Automations

Toggle-on system templates and build your own custom flows.

14 articles
Basics3 / 3
Automations overview
The Automations hub — system templates you can toggle on, and a full builder for custom flows.
Viewing automation runs and step timelines
See every automation that fired, drill into a single run, and debug a failed step.
Organizing automations into folders
Group built-in messages and your own automations into folders you open, create and move things between.
System templates5 / 5
System templates catalog
Every built-in email and text, what it's called on the Automations page, when it sends and who gets it.
Enabling SMS-based automations
Customer texts need business texting and an approved registration — here's how to set it up and turn the texts on.
Membership renewal and dunning emails
The five membership emails: late payment, pause warning, pause notice, price change and win-back.
Overdue invoice reminders
Text customers at 7, 14 and 30 days past due, which invoices qualify, and what they receive.
Changing the wording of a built-in message
Rewrite the subject and message of any built-in reminder, receipt or text in the builder; what triggers it stays the same.
Building custom automations6 / 6
Building a custom automation
A walkthrough of the automation builder — trigger, steps, save and activate.
Automation triggers catalog
Every event that can start a custom automation — customers, jobs, appointments, estimates, invoices, payments, memberships, calls and inbound webhooks.
Automation actions catalog
Send texts and emails, look up or update customers, jobs, invoices and memberships, add notes, assign techs, or call another app.
Filters, paths, and delays
Only continue when a condition is true, split into branches, or wait between steps.
Triggering automations from an inbound webhook
Give any outside system a URL that fires an automation when it POSTs JSON.
Variables and step outputs in messages
Personalize texts and emails with customer, business and call details, and results from earlier steps.