Zapier Integration

What it does

There's no native Jitterflow app in the Zapier directory yet. You don't need one — Zapier already ships a Webhooks by Zapier action that can POST to any URL, and Jitterflow ingests over a plain HTTP POST. Point that action at your Jitterflow ingest URL instead of the final destination, and every event a Zap sends gets jittered delivery, retry with backoff, and a hosted dead-letter queue — the same handling described on how Jitterflow works.

How to connect

1. In your Zap, add an action step and search for Webhooks by Zapier.
2. Choose POST as the action event.
3. Set the URL to your endpoint's ingest URL from the dashboard (Endpoints → your endpoint → Ingest URL), and Data Format to JSON.
4. Map whatever fields the trigger step provides into the request body — that body is what Jitterflow queues and forwards to your real destination.

For repeat-run safety, add an idempotencyKey field to the body (see sending webhooks) so a Zap that retries after a timeout doesn't double-send.

Example Zap

New Shopify order → Jitterflow → ERP webhook. Trigger on Shopify's New Order event, then a Webhooks by Zapier POST step sends the order payload to your Jitterflow ingest URL. Jitterflow spreads the resulting burst across a computed jitter window before forwarding to your ERP, so a flash-sale spike doesn't trip the ERP's own rate limiter.

Why route through Jitterflow

Zapier fires each Zap run as soon as its trigger fires — it has no awareness of your destination's rate limit and no dead-letter queue of its own. Routing the outbound step through Jitterflow adds jitter, retry with backoff, per-destination isolation, and a DLQ with replay for anything that still fails, without changing anything else about the Zap.