Connect Pipedrive to put each customer's Simplesat rating on their Pipedrive person, in the fields you choose and as a note. You can also add the person's details and Pipedrive owner to each response in Simplesat, and sync your Pipedrive people to Simplesat as customers.
No Pipedrive integration sends surveys. They work with responses to your Simplesat surveys, however you send them.
What the Pipedrive integrations do
The Pipedrive page in Simplesat lists its integrations under Account-wide integrations and Survey integrations. You switch each one on separately with Activate integration.
Integration | Listed under | What it does | Where it shows |
Sync Pipedrive people to Simplesat | Account-wide integrations | Adds your Pipedrive people to Simplesat as customers and updates them once a day | Customers, in Simplesat |
Pull related details from Pipedrive when feedback is received | Survey integrations | Adds the person's details and their Pipedrive owner to the response | The response, in Simplesat |
Update contacts with rating details | Survey integrations | Writes rating details to the person fields you choose | The person in Pipedrive |
Add notes to rated contacts | Survey integrations | Adds the response to the person as a note | The person in Pipedrive |
The survey integrations find the Pipedrive person whose email exactly matches the customer email on the response. If a response has no customer email, or no Pipedrive person has that email, it's skipped.
They run on responses from every survey in your workspace unless you limit them under When should this integration run?.
Note: If we've changed one of your Pipedrive integrations for you, it can work differently from what's described here. Contact us to check what yours does.
Before you start
The Pipedrive integrations are available on every Simplesat plan.
To connect Pipedrive and switch on integrations in Simplesat, you need the Manage integrations permission. Owner and Admin have it by default.
You connect by signing in to Pipedrive and allowing Simplesat access. After that, the integrations act as that Pipedrive user, so sign in as someone who'll keep their Pipedrive access. If they lose it, the integrations stop.
Before you connect, you can check what a connected tool can read and write in Integration security, permissions and data flow.
Connect Pipedrive
On the Integrations page, open Pipedrive.
Click Authenticate. Pipedrive's sign-in page opens.
Sign in to Pipedrive. You'll see Simplesat's details and the permissions it asks for. Click Allow and install.
When the page shows Authenticated with Pipedrive, click Activate integration on each integration you want, then fill in its settings.
You don't need to enter a domain or API key.
Before you rely on an integration, test it with a real response from someone whose email is on a Pipedrive person, as described in Testing an integration end to end.
Feedback in Pipedrive
Simplesat waits at least five minutes after a response arrives before it writes to Pipedrive. If the response changes, it writes again. For more on the timing and the Field mapping settings, see Writing feedback back, and mapping the fields.
Update contacts with rating details
Pick the Pipedrive person fields you want Simplesat to fill in from each response, such as the latest rating, the sentiment or the comment. You set them in Field mapping, where each row pairs a Pipedrive person field with a value from the response. If you've just created a field in Pipedrive, reload the page to see it.
Add notes to rated contacts
Each response is added to the person as a note. The note names the customer, the sentiment and the survey, links to the customer, the response and the survey in Simplesat, and then lists every question and answer. The rating is shown with an emoji.
If the response changes later, for example when the customer answers another question, Simplesat adds a second note.
Pipedrive details in Simplesat
Pull related details from Pipedrive when feedback is received
As soon as a response arrives, Simplesat finds the Pipedrive person by email and adds these details to the response:
the person's name, email and Pipedrive person ID, with their organization as the customer's company
their Pipedrive owner as a team member with the role Owner, including the owner's name, email and Pipedrive user ID
their label, as the ticket field
Label
Heads up: This integration replaces the ticket fields and team members the response already had and keeps only the ticket ID. If a survey's responses also get ticket details and an agent from your help desk, the Pipedrive owner replaces the agent and the help desk's ticket fields are removed. Use When should this integration run? to limit it to the surveys you send to Pipedrive people.
How Simplesat connects responses to customers and team members is covered in Attribution: linking feedback to tickets, customers and agents.
Sync Pipedrive people to Simplesat
Switch this on to add your Pipedrive people to Simplesat as customers. Each comes in with their name, email and Pipedrive person ID, and their organization as the company. The first run imports every Pipedrive person who has an email address. After that it runs once a day, at the time of day you switched it on, and picks up the people updated in the past day. It only reads from Pipedrive, and it doesn't change the custom attributes or tags you've set in Simplesat.
For more on contact syncs, see Contact sync from a connected tool.
Change the Pipedrive account
To connect a different Pipedrive company, sign in as another Pipedrive user, or reconnect after the person who connected loses access:
Click Revoke access.
Click Authenticate and sign in to Pipedrive.
Any integration that was on before switches back on by itself. Check that each one you use shows Deactivate integration. If one is still off, click Activate integration.
Their settings are kept. Responses that arrive between Revoke access and Authenticate aren't written to Pipedrive, so do it all in one go.
Troubleshooting
Ratings don't show up on my Pipedrive people
Check that:
the response has a customer email that exactly matches a Pipedrive person's email, since the integrations find the person by that email
at least five minutes have passed since the response arrived
the integration shows as active, and When should this integration run? includes the survey
for Update contacts with rating details, Field mapping has a row for each field you expect
if you've clicked Revoke access and Authenticate, you've clicked Activate integration on any integration that's still off
If none of these explains it, send us the response's link.
My Pipedrive integrations stopped working, but the page still says Authenticated with Pipedrive
Simplesat doesn't check the connection after you connect. If the Pipedrive user who connected loses access, or the access is removed in Pipedrive, the integrations fail but the page still reads Authenticated with Pipedrive. Click Revoke access, then Authenticate. Any integration that was on before switches back on by itself. Check that each one you use shows Deactivate integration, and click Activate integration on any that's still off.
If the page does show an error, Integration error messages and what they mean explains it.
A person I added in Pipedrive isn't in Simplesat yet
Sync Pipedrive people to Simplesat runs once a day, at the time of day you switched it on, so a new person arrives with the next run. People without an email address aren't synced, so make sure the person has one.
My responses show the Pipedrive owner instead of the support agent
Pull related details from Pipedrive when feedback is received replaces a response's team members with the person's Pipedrive owner and removes ticket fields that came from a help desk. Under When should this integration run?, choose Let me choose and switch it off for your help desk surveys.
I see two notes on a Pipedrive person for one response
This is expected. Add notes to rated contacts adds a note when a response arrives and another when it changes, for example when the customer answers another question later or changes their rating.
FAQ
Can I send surveys from Pipedrive?
No, the Pipedrive integrations don't send surveys. Send them from Simplesat or from your help desk, and any response whose customer email matches a Pipedrive person can be written to Pipedrive. Choosing a survey delivery method compares the ways to send.
Do I still need Zapier to sync Pipedrive contacts?
No. Sync Pipedrive people to Simplesat adds every Pipedrive person with an email address to Simplesat and updates them once a day.
Can I sync only some Pipedrive people, such as the ones marked for surveys?
Not with Sync Pipedrive people to Simplesat. It brings in every person with an email address and has no filter. To bring in a chosen set, send those people to Simplesat's API from a tool such as Zapier.