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2. Triggers & Actions
Each automation (called a Zap) consists of a trigger and an action.
Hoops has 2 Trigger events & 2 Action events.
Triggers:
These are the things that happen in Hoops, which cause something else to happen in a 3rd party app.
The Hoops triggers are:
When a customer is created in Hoops
When a job is created in Hoops
For example, 'when a customer is created in Hoops (trigger), add the customer as a subscriber to a Mailchimp list (action)'.
The actions that follow a Hoops trigger are determined by the connected 3rd party app. Hoops can trigger thousands of actions across many software platforms.
Actions:
When something happens in a 3rd party app (the trigger), it can cause any of these actions in Hoops:
Create a customer in Hoops
Create a job in Hoops
For example: When a new order is received on Shopify (trigger) a new job for that order is created in Hoops (action).
Actions that are performed in Hoops can be triggered by many different things. Each 3rd party app will have a specific set of triggers that can cause an action in Hoops.
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