Know whether a new email sender is already in your CRM
Before you decide what to do with a new message, get a quick CRM lookup for its sender.
Trigger
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Action
Search People
Tool to retrieve people matching search criteria. use when you need to find specific contacts by name, email, or phone after authenticating with your api key.
Why this helps
You waste time searching contacts by hand or accidentally treat a familiar contact like a new lead.
- Check whether a sender is already known
- Reduce duplicate contact entry
- Make follow-up decisions with CRM context
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and CentralstationCRM once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
- 3Tell Notis to search CentralstationCRM for the sender of each new Gmail message and report whether a matching person is found.
- 4Choose the new Gmail message trigger, select where run reports go, and test with a real message from a known contact.
Questions about this workflow
Does this create or update a person?
No. This workflow searches for people and reports the result; it does not create or update a contact.
What if several people match?
Ask Notis to report all plausible matches so you can resolve ambiguity before taking action.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Centralstationcrm. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Centralstationcrm actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Check Connection
Tool to verify the connection status of the centralstationcrm api key. use when validating credentials before making other api calls.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Count People
Tool to retrieve the total number of people in the account. use when you need the current total number of contacts in your centralstationcrm account. example: "how many contacts exist in my account?"
Email Sent
Triggers when a Gmail message is sent by the authenticated user. It polls the 'SENT' label and emits metadata including sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and thread ID.
Create Company
Tool to create a new company record. use when you need to add an organization to your crm before linking it to contacts or deals.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Create Deal
Tool to create a new deal record. use when needing to log a sales opportunity after grouping contacts or companies.
Create Person
Tool to create a new person record. use when you need to add a person to your crm before linking them to other records.
Create Person Address
Tool to create a new address for a specific person. use when you need to add or update postal details after confirming person id.
Create Person Assistant
Tool to create a new assistant (assi) entry for a specific person. use after confirming the person id when you need to manage assistant contacts.
Create Person Avatar
Tool to create a new avatar for a specific person. use when you need to attach a base64-encoded image file after confirming the person's id.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Gmail and Centralstationcrm, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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Do this · Action
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