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Choose what a workflow does

Everything a workflow can do when it runs: send email, create tasks, update fields, notify people and raise QuickBooks documents.

2 min read · Published Aug 11, 2026

Actions are what happens when a workflow runs, and a workflow can run several one after another. Where these say “the record”, that means the record that started the workflow.

Email and outreach

  • Send email: pick a template and send it to the record’s contact, or to an address you name.
  • Enroll in sequence: add the contact to an email sequence (Business edition).

Record actions

  • Create task: assign a task to a user with title, description, and due date.
  • Update field: change a field on the record, such as setting lifecycle to Customer when a first deal closes.
  • Assign owner: set or change who owns the record, which is how round-robin assignment works.
  • Add tag and Remove tag: put a tag on the record, or take one off.
  • Add to list and Remove from list: move the contact in or out of a list.
  • Change lifecycle stage: move a contact to a different lifecycle stage.
  • Change deal stage: move a deal to a different pipeline stage.
  • Create deal: open a new deal linked to the record.
  • Create activity: log a call, meeting, or note.

Everything else

  • Send notification: tell a particular person, in the app, by email, or both.
  • Create invoice, Create estimate, and Create sales receipt: raise the document in QuickBooks from the record.
  • Trigger webhook: send the record’s details to another system’s address so it can act on the change. See Send your data to another system.
  • Wait: pause before the next action, so you can send a welcome email, wait three days, then send the second one.

Workflows send email, not text messages.

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