Client Onboarding Docs Auto-Create Contacts: Speed Up Onboarding
New client files automatically become Salesforce contacts. Your team stays in sync from day one without manual entry or Slack coordination.
Trigger
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Action
Create contact
Creates a new contact in salesforce with the specified information.
Why this helps
Client onboarding paperwork arrives. You create files, send confirmations, but forget to create the contact in Salesforce. Your team doesn't know who they're working with until you remember to add them.
- Clients become contacts instantly
- Team knows who they're working with without asking
- No forgotten onboarding steps
- Reduce context-switching between Drive and Salesforce
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Salesforce to Notis.
- 2Tell Notis: 'When a new onboarding file is created, make a contact in Salesforce with the client info.'
- 3Point Notis to your onboarding folder.
- 4Create a test onboarding file and verify the contact appears in Salesforce within minutes.
Questions about this workflow
Can Notis pull contact info from the onboarding form automatically?
Yes. Notis reads forms and documents to extract email, phone, and company details.
What if the onboarding file is a form link, not a document?
Notis can monitor form submissions if you use Google Forms or embed Notis's webhook in your form platform.
Can I auto-link the contact to an account?
Tell Notis to do that—e.g., 'Link the contact to the account with the same company name.'
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Salesforce. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Salesforce actions
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Create Salesforce Account
Deprecated: creates a new salesforce account using a json post request, requiring 'name'; specific fields (e.g., custom, dunsnumber) may have org-level prerequisites.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Add contact to campaign
Adds a contact to a campaign by creating a campaignmember record, allowing you to track campaign engagement.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Add lead to campaign
Adds a lead to a campaign by creating a campaignmember record, allowing you to track campaign engagement.
File Shared (Permissions Added)
Triggers when new sharing permissions are granted to a file or folder. Uses Drive's `changes.list` endpoint with inline `permissions` in the `fields` mask so each change carries the file's current permission set provider-atomically. We diff that against `seen_permission_keys` to identify newly added grants. Drive page tokens are the primary cursor; if Drive rejects a stored token, the trigger raises `PollingTriggerError` without clearing state rather than silently re-baselining and dropping events. Limitation: truly ephemeral permissions (added and revoked between two polls without any other file modification in between) are not detected. Drive Activity API would catch those but requires an additional OAuth scope and a different payload contract.
Add product to opportunity
Adds a product (line item) to an opportunity. the product must exist in a pricebook entry that's associated with the opportunity's pricebook.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Apply lead assignment rules
Applies configured lead assignment rules to a specific lead, automatically routing it to the appropriate owner based on your organization's rules.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Associate contact to account
Associates a contact with an account by updating the contact's accountid field.
New File Matching Query
Triggers when a new Google Drive file matches a provided query. This is the legacy query-centric trigger: it preserves Drive API query config such as ``corpora`` / ``driveId`` aliases and emits the historical ``file_matching_query`` event type. ``FileCreatedTrigger`` covers the broader "new file" case and emits ``file_created``.
Clone opportunity with products
Clones an opportunity and optionally its products (line items). creates a new opportunity with the same field values and products as the original.
Clone record
Creates a copy of an existing salesforce record by reading its data, removing system fields, and creating a new record. optionally apply field updates to the clone.
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