Communication

Send daily birthday reminders from Google Contacts to Slack

7 nodes 111 85 Scheduled trigger
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Workflow Description

Automate birthday notifications by extracting contacts with today's birthdate from Google Contacts and posting a daily reminder to a designated Slack channel, ensuring your team never misses celebrating important dates for colleagues and clients.

How it works

  1. 1.Schedule automation to run once daily at specified time
  2. 2.Fetch contact list with birthday information from Google Contacts
  3. 3.Filter contacts whose birthday matches today's date
  4. 4.Verify matching contacts exist before sending message
  5. 5.Format reminder message with birthday celebrants' names
  6. 6.Post formatted message to target Slack channel

Use cases

  • Automatically notify team members of employee and client birthdays
  • Strengthen workplace relationships through consistent birthday acknowledgments

Requirements

  • Google account with Contacts containing updated birthday information
  • Slack workspace with permission to post messages to channels

Service Value

Ready-made workflow template for automation delivery and service execution.

Apps Used

Google Contacts Slack

Details

Trigger Scheduled trigger
Nodes 7
Apps 2
Views 111
Downloads 85

How to Use

  1. 1.Click "Download Template"
  2. 2.Open your n8n dashboard
  3. 3.Go to Workflows > Import from File
  4. 4.Select downloaded file and configure credentials

Nodes Used (7)

Schedule Trigger

Schedule Trigger

#1

Google Contacts

Google Contacts

#2

If

If

#3

Slack

Slack

#4

Filter Contact

Filter

#5

Sticky Note

Sticky Note

#6

Sticky Note1

Sticky Note

#7