Glossary

Action

Incoming connection. See Connection Types.

Application Password

App-specific password feature built-in to WordPress 5.6 and later.

Connection

An actual communication between your WooCommerce store and a Zapier Zap. In this documentation we are using a couple of related terms of connection.

Connection Types

Incoming or Outgoing. Describes the direction of the data flow observed from the WooCommerce store perspective. Incoming connections are referred to as Actions, outgoing connections are referred to as Triggers.

Resource

Represents a specific type of WooCommerce data. For example, an Order, a Product, a Customer.

Trigger

Outgoing connection. See Connection Types.

Trigger Rule

A rule that defines an event (or multiple events) that will cause WooCommerce data to be sent to a Zapier Zap.

WooCommerce Extension

Part of the integration which lives inside a WooCommerce store. This it the WooCommerce Zapier plugin that you have installed on your WooCommerce store.

Zap

Zapier Zap is a connection configuration between Zapier and other service, including your store. See Connection.

Zapier App

Part of the integration which lives inside the zapier.com. This is the interface you see when using the WooCommerce app in a Zap. See Zap.

Zapier Feed

Legacy term used to describe a specific connection between Zapier and WooCommerce before version 2.