Integrating Pie with other Apps using the Zapier API

You can use Zapier as the integration platform to connect Pie with over 1500 other applications such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, and hundreds more. You need an "Organization" object in your account to set obtain the Zapier API key for any integrations you set up. This key access is available with any organization object setup as a Pro or Enterprise account and it will also work with the free organization in trial or downgraded mode.

What's Zapier and what's a Zap?

Zapier is the glue that connects your Pie projects with more than 1,500 other web apps. 

You can create a "Zap" which is a workflow that connects a Pie event, such as message posted or task updated with an event in the destination app, such as Slack, MS Teams, Outlook, etc. You can also set up a reverse integration, such as an event in another app triggers an event in Pie.

Zapier does all the back-end lifting for you. Zapier provides you with a set of step-by-step clicks for setting up an integration. All the coding is already done for you. You can set up a new Zap under 15 minutes!

Video #1 — How-To Set Up an Integration with Zapier

How to create a Zap integration with Pie

This is a generic walk-through on how to create a Zap integration between Pie and other apps.

1. Sign up here with a Zapier account. It's free.
2. After you sign up, click here to go to the get early access to Pie Zaps invite page. 
3. On that page, click the blue "start using Pie now" button to bring you to the invite page. 
4. Click the orange accept button.
5. You will land on the My Zaps page of your new account.
6. Click the Make a Zap! button.
7. In the upper left, enter a name for your Zap that is descriptive as to what it does.
8. Follow the steps in the above video to create and test your new Zap.

Video #2 — Example Use Case Integration with Slack

Pie Zapier Triggers

As of this moment, Pie Zaps can only work with Pie zap "triggers". Pie zaps do not have any "actions" yet. This means, a Pie trigger event can cause an action in another Zapier member product that accepts Pie's trigger.

The following are the four Pie triggers:

- New post

- Updated post 

- New task

- Updated task