Automation Ideas with N8N Low-Code/No-Code Tool

If there's a new order in e-shop ➡️ Email / SMS / Team Chat / Slack

If you run a e-commerce business with smaller team then you want to make sure that your customers' new orders get processed quick.

Upvotes: ⭐16       Difficulty: 🔧

If there's a new important (or with certain label) email ➡️ Team Chat / Messenger / SMS

This is for those who get too many emails and are missing sometimes some important emails

Upvotes: ⭐15       Difficulty: 🔧

If there's a new item in CMS or Database or Spreadsheet ➡️ Send Notification or any other custom business logic

For example, if there's a new item in the "website_contact_forms" table then we want a high-priority notification to not miss it.

Upvotes: ⭐14       Difficulty: 🔧

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If there's a new task in Jira/Trello/Asana/TODO list ⬅️➡️ Add the task into another app

Also, you could add (every time) something happens a notification to the team chat channel, push notification, or into any messenger.

Upvotes: ⭐12       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

If there's a new contact in HubSpot or any other CRM or Google Contact ➡️ Add the contact also to another CRM, Spreadsheet, CMS

Or add to Salesforce or any other marketing tool as most of them have a nice API these days.

Upvotes: ⭐12       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

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New item in the spreadsheet or CMS ➡️ Generate and email PDF invoice

The flow could go on after invoice generation: Check from Wise API or email from you bank if the invoice is paid ➡️ mark the invoice "PAID" ➡️ Notify in Chat / SMS. And check daily invoices due dates and send reminders if overdue.

Upvotes: ⭐12       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

If a new customer or employee is added ➡️ create accounts with right roles in all apps you use

Google Spreadsheet, CMS, ATS, CRM, ERP ➡️ create team chat account, CMS access, whatever other accesses + run whatever other onboarding logic & send welcome email

Upvotes: ⭐12       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

When someone emails you PDF invoice ➡️ Add it to accounting app or Google Spreadsheet and notify certain people

Can utilise OCR to read from PDF data that will be added to your accounting software, for example. If there’s a new PDF invoice from somebody or new e-shop order then save it in the accounting software.

Upvotes: ⭐11       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

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Daily check recurring payments Spreadsheet, CMS or Google Calendar ➡️ Charge with Stripe & send invoice

Upvotes: ⭐11       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

Connect N8N ⬅️➡️ Zapier or IFTTT

N8N is so much better and you have from €1 per month all the features but sometimes some service might be easier with one of those. Integration between them is easy.

Upvotes: ⭐10       Difficulty: 🔧

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Sync PostgreSQL, MySQL, Any API/Database/Webhook ⬅️➡️ Google Spreadsheet, Email, Team Chat, or any API/App

Everything is possible to connect today. Almost every app has a API and most of the APIs are nicely documented and work well

Upvotes: ⭐10       Difficulty: 🔧

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Team chat/email ⬅️➡️ Another chat, SMS, email, push notification

Customers use Slack or Teams and you use Discord? Or you want to mirror maybe WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Zulip, MatterMost, RocketChat

Upvotes: ⭐10       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

If you arrive some street/area ➡️ Open the gate and switch the lights on

Or there could be more if statements related for example to the weather, time, if someone else at home/office

Upvotes: ⭐9       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

If there's a new file in FTP, Google Drive, DropBox or in your laptop/phone ➡️ send it to some API, CMS, Spreadsheet, or email

Upvotes: ⭐9       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

Google Drive or any Cloud Storage ➡️ Amazon Transcribe speech to text ➡️ Add text back to Drive or send somewhere else

When you add a new file to specific folder in DropBox or wherever really then it it will become a text and will be stored or sent to certain people.

Upvotes: ⭐9       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

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Whatever trigger ➡️ Push notification with Gotify.net or SMS/email

Or for iOS the Pushover paid service

Upvotes: ⭐7       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

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If there's a certain weather condition tomorrow (eg. heavy rain) ➡️ Email / SMS / Messenger

Have a look at the data that you get in a few clicks in your fingertips and many ideas will start popping into your mind.

Upvotes: ⭐6       Difficulty: 🔧

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Actions between Home Assistant, Google Home ⬅️➡️ whatever logic, trigger, action, automation or notification

If the temperature in in the building <15C turn on the heating or switch off the lights when everybody have left.

Upvotes: ⭐6       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧🔧

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If there's a new event in CMS, Google Calendar, or iCloud Calendar ➡️ add the event to another calendar or spreadsheet/CMS

And maybe also send a chat, SMS, Discord, Team Chat or any other message

Upvotes: ⭐3       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

If day's max temperature at sundown >35C ➡️ water pot plants

Upvotes: ⭐3       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

If I add a new product ➡️ Get AI written product description and add the product to the ERP

Or maybe create a Google Translate translations of the product in other languages.

Upvotes: ⭐3       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

If the payment received ➡️ Can open the door/gate to enter somewhere

This is a solution we have built to multiple rental businesses, museums, and similar.

Upvotes: ⭐2       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

Movement in front of cheap <€40 IP camera ➡️ Send the picture or video to chat or email

Whatever business logic can be applied. For example, one of our customers gets information about a warehouse worker's working hours. Eg. from camera movements it's known how many hours was worked last week.

Upvotes: ⭐2       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧🔧

If there is a new post in social media (with certain hashtag) ➡️ Notify in Slack, Zulip, Team Chat, Discord, or Telegram

Upvotes: ⭐2       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

If there is certain health info from the smartwatch ➡️ send some notification message somewhere

Upvotes: ⭐1       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

Save to the spreadsheet or CMS who attended Discord #meeting or #daily-standup to generate statistics

Upvotes: ⭐1       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

Post into multiple social media channels, email lists, WhatsApp groups or SMS

Upvotes: ⭐1       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

Send alert when some product back in stock or plane tickets / products / stock markets cheaper than €X

Upvotes: ⭐0       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

If there's a new free games notification from r/gamedeals ➡️ send me a push notification

Upvotes: ⭐0       Difficulty: 🔧🔧

If there's a new playing card related Kickstarter campaign ➡️ send Discord, chat, or email message

Upvotes: ⭐0       Difficulty: 🔧

Convert RSS or web page feeds into team chat channel notifications

Upvotes: ⭐0       Difficulty: 🔧🔧🔧

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