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How To Add a PayPal Payer to RedCappi
In this article, we explain how you can use the RedCappi Zapier Integration to add a PayPal Payer to a RedCappi Autoresponder, which automatically triggers a series of one or more emails, each time a payment is made in PayPal. To learn more about RedCappi’s Zapier Integration, go to our help center & click RedCappi integrations. If you have any questions or need help setting up your Zap, please contact us via email at support@redcappi.com.
What You’ll Need
Before creating this Zap, you’ll the following:
- A paid Zapier Account since PayPal is a premium Zap (cost ~$20/month)
- A free Paypal Account
- Free RedCappi Account
Creating the PayPal Trigger in Your Zap
In this example we teach you how to create a contact in RedCappi each time a paypal payment is received. This could be a nice way for you to stay in touch with customers who made recent payments by sending them one or more emails from Redcappi using autoresponders.
- Login to Zapier click create a Zap
- Type PayPal in the search box under ‘Choose a Trigger Ap’ then click continue
3. Under Choose a Trigger, successful sale will be highlighted. Click the blue continue button
4. Click copy to clipboard in the connect paypal screen, then you’ll see a green test successful bar
5. Click the red continue button
6. Login to Paypal, then click this link to view your Paypal IPN Settings. (Make sure you’re logged into paypal first for this link to work)
7. Click the gold Choose IPN Settings button
8. Paste the paypal link you copied to your cliboard into the notification URL box, then change the radio button beneath IPN messages to Receive IPN Messages (enabled), then click save
Adding Your Action (add contacts to RedCappi)
Next, we’ll add the contact to a list in RedCappi which can point directly to an autoresponder which will send the contact an email sequence based upon the time intervals that you prescribe.
- Under Choose App, type RedCappi in the search bar
- Select create contact to create a contact in a list
- Click save & continue
- Click Connect your redcappi account. Find your public & private API keys in RedCappi by clicking the extras tab at the top of your redcappi account, then clicking generate key at the bottom of the screen. Then paste those values into Zapier, then clicking yes continue in Zapier
- Select the redcappi list you’d like to add this contact to and make sure you map the email address by clicking on the + icon as those are the only 2 mandatory fields. Map any additional Paypal fields into redcappi by clicking the + icons associated with any fields you want to map
- Click blue continue button, then you’ll see a green ‘test successful’ message pop-up
Click the red Finish button
Doing a Live Test
- The last step is to do a live test
- Make sure you login to Zapier & turn your Zap on
- Login to Paypal, send yourself a $.50 payment request, and make the payment with a credit card
- Grab Yourself a Cup of Coffe :-). It will take up to 15 minutes for the Zap to run
- Log back into RedCappi & make sure the contact(s) have been added to the RedCappi list you selected
- Pat yourself on the back. You just designed a data integration that could generate thousands of dollars in revenue for your company. Great work