Using the webhook feature, you can set yourself up to be notified via an email in your Gmail inbox whenever a particular check-in attempt takes place, e.g. a successful check-in, an unsuccessful check-in attempt, or both.

Within Zapier you define an input event when the webhook gets triggered. You can decide what to do with the event, attach conditions to it, adjust some of the content, define actions to be automatically taken, such us sending an email message to a Gmail inbox.

To illustrate the setup, we have chosen an unsuccessful check-in attempt as an example of an event we want to be notified about via Gmail.

Requirements for Setup:

- be logged into the Proxy Dashboard

- be logged into your Gmail inbox

- be logged into a premium account on Zapier

- have a check-in kiosk set up in the Proxy Dashboard

Our example Zap:

Step 1. Trigger: Catch Hook

4. Within "Set up trigger" section click the "Copy" button next to the "Custom Webhook URL" that Zapier are providing here.

Step 2. Action: Only continue if...

1. Within the "Choose app" section select "Filter by Zapier".

2. Click "Continue".

3. Within the "Filter setup & testing" insert the criteria you want to filter by in the box on the left. For example, choose "Object Data Successful false" if you wish to filter out the unsuccessful check-in attempts. You can also filter by other criteria which we previously mentioned.

4. In the other box on the right, select "(Boolean) is false" option.

Step 3. Action: Utilities

1. Within the "Choose app & event" section select "Formatter by Zapier".

2. Click "Continue".

3. Within the "Set up action" section you can edit segments of the Gmail message you will be receiving. For instance:

- "Object Data Successful: true" you can name "successful".

- "Object Data Successful: false" you can name "unsuccessful".

4. Within the "Test action" section select "Retest & Review" to test your Zap again.

Step 4. Action: Send Email in Gmail

1. Within the "Choose app & event" section choose Gmail and "Send Email" action event.

2. Click "Continue".

3. In the "Choose account" section you need to sign into your Gmail account.

4. In the "Set up action" section you set up the features of your email message:

- in the "To" field add the addressee's Gmail inbox address. You can also add other Gmail accounts in the "CC" or "BCC" fields, depending on your needs. These people will receive information about the check-in event.

- in the "From" field choose the Gmail account you logged in with.

- in the "From Name" field you can enter the sender's name as it will appear in the addressee's inbox, for instance "Check-in Bot", "Unsuccessful  Check-in Notification" etc.

- in the "Reply To" field you can enter an alternate email address to which all replies to the notification email will be sent. If this is left blank, all replies will go back directly to your mailbox, i.e. the one you entered in the "From" field.

5. Define your Gmail message:

- create a subject line in the "Subject" box, such us "Unsuccessful check-in notification" or "Failed check-in bot" etc.

- create your automated message format within the "Body" box. In our example where we filter for unsuccessful check-in attempts, we have selected the following steps:

a) selected "Object Data Successful: unsuccessful"

b) manually typed in "check-in took place at"

c) selected "Object Ts: ..." to mark the time stamp of the event

d) manually typed in ". User who failed to check-in was"

e) selected "Object Subject Email: ..." so that our email message gives us the user's email address, in case we want to follow up on this.

- in further boxes you can enter your signature or assign the message a label. Those will be pulled from your Gmail box you used to log into Zapier.

- Click "Continue".

6. Within the next section "Test action", select "Retest action" button. This will test your Zap and a Gmail message will be generated.

7. If you're happy with the results, click the blue "Turn on Zap" button or the toggle button at the bottom of the screen to take your Zap live.