What is Make.com?
Make.com is one of the world’s leading iPaaS automation platforms, and one of BeLazy’s partners. Often referred to as an orchestrator, Make.com offers thousands of app integrations via API, and is focused on generally available tools. It enables you to create and execute relatively simple workflows very quickly.
Make.com offers both traditional rule-based automations and an agentic AI workflow. BeLazy develops and maintains a Make.com app based on BeLazy’s public APIs, which allow simple integration with other tools.
The integration steps are fully visual
How is Make.com used with BeLazy?
Besides app-based tool integrations, you can use Make.com to “listen” to BeLazy’s webhooks and perform certain actions upon certain events happening with BeLazy opportunities and projects, quickly implement REST API calls to any cloud-based functionality, and build custom apps in Javascript.
Common use cases between Make & BeLazy
The most common use cases of BeLazy with Make.com include:
- Implement both agentic and sequential AI workflows with TMS and BMS actions, for example taking an XLIFF file from any TMS using BeLazy and sending it to the large language model provider of your choice for processing and sending the results back into the TMS via BeLazy.
- Using mailhooks (dedicated email addresses provided by Make.com that receive emails) to parse emails and create or update BeLazy projects (opportunities) from emails.
- Combine information from multiple sources, for example the client only sends some information in an email about a TMS project and this should be taken into account before BeLazy creates a BMS project.
- Start or automatically accept certain projects upon email triggers, or upon sophisticated conditional logic for projects.
- Use external tools such as JIRA, Asana, or Trello to receive projects.
- Use external tools like the ones above, Google Sheets or Excel 365 to track the progress of projects.
- Build sophisticated logic to merge incoming projects and avoid paying minimum fees.
- Use spreadsheets to not only track but also manage projects from or in TMSes, e.g. assign vendors entered into certain columns.
- Introduce conditional logic for workflow selection, for example based on the combination of deadlines and weighted word counts.
- Change deadlines in any of the BeLazy-connected systems based on user preferences.
- Implement the automated translation of content coming from simpler content management systems, or from file repositories.
- Process XLIFF files with machine translation providers.
What are the main differences between BeLazy and Make.com?
| Make.com | BeLazy | |
|---|---|---|
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Core Function |
To build executable workflows from very granular building blocks |
To harmonize and simplify key actions in translation project management across multiple translation, business management and other systems |
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Orientation |
All building blocks implement specific tool APIs. The user needs to understand the APIs of each tool and APIs in general.
(without any harmonization) |
All actions are harmonized per use case across the different systems of the same kind. The user only needs to learn the logic for one system. |
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Error-handling |
Manual, user needs to predict error possibilities and prepare for each error |
Automatic retries, intelligent rescheduling, error handling solved out of the box
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Access to systems |
Only where API-based authentication is available for you, may require customer IT intervention |
API-based authentication if APIs are generally high quality and available for all users without requesting extra permission, username and password combinations for any other systems |
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Technologies used |
Public APIs, with only REST APIs simple to add |
Public REST, SOAP, Graph APIs, internal (backend) APIs between the frontend and backend of web-based systems, web scraping
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Configuration |
Requires certain development-oriented thinking, on a drag’n’drop interface |
Requires an understanding of translation-related systems and metadata
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Pricing |
Per step executed |
Per project accepted |
What are the main similarities?
Both BeLazy and Make.com are automation platforms. Both can:
- Connect systems through APIs.
- Help you save time by reducing manual tasks.
- Combine triggers, actions, and conditions to route work automatically.
And in fact, they work best together — Make.com provides general-purpose automation building blocks, while BeLazy brings translation-industry expertise and out-of-the-box compatibility with TMSes, BMSes, and other language tools.
Who should use Make.com?
Due to the complexity of translation management processes, Make.com cannot replace BeLazy, however, it is the most popular tool to augment BeLazy’s functionality. BeLazy’s strong focus on developer experience, webhook-oriented architecture and REST API enable Make.com to:
- extend the scope of tools that content can come from,
- perform project management operations custom to the user,
- route XLIFF to any MT or LLM engine,
- and implement agentic AI.
About 40% of BeLazy’s users also use Make.com, and about 30% of them are on the free version. Imagine it so that very often BeLazy gets the user to 95% of their goals, and the remaining 5% leading to full satisfaction is complemented with Make.com.
