Connect your apps
Connecting accounts
Authorise a service once, and every step that needs it can act as that account. Credentials stay in a vault and never reach the browser.
A connection is an account you have authorised once: a mailbox, a CRM, a spreadsheet, a chat workspace. Steps that work with that service act as the account you choose on the step.
Connecting one
Open Connections
In the dashboard, open Connections. Your connected accounts are listed, with everything you can connect beneath them.
Choose the service
Click the one you want. There are hundreds; the full, searchable list is on the integrations page.
Sign in on their side
The service's own sign-in page opens. You approve access there, and VisualAutomate never sees your password.
Use it on a step
On any step for that service, choose the connection it should act as.
Where the credentials go
What the service hands back after you approve (a token, not your password) is stored encrypted in a vault we run ourselves, under a key separate from the rest of the data. It is:
- never shown back to you, not even to the person who connected it;
- never sent to the browser: the dashboard only ever sees that a connection exists, its name and whether it works;
- refreshed automatically when the service's tokens expire.
When a step calls the service, the request goes out with the credential attached on our side.
An AI assistant connected through MCP can see which apps you have connected, but never a token.
Sharing with your team
A connection belongs to the person who made it. You can share it with the people you work with, so a workflow in a shared workspace can act as a team mailbox without everyone connecting it themselves. Sharing lets a step use the account; it never reveals the credential.
Removing one
Remove a connection from Connections. You are asked to confirm first, because steps that act as it will fail until they are pointed at another account.
Not on the list?
Any service with an HTTP API can be reached with the HTTP Request step, and anything you will use often can become your own step.
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