Zapier: Workflow Automation

I didn't like the tool or the fee structure (paying for each zap was completely unreasonable and made us look for an alternative). We were attempting to use it to integrate Shopify data into Pipedrive. It was very limited in what it could do, and again, annoyingly expensive since we receive dozens of orders, draft orders and customer contact updates so we decided to pay a consultant to set up the integration using n8n https://n8n.io/. Now we have a full integration that does exactly what we need it to do with no overhead costs and almost no maintenance. When I realized we were still paying for Zapier 6 months later, they did not want to refund any of the fees even though we had not been using their service. My mistake but it was overall, a very disappointing customer experience and i'm so happy that a better alternative exists.

After using Zapier for years, one day one of our Shopify stores stopped connecting. Every time we're trying to connect it to Zapier, we get "This auth is expired. Please reconnect it here."
- No matter what we tried, Zapier will not connect to our store out of a sudden.
- Their customer service pretty much said we're on our own after years of working with them and they can't help us. They will file a ticket internally and only IF there is enough complaints like this, then someone will work on this issue.

Zapier is an amazing tool. Their support is also quite incredible. When you have those moments of frustration with native integrations, Zapier comes to the rescue. In our case, that means automatically adding new Shopify contacts to Zendesk. We also use it to drive facebook leads to mailchimp for lead generation campaigns.