I must receive 100+ email confirmations a month. Amazon purchases, utility auto-billings, software subscriptions.

Just letting you know you paid $96.10 for something but because you're such a busy person you'll never read this email. See you next month 👋

Each week I have a recurring to-do to clear these emails out. The result is a flurry of notifying other people, wondering why an amount went up, trying to remember what something even is... and that's on the good weeks where I actually do it!

 is a way to extract useful information from the body of an email. Once you have that information, you can send it to where it needs to go, and archive the email automatically. It's all made simple by a tool called 

Particularly one that you want to pay attention to. Once we parse the relevant information out of the email, we can send it anywhere. To a colleague, to your partner, to your accounting file, to a spreadsheet, etc.

I want to keep an eye on a utility bill that's been fluctuating more than I'd like:

This parser will be specific to emails of this type. For example, it will work with this type of utility payment confirmation, and pull the specific details you set up in your parser.

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Using Email Parser by Zapier, we'll extract a couple items from an email.

Create An Email Parser

Part 3: Create a Zap To Send Your Data Somewhere

This is where the magic happens. We'll create a zap to take the extracted information to its final destination.

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Create a workflow with Zapier to parse information from an email, and text it out via SMS.

Send Parsed Info Via SMS

Send Parsed Info Via Email

Parse information from a recurring email, then post it to a QuickBooks file.

Post Parsed Info to QuickBooks

Slack Me If Parsed Info Over Amount

How else could the info you've parsed be useful?

My best advice: start small. You receive a lot of confirmation emails! You don't need to automate them all, but start with those can't-miss emails that come up on a recurring basis.

Automate your Email Confirmations