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# Zapier Glossary

* **Zapier**: An integration platform that connects over 7,000+ web apps and APIs together into [multi-step, automated, customizable workflows](/platform/quickstart/how-zapier-works). When an event happens in one app, Zapier can tell another app to perform (or do) a particular action.
* **Zap**: An [automated Zapier workflow](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496309697421) that connects your app to others that have built integrations. Each Zap consists of a trigger and one or more actions. When you turn your Zap on, it will run the action steps every time the trigger event occurs.
* **Trigger**: The app integration event that [starts a Zap when new or updated data is added](/platform/build/trigger) to your app, either by Zapier polling a specific API endpoint to check for new data or via a notification REST webhook from your app that pushes new data to Zapier.
* **Action**: The app integration step that [finds, creates, or updates data](/platform/build/action) in your app using a GET, PUT or POST request to your API using data provided when a Zap is triggered by an event in another app.
* **Create action**: The app integration step that creates or updates a single item in your app through an API call.
* **Search action**: The app integration step that finds existing data in your app, optionally with a create action to add an item if the search does not return a result.
* **Task**: An action that a Zap successfully completes will count towards [task usage](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496196837261). The number of tasks a user has depends on their [Zapier pricing plan](https://zapier.com/pricing).
* **Zap editor**: The [user interface](https://zapier.com/editor) where end users build their Zaps, adding triggers and actions built by app integration developers.
* **Zap history**: An end user's [log of all the Zaps](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496291148685#h_01HD2KKYMTS7ASSEPXRMT57H63) that have run live, showing the data going in and out of each step, any error messages and task usage.
* **Filter**: A built-in Zapier function that users can add to their Zap to [restrict it to run](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496276332557) only when certain conditional values contain specific data.
* **Paths**: A built-in Zapier function that users can add to their Zap to combine Filters and Actions to perform different actions based on different conditions. [Paths use conditional, if/then logic](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496288555917): if A happens in your trigger app, then perform this action, if B happens, then perform this other action.
* **Formatter**: A built-in Zapier function users can add to their Zap to [customize and manipulate](https://zapier.com/apps/formatter/help) text, number and date data that is output from triggers and actions.
* **Delay**: A built-in Zapier function users can add to their Zap to [place it on hold](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496288754829-Add-delays-to-Zaps) for a specified amount of time before the remaining actions run, in essence scheduling the action.
* **Input Fields**: [Individual data fields](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496259603341-Different-field-types-in-Zaps) are received from trigger and action steps in a Zap, and mapped into subsequent steps' by a user to send that data as inputs to those steps' destination API.
* **Beta**: If your app is published in the Zapier App Directory, it will [remain in Beta](/platform/publish/public-integration#5-beta-phase) for 90 days to indicate its newer status to end users.

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