New to n8n and not sure where to begin? These ten workflows give a small team the biggest time savings for the least effort.
The best first workflows are the ones you do by hand every week. They are repetitive, easy to describe and a mistake is cheap. Here are ten that fit most startups. Each one needs only a trigger, a few app nodes and clear rules.
Trigger: a webhook or form node. Add the lead to your CRM or a spreadsheet, send a welcome email, and notify the sales channel.
When a payment succeeds, create or update the customer in your CRM, accounting tool and email list so data stays consistent.
Post a message when a high-value deal arrives, a server goes down or a payment fails, so the team reacts quickly.
Generate an invoice when an order is confirmed, email it to the customer and log it in your books.
Send a sequence of emails or messages, create accounts in internal tools, and add tasks for your team.
Read new support emails or tickets, tag them by topic, assign them to the right person and post urgent ones to chat. An AI step can suggest a category. See n8n AI agents.
Every Monday, collect numbers from your analytics, sales and ads tools, build a short summary and send it to the team.
When a blog post is published, share it automatically to your social accounts and community channels with a short message.
Call your site or API on a schedule, and alert you if it does not respond or returns an error.
Export data from tools that do not back up for you, store it in cloud storage and notify you when it finishes.
If you are still choosing a tool, read n8n vs Zapier vs Make. To size a server for these workflows, see the best VPS plan for n8n.
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