Triggers

A trigger decides when an automation runs. The easiest way to set one is to say it: the agent turns "every weekday at 7:00 Prague time" or "when a new lead is created" into the right trigger. An automation can have several, and it runs whenever any of them fires while it is Active.

Trigger	Runs when	Set it up
Schedule	At set times: every few minutes, daily, on weekdays, or once	Tell the agent, or edit it on the Overview tab
Record event	A record is created, updated or deleted	Tell the agent
Webhook	Another app sends data to the automation's address	Webhooks tab
Manual	You start it	Ask the agent, or ⋯ → Run

Triggers and webhooks are managed by administrators. See Team & account.

Schedule

Tell the agent when: "Run it every weekday at 7:00 Prague time." To adjust it yourself, click the pencil next to the schedule on the Overview tab, or Add schedule for another one.

Repeatedly runs every n minutes, hours, days, weeks or months, on the days you pick, at a set time.
Once runs a single time on a date, then stops.
Time zone belongs to the schedule: 07:00 Europe/Prague means 07:00 in Prague, wherever you are.

Record event

Runs the automation when a record in one of your modules is created, updated or deleted: score a lead the moment it arrives, notify the owner when a deal changes. Tell the agent: "When a new lead is created, score it and notify me." Changes to event triggers go through the agent too.

Webhook

A webhook lets another app start the automation and hand it data. An e-shop sends a new order, a form sends a submission, a script sends a JSON payload. Webhooks start Python code automations.

Open the automation's Webhooks tab and click Add webhook. The address stays hidden until you click Show; Copy puts it on your clipboard.

The Webhooks tab: a hidden address, the last delivery, and what arrived

The other app sends a POST with a JSON body:

curl -X POST "<webhook address>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"id": "ORD-1042", "items": [{"sku": "MUG-01", "price": 12.5, "quantity": 4}]}'

ACT answers at once with "status": "accepted", then runs the automation. The code finds the JSON body in input["body"]; a form post arrives as an object, anything else as text, up to 1 MB. The result goes to the Runs tab, not back to the caller.

The run the webhook started, with its result

What arrived lists recent deliveries and what they carried. Some values are hidden.
Replace the address issues a new one, and the old one stops working.

Treat the address like a password. Anyone who has it can start the automation. If it leaks, replace it.

Manual

Ask the agent: "Run Daily euro exchange rates and show me the result." Or open ⋯ → Run on the automation.

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