Survey responses are not tickets, so automations react to the response itself. There are three ways to act on a completed response:
Way | Where | Best for |
|---|---|---|
Survey automation (workflow) | Automation → Workflows → Create → Survey automation, or the survey's Share → More → Run a workflow | Follow-ups inside Gleap: email the respondent, open a ticket, notify a teammate, set a contact attribute, call an API, with conditions on the answers |
Settings → Apps → Webhooks | Your own backend, data warehouse | |
Integrations (Slack, Discord, Zapier, email, webhook integration) | Settings → Apps, action "on new item" with the Survey type | A notification per response in a channel |
Survey automations
A survey automation is a workflow with the trigger On survey completed. It runs once per response, when the respondent reaches an ending — in the app, on the survey page, from an email or an embed. A response left halfway does not start it.
Trigger
Survey: any survey, or one survey.
Only run when: conditions on the answers of that survey and on the contact. Each question type offers matching operators:
Question | Operators |
|---|---|
NPS | is a Detractor (0–6) / Passive (7–8) / Promoter (9–10), is, is below, is above, was skipped |
CSAT, rating, scale, number | is, is below, is above, was skipped |
Single choice | is, is not, was skipped |
Multiple choice | includes, doesn't include, was skipped |
Yes / no | is Yes / No, was skipped |
Text, email, date | contains, doesn't contain, is, was answered, was skipped |
Upload | was answered, was skipped |
Contact conditions use your contact attributes (plan, company, custom data). The same conditions are available in Condition steps inside the workflow.
Every matching live survey automation runs — there is no priority between them.
Steps
Step | What it does |
|---|---|
Custom API action | Calls your URL with the response (see variables). |
Condition | Branches on answers, contact attributes, office hours or API results. |
Delay | Waits, e.g. a day before a follow-up email. |
Create ticket | Opens a ticket for the respondent, linked to the response (the ticket shows the survey response card). The ticket's own workflows — for example Kai — run as for any new ticket. |
Email contact | Emails the respondent. |
Notify teammate | In-app notification linking to the response. |
Set data attribute | Writes a contact attribute, e.g. the latest NPS score. |
Pass to workflow | Continues in another survey automation. |
Anonymous responses have no contact: steps that need one (ticket, email, contact attribute) are skipped and the reason shows in Runs.
Variables
Variable | Value |
|---|---|
| Survey name and SDK id |
| One answer as text (choice labels, Yes / No) — |
| NPS score and |
| All answers as "Question: answer" lines |
| The response in the dashboard |
| Response details and hidden fields |
| The respondent ( |
Limits
Runs start from a queue a few seconds after completion, never in the respondent's request.
Up to 600 responses per project and minute start automations; more wait and start a minute later.
Up to 10 survey automations run per response.
Automations that used survey tickets
Before Surveys 2.0 every response created a ticket of type Survey. Here is what happens to each kind of automation that reacted to those tickets:
Before | Now |
|---|---|
Webhook on | Keeps receiving a ticket-shaped |
Slack, Discord, email and webhook integrations with the Survey type on "new item" | Keep posting one message per completed response, with the answers and a link to the response. |
Zapier with the Survey type | Keeps receiving one call per completed response: the new |
Jira, Linear, Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Trello and the other integrations with the Survey type | Keep creating one issue per completed response until January 5, 2027, with the same integration settings (type filter, on/off, board, issue type). The issue is titled "Survey response: <survey name>" and lists the answers (choice labels, keyed like before), the contact and a link to the response; the response shows a link to the issue. After that date, use a survey automation with a Custom API action, or Zapier. |
Workflows on "On ticket created" with the Survey type | Never ran for survey tickets. Use a survey automation. |
REST pollers on | Keep working with the old response shape. Pollers that read survey tickets from the ticket endpoints see no new responses — use the survey responses endpoint. |

