Templates / Monitor Clio trust/IOLTA balances and send email alerts

Monitor Clio trust/IOLTA balances and send email alerts

Ready for 3.0

by Dele Tosh @ Protomated ✓ · 4 views · created 2026-09-17 · Document Extraction

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

Nodes used (7)

What it does

Quick Overview This workflow monitors Clio trust/IOLTA balances by emailing daily low/negative balance alerts (with compliance checks and partner escalation for negatives) and sending a weekly trust health summary to accounting. How it works 1. Runs daily at 7am on a schedule trigger. 2. Fetches all open matters and their trust balances from the Clio API. 3. Calculates a balance tier (healthy/low/negative) and applies a cooldown so the same unresolved issue does not re-alert every day. 4. Builds an individual email for each alert-worthy matter, runs a compliance/guardrail sub-workflow, and sends the alert via SMTP if approved. 5. For any negative-balance matter, builds an urgent partner escalation email, logs it through the guardrail/audit sub-workflow, and sends it via SMTP. 6. Runs weekly on Monday at 8am, fetches all open matters from Clio, computes a trust health rollup, and emails the summary to accounting via SMTP. Setup 1. Add a Clio OAuth2 credential and set the CLIOBASEURL variable used by the Clio HTTP requests. 2. Configure an SMTP email credential and set FIRMFROMEMAIL plus recipient variables like FIRMTRUSTACCOUNTINGEMAIL, FIRMPARTNEREMAIL, and/or FIRMEMAIL. 3. Provide and configure the guardrail/compliance sub-workflow and set GUARDRAILWORKFLOWID to its workflow ID. 4. (Optional) Set LOWBALANCETHRESHOLD and ALERTCOOLDOWNDAYS variables to match your firm’s alert policy.

View the original on n8n.io → Check your own copy

Get the weekly “what broke” email

New templates, newly broken ones, and n8n release changes. One short email a week.

Form not loading? Subscribe here.