Business Tools Zapier support virtual real-time synchronization

Recently, according to foreign media reports, as an action trigger tool based on a variety of network applications, IFTTT can automatically complete a variety of combination tasks, it is mainly to support a range of consumer services, such as Dropbox, Twitter, Instagram and instapaper. Of the 46 services supported by IFTTT, there are no business tools, such as campaign Monitor, Basecamp, Asana, stripe, etc. This is exactly the problem zapier is trying to solve. The company, supported by the incubator Y Combinator, is known as the business version of IFTTT, and it allows non-literate users to easily link to unrelated APIs. For example, by Zapier, you can see all the Shopify sales on Google Calendar, or you'll get SMS alerts whenever someone registers your campaign monitor or Aweber email marketing Campaign.

This service is based on the drag-and-drop interface making it very easy to create a new association called ZAP. Users can use a variety of filter criteria to set up, such as the specific time of the trigger and trigger action settings. In addition, users can create their own trigger actions based on webhooks, thereby creating personalized integration.

Zapier itself positioning is also a business tool, the company has a very solid profit model. Zapier's free scheme is to allow the creation of 1 triggering associated action Zap, which will perform several triggering action checks every one hours. The payment scheme starts at $15 a month, allowing users to create 4 zap, support fast Sync, the highest price for 195 dollars a month, allow users to create 50 Zap, support virtual real-time synchronization. The high-end solution is to provide mobile support.

The company was previously located in Missouri and moved to California after seeking support for Y Combinator, but Zapier did not receive any outside funding from Y Combinator and the Affiliate start Fund, which has been operating autonomously so far. Zapier co-founder Wedforst (Wade Foster), whose idea was born last year on startup weekend. The service currently handles 1.5 million API requests a month, and the number of users is 1000.