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Send planned outage notifications to affected customers and team

Automatically monitor new outage CSV files across EasyFTP and Webhooks by Zapier. Instantly notify customers and your team when outage files arriveβ€”so you can send targeted emails, post incident summaries, and kick off triage without manual outreach.

How this automation speeds up incident response for planned outages

When a new outage CSV file appears, delays can cost customer trust and slow triage. This automation fetches the file, parses outage line items, matches contacts, and sends customer emails and Slack incident summariesβ€”so your team can respond fast.

  1. 1.Detects new outage file uploads

    Integrate EasyFTP and file ingestion tools to trigger outage processing when a new file lands in your folder.

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  2. 2.Fetches file content

    Integrate Webhooks by Zapier and HTTP tools to get file content from the provided URL into the workflow payload.

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  3. 3.Imports CSV into line items

    Integrate Formatter by Zapier and CSV parsing tools to normalize outage fields into line-item rows for downstream sending.

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  4. 4.Finds contacts by service id

    Integrate Zapier Tables and data lookup tools to match each outage service id to a contact email and name.

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  5. 5.Sends transactional outage email

    Integrate Mailgun and email delivery tools to send targeted transactional emails with outage details to matched contacts.

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  6. 6.Posts incident summary to channel

    Integrate Slack and team messaging tools to post a concise incident summary for triage using outage id and timing.

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Okta
Zendesk
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Asana
Allstate
Airbnb
ActiveCampaign
Lyft
Webflow
Canva
Sysco
LA Clippers
Getaround
Grammarly
HelloFresh
Lululemon
Barry's
Hopper
Casper
Hudl
Miro
The New York Times
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