Automations

Selecting your automation tool of choice.

With automation tools you can combine various tools with each other. In most cases you don't need to be a developer to do these things. But you will need an automation tool that simplifies this for you.

There's various automation tools. Zapier is the most well known automation tool with a higher price point and lots of compatible software to combine. However we prefer Make as it has a lower monthly fee, easy to understand as well and flexibility with routers. If you don't know what routers are, don't worry.

Beside Zapier and Make there's also opensource automation tools such as N8n. The power of opensource is that you only pay the monthly fee for hosting it and you get an unlimited amount of automations for that. You also host the tool yourself. And with that comes responsibilities to protect it yourself. Also you start to see a bit more code and things tend to get slighly more complicated.

So for the documentation here we use Make as the example. But you can always decide to use the other automation tools as well. It's mainly about understanding the principles.

If you have't created a Make account yet, feel free to use this link.