Storm leads in your Zoho CRM pipeline

Get a free Swath key

Sign up at swathapi.com/signup — one email field, no credit card. Your key (it starts with sk_) comes back instantly and is shown once, so paste it somewhere safe. The free plan includes 100 credits a month; storm webhooks themselves cost nothing.

Get a webhook URL to give Swath

Path A · Zoho Flow — Zoho's own automation tool, no middleman

1. Open Zoho Flow and click Create Flow
2. Choose the Webhook trigger
3. Set the payload type to JSON — that's what Swath sends
4. Flow generates a unique webhook URL; copy it for step 3

CHECK YOUR PLAN: Zoho Flow is a separate Zoho product from Zoho CRM, bundled with some Zoho suites and sold on its own otherwise. If you don't have Flow, Path B works on any Zoho plan.

Path B · Zapier — works without Zoho Flow

1. In Zapier, click Create Zap
2. Trigger app: Webhooks by Zapier → event: Catch Hook
3. Zapier shows a unique webhook URL — copy it; that's the URL for step 3
4. Leave the Zap open; you'll add the Zoho CRM action in step 5

Catch Hook is a Zapier premium trigger, so it needs a paid Zapier plan. A native Swath app for Zapier is built and headed for the directory — until it's live, Webhooks by Zapier does the same job with one extra copy-paste.

Tell Swath to watch your territory

Path A · Ask your AI — no code, recommended

Connect Swath to Claude or ChatGPT first (a 2-minute paste-one-URL setup — steps here), then say:

Create a Swath storm monitor covering [YOUR COUNTY OR CITY] for hail 1 inch and up.
Use this webhook URL: [PASTE THE WEBHOOK URL FROM STEP 2]. Name it "[TERRITORY NAME]".

The AI draws the box around your territory, creates the monitor, and confirms. Ask it to save the webhook_secret it gets back.

Path B · Or paste this in any terminal

curl -X POST https://swathapi.com/v1/monitors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "My territory",
    "bbox": [-97.5, 32.5, -96.4, 33.3],
    "hail_min_in": 1.0,
    "webhook_url": "PASTE_THE_WEBHOOK_URL_FROM_STEP_2"
  }'

Swap in your sk_ key and the webhook URL from step 2. The bbox is the [west, south, east, north] corners of a box around your territory — the example roughly covers Dallas–Fort Worth. The response includes a webhook_secret, shown once — save it.

Send a test storm so the fields get mapped

These tools map fields from a request they have actually seen — and you can't make it hail on demand. Send a realistic sample to your webhook URL: either ask your AI ("Send a test POST to [the webhook URL] with this exact JSON: …") or paste this in any terminal:

curl -X POST "PASTE_THE_WEBHOOK_URL_FROM_STEP_2" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "event": "storm.verified",
  "storm_id": "sw_db69f3ae",
  "monitor_id": "mon_1a2b3c4d",
  "type": "hail",
  "mesh_in": 1.75,
  "wind_mph": null,
  "verified_at": "2026-07-24T19:42:00Z",
  "county": "Dallas, TX",
  "swath_geometry_url": "/v1/swaths/sw_db69f3ae/geometry",
  "report_url": "/v1/swaths/sw_db69f3ae/properties",
  "parcels_in_swath_est": null
}'

The sample then shows up as the test record, and you map from its fields. Every field Swath sends, and what it means:

Finish the automation

Path A (Zoho Flow): add a Zoho CRM → Create Record action, choose the Leads module, and map the fields Flow captured from your test:

• Lead name from county + mesh_in, e.g. "Storm — Dallas, TX — 1.75″ hail"
• report_url into a custom field or the description — that's the property list
• Optionally branch on county to assign the right owner

Path B (Zapier): same idea with a Zoho CRM action step instead.

HONEST NOTE: the webhook is the storm, not a homeowner list — you get one new record per verified storm, with hail size and county. The leads live behind report_url: the Swath Report lists every affected property with the hail size measured at that address (billed per property — ask for a quote first). Easiest pull: ask your AI "Pull the Swath Report for storm sw_… and give me a CSV."