Using Zapier to integrate Turbine with your cloud applications

Introduction

You can integrate Turbine with 1,000+ third-party web services using Zapier. For example:

You can add new requests to a Google Sheet
Send an SMS notification about high value purchase orders
Add approved requests to Xero
Create time off requests using a Typeform web questionnaire
Ping Slack with a message when someone creates a request

Activating Zapier in Turbine

First set up your account on Zapier itself
Login to Turbine as an admin user
Go to Features on the Settings menu
Click the slider to On for Integrate with Zapier

Connecting your first Zap

When you start building your first Zap, search for Turbine and add it where it says choose a Trigger (or choose an action)
Zapier will ask for your 'Zapier Token' to allow it to connect to Turbine.
To get this, go back to Turbine and click on your name on the top right menu (just next to the Setting menu) to get your own profile page
You'll find your Zapier token on that page, almost at the bottom, just above any attached files. It looks like a long string of random numbers and letters.
Copy that and paste it into Zapier.
Click Save + Continue

Turbine Triggers

Triggers can be used to start a new Zap. Whenever they happen in Turbine, your Zaps in Zapier will fire automatically and carry out the actions you have set up.

New Time Off request
New Purchase request
New Expense request
(Less common) When Purchases, Time off requests or Expenses are approved or rejected

You can take information from the request in Turbine that triggered the Zap and use it in connected applications. For example, you can take the number of days for a holiday request and use that in a spreadsheet. You can use the fields from the Turbine request in the destination app.

You can also use Zapier filters to add rules to your zaps. For example, only continue if the total value of a request is greater than a certain amount.

Turbine Actions

Similarly, you can use triggers created in other Zapier-connected apps to make something happen in Turbine. Actions include:

Create a new Time Off request
Create a new Expense claim
Create a new Purchase request

In these actions, you can use fields from other applications to populate your Turbine request.