In today's interconnected digital landscape, businesses rely on a multitude of specialized services. Your sales team lives in a CRM, payments are processed by Stripe, code is managed on GitHub, and customer support operates out of a ticketing system. While each platform is powerful on its own, the real magic happens when they work together. The challenge? Manually bridging the gaps between these systems is inefficient, error-prone, and slow.
What if you could build a central nervous system for your business operations? A system that listens for critical events in real-time—like a new high-value sale, a failed software build, or an urgent support ticket—and automatically triggers the exact right workflow. This is the promise of Event-Driven Automation, and it's the core principle behind Triggers.do.
Many developers' first instinct is to use Webhooks to connect services. A new order in your e-commerce platform triggers a webhook to a custom script, which then calls another service's API. This works for simple, one-off tasks.
However, as your business logic grows, this approach quickly becomes a tangled web of brittle, hard-to-maintain code. What happens if the receiving script is down? How do you filter out irrelevant events? How do you monitor, debug, and update dozens of scattered scripts? You need a more robust and centralized solution. You need an orchestration platform.
Triggers.do provides a powerful, developer-friendly platform for building sophisticated event-driven systems. It abstracts away the complexity of managing event sources and allows you to focus on the business logic that matters. The entire process can be broken down into three simple steps: Listen, Filter, and Execute.
A workflow needs a starting point—a "trigger." Triggers.do can listen for events from virtually any source. This could be:
By consolidating these event sources, Triggers.do becomes your single point of entry for all automated Business Process Automation.
Not every event is created equal. You don't want to run a complex fraud-check workflow for a $5 order, but you absolutely do for a $5,000 one. This is where the power of filtering comes in.
Triggers.do allows you to define simple, declarative rules to inspect the data payload of an incoming event. The workflow only proceeds if the conditions are met. This ensures your resources are used efficiently and your processes run only when necessary.
Once an event passes through the filter, Triggers.do executes the heart of your automation: the handler. This function initiates a predefined, agentic workflow, passing along the event data as input. This is where "Business-as-Code" comes to life.
Let's look at a concrete example. Imagine you want to create a special fulfillment process for new high-value orders from Stripe. With Triggers.do, the code is remarkably clear and concise:
import { Trigger } from 'triggers.do';
const newOrderTrigger = new Trigger({
name: 'New High-Value Order',
description: 'Triggers a fulfillment workflow for new orders over $100.',
event: 'order.created',
source: 'stripe-webhook',
filter: {
condition: 'event.data.amount > 100',
priority: 'high'
},
handler: async (event) => {
// Initiate the 'order-processing' workflow with event data
console.log(`Starting workflow for order: ${event.data.orderId}`);
return {
workflow: 'order-processing',
input: event.data
};
}
});
Let's break this down:
It's clear that Triggers.do is far more than a simple webhook forwarder. It's a complete orchestration platform that provides:
By embracing an event-driven approach with a dedicated platform like Triggers.do, you can move away from fragile, custom scripts and towards a scalable, observable, and powerful automation architecture.
Ready to transform your business events into seamless, automated workflows? Explore Triggers.do and start building your first trigger today.