17hats

17hats

· #280 most-used

Your all-in-one client management hub, automated end to end

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17hats is the all-in-one CRM and business management platform built for solo entrepreneurs and small service businesses — photographers, event planners, coaches, and consultants. It centralises contacts, quotes, contracts, invoices, online scheduling, questionnaires, and bookkeeping in one place. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can capture leads from any source into 17hats, sync contacts across your marketing and accounting stack, monitor new and updated contact events, and maintain a clean, fully-tagged database — all without the manual copy-pasting that eats an hour a day for busy service business owners.

Average time saved
14 hours
per person · per month
≈ 2 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual lead routing, contact-to-CRM data entry, cross-system sync, and the weekly database hygiene work that small service businesses do by hand.

Schedule

What your 17hats agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs
7Agents at work
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Multi-app workflows

17hats × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~24 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For sales
Featured5 apps

New 17hats lead enters HubSpot pipeline and gets a same-day response

When a new contact is created in 17hats, the agent retrieves the full lead record, creates a matching deal in HubSpot, sends a personalised response email from Gmail, schedules a discovery call in Google Calendar, and posts a lead summary to Slack — all within about a minute of the contact appearing in 17hats.

~8 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a new contact is created in 17hats
Result
Create matching deal in HubSpot pipelineSend personalised inquiry response emailSchedule discovery call in the business owner's calendarPost new lead summary to #leads Slack channel
The win
Saved per run
25 min
Runs / week
~20×
Every new inquiry gets a CRM record and a personal response within minutes
Driven bySales Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    40 min / week
    Manual lead processing after every inquiry

    The business owner manually copies the new 17hats contact into the CRM, drafts a response email, and opens the calendar to schedule a call — typically 10–15 minutes per lead.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent routes new 17hats leads to the pipeline instantly

    When a new 17hats contact is created, the agent creates a HubSpot deal, sends a response email, and schedules a discovery call — within about a minute, without touching a keyboard.

  • Marketing
    30 min / week
    Manual email list management

    The marketing team periodically exports 17hats contacts, formats the CSV, and manually imports them into Mailchimp — a process that typically runs days after the contacts are created.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent enrolls new contacts in email sequences by source

    When a new 17hats contact is created, the marketing agent reads their source tag and adds them to the correct Mailchimp audience automatically — zero manual list-building.

  • Customer Support
    30 min / week
    Manual contact lookup for every support request

    Support reps open 17hats, search for the client by email, scroll through notes, and mentally reconstruct the relationship history before typing a reply — 3–5 minutes per ticket.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent surfaces the 17hats client record before every support reply

    When a support email arrives, the agent finds the 17hats contact and posts the full client history to Slack — the support team has complete context before they open the thread.

  • Human Resources
    20 min / week
    Ad-hoc vendor record maintenance

    HR discovers missing vendor data at payment time, chases the contractor for their details, manually updates 17hats and the payroll system — a scramble that delays payments and frustrates contractors.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent keeps vendor contact records complete and current

    The HR agent audits all 17hats vendor contacts weekly, flags missing fields before payment runs, and updates payroll records when contact details change.

  • Finance
    20 min / week
    Manual QuickBooks customer creation

    The finance team manually creates a QuickBooks customer record for each new client by copying their details from 17hats — typically done reactively when the first invoice is due.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent syncs new 17hats clients to QuickBooks on conversion

    When a 17hats contact becomes a paying client, the agent creates the QuickBooks customer record immediately — billing is ready before the first invoice needs to go out.

  • Operations
    45 min / week
    Manual weekly contact database review

    Operations manually exports the 17hats contact list, opens it in a spreadsheet, checks for duplicates and missing fields, and writes a summary — a 45–60 minute task every week.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent produces a weekly contact health report automatically

    Every week the operations agent exports all 17hats contacts, counts new additions, flags data gaps, and posts the health report to Slack — without anyone logging into 17hats.

  • Legal
    30 min / week
    Manual monthly data compliance review

    Legal manually exports contacts, checks each for compliance issues in a spreadsheet, removes opted-out addresses from campaign tools by hand, and files a summary in a shared folder — a half-day task.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent runs the GDPR contact audit and logs every action

    The legal agent exports all 17hats contacts monthly, checks for missing GDPR fields and opted-out addresses still in campaigns, writes the audit log to Notion, and notes every contact reviewed.

