What are imports?

Imports are used to insert data into an application. Like Exports, Imports can run standalone, or in the context of a Flow.

Standalone Imports are useful for integrations where user actions (like clicking a button) need to invoke an application's API in real-time and return the results immediately. Standalone imports are especially useful for applications that need to integrate with more than one other application, and/or applications, where the development environment is less than ideal and writing native API client code, would be counter-productive. Celigo uses standalone Imports extensively in its spreadsheet and email sync products.

Imports running in the context of a Flow will also execute synchronously but will channel results back to the flow so that stats can be reported in a job record.