Zapier question - Connecting Send Grid and Firebase together for triggering a welcome email.
I've managed to get sendgrid and firebase working together in zapier.
Problem I have is I need to get the email to trigger when a new user object is added to the Firebase users table.
Here is a screen shot of my current triggers:
You won't have direct access to the Firebase users table (node) so that won't serve as a trigger.
However, traditionally, Firebase apps have a /users/ node where other data about a user would be stored; first and last name, address, love of pizza etc. And that node would have a key that matches their uid.
That's the node you want to use to trigger Zapier; when you create a new firebase user, you also add their data to your /users/ node to then trigger the email.
One thing to note is that Zapier will/can automatically remove a trigger node in Firebase so you may just want to dump the email in a /need_to_send_email/ node with the email address and let Zapier trigger and then remove that data as it would no longer be needed.
typical Zapier structure within firebase
app_name
zapier_queue
out
email: "somedude@cooldudes.com"
This should be much easier now that Google Cloud Function for Firebase have been announced, example code here.