+ 100s of other 17hats automations
Average time saved
22 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
18
Hours saved / year
875
Annual ROI
$65,625

Based on 17hats's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug 17hats into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect Actionist to 17hats using the API key from Account Settings → Integrations. The key gives agents access to your 17hats contact records for reading, writing, tagging, and syncing.

1
Open 17hats Account Settings

Log in to 17hats and navigate to Account Settings → Integrations.

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Enable the integration and copy your API key

Click Enable next to the Zapier or API integration. An API key will be generated and displayed — copy it.

3
Paste into Actionist and test

Paste the API key into Actionist and click Test connection. Actionist will run a read-only contact lookup to verify the key works.

Credentials you'll need
API key*
17hats → Account Settings → Integrations → Enable → copy the API key
Actions

12 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

2 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

FAQs

Questions about 17hats + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to 17hats?
Go to the Apps tab in Actionist, find 17hats, and click Connect. Actionist connects via the 17hats API key: navigate to Account Settings → Integrations inside 17hats, click Enable, and copy the API key. Paste it into Actionist and click Test connection. Once verified, your agents can read and write contacts immediately. No OAuth window, no browser redirect — just a single key.
What API does 17hats expose and what can the agent access directly?
Because 17hats does not expose a public REST API beyond Zapier-level contact sync, Actionist connects via the API key available under Account Settings → Integrations. The key grants Actionist read and write access to your contacts. For any other 17hats data (quotes, invoices, workflows) the agent uses complementary apps in the same task — for example, reading quote status from a connected Google Sheet that your 17hats workflows write to.
Can Actionist react to 17hats contact events automatically?
Yes. 17hats' Zapier integration (and the native webhook) fires on two contact events: New Contact (a brand-new record is created) and Updated Contact (an existing record is modified). Both are webhook-based. Actionist monitors these within about a minute of the event, allowing downstream tasks to run automatically — for example, tagging a new contact in your email marketing app or logging a deal in your CRM.
What kinds of businesses get the most value from 17hats connected to Actionist?
17hats is designed for solo entrepreneurs and small service businesses — photographers, event planners, coaches, consultants. It bundles CRM contacts, quote creation, contract signing, invoicing, online scheduling, questionnaires, and bookkeeping into one platform. Actionist agents are most useful for: syncing new 17hats leads into marketing tools, de-duplicating contacts, and automating follow-up sequences that 17hats' own workflow engine cannot connect to external apps.
How do I prevent duplicate contacts when leads arrive from multiple sources?
Use the Search Contact action first. Actionist queries the 17hats contact list for the prospect's email before creating anything. If a match is found, the agent updates the existing record (Update Contact); if not, it creates a new one (Create Contact). This Find or Create pattern is the standard way to prevent duplicate entries accumulating from multiple lead-capture sources — your 17hats contact list stays clean without manual dedup work.
What other apps does 17hats connect to, and how does Actionist extend that?
17hats natively integrates with Google Calendar, Stripe, Square, PayPal, Authorize.net, QuickBooks, Zapier, and iCal. Actionist can orchestrate workflows that span several of these: for example, when a new 17hats contact is created, the agent creates a matching record in QuickBooks, schedules a discovery call in Google Calendar, and sends a welcome sequence through your email marketing platform — connecting the dots that 17hats' built-in automations cannot reach.
Are there limitations to what Actionist can do inside 17hats?
17hats does not publish a native public REST API beyond the Zapier integration. Actionist's connection is therefore limited to the contact resource: create, update, search, and the two webhook triggers (New Contact, Updated Contact). Quotes, contracts, invoices, scheduling, and bookkeeping data inside 17hats are not accessible to Actionist directly. Workflows that need quote or invoice data should use 17hats' QuickBooks or Zapier integration to route that data to a shared system (Google Sheets, Notion) where Actionist can read it.
How does Actionist's automation differ from 17hats' built-in Workflow feature?
17hats' own Workflow engine automates sequences of tasks within 17hats — sending documents, scheduling reminders, triggering the next step when a client pays. Actionist agents operate outside 17hats and automate the cross-app layer: routing a new 17hats lead into your marketing stack, notifying a Slack channel when a contact is updated, or syncing contacts to a separate CRM. The two systems complement each other: 17hats handles the in-platform client lifecycle; Actionist connects it to the rest of your business.