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Your PDFs, wired
into every Zap.

Generate and fill PDFs, send them as tracked links, and let every open, comment or form submission run the next step in your CRM, Slack or inbox.

Apdf → Zapier Live

Connected to the apps
you sell with.

Every reader event can reach Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and thousands of other apps on Zapier.

A buyer reads.
Your Zap runs.

Set the conditions once. Only readers who meet them start your Zap, with their name and email attached.

JD
Jane opens pricing
Page Read
45s
Stays 45 seconds
Your condition
Slack
The deal owner gets pinged
Slack

Zaps your sales team
will actually use.

Built from Apdf’s triggers, actions and searches and the tools revenue teams already live in. Pick one, swap in your own apps, turn it on.

Pricing-page alert

For Account executives
  1. Apdf
    Trigger Apdf
    Page Read
    Page number 6 · minimum time on page 45 seconds
  2. Slack
    Step 2 Slack
    Post to #deal-desk
    Jane Doe at Contoso has been on pricing for 45 seconds
  3. HubSpot
    Step 3 HubSpot
    Create a task for the deal owner
    Call Jane today, with the page she read in the task

Buyers rarely tell you they are comparing prices. They show you, by staying on the pricing page. A call while those numbers are on their screen starts with context instead of a cold “just checking in”.

Every open on the record

For RevOps
  1. Apdf
    Trigger Apdf
    Document Opened
    Watching your proposal documents · once per reading session
  2. Salesforce
    Step 2 Salesforce
    Find the contact
    Matched by the trigger’s Recipient Email
  3. Salesforce
    Step 3 Salesforce
    Log an activity on the contact
    Jane Doe opened “Acme × Contoso proposal”

Forecast calls run on what reps remember. Put the evidence on the record instead: who opened the proposal, when, and how often they came back, without a single manual entry.

Proposal out at stage change

For Sales ops
  1. HubSpot
    Trigger HubSpot
    Deal moves to “Proposal”
    Deal name, amount and primary contact come along
  2. Apdf
    Step 2 Apdf
    Create PDF From HTML
    Your proposal template, filled with the deal’s fields
  3. Apdf
    Step 3 Apdf
    Create Document
    Hosted in the viewer, ready to share
  4. Apdf
    Step 4 Apdf
    Create Tracking Link
    One link for the primary contact, named to them
  5. Gmail
    Step 5 Gmail
    Send the email
    The tracking URL in the body, no attachment

Every proposal leaves tracked from the first minute and is named to its reader. No attachment that goes dark in an inbox, no rep forgetting to create the link.

Objections, verbatim

For Account executives
  1. Apdf
    Trigger Apdf
    Annotation Created
    “Can we get volume pricing here?” on page 4
  2. Slack
    Step 2 Slack
    Send a direct message
    To the deal owner, with the highlighted text
  3. Pipedrive
    Step 3 Pipedrive
    Add a note to the deal
    Comment and Annotated Text, found by Recipient Email

A comment on the price line is an objection said out loud. Answer it the same day, before it turns into a reason to go quiet.

AI follow-up drafts

For SDRs & AEs
  1. Apdf
    Trigger Apdf
    Page Left
    Minimum completion rate 80%
  2. Apdf
    Step 2 Apdf
    Find Reading Session
    Time on every page, by the trigger’s Session ID
  3. ChatGPT
    Step 3 ChatGPT
    Write the follow-up
    Prompted with the pages they spent longest on
  4. Gmail
    Step 4 Gmail
    Create a draft
    Waiting in the rep’s inbox to review and send

A follow-up that mentions the security section they read twice beats a generic nudge. The rep stays in control, the draft is already written.

Procurement signal

For Sales leaders
  1. Apdf
    Trigger Apdf
    Document Downloaded
    Watching your contracts and order forms
  2. Microsoft Teams
    Step 2 Microsoft Teams
    Post to the deal channel
    Initech downloaded the MSA
  3. Salesforce
    Step 3 Salesforce
    Update the opportunity
    Next step: legal review

A download or a print means the PDF is leaving the browser for someone else’s desk, often legal or finance. That is your cue to offer the redlines call.

Built for how
deals really move.

Open-pixel trackers tell you an email was opened, maybe by a security scanner. Apdf tells your Zap who read which page of the proposal, for how long, and what they wrote in the margin.

Named readers, not pixels

Every tracking link belongs to one recipient, so every trigger carries their name and email. A Find step in Salesforce, HubSpot or Pipedrive matches the contact straight away.

Tracking links
Filtered at the source

Page, dwell time, reading time, pages viewed and completion are checked in Apdf before Zapier hears about it. No Filter step, no Zap history full of skimmers.

Engagement analytics
Instant, not polled

Turning a Zap on registers an automation in your workspace that pushes each event to Zapier. Turn the Zap off and the automation is removed again.

Automations
Heavy PDFs, no timeouts

PDF actions run as jobs and resume the Zap when the file is ready, so large merges, OCR and Office conversions finish. Results land in Zapier’s file storage.

PDF engine

Live before
your next send.

Reader triggers need Pro or Business. Every new account starts with a Pro trial.

  1. 1
    Create an API token

    Sign up free and create one in your dashboard.

  2. 2
    Connect Apdf in Zapier

    Search for Apdf in the Zap editor, paste it.

  3. 3
    Pick a trigger, turn it on

    Choose the event and conditions, map the fields.

Zapier integration, answered

Actions and searches work on every plan, including the free one. Reader-event triggers run as automations in your workspace, which come with the Pro and Business plans; each Zap with a reader trigger counts as one active automation. Every new account starts with a Pro trial, no card required.
Reader-event triggers are instant triggers: when you turn the Zap on, Apdf registers an automation that pushes each matching event to Zapier as it happens. There is no polling interval to wait for.
Yes, to any CRM on Zapier, such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive or Zoho CRM. Every reader event carries the recipient’s name and email from their tracking link, so a Find step in your CRM matches the contact or deal.
No. They open their personal tracking link in the browser and read the PDF in the hosted viewer. Nothing to install and no login, and you can deactivate a link at any time.
Yes. The same triggers and actions are available as an n8n node, through the REST API with automations and webhooks, and to AI agents through the MCP server.

Your proposals,
wired into your pipeline.