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Uncanny Automator – Easy Automation, Integration, Webhooks & Workflow Builder Plugin

Uncanny Automator – Easy Automation, Integration, Webhooks & Workflow Builder Plugin

Description

Uncanny Automator is the easiest and most powerful way to automate your WordPress site with no code. Build automations in minutes that connect your WordPress plugins, sites and apps together using billions of recipe combinations.

Here’s how Uncanny Automator works:

When something happens, Automator can make other things happen.

When a user buys a product, add them to a membership level, enroll them in a course and pass their information to Google Sheets.

It’s that simple! Here’s a video outlining how it all works.

If you’ve used Zapier, setting things up will be intuitive. And if not, that’s okay too!

E-commerce Automation

Improve customer engagement by having your purchases trigger marketing automation campaigns, award store credit, promote 5-star reviews, schedule time-limited bonus offers and offer profile-driven discounts. Or for advanced reporting and customer service, create WooCommerce automations that send purchase details to Google Sheets, Slack and ActiveCampaign with our native integrations. It all happens automatically!

Google Sheets Automation

Build powerful reports and dashboards based on almost any WordPress activity or data with 1-click Google Sheets integration. Track purchases, course completions, blog post updates, forum posts and more. Not only can you create new rows for reports with Uncanny Automator, but you can update existing records, making it perfect for dashboard reporting.

Webhook Automation

Looking for the most powerful and comprehensive webhook support to connect your WordPress site to other apps? Uncanny Automator has support for security headers, any request method and any data format (including nesting support, JSON, XML, arrays and more). Use our 1-click sample generation and debug records to simplify connecting to other sites and systems, and send unlimited outgoing webhooks with the free version.

LearnDash and E-Learning Automation

Personalize student experiences and deliver better learning outcomes with no-code automations. Notify an instructor when users fail a quiz and enroll them in a remedial course–automatically. Add users to groups based on performance to allow easy collaboration. Automate student outreach when users fall behind in their coursework and offer easy learning interventions.

Social Media Automation

Spend less time sharing your posts and announcements on social media with automatic posting. Automatically post anything you want to Facebook Pages, Facebook Groups, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, including with images and links. Sign up for a free account to get 250 credits for social posting; Pro plugin users get unlimited posting.

OpenAI Automation

Connect your new posts and site activity to OpenAI, with full support for ChatGPT and Dall-E models. Use Automator and the OpenAI to generate article summaries, social media posts, SEO descriptions, translations, email campaigns, featured images and more.

Marketing Automation

Integrate your favourite CRM with your WordPress plugins for full marketing automation. Add or remove tags based on course activity, purchases and more, and keep your email lists updated automatically. Or, with Automator Pro and Loops, send emails out in bulk and use Automator as your own CRM.

Free doesn’t mean limited

The free version of Automator is incredibly powerful and comes with built-in automation and integration support for all of these popular apps and WordPress plugins:

Supported apps

WordPress Plugins Integrations

Over 350 automation triggers and actions are available for the plugins and apps listed above in the free version. There’s straightforward documentation in our Knowledge Base, including some quick and straightforward instructional videos. Developers, there’s robust documentation and code samples for you too!

Beyond the plugin and app integrations, this free version of Uncanny Automator also supports common WP triggers and actions in automations:

  • A user views a page
  • A user submits a comment
  • A user logs in
  • A user publishes a post
  • Send an email
  • Create a post
  • Add a WP role

All WP plugin triggers and actions included in Uncanny Automator come with a forever free license, which allows unlimited usage on your WordPress site. By creating a free, optional Automator account, you can unlock 250 credits to try out app integrations. You can use credits on your site to:

  • Post new content to Facebook Groups, Facebook Pages, Twitter and Instagram
  • Pass records to Google Sheets (to generate charts or reports or manipulate data outside of WordPress)
  • Notify staff of key events in Slack
  • Register customers in Zoom events on product purchase
  • Send Mailchimp campaigns when new blog posts are published
  • Generate, proofread or translate text with OpenAI and GPT
  • and more

Take automation to the next level

Uncanny Automator Pro, our premium plugin, adds even more features and integrations, including the ability to create users and posts, delay and schedule actions, connect multiple sites together, add conditions to actions, and unlock unlimited use of app integrations like Google Sheets and Twitter. It also triples the number of available triggers and actions.

Pro also adds features like Run Now and Loops, which allow you to do things like send emails to all users matching certain criteria, tagging users based on site activity, or even generating instant reports in Google Sheets of all users that completed a specific course, purchased a certain product, or anything else you can imagine.

