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YNAB (You Need A Budget) New transaction. Square Create Customer.

Create Square customer from You Need A Budget transaction

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How this automation works

Create up-to-date customer records in Square to keep your customer list synced with your finances. The Applet runs when a new transaction is added in You Need A Budget and creates a customer in Square using the transaction details. Great for small businesses and sellers who want to reconcile sales, track repeat buyers, or centralize contacts between You Need A Budget and Square.

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Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new transaction is added to your plan.
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Then
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Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action creates a customer in the Square account
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Services used in this Applet

Create your own YNAB (You Need A Budget) and Square workflow

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10 triggers, queries, and actions

Account balance is low

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when an account balance drops below your specified threshold.

Category overspent

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when spending in a category exceeds the budgeted amount for the current month.

New Customer

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Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new customer is created for the Square store

New Order

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Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new order is processed for the Square store

New transaction

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new transaction is added to your plan.

List accounts

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
Returns a list of accounts for a YNAB plan.

List categories

Pro plus icon
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
Returns a list of categories for a YNAB plan.

List plans

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
Returns a list of your YNAB plans.

Create a transaction

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action creates a new transaction in your YNAB plan.

Create Customer

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Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action creates a customer in the Square account

Account balance is low

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when an account balance drops below your specified threshold.

Category overspent

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when spending in a category exceeds the budgeted amount for the current month.

Create a transaction

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action creates a new transaction in your YNAB plan.

Create Customer

Pro icon
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action creates a customer in the Square account

List accounts

Pro plus icon
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
Returns a list of accounts for a YNAB plan.

List categories

Pro plus icon
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
Returns a list of categories for a YNAB plan.

List plans

Pro plus icon
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
Returns a list of your YNAB plans.

New Customer

Pro icon
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new customer is created for the Square store

New Order

Pro icon
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new order is processed for the Square store

New transaction

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires when a new transaction is added to your plan.

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About YNAB (You Need A Budget)

YNAB is a personal budgeting app that helps you gain total control of your money, break the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle, and get out of debt.

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About Square

Square is the simplest way to accept credit card payments and has all the features you need to create a seamless payment experience between you and your customers.

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