens of other call apps, and virtual phone systems do the same for your office number. Download an app to start making calls from a desktop, laptop, and mobile phone in a matter of minutes. Getting started with VoIP is super simple. Select your phone number(s).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I tested both apps to see how their features compare and what teams they're best for. Integrating Zendesk and Jira Zendesk vs. Jira Service Management FAQ Zendesk vs. Jira at a glance Both Zendesk and Jira offer ticket management solutions, but it's not really fair to compare the two platforms apples to apples.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

" I can also share saved posts directly with my virtual assistant , which makes it easier to collaborate without sending a million Slack messages. Use Zapier's LinkedIn Ads integration to connect your ads with your CRM, get notified about new leads, and follow up with them. But it goes beyond that.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Popular accounts payable automation software How to integrate invoice automation with your business systems Supercharge your invoice automation with AI What is invoice automation?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. With it, you can store data, trigger automations, and connect all your organization's apps and workflows to your spreadsheet data. Here are five ways to get started.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Table of contents How to set up an on-call agent Set up your agent's instructions Configure your action apps Test and turn on your agent Before you begin Make sure your team's on-call rotation schedule is clearly set up in your Google Calendar. You can trigger events on a schedule or when something happens in another app.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

At Zapier , ours is mostly emoji reactions—or reacji, as Slack calls them. Make Slack a more productive place to work Automate Slack As a fully-remote company , reacji allow us to quickly respond to messages without creating unnecessarily long threads with "I agree" and "aww" (for dog photos, obviously).

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. There's no one single best AP automation software.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

From CRMs to helpdesks, project management platforms, and beyond, it's down to IT to manage those apps, assign seats, and monitor their infrastructure. But when those apps don't work well together or connect through an integration, IT teams end up with fragmented systems and siloed apps. Did you know?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

If your automation platform doesn't integrate broadly—or needs too much dev work to stitch things together—it's hard to scale automation across the organization. Here are a few of the most common approaches to enterprise automation (each of which might use a mix of BPA, RPA, integrations, rule-based automation, and AI).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Google's Gemini era has been in full swing over the past year, integrating its Gemini family of AI models into nearly every corner of its product suite—from Google search to Google Workspace and beyond. But you can take its capabilities even further with Zapier's Google AI Studio integration. Here's how. Here's how.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With Zapier's ChatGPT integration , you automate everything from intelligent sales outreach, content marketing generation, or even image creation. Table of contents Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration? Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration? You can see the full list of models here.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Table of contents: Free CRM template for Google Sheets How to build a CRM in Google Sheets in 4 steps Connect Google Sheets to your other apps with Zapier Graduate to a simple CRM Free CRM template for Google Sheets To follow along with this process, I've created a free Google Sheets CRM template you can use.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Starting a new job is already a nerve-racking parade of awkward handshakes, mysterious Slack channels, and wondering if it's too soon to take your first bathroom break. It's a smarter, faster way to set up employees with all the apps, permissions, and hardware they need before they even figure out where the bathroom is.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

" Think: the colleague who regularly sends you three Slack updates and a meeting agenda by 8 a.m. Other times, it's reading a book or playing with dozens of apps to find the best one. Alternatively, you can Zapier to automatically create calendar events from your preferred to-do app.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Get started But pair Claude with Zapier, and it becomes part of something bigger: an AI orchestration engine that connects your apps, data, and logic across your entire processes. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. The best part? Try Zapier MCP!

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier Add that to the "pudding will get hot when heated" warning and the trademark "shower cap fits only one head" disclaimer, and you've got yourself an era in which communication plans are not only a helpful organizational tool but a very necessary one.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

I considered and researched dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top 20 contenders to narrow it down to these eight form plugins for WordPress. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

A2A lets autonomous AI agents discover one another, advertise their capabilities, and exchange structured messages so they can work together in multi-agent systems without bespoke integrations. AI integration AI integration embeds AI capabilities into an existing product, workflow, or infrastructure.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Although you can customize the template to build your own process (like collecting information from RSS feeds or sending automated daily reports to Slack ), we'll keep things simple for this guide. Click on the button below, then follow the steps to customize your agent.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

While Notion operates as a broader productivity tool to manage your projects, knowledge, and files, Obsidian works more as a highly flexible writing app. This process is unlike what you'd come across on any other note-taking app, which can make it confusing if you're not a deep tinkerer.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 8, 2025

Zoom has cemented its status as the default video conferencing app, no matter if you're working remotely full time or just hop on an occasional video call. Zapier is a no-code automation tool that lets you connect your apps into automated workflows, so that every person and every business can move forward at growth speed.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went. Though both can do many similar things, Airtable is a database app and Google Sheets is a spreadsheet app. But not a lot else. Unless you're really , really , really into it.)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

But that doesn't mean relying only on text-based communications, like an email or Slack message. Or if you want to record your screen and your face at the same time, these screen recording apps will do the trick. At Zapier , we're huge proponents of collaborating asynchronously. Here's how to use it.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier That's what project management templates are to project managers: replicable systems of organization that keep everything efficiently structured. Your team even gets a Slack notification so no one's left wondering what changed and when.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

was designed for SaaS revenue teams who have to manage information across many channels, including email, calendars, web conferences, Slack, CRM tools, LinkedIn and WhatsApp. integrates with different apps, surfaces key data and delivers it to the most convenient collaboration tool for a team, like Slack.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Staffbase claims its advantages are that it brings together mobile employee apps and intranets into one platform, as well as integrating with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, as well as the messaging platform Slack. In the category of intranets, competitors include Simpplr (raised $29.1 million) and Unily (raised $68 million).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Mio , a startup that helps enterprise teams collaborate across messaging services like Zoom Chat, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Cisco’s Webex, today announced that it has raised an $8.7 “When a Teams user wants to send a message to a Slack user, it will go over the Wide Area Network for workplace communications. .”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. Collectively, it says it now secures apps covering 78 million users and 230 million exposed data records and more than 9 billion monthly events.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

doubled down on the future of remote work by integrating its product with meeting apps like Zoom and Google Meet. Otter.ai’s service offers an easy way to record meetings, whether in-person through an app on your phone, or online through its integrations with popular web conferencing apps.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Slack : Offering open communication through file transfers, instant messaging and private channels, this platform is very user-friendly. Its many features and integration capabilities make it quite popular with developers and designers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Used by companies such as Calendly, Slack and Dropbox, product-led growth is a strategy in which a company iterates its product to create loyal fans-turned-customers who popularize the product with others, creating a viral growth loop. In early iterations of the app, Duo was present but static, more of an icon than a personality.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He decided to code an app that would collect recordings of students saying their names and deliver them to name readers for graduation, which became Namecoach. NameShouts offers a robust set of name pronunciation tools, as does Facebook, Slack and LinkedIn. Shanbhag started dabbling in programming while working on his Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pipefy uses if/then conditionals to automate process phases and, in essence, unify a variety of collaboration channels — such as Slack and spreadsheets — into one portal. Describing Pipefy as a horizontal platform, Alionço said that it is “vertical and industry agnostic.”

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

When the idea of starting a business is pitched, it is human nature to get excited about it, but when the actual work begins, team members may slack off and fade away. to different Slack channels and set up notifications. Making use of integrations like this means we’re leveraging technology to keep each other accountable.

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