Prebuilt connectors vs custom using api connector plugin

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Hi,

I’m about to start working on some integrations for a b2b app.

CRMs, accounting, project management and productivity type apps.

I’m coming across a lot of apps with pre-built connections, similar to zapier.

Does anyone have thoughts or experience using these over building out my own integrations using the api connector plugin?

Thanks
Robbie

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Hey Robbie,

Yeah definitely, the advantages of pre-built connections are that you will save time (by not building them yourself) and that they already have been used quite a lot, so no bugs (well, probably less bugs :grinning: ). A disadvantage can be that if you have a specific requirement, it might not be covered by the pre-built connections.

Hope this helps,

Gerbert
MVP Design

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Thanks for the response on this.

Is there any pre-built connection apps you have worked with and recommend?

I’m looking at paragon and prismatic at the moment.

Thanks
Robbie

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Also curious about this…

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Not sure if you found an answer - as far as I know there are none prebulit for Bubble.

But there is an explosion going on in these platforms:
Paragon
Fivetran
AirByte
Rivery

And that’s only part of the list. Many of them also have features for you to create custom queries for connectors that do not have everything you want out of the gate. And most of them not only allow you to pul and post the schema entirely, but you can push data back to the applications as well.

Would love to see these as plugins for Bubble. Fivetran, Paragon, AirByte have a sinlg UI to connect to and just like Plaid where you can then connect to many banks, you can connect to many SaaS apps. One install to access over 300 SaaS platorms.

A lot of no code lowe code here.