React to app activity
Start workflows when records change, messages arrive, forms submit, or new files appear.
Smart Triggers
Start workflows exactly when work happens
Trigger workflows from the systems your team already uses. Capture business events in real time, on a schedule, or on demand, then route them into reliable automation.
Core Capabilities
What this feature helps your team do
Run on your timing
Use hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or custom schedules for repeatable operations.
Accept real-time signals
Receive external events through webhook endpoints and process them immediately.
Reliable starts
Every automation needs the right starting point
Smart triggers help teams reduce polling, manual checks, and missed handoffs by starting workflows from the source event.
- Event-based triggers
- Time-based schedules
- Manual and form-based starts
- Payload filtering before execution
How It Works
A practical path from setup to production
Select a source
Choose the app, schedule, webhook, or manual action that should start the workflow.
Filter the event
Only continue when the incoming data matches the rules you define.
Map payload data
Pass trigger data into every downstream step.
Monitor starts
Review when triggers fired and how each run performed.
Common Use Cases
Where teams use Smart Triggers
New lead follow-up
Invoice reminders
Incident escalation
Daily reporting workflows
Smart Triggers questions
Clear answers about how this capability fits into real workflow automation.
Workflows can start from app events, schedules, incoming webhooks, forms, and manual actions.
Yes. You can add rules so only relevant events continue into the workflow.
Yes. Trigger payloads are available to downstream actions, conditions, AI steps, and notifications.
Yes. You can run workflows at fixed intervals or recurring times for routine operations.
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