At OpenC, we love trying to do as much as possible with the Claris platform, and we have been pushing the boundaries of Claris Studio and Claris Connect.
In the spirit of this Claris obsession, we’re releasing the OpenC Connectors for Claris Connect today. We promise that it makes building Connect flows more powerful – and more fun – than ever!
Spoiler: We have developed some really powerful utility connectors for Claris Connect. Plus, we’ll build you a custom connector for free each month. Read on, or get access right away.
Some background
A while ago, Claris introduced Claris Connect, an extensible platform that allows anyone to integrate anything with everything. One of the main concepts in Connect are connectors, which consist of actions.
Connectors are friendly wrappers for the API of a SaaS product. Claris Connect includes many of these by default and their number is increasing with each release. For example, these have your back when you have to generate a Stripe payment link when someone submits your Studio appointment form.
Furthermore, Connect has utilities, such as “add two numbers” or “generate UUID”. The number of utilities Claris provides us with is impressive, given that this is actually akin to building the functionality of a programming environment from scratch. Thanks to these utilities, you can now generate an order number on today’s date to provide to Stripe, all from within your same Connect flow.
Great, but…
… your next task could be to generate a QR code of the payment link and email it to the customer, along with an iCal file of their appointment.
Is there an API that outputs QR codes? Sure, but – assumed that QR.io had a connector – why pay $35/month just for being able to generate a QR code, something that is trivial in other programming environments? Or should we breakout to a FileMaker script for this?
Oh, and we have not even touched upon generating the iCal file.
So what our example Connect flow needs at this point, are higher-level power utilities.
Introducing the OpenC Connectors
This potential third category of connectors has been missing… until today! Meet the OpenC Connectors, your power utilities for Claris Connect.
The following will all be possible TODAY right from your Claris Connect flow:
- generating QR codes
- parsing credit card or IBAN numbers,
- sending emails via your own SMTP server,
- or even rendering Word templates to PDF
Tell me more!
Does the idea of being able to do all this with only Claris Connect spark your interest? Read more on how it works here or start using the OpenC Connectors right now!
Bonus: We couldn’t build all connectors we could think of in one go, so we will add a new connector to our collection for free each month. Are you missing any connector that would make Claris Connect even more powerful? Please let us know your wishes through this form and we will add it to our backlog.