Difficulty: Beginner | Time: 10 min | Tier: All Plans
Automations (rules that trigger actions without manual work) save you hours each week. Instead of manually following up with every new contact, DreamFlow can send a welcome email, assign a task, add a tag, or move a deal — all automatically.
Steps
- Navigate to Tools > Automations from the sidebar.
- Click Create Automation. Give it a descriptive name like “Welcome New Contacts.”
- Choose a Trigger — the event that starts the automation. For example:
- Contact Created — fires when a new contact is added
- Status Changed — fires when a contact’s status updates
- Tag Added — fires when a specific tag is applied
- Add one or more Actions that execute when the trigger fires:
- Send Email — choose a template or write inline
- Create Task — assign a follow-up to a team member
- Add Tag — categorize the contact automatically
- Add to Sequence — enroll in a multi-step email sequence
- Optionally add Conditions to filter which contacts run through the automation (e.g., only contacts tagged “VIP”).
- Click Activate to turn the automation on. It runs in the background from now on.
Tip
Start simple. A single trigger with one action (like “Contact Created → Send Welcome Email”) is enough to see immediate value. You can add more actions and conditions later.
Example Workflow
Trigger: Contact Created → Action 1: Send welcome email → Action 2: Create follow-up task for owner (due in 2 days) → Action 3: Add tag “Onboarding.”
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