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Best Jobber Automations
I just wanted to get a post going for these. They can be super powerful in your business and I feel like they don't get talked about enough sometimes. What are your best Jobber automations you have...
Zapier is pretty limited compared to jobber's api. You can create a database and feed it from Jobber using Jobber's API. From there, you can do pretty much anything. Like using custom fields as merge tags in email communications which allows you to send mass emails offering a service that has the custom price for each client individually, in the email. For example, if you have a fert service for lawns and you price based off of turf sq ft. you can send an email to thousands of customers at once and they will all see their unique price for that service, in the email.
For us non API people, where would you point us to learning about API's or Jobbers API? I'm wondering if there is a youtube vid out there where a beginner could start? I'm fairly tech savvy so I've been slowly thinking about this more and more.. Thanks.
Lots of videos on apis generally but just think of api as a pipeline. Most apis are two way pipelines but some are one way... meaning you can usually update back and forth between two apis but there are some out there that only let you pull data or push data. Jobbers can do both. I don't think there's a video on Jobber's API specifically but anyone doing API integration and probably database infrastructure can teach you a lot. Jobber's API documentation is at developer.getjobber.com.
Time to hit Youtube for me haha..
I typically hire people on Upwork to handle this stuff, but also with the stipulation they need to teach me what they are doing. I only hire local for most stuff now, since I will move off Upwork after a couple of successful projects and work with them longterm. More than happy to answer questions about hiring virtual and/or freelancers.
