Automation
Flows that run themselves — on a timetable, from another system, or from your own code.
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- Schedules: a flow that runs itselfHourly, daily or weekly with no browser open — armed for its next slot, never firing on save, never catching up a missed one.
- Triggers: let another system start a runGive a flow its own URL and secret, and Shopify, Zapier, a GitHub Action or your own backend can start it — with per-trigger caps so a leak stays contained.
- Mapping a raw payload (Shopify, Stripe, anything)Point a third-party webhook straight at a trigger: say where the rows live in their JSON and which path feeds each of your columns — and irrelevant events cost nothing.
- Running a flow from your own code (the API)A personal token and one endpoint: list flows, start a run of up to 20 items, poll the result — the same interface Claude uses when you connect FlowArray as a tool.
- Decide and Repeat: branching and auto-revisionRoute each item by a condition, or send it back through earlier steps until it passes — bounded, so a loop around a paid step can never spend forever.
- Run workflow: reuse a flow inside anotherBuild “clean and QA an image” once and call it as a single step from every campaign — one run, one cost total, and fixing it once fixes it everywhere.
- Agents: a step that decides which tools to useWhen the right sequence depends on the item, give a model an allowlist of your tools and let it work — read-only by default, capped, and with a full transcript afterwards.
- Connecting tool servers (MCP)Plug FlowArray into your catalogue, CRM, analytics or docs — one-click for open servers, a proper sign-in for the rest — then call any tool as a step.
- Chatting with FlowArray from ClaudeConnect FlowArray as a tool server and Claude can list, inspect, create and run your flows in conversation — and anything it creates is a draft that cannot spend.
- Sending results onward (Send to a URL)Finish a flow by POSTing each item's result to Slack, Zapier, n8n or your own backend — as JSON, with links to the generated files, no sign-in needed.