Here are some of the other really cool automations you can create with Automator Pro:

  • When a user makes a purchase using WooCommerce on one site, create a user on another WP site, send the user a link to set a new password, enroll the user in a course and add a membership level.
  • When a user submits a form, add the user to a mailing list if their email address matches a certain domain, add them to a social group and schedule their trial access to expire in 7 days if they don’t make a purchase.
  • When a new course is published, send an email campaign, post to X/Twitter and Facebook with GPT-generated content, post to the BuddyBoss sitewide activity stream and notify instructors in a Slack channel.
  • Whenever you want, generate a list of all users in a group that haven’t yet completed a course.

And here are some of the key features in the Pro version that allow incredibly flexible and powerful automations for WP:

Plus licenses and higher get access to our Custom User Fields, Restrict Content, and User Lists addons which makes it really easy to create and manage user profile fields in WordPress. Automatically add new fields to user edit pages and connect fields to your recipes and plugins like Advanced Custom Fields.

An Automator Pro license also includes access to our world-class premium support.

For the full list of triggers and actions, make sure to check out this list.

Here’s what other people are saying about Uncanny Automator:

Screenshots

  • Set up your first recipe in 5 minutes
  • Add one or more triggers from dozens of plugins and thousands of apps
  • Identify what starts the recipe, like a purchase or form submission
  • Set conditions and options for the trigger(s)
  • Add one or more actions from any of the available integrations
  • When the triggers are completed, actions run automatically
  • Customize your actions to do exactly what you need
  • Create powerful recipes that just work, all with one plugin

FAQ

Where can I find Automator documentation and more info?

You can learn more about Uncanny Automator on our website at https://automatorplugin.com/ and our Knowledge Base is here: https://automatorplugin.com/knowledge-base/

How do I get started with my first automation?

Have a look at https://automatorplugin.com/knowledge-base/creating-a-recipe/. There’s also an onboarding wizard inside the plugin to help you build your first recipe. Hopefully it will be the first of many!

Will Uncanny Automator slow down my website?

Uncanny Automator is built from the ground up for efficiency and performance. Automator adds negligible overhead to WordPress sites and has been rigorously tested across dozens of hosting environments.

What are the limits of your free version?

All integrations, triggers, actions and tokens listed here that don’t have a “Pro” label are available in our free version. For the WordPress plugins listed, we include a forever-free license that allows you to run recipes with these triggers and actions an unlimited number of times. There are also no limits on the number of recipes you can set up or what you can include in each. For recipes that include apps, like Twitter and Facebook, you can create a free account to unlock 250 credits to try out these integrations.

Is Automator translation friendly?

Absolutely! The plugin was created with translation in mind and tested with a variety of translation plugins. We will support any translation issues you run into.

How can I request an integration for a plugin?

The best thing you can do is reach out to the creator of the plugin that you want an integration for. Let them know you’re using Uncanny Automator and that they could greatly extend the capabilities of their plugin by helping us develop an integration for it. As more plugin authors become aware of Uncanny Automator and realize its potential for their users, we’ll be able to continue to invest in expanding Uncanny Automator’s capabilities! Also, fill out this form on our site to let us know what you’re looking for.

How can I add an integration for my plugin?

Check out our developer documentation over at https://developer.automatorplugin.com/. Also consider reaching out to our team, maybe we can help or even turn it into an official integration!

Can I automatically share posts & updates on social media?

Yes. It is easy to set up automation and share content on Social Media platforms. Set up integrations with Instagram, Facebook Pages, Facebook Groups, LinkedIn Pages and Twitter by creating a free account to unlock 250 free credits.

Do I need coding skills or help from a developer?

No coding skills are required. Uncanny Automator is built for non-developers to build automations using our intuitive recipe builder.

Does Automator work with LearnDash?

Absolutely! LearnDash is our most popular integration. Automator provides an easy way to build powerful LearnDash activity reports, personalize learning paths, connect LearnDash to live events and more.

How does Automator use OpenAI?

By connecting your recipes to an OpenAI API account, you can send prompts to OpenAI and use the responses in other actions. Generate titles and descriptions, excerpts for social media, translations, new blog posts and more; you can even perform sentiment analysis on submitted text. Automator supports GPT-3.5, GPT-4 and other OpenAI models.

Does Uncanny Automator allow me to customize the look and design of the emails it sends?

Yes, with WordPress’s “Send Email” action, send rich text, plain text and raw HTML emails. Create follow-up emails with your own custom HTML templates.

Why should I consider upgrading to Uncanny Automator Pro?

