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Last month, WooCommerce announced that it had officially integrated the platform with Zapier, a service that makes automated updates for you.

The WooCommerce Zapier extension includes triggers that can be set up to send new (paid) orders to Zapier or when an order changes status. From there, you have many possibilities for automation.

The combination of a trigger and an action, on Zapier, is referred to as a “Zap”. Each time a zap is triggered, this is referred to as a “Task”.

Here is an example of some of the things you can do with Zapier in WooCommerce:

• Create a new Xero invoice for new WooCommerce orders.
• Create a new Contact in Xero when WooCommerce orders are paid for.
• Create a new Freshbooks Client from a new WooCommerce Order.
• Add a new row to a Google Docs spreadsheet when a WooCommerce New Order is received and paid for.
• Send a notification email via your Gmail service when a WooCommerce New Order is received.
• Send an email notification when a WooCommerce order changes status. Combine this with a custom filter if you want to limit the email to a specific status, for example, when an order status changes to refunded
• Add a Highrise Comment when a WooCommerce Order changes status
• Adds your paying WooCommerce customers to your MailChimp mailing list
• WooCommerce New Order to Campaign Monitor List
• Append a new line to a CSV file in a Drobpox folder when WooCommerce New Orders are received.
• Send your customer an SMS notification whenever their order’s status changes.
• Send your customer an SMS notification when their order has been received and paid for.
• Create a ZenDesk ticket when a WooCommerce order changes status. Use this Zap with a custom filter to customise it for a specific status – for example, when an order changes status to refunded.

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