Start time-sensitive billing planning with the right clock
Ground a scheduled planning run in the local time that matters to the work.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get current date and time
Gets the current date and time, allowing for a specific timezone offset.
Why this helps
Planning from UTC alone can make follow-up timing confusing across working hours and regions.
- Get current date and time for a specified UTC offset.
- Make schedule interpretation clearer in a recurring planning run.
- Reduce ambiguity when coordinating time-sensitive work.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Billsby and Google Calendar once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve the current date and time at the offset relevant to the billing planning run.
- 4Choose a recurring schedule and a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with one run and confirm the returned time matches the intended offset.
Questions about this workflow
Can this determine a customer's local timezone?
No. Choose or supply the UTC offset relevant to the planning run.
Does it create a calendar event?
No. This action provides the current date and time for the automation to use in its planning.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Billsby to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Billsby triggers
Google Calendar actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
Delete event
Deletes a specified event by `event id` from a google calendar (`calendar id`); this action is idempotent and raises a 404 error if the event is not found.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Billsby and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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