You can use the free version forever without purchasing the Uncanny Automator Pro version. However, with Uncanny Automator Pro, you’ll get access to more automation triggers and actions, additional features, and unlimited credits for app integrations. Visit our plans page to learn more.

Who is Uncanny Owl?

We’re a Toronto-based WordPress company specializing in elearning and automation solutions for WordPress. We’re behind the popular Uncanny LearnDash Toolkit plugin and we also have a suite of highly-acclaimed commercial LearnDash add-ons.

Reviews

Onwa-anö 28, 2024 1 reply
Of course, there are an incredible number of plugins on the market, many of which have great and useful features and good support. But all of that would not do justice to Uncanny Automator. Not only is its range of functions so powerful, but its support is also top-notch. We had a special, complicated use case that the developers worked on until it was solved. And that’s exactly what makes the difference! Staying on the ball, helping the customer and thus also setting your own product apart from the rest of the market! If I could, I would give these developers 6 stars.
Onwa-anö 15, 2024 1 reply
Estou gostando muito do plugin, já utilizo a algum tempo, mas ultimamente tive que utilizar o sistema de e-mail marketing e quando fui tentar vincular a conta da Brevo via API, simplesmente não reconhece, já refiz inúmeras chaves de API, mas nunca funciona. Pode ver isso por favor. O Uncanny Automator não está reconhecendo a chave de API da Brevo, dessa forma, ficamos sem conexão.
Onwa-abö 31, 2024 1 reply
Functions, development, support: All top notch!With this plugin you can connect almost every platform and app to WP and WooCommerce. Incoming as well as outgoing data. Uncanny Automator is a very complex tool, so that we are able to realise easy and highly advanced tasks. Support is there to help and to provide the right steps to follow, through very well thought out and comprehensive explanations. Also the pro version is absolutely worth it to really achieve whatever we imagined so far. This plugin also permits us to be as compliant as possible with GDPR, as we can define for the webhook and API exactly which customer data is pushed from our server to other apps and automation tools. In our case ONLY first name and email address. This is not possible with WooCommerces own webhooks. And the team keeps developing and improving every aspect with open ears and eyes for suggestions, to make things even easier.
Onwa-mbu 11, 2024 1 reply
It’s hard to find words to describe the power and quality of Uncanny Automator. A truly outstanding piece of work, that adds huge value to our site. And the customer support is without parallel. These guys set the standard in every aspect of their work. Great stuff.
Onwa-iri na atö 9, 2024 1 reply
I have been so impressed with this plugin it has made things so easy to integrate, once you have it you will find many more ways of increasing your productivity you hadn’t even thought of, I wouldn’t want to be without it, the documentation and support is great as well, I couldn’t recommend it high enough.It is even better than Zapier and you get unlimited ‘Zaps’ for just the one fee.
Onwa-iri na atö 7, 2024 1 reply
I’m using the pro version of the plugin because I needed extra functionality. So far I have been blown away by the breadth of the capability of this product, the way it has been designed to work flexibly in many circumstances and how you can do some really quite complex things with it, including looping through posts and users. It compares very favourably with Zapier, but is way, way more capable within WordPress than Zapier ever could be. Don’t think that this is simple; sure you can do simple stuff with it and the learning curve is really not steep, as the UI is mostly very nicely conceived and executed, but you can get into some pretty complex stuff that would otherwise require a lot of PHP skill and WordPress knowledge. However if you think the product is good, just wait until you experience their amazing support experience! I have raised quite a few support tickets, a few asking about stuff which goes beyond the otherwise good documentation, one asking if something fairly complex were possible and once when I ran into a bug. On all occasions they came back to me within 24 hours or less with answers, new functionality and a patch, respectively. I mean, when you ask a big software company about a bug or feature request they may come back to you in 3-6 months; these guys are providing solutions in days. Highly recommended.
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Changelog

6.0.0.1 [2024-10-29]

Fixed:

  • Core – Optimize uap_options functions – We gave these functions a tune-up, so they run smoother and faster now. #5199
  • Core – Conflicting automator_option_updated actions – These actions were bumping into each other like shoppers on Black Friday. We’ve cleared the aisle, and now everything flows smoothly. #5196

6.0 [2024-10-24]

New Feature:

  • Emails – Now with attachment support, because sometimes, “see attached” shouldn’t be a lie #4841

New App Integration:

New Plugin Integration:

New Triggers:

