Add your friend email and invite him functionality

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Hello,

For my app, I want to build an “invite” tool that works something like this:

Entry field where the user introduces the email address of a friend. When he clicks “submit”, I want to send a message to that address with the invitation (either through glide apps or through an external tool - I am using ActiveCampaign).

Is this possible?
Thank you for your help
Mihai

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You would have to integrate Zapier/Integromat to have with this automation.

If you have a proper onboarding process then I think you can just have a form button that submits just the email to the user profiles sheet.

Then in the back end, trigger a Zapier/Integromat scenario to send an email to that specific email with the links and everything needed. Once that email owner logs into the app their row has already been created.

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I’ve done this using Apps Script for one of my apps. The way it works is:

  • User taps on an “Invite a Friend” button
  • This opens a custom form that asks for a name and email address
  • When they submit, a new row is added to an “Invitations” sheet
  • An onChange() trigger picks this up and a script is called. That script:
    • Checks for new invitations (where “Invite Sent At” is empty)
    • If there are any new invites, it uses the MailApp service to send an email (with an attachment), and updates the “Invite Sent At” column.

With that said, I did the above before I became familiar with Integromat. If I was to do it again now, I’d definitely be using Integromat (as @ThinhDinh recommended). It’s way way way easier…

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I will use @ThinhDinh solution as it is way easier :slight_smile:
Thanks so much for your answers