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Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI - Second Edition

By : Kelly Goss
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Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI - Second Edition

By: Kelly Goss

Overview of this book

Organizations experience significant issues with productivity when dealing with manual and repetitive tasks. Automate it with Zapier and Generative AI, second edition has been extensively revised to help you analyze your processes and identify repetitive tasks that can be automated between 6000+ cloud-based business applications. This book includes all Zapier’s newest features such as AI functionality using the ChatGPT plugin, drafts, reordering and duplicating steps and paths, subfolders and version history, as well as built-in apps such as Looping, Sub-Zap, Interfaces, Tables, and Transfer. The chapters also contain examples covering various use cases sourced from the Zapier user community. You'll learn how to implement automation in your organization along with key principles and terminology, and take the first steps toward using Zapier. As you advance, you'll learn how to use Zapier’s native functionality and all 27 built-in apps such as Filter, Paths, Formatter, Digest, and Scheduler to enable you to build multi-step Zaps. You’ll also discover how to manage your Zapier account effectively, as well as how to troubleshoot technical problems with your workflows, and use the OpenAI integration to automate AI tasks. By the end of this book, you'll be able to automate your manual and repetitive tasks using Zapier.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Zapier
7
Part 2: Customizing Your Zaps with Built-in Apps by Zapier – Functionality and Practical Uses
16
Part 3: Using the Features of the Formatter by Zapier Built-In App
22
Part 4: Getting the Most Out of Zapier

Automating accounting processes with the Xero integration

Xero is a popular cloud-based accounting package used by small- and medium-sized businesses. With Xero, you can manage your accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, as well as manage expense claims and payroll and track inventory projects. You can create and send quotes, sales invoices, and purchase orders, and you can comprehensively report on your financials. You can also connect payment processing solutions such as PayPal, GoCardless, and Stripe to help you get paid faster by your customers. The ability to connect bank feeds to Xero automates part of the transaction reconciliation process, removing the need to manually import bank statements and transaction line entries. Depending on your location, you can submit tax returns and pay bills straight from Xero. Xero also allows you to handle multiple currencies.

Xero natively integrates with hundreds of other apps to allow you to connect other parts of your business...