Craft vs Directus vs Zapier

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Zapier

Stacks1.6K

Followers1.2K

Votes114

Craft

Stacks136

Followers140

Votes29

Directus

Stacks166

Followers308

Votes49

GitHub Stars33.4K

Forks4.4K

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Yisroel

Jul 7, 2020

Needs adviceon

Mailchimp

QuickBooks

Tray.io

Hey! We are Raisegiving, a payments platform geared towards helping nonprofits raise money and manage donors. We are looking to give our Users (Admins of nonprofits) the ability to integrate their Raisegiving account with other tools such as Mailchimp and QuickBooks.

Examples of desired use cases:

Users should be able to sync Raisegiving audience with their Mailchimp audience, trigger the creation of a new Mailchimp audience based on data from their Raisegiving account.
Donations made on our platform should sync with users Quickbooks account.

Does anyone have any helpful insights into the pros and cons of Tray.io vs Zapier?

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Detailed Comparison

Zapier	Craft	Directus
Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Instead of wasting valuable time coming up with complicated systems - you can use Zapier to automate the web services you and your team are already using on a daily basis.	Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.	Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.
A Zap is a blueprint for a task you want to do over and over. In words, a Zap looks like this: "When I get a new thing in A, do this other thing in B." The first part is the trigger and the second part is the action. An example is "When I get a new entry from a Wufoo form, create a new lead in Salesforce.";You can pick what fields from the trigger service should go to the action service and you can use static text and custom fields too. For instance, you might say that the phone number from your Wufoo form should be the work phone of your new Salesforce lead.;Zapier regularly checks your trigger for new data. When the Zap triggers, Zapier automatically performs your action for you. Continuing with the Wufoo scenario, say you receive five new entries. Zapier takes each one and makes a new lead in Salesforce, customized to the way you specified in your Zap.;Without any more effort from you, data flows from one service to the other	Relations;Matrix;Assets;Localization;Live Preview;Custom Fields;Section Types;Entry Types;Categories and Tags;Dashboard;Templating;Responsive CP;One-Click Updating	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 33.4K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 4.4K
Stacks 1.6K	Stacks 136	Stacks 166
Followers 1.2K	Followers 140	Followers 308
Votes 114	Votes 29	Votes 49
Pros & Cons
Pros 45 Sync cloud services 34 Easy setup 15 Scheduled tasks 8 Great customer support 6 Gives me updates anytime, anywhere	Pros 8 Quick bespoke CMS 7 Easy to use CMS 6 Clean slate approach to templating 2 Great support 2 Free licence available for single user account version	Pros 12 Open Source 10 API-based CMS 9 Self-hostable 4 Version 9 is Javascript Based 2 Graphql Cons 4 Php based
Integrations
No integrations available	Amazon S3 Google Cloud Storage Rackspace Cloud Files	No integrations available

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