Steps per Automations
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Automations consists of steps. It indicates any action on data, for example: sending data to Google Sheets or sending an SMS message. You can add to your active automation as many steps as your plan allows you.
Each automation has a trigger (event) and at least one action.
Every automation setup starts with specifying the following steps:
- What data do you want to get from one app?
- When do you want to get it?
- What action do you want to perform in another app?
Trigger
Trigger is an event that starts an automation. Triggers can be linked to a specific event that proceeds in real-time in the selected app.
Example: form submission, deal status updating, invoice payment.
Triggers also can be scheduled to start automations at a certain frequency.
Example: downloading expenses from an Ad account once a week or receiving stock balances every 5 minutes.
Action
Action is what Albato performs when your trigger occurs. Each completed action is considered as one Albato operation.
Summing up
The user submits a form – trigger.
Data from the form is transferred to Google Sheets – action.
Google Sheets creates a new row – operation.
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