Communication

Connect Gmail with Glow

Gmail connects the inbox to the rest of your automations. React to new emails matching a label or sender, and send or draft messages automatically as the final step of a workflow — confirmations, replies, internal notices, all without a human hitting compose.

Connect Gmail

What you can do

Triggers

  • New emailFires when a new email arrives matching a label or search query.
  • New attachmentFires when an email with an attachment is received.
  • New labeled emailFires when an email is given a specific label.
  • Email starredFires when an email is starred.

Actions

  • Send emailSend a new email to one or more recipients.
  • Create draftCreate a draft email without sending it.
  • Add labelApply a label to an existing email.
  • Reply to threadSend a reply within an existing email thread.

Use cases

Support inbox to ticket

New emails to the support address automatically create a Zendesk ticket and notify #support in Slack.

Meeting invite from a form

When a new event is created in Google Calendar, a confirmation email with the details goes out to every invitee.

AI-drafted replies

Incoming sales emails are summarized and given an AI-drafted reply as a Gmail draft, ready for a rep to send after a quick edit.

How it works

1

Connect your account

Authorize Glow to access your Gmail account in a couple of clicks — no API keys or webhooks to configure by hand.

2

Pick a trigger or action

Choose one of Gmail's triggers to start a workflow, or drop in one of its actions as a step further down the chain.

3

Map the data

Wire fields from Gmail into the rest of your workflow — Glow handles the formatting so every step downstream gets what it expects.

4

Turn it on

Publish the workflow and Glow runs it automatically from then on, every time the trigger fires.