  • MemberMouse – A bundle is added to a member’s account #4855
  • MemberMouse – A member’s account is deleted #4854
  • MemberMouse – A member’s account data is updated #5118
  • MemberMouse – A new member is created #4850
  • MemberMouse – A refund is issued #4858
  • MemberMouse – A renewal payment is received #4857
  • MemberMouse – An order is submitted #4856
  • Stripe – A charge fails #4721
  • Stripe – A charge is refunded #4722
  • Stripe – A customer is created #4719
  • Stripe – A payment is completed #4720
  • Stripe – A subscription is cancelled #4736

New Actions:

  • MemberMouse – Remove a bundle from the member’s account #4874
  • Stripe – Create a customer #4740
  • Stripe – Create a payment link #4738
  • Stripe – Delete a customer #4739

New Tokens:

  • All Actions – Completion status #3264
  • MemberPress – Transaction ID and Transaction amount

Added:

  • Recipe Logs – “Cancel” button to cancel scheduled actions inside the log details. Now you can pull the plug before things get cooking! #4863
  • Recipe Logs – Add “Run now” button to run the scheduled actions. For those who just can’t wait for delicious automation results. #5114

Updated:

  • Brevo – Create or update a contact – Added support for contact attribute select fields. Now you can pick and choose attributes like a pro! #5073
  • Recipe UI – Allow 1-minute increment when scheduling an action. Because sometimes every minute really does count! #5129
  • Slack – Send a direct message to a Slack user – Added “Use a token/custom value” for the user dropdown. Customization is now just a token away! #5121
  • UserFeedback – A visitor submits a survey & A user submits a survey – Added support for multiple questions/answers. #5144
  • WordPress – A user’s role changes to a specific role – Added “Any role” option. #5065

Fixed:

  • Divi – Theme Builder – Forms are not showing for selection when added as global header/footer. No more disappearing acts – forms are here to stay! #4954
  • HubSpot – Added support for line breaks in custom fields. Text flow now looks like poetry instead of a brick wall. #5168
  • MailPoet – Add a subscriber to a list – Not creating new subscribers in a rare occurrence. #5146
  • Recipe Logs – Sidebar button not displaying due to incorrect action status for delayed and scheduled actions. We fixed it—now the button behaves like it’s supposed to! #5124
  • WP Courseware – A user completes a module – Only returning 20 results instead of all modules. Now every module gets counted, not just the chosen few. #5083
  • WordPress – A post in a taxonomy is published – Fixed an issue where a recipe would trigger multiple times when a post is published in a rare situation. No more deja vu—one post, one trigger! #5174
  • WordPress – A post in a taxonomy is published – Improved reliability when posts are published in bulk. Bulk publishing without bulk headaches! #5175
  • WordPress – A user publishes a post in a taxonomy – Fixed an issue where a recipe would trigger multiple times when a post is published in a rare situation. We’ve banished those rogue triggers! #5173
  • WordPress – A user publishes a post in a taxonomy – Improved reliability when posts are published in bulk. Go ahead and publish en masse—we’ve got you covered! #5172
  • wpForo – Set the user’s primary group to a specific group – Support for v2.0.3 update. Everything is now in sync with the latest version—group assignments like clockwork! #5087

Under the hood:

  • Automator notices when Uncanny Codes Automator type code is generated. #5138
  • Action tokens – Date tokens were running wild, ignoring the format they were given and causing a race condition. We sat them down, gave them a calendar, and now they’re on track! #5170
  • Core – Recipe not creating a new recipe run when it is currently “In progress with errors” status in a rare situation. Error-schmerror—we’ve fixed it so the recipe keeps cooking! #5176
  • Duplicate / Import Export – Support for new Data Integrations. Fresh integrations, now served hot and ready! #5149
  • Groundhogg icon updated. New look, same charming functionality. #5164
  • Move Recipe_Objects_Logger functions to common DB query classes. We relocated them to where all the cool queries hang out. #4979
  • Recipe UI – Enhanced Token loop (for Pro). Now it loops so smoothly, you’ll think it’s magic! #4606
  • New database table uap_options to store Automator options. Options now have a comfy new home. #5100
  • Recipe UI – Add product education modals for filters, delays, and loops. Learning has never been so… modal-icious! #5075
  • Recipe UI – Loops – Each loop type now opens the related support page. Knowledge is power—click away! #5028
  • Took care of some PHP notices. Less noise, more peace and quiet in the code. #5151
  • Tooltip notification if new recipe hasn’t been created 48 hours after installation. Gentle nudges, just in case you forgot! #4318
  • UI adjustment – Allow component to populate a name and value for form submissions. Buttons with purpose—now they mean business. #5107
  • Removed deprecated unused file to avoid any vulnerability issues. It wasn’t doing anything anyway, so we showed it the door. #5185

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