Push “New Rating” to Slack via Zapier
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How to Push “New Rating” to Slack*
*or another team chat app like HipChat, Flowdock and many more
Why it's great
- get an instant notification about the new ratings -> react fast on bad ratings
- show up your support team to others who don’t have access to Nicereply -> and motivate each other
- you don’t need to be a developer to connect services together
How to make Make a Zap!
First of all, you need to create an account on Zapier. It offers a free plan which is absolutely perfect for our use case. Afterward, get an invite access to Nicereply on Zapier -> Get Access. Let’s go to make a Zap, now:
1. Choose trigger and action
Select Nicereply and Slack from the app directory as you can see in the picture below.
- the trigger is a “New Rating” in Nicereply
- action is “Send new message” to Slack
2. Select a Nicereply account
3. Select a Slack account
4. Filter Nicereply trigger
It’s an optional step, where you can filter a certain rating value for instance.
5. Matchup Nicereply rating to Slack new message
- specify the Slack channel name
- specify the text of the message to send
- specify what username this message will be posted as
- URL to an image to use as the bot icon, e.g: Nicereply logo http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/627065207802740736/u1VI1JnM.png
6. Test this Zap
Finally, test and save your Zap
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