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Import contacts from a custom integration with Make.com
Import contacts from a custom integration with Make.com
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Our API allows teams to connect other software to folk through Make.com (formerly Integromat), to create, update or find people and companies.

Make.com automatically moves information between other applications you use every day and folk. It already supports thousands of other apps, such as Typeform, Calendly, Twitter, Docusign and many others.

Make.com lets you connect APP to 2,000+ other web services. Automated connections called scenarios, set up in minutes with no coding, can automate your day-to-day tasks and build workflows between apps that otherwise wouldn't be possible.

For example, you could be able to perform the following actions:

  • Add Typeform respondants answers to a group in folk

  • Add new Calendly meetings participants to a group in folk

  • Add new leads in Webflow to a group in folk

  • Add new followers on Twitter to a group in folk

  • Add new clients on Stripe to a group in folk

  • Add new signatories on Docusign to a group in folk

  • Add new community members on Discord to a group in folk

The possibilities are endless, check out Make’s list of apps you can connect to here.

How to setup a Make integration?

Let’s go for an example where we connect Typeform to folk, to import new leads whenever they fill in our Sales form.

First start by creating a group on folk, for example “New leads” (or use one of your existing groups).

If you don’t already have a Make account, you need to create one.

Then create a new scenario. Each scenario has a first module to define the trigger from your preferred app (where your information comes from). And second module to create one or more actions in other apps (where your data gets sent automatically).

1) Create the first module and select your trigger (what will trigger an automation to start)

  • Select App: Typeform

  • Select trigger event: Watch responses (Instant, ACID)

  • Create a Webhook (which means “create a connection to this app”) to connect your Typeform account to Make

You can decide in "schedule settings" to either immediately send data or choose you preferred interval. Usually we'll choose the 'immediately' option.

2) Set up a second module, for the associated action (where the data will be sent):

  • Select App: folk

  • Select Action: Create Person

  • Create a connection, to connect your folk account to Make (you can find the API key on your folk Settings: Go to the app.folk.app/settings and open the settings under the section "Integrations")

  • Map all the fields from your group with Typeform answers

And that’s it! You can test your Scenario before turning it on, using Run once. And enjoy your life while all your leads are imported on folk.

Actions to be setup with Make

Make works as an automation tool based on trigger-action loops. It helps you connect a tool to other tools, and whenever something happen in the first tool, you’ll be able to impact it on the second tool.

Create a person

This action helps you create a new person in folk from the data you’ll get from Make. No worries if that person already exists in folk, they will be deduplicated.

Create a company

This action helps you create a new company in folk from the data you’ll get from Make.

Find a person

This action helps you find the person_id on folk of a person based on their email or fullname.

Find a company

This action helps you find the company_id on folk of a company based on their email or company name.

Update a person

This action helps you update a person in folk. You need to provide person_id (that you can obtain through the action “Find a person”)

Update a company

This action helps you update a company in folk. You need to provide company_id (that you can obtain through the action “Find a company”)

Q&A

How can I add multiple entries (addresses, phones, URLs, emails, etc.)?

If you want to save multiple entries at once to a contact, you can create multiple entries from Make's configuration page:

How to create new select custom field values?

When you set a new value to a select custom field, we automatically create the new value if it doesn't exist already.

It applies to custom fields of type multi-select and single-select.

Which fields can be updated by the Zap?

  • All native fields (email, phone, address etc...)

  • Single-select custom fields

  • Multi-select custom fields

  • Date custom fields

  • Member custom fields

  • Number custom fields

  • Text custom fields

  • Contact custom fields

How to set up folk triggers?

In order to sync data from folk to your external tools, read this article here.

Useful articles

There are lots of useful guides in the Make help center - the most important ones:

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