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Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI

You're reading from   Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI Harness the power of no-code workflow automation and AI with Zapier to increase business productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803239842
Length 706 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Zapier
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Process Automation with Zapier FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Preparing to Automate Your Processes 4. Chapter 3: Building Your First Automated Workflow (Zap) 5. Chapter 4: Managing Your Zaps 6. Chapter 5: Troubleshooting and Handling Zap Errors 7. Part 2: Customizing Your Zaps with Built-in Apps by Zapier – Functionality and Practical Uses
8. Chapter 6: Creating Multi-Step Zaps and Using Built-In Apps 9. Chapter 7: Getting Started with Built-In Apps 10. Chapter 8: Built-In Communication Apps 11. Chapter 9: Exploring Built-In Apps for Extracting and Compiling Data 12. Chapter 10: Other Useful Built-In Apps by Zapier 13. Chapter 11: Advanced Built-In Apps by Zapier 14. Chapter 12: Managing Your Zapier Account with Built-In Apps 15. Chapter 13: Newly Released Apps and Features 16. Part 3: Using the Features of the Formatter by Zapier Built-In App
17. Chapter 14: Formatting Date and Time 18. Chapter 15: Formatting Numbers 19. Chapter 16: Text Formatting Functions in Zapier – Part 1 20. Chapter 17: Text Formatting Functions in Zapier – Part 2 21. Chapter 18: Zapier’s Utilities Functions 22. Part 4: Getting the Most Out of Zapier
23. Chapter 19: AI and Automation 24. Chapter 20: Automating Your Marketing Processes 25. Chapter 21: Automating Your Sales Processes 26. Chapter 22: Automating Your Operations Processes 27. Chapter 23: Automating Your Finance and Reporting Processes 28. Chapter 24: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices to Enhance Your Productivity 29. Chapter 25: Challenging Your Problem-Solving and Zap-Building Skills 30. Assessments 31. Index 32. Other Books You May Enjoy

Delay by Zapier – adding delays to your Zaps

The Delay by Zapier app allows you to add time delays to subsequent action steps. This can be extremely useful in both simple and more complex workflows where you may want to prevent further action steps from running for a set period or until a specific time.

Important note

The maximum time a delayed task can be held is 1 month – that is, 31 days.

This app can only be used as an action step and added after a trigger step or between action steps to delay the running of subsequent action steps. The following action events can be used:

  • Delay For (action)
  • Delay Until (action)
  • Delay After Queue (action)

Let’s look at each.

The Delay For action event

This action event waits for a set amount of time before running any further actions in the Zaps. Here are a few examples of how to use the Delay by Zapier Delay For action event:

  • When a Typeform web form has been submitted, send an...
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