Formatting phone numbers with Formatter by Zapier

Telephone communication is not dead! Second to email, communicating with prospects, customers, and suppliers via telephone is an important part of any business. Being able to automate your telephone communications is a bonus. You may want to automatically send an SMS or voicemail to a prospect when they first make contact with you. However, sometimes, the telephone numbers that our contacts supply us with aren’t always in a format that we can use in other apps. Therefore, having the ability to automatically adjust and manipulate telephone numbers is crucial when you use multiple apps for communicating by telephone. That is where the Formatter by Zapier Numbers action event with the Format Phone Number transform option comes in.

Here are a few examples of when you can use this option:

• When you receive a lead with a cellphone number, and you want to change it to an internationally recognized format so that you can send...