I know that at this point using Make might be a better option, but I’m currently locked into Zapier and need to resolve an urgent issue by tomorrow.
The context: I have a set of inspection steps that need to be copied into a specific Glide table tied to a given date. These steps must be hard copied so that if the master steps are changed in the future, historical records are not affected. Right now, the only way I’ve found to add multiple rows in Glide is by sending a webhook to Zapier (or Make), and then having Zapier send a webhook back to the Glide API to insert the rows. If there’s another approach that doesn’t require this extra round trip, I’m open to hearing suggestions.
The issue I’m facing is that my Zap is unexpectedly running multiple times, even though Glide is only sending a single webhook call. This results in duplicate data being sent back to Glide. The webhook body looks correct when I inspect it, but it seems Zapier is treating each object in the JSON array as a separate trigger, causing the entire Zap to fire once per object rather than once for the full payload.
To be clear, this is not a case where a step inside the Zap is looping. Instead, the Zap itself is being triggered repeatedly — the number of runs matches the number of objects in the array. As shown in the attached screenshot, Glide is only sending a single webhook request, but Zapier is firing the Zap multiple times.
My suspicion is that Zapier may be parsing the payload in a way that automatically splits the array, or perhaps there’s some unflattening behavior happening under the hood. I’ve already confirmed that “Unflatten” is disabled in the Webhook trigger step.
You’ll also notice “REMOVE” tags in the payload. These are present because the Zap doesn’t run properly if there’s only one object in the array. The tags are removed within Zapier before the data is sent back to Glide.
If the best solution here is to move this workflow to Make, I’m happy to do so — but it would be very helpful to understand why Zapier is interpreting a single incoming request as multiple triggers and whether there’s a fix or configuration adjustment I can make on my end.
Thank you!!!
The Catch Hook in Zapier:
