Should I use Zapier, Make, or n8n?

Zapier — simplest, most expensive at scale, best for non-technical operators. Make (Integromat) — best for branching logic and dataflow visualization, mid-cost. n8n — self-hosted, lowest cost at high volume, requires devops. We'll recommend based on your task volume, ops team, and budget.

Why not just hire someone to do this in-house?

If you have an ops engineer, hire them. Most companies don't and won't. Our retainer gives you on-call automation engineering at a fraction of a hire — and we ship in days, not the 90-day onboarding curve a hire needs.

What's covered in the setup fee?

$499 covers up to 5 workflows: discovery, build, testing, monitoring setup, runbook. Beyond 5 workflows is scoped separately. The retainer covers ongoing operation, fixes, and additions.

What happens when an automation breaks?

Every workflow has alerting (Slack channel, email, or PagerDuty). Under retainer, we triage and fix on our standard SLA. Without retainer, you're on your own — which is why we sell automations bundled with operations.

Can you migrate us off Zapier as we scale?

Yes — that's a common Phase 2 conversation. We migrate to Make for branching needs or n8n self-hosted for cost. Migration usually pays back in 2-3 months at high volume.

Do you handle GDPR / DPDPA compliance for the data flowing through?

We document what data flows where, set up data retention rules, and use EU/India regions where the platforms support them. We're not a compliance auditor; we are an honest implementer.

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Automations & Integrations for operators who want their stack to run itself between Monday and Friday

n8n, Make, and Zapier workflows, built and operated by a team that lives in them. Setup from $499 plus an ongoing retainer to keep them running.

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What we build

Every sub-service inside Automations & Integrations

Scan the list. If your need is here, we ship it. If it's not, we'll tell you who does.

Sub-service	What it is
Zapier / Make / n8n workflow setup	We pick the platform that fits your scale, pricing, and ops team.
Form → CRM → Slack/WhatsApp notification chains	New lead in HubSpot, ping in #sales, drip sequence — all in one flow.
Lead enrichment (Clay, Apollo, Lusha)	Inbound leads enriched with revenue, headcount, tech stack, contact data.
Order → invoice → accounting → ledger pipelines	Stripe / Razorpay → Zoho / QuickBooks → reconciled, no manual entry.
Calendar + meeting scheduling automation	Calendly + reminder sequences + no-show recovery.
Social media scheduling integration (Blotato, Buffer, Publer)	One queue, every platform, with approvals where you need them.
Webhook + API middleware	Glue between systems that don't speak each other's languages.
Data sync / ETL (Airbyte, custom)	Move data from SaaS to warehouse on a schedule that holds.
Internal Slack / Teams bots	Approvals, summaries, alerts — where the team already lives.
Backup + sync workflows	Daily backups of databases, sheets, and platform exports — verified.

Why Pikasso for Automations & Integrations

What you don't get from a typical web shop

01	We build automations we have to run ourselves — so we build them to fail loudly, not silently.
02	Platform-honest: Zapier for simple, Make for branching, n8n for self-hosted control. We pick the right tool, not the one we sell.
03	Every workflow ships with monitoring, alerting, and a runbook. Not a fire-and-forget delivery.
04	Cost-aware — task volumes are modelled before launch, no surprise platform overage bills.

How we build it

Four stages. Honest timelines. No reveals.

First workflow live in 1 week. A typical 5-10 workflow setup ships in 2 to 4 weeks. After that we operate them under a retainer — fixes, additions, and quarterly reviews.

Stage	What happens
01 Discover	We map the buyer, the offer, the success metric, and the constraints. The proposal is what we agree to ship.
02 Design	Wireframes, then high-fidelity in your brand. We test the user flow before we build it, not after.
03 Build	Two-week sprints with a working demo at the end of each. You see progress weekly, not at the reveal.
04 Launch & Care	30 days of free Care post-launch. Then optional Always-On Partnership, the same team that built it runs it.

Tech stack

What we actually build with

Boring is good. Battle-tested is better. Every choice here exists in a real project we ship and run today.

n8n (self-hosted)
Make (Integromat)
Zapier
Airbyte
Slack API
WhatsApp Cloud API
Stripe Webhooks
Resend
Twilio

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What clients say about Automations & Integrations

Plain words from people who hired us

Persona-based snapshots. Names, cities, and companies are illustrative; the patterns and outcomes are drawn from real engagements.

“Pikasso wired Shopify orders into our WhatsApp Business API and Airtable inventory in 9 days. We stopped manually copy-pasting tracking numbers. That alone saved us about 12 hours a week of ops work.”

“Our kitchen-display system needed POS-to-inventory automation. Pikasso built the n8n flow plus a small Node service for the parts the off-the-shelf nodes could not handle. Zero downtime in 4 months since launch.”

“The retainer covers small things we never had the bandwidth for. Slack alerts when leads age past 24 hours, Airtable cleanup automations, calendar nudges. Cumulative time saved is real, even if any one automation feels small.”

Pricing

Honest numbers, published

Starting price

$499

Setup: $499 to $1,999 for 5 to 20 workflows. Retainer (operate + extend): $499 to $1,499 per month depending on workflow count and platform costs. Platform fees (Zapier, Make, n8n hosting) are separate.

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Why working with Pikasso is the obvious call

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Frequently asked

Questions buyers actually ask

Zapier — simplest, most expensive at scale, best for non-technical operators. Make (Integromat) — best for branching logic and dataflow visualization, mid-cost. n8n — self-hosted, lowest cost at high volume, requires devops. We'll recommend based on your task volume, ops team, and budget.

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