Zapier question: Add gmail label to Ghost member emails inquiries?

Using Ghost
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Hi, my Zapier skills are very limited and I’m only on the free plan.

I do use a super helpful Zap (thanks to a prior forum tip) to add one-time / tip-jar payments TO Ghost as members.

Now I’m wondering if there’s a way to add a Gmail label (e.g. Members) to any Ghost member who emails me. Ideally - I could limit this to paying members. But I’m open to any members really. Mainly so I can make sure to prioritize responses to them.

My current approach is setting up a Gmail filter manually for each member I email with. But that is rather time-consuming. I’m thinking this likely is not possible but it also doesn’t seem like the craziest idea.

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If I’m understanding what you’re after, would this work?

  1. Trigger → New message in Gmail
  2. Find a member → Search email in Ghost
  3. If success, add Ghost label to message in Gmail
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You could use Contact Groups:

And use a on new member sign up trigger to pass the email to the Add Contact to Group Zap:

Another Way
Alternatively, and more of a Gmail answer than Zapier, you could append a +members to the email address you give members and then filter by that.

So the email you would give members, or have a form use, etc., would become myemail+members@gmail.com or myemail+members@domainusinggmail.com, etc.

Then you could filter/label incoming email on the to field.

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Thanks! It doesn’t quite seem to be so simple but I’ve asked Zap what I’m missing. Also limited by the free plan (likely).

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Thanks - adding +member wouldn’t work because they will all be emailing me from their own email addresses. I’m not sure how Email by Zapier works but I will have a look… I wonder if I could set something up with like - a new Ghost member → Google Contacts? Not sure. Either way it feels more complicated than the free plan (which limits steps). I appreciate the ideas.