Process invoice emails to Zoho Books with Gmail, Parseur, and Google Drive
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What this workflow does
This workflow has 15 nodes and runs on Gmail events (plus 1 other trigger). Along the way it connects Gmail, Google Drive and Parseur (community). It also calls zohoapis.com over HTTP.
How it runs
Trigger: On Gmail events (plus 1 other trigger).
- Upload PDF to Parseur (Parseur): uses Parseur
- Fetch Parseur Document (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
- Check Bill in Zoho (HTTP Request): calls zohoapis.com
- Is Bill New? (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
- Create Bill in Zoho (HTTP Request): calls zohoapis.com (POST)
- Download Invoice PDF (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
- Find Month Folder in Drive (Google Drive): work with file folder
- Combine PDF + Folder (Merge): merges the data from its input branches
- Does Month Folder Exist? (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
- Upload PDF to Drive (Google Drive): uses Google Drive
…plus 2 more steps. See the full node list below.
Services it uses
HTTP calls to: zohoapis.com
Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0
We can't fully verify this one: it relies on 2 community packages, and n8n 3.0 turns unverified community packages off by default (N8N_UNVERIFIED_PACKAGES_ENABLED=false).
- Check that n8n-nodes-parseur is verified or supports 3.0 (used in Upload PDF to Parseur).
- Check that n8n-nodes-parseur is verified or supports 3.0 (used in Parseur Trigger).
Nodes used (8)
- Gmail Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.gmailTrigger - Parseur
n8n-nodes-parseur.parseur - HTTP Request
n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest - If
n8n-nodes-base.if - No Operation, do nothing
n8n-nodes-base.noOp - Google Drive
n8n-nodes-base.googleDrive - Merge
n8n-nodes-base.merge - Parseur Trigger
n8n-nodes-parseur.parseurTrigger
From the author
Quick overview This workflow monitors Gmail for invoice emails with PDF attachments, sends PDFs to Parseur for data extraction, checks and creates vendor bills in Zoho Books to prevent duplicates, and archives the original invoice PDFs into month-based…