The trigger/action surface
Both the Zapier app and the Make app expose the same integration surface. Triggers: payment lifecycle (payment.paid, pending, failed), payout.confirmed, and subscription events. Actions: create a payment, create a payout, read balances — enough to not just react to money but move it from inside an automation. Connection is one paste of an API key (mint a scoped one: read-only for reporting Zaps, payment:create only if a Zap creates invoices).
Honest status note: both apps are currently in the platforms' private-invite review stage — email us with your Zapier or Make account address and you get an invite link; public marketplace listings follow the platforms' review timelines. The invite version is the full app, not a beta build.
Recipes that pay for the setup time
- Revenue sheet:
payment.paid→ append row to Google Sheets with amount, coin, USD value, order ID. The finance visibility most small teams are missing, built in four minutes. - Sales bell:
payment.paid→ Slack/Discord message. Morale infrastructure; do not underestimate it. - CRM hygiene: payment paid → mark the HubSpot/Pipedrive deal won;
payment.failed→ task for a follow-up. - Fulfillment: paid → send the license key / add to the members group / trigger the shipping app — the whole reason many stores wanted webhooks in the first place, minus the webhook server.
- Dunning assist: subscription events → email sequences in your ESP, complementing the platform's own invoice emails.
The fallback that works today: raw webhooks
Zapier's "Webhooks by Zapier" trigger and Make's webhook module can ingest OrbChain's signed webhooks directly — point your webhook URL (or a per-key webhook override, so your main endpoint keeps working) at the catch-hook URL and every field of the event payload becomes mappable in your automation. You lose the polished trigger UX and gain zero waiting: this path needs no invite and works right now. One caution — a no-code catch hook won't verify the HMAC signature, so treat data arriving this way as a convenience feed for sheets-and-pings, and keep anything that grants value (license issuance, account credit) behind a verified handler or the official app.
Where no-code should stop
The boundary worth respecting: automations that record and notify belong in Zapier/Make; logic that decides and credits belongs behind HMAC verification and event_id dedup in real code — or at minimum in the official app, which handles verification for you. Most businesses land on both: the Zap posts to Slack and the sheet, the webhook handler does the crediting, and neither knows about the other.