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The steps you drop into a flow: three ways to branch, the durable Wait, the Merge, and the actions that change your CRM.
All three read conditions you build against the record’s fields. They differ in what happens next:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Filter | Stop the automation unless every condition is met. A record that fails simply ends here. |
| If / Else | Split into a true path and a false path. Records that match the conditions take the true branch; everything else takes the false branch. |
| Switch | Send each record down a lane based on one field’s value, with a default lane for anything that does not match. |
After an If / Else or a Switch sends records down different lanes, a Merge step brings those lanes back together so everything past it continues on a single shared path. The card reads both paths continue from here. Whatever steps you put below the Merge run for records arriving from any branch.
Without a Merge you would have to copy the same closing steps into every lane. With one, you author them once.
A Wait is durable: the automation genuinely pauses at that step and picks up where it left off when the wait resolves, even days later. There are three flavors:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Wait a fixed amount of time | Resume after a set delay of minutes, hours, or days. Up to 90 days total. |
| Wait until a date | Resume on a date, read from a field on the record or set explicitly. An optional offset resumes a set time before or after that date. |
| Wait until a condition is met | Re-check the record on a schedule and resume the moment a condition becomes true. A required timeout decides what happens if it never does, up to 90 days. |
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Assign to user | Hand the record to a specific teammate. |
| Assign round-robin | Distribute records evenly across a team. |
| Update field | Set a field on the record to a fixed or copied value. |
| Create task | Create a follow-up task linked to the record. |
| Log activity | Log a call, email, meeting, or note on the record. |
| Send notification | Notify a teammate inside the CRM. |
| Send email | Send a transactional email to the record’s contact. |
| Call webhook | Call an external URL with the record’s data. |
| Create project from template | On a deal automation, create the delivery project for the deal, optionally seeded from a project template. Available on deal (opportunity) automations only. |