Blog > Connecting Zapier and Mapulus
David Herse | June 07, 2023
Zapier is known for its ability to automate tasks between different web applications, and connecting it to Mapulus allows you to automate various tasks related to location insights. For example, you can set a trigger in Zapier to automatically create a location in Mapulus whenever a customer is registerd in your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. By incorporating customer locations into Mapulus, businesses unlock a trove of geographical insights. These insights aren’t just data points; they serve as a strategic compass, guiding targeted marketing campaigns, refining logistics planning, and deepening understanding of customer demographics and behaviours. It’s a tool that elevates decision-making and sharpens business strategies.
Here’s how to get started.
Before you can connect Mapulus to Zapier, you’ll need to generate an API key. This will allow Zapier to access your Mapulus data. If you don’t have a Mapulus account you can create one for free at app.mapulus.com.
Select the access privileges you’d like the API key to have. In this step, you’re defining what actions the generated API key will have the authority to perform within your Mapulus account. The access privileges can be categorised under four main actions: Create, Read, Update, and Destroy for Locations, and Read for Maps.
Destroy grants the API key the ability to delete data.
Consider what your Zapier integration will need to do. Ideally, you should limit the access privileges of the API key to only what is necessary. This is a security best practice known as the principle of least privilege (PoLP), which minimizes the potential damage if the API key is ever compromised.
Note: Handle your API Identifier and API Secret with high confidentiality, akin to your password, and never expose them publicly. If you believe your API key has been compromised, revoke and replace it immediately.
Once your accounts are connected, you can set up triggers and actions. Triggers are events in one app that start a sequence of automated actions. Actions are the steps Zapier takes after a trigger occurs.
Here are the available triggers for Mapulus:
Note: These are polling triggers so it may take a little while for the Zap to trigger.
Here are the available actions for Mapulus:
You can read more about actions and triggers on the Zapier Website .
As a basic example, you could set a trigger so that each time a new location is added to a Google Spreadsheet, a new Location is added to the map.
To help you get started, we’ve also created a number of Zapier templates to intergrate with popular applications. You can check them out on our Zapier intergrations profile.
Once you’ve set up your triggers and actions, name your Zap and publish it. Zapier will now automatically perform the action whenever the trigger event occurs.
Congratulations! You’ve successfully connected Mapulus to Zapier.