Who should use BeLazy?
BeLazy is a use-case-focused platform dedicated to localization. Its developers already researched and prepared for every possible pitfall that can happen when connecting translation-related systems, thus it eliminates the complexity, IT overhead, and error-prone setup that Make.com requires for the same processes. Every role in a translation team benefits from using it due to its highly specific mapping of translation workflows.
Go ahead with BeLazy if you want to:
- Easily manage content across multiple translation and localization platforms (like TMSes, BMSes, and vendor portals) and want all of them to “speak the same language.”
- Harmonize actions: instead of learning each TMS’s quirks, you just learn BeLazy’s logic once (e.g., “create project,” “assign vendor,” “change deadline”), and it works across different systems with the same efficiency.
- Get covered by enterprise-grade error handling: retries, intelligent rescheduling, and robust error management come built-in.
- Connect to systems more fast and securely, without public APIs, such as portals that require web scraping or backend integrations.
- Care about fast ROI: BeLazy is designed to automate high-volume translation workflows without needing IT intervention for every new connection.
- Remove vendor lock-in: BeLazy works the same way with any supported TMS and BMS, so you can mix and match those systems as you feel fit. You won’t be locked into any one system.
When to use BeLazy and Make together
For most localization teams, the sweet spot is to use BeLazy as the backbone of translation project automation, and extend it with Make.com for custom workflows or cross-department integrations.
- BeLazy → gets you to 95% automation by handling translation-specific workflows reliably.
- Make.com → adds the last 5% of customization, connecting your localization stack with other enterprise tools.
Think of Make.com as the generalist, and BeLazy as the specialist. If translation is your core business, BeLazy is the tool built for you.
Can BeLazy help with Make.com scenarios?
Yes, if you don’t want to learn how to use the system, BeLazy’s solution engineers can prepare the right scenarios for you for a modest fee.
Make.com pricing
Make.com is very affordable, with a generous free version. Most of our users pay 9 or 29 USD per month on top of BeLazy’s fees. If you want to create an organization, click here.
Make.com alternatives
n8n provides extensive customization capabilities through its combination of visual workflows and low-code functionality. Unlike Make’s purely visual interface, n8n allows developers to implement custom logic, advanced data processing, and include software code in the scenarios. The platform offers self-hosting options and transparent pricing, making it suitable for enterprises requiring maximum technical control. However, this flexibility comes with increased complexity that may not be necessary for most translation workflows, where specialized domain knowledge often delivers better results than general technical capabilities. Use n8n if you feel Make.com you’ve outgrown the capabilities of Make.com, and you work with a limited set of tools.
Zapier provides the largest app ecosystem (7,000+ integrations) but has fundamental limitations that make it less suitable for complex workflows. Zapier is limited in the number of steps, branches and nested paths, while Make.com has no such limitation. The platform is designed for marketers and simple linear workflows, lacking the advanced data processing capabilities that Make provides. Additionally, Zapier’s task-based pricing can become significantly more expensive than Make’s operation-based model for complex, multi-step workflows. Only use Zapier if you already have Zapier, and you need simple workflows.
RunMyProcess is an enterprise-grade business process management platform that combines workflow automation with portal building capabilities, making it a strong candidate for organizations requiring both process automation and user interface development. This dual functionality can be particularly valuable for companies needing comprehensive business applications beyond simple workflow automation. RunMyProcess has strong Salesforce and SAP integration capabilities as well. Use RunMyProcess if you need to build portal experiences, and need to connect to enterprise systems.
Snaplogic targets large-scale data integration scenarios but brings unnecessary complexity and cost for most localization workflows where agility matters more than enterprise-grade data processing.
Blackbird.io offers workflow automation with specialized connectors for content management systems and digital asset management platforms. The platform provides tailored integrations for CMS workflows, though these remain standard API-based connections similar to other automation platforms. Organizations with heavy content operations across many commercial content management systems may find value in these pre-built CMS integrations, while those with specific requirements could achieve similar results through platforms like n8n, which also allows development of custom connectors tailored to their particular CMS environments. The pricing structure places Blackbird.io at a premium tier above other automation platforms. Use Blackbird.io if you need both a general iPaaS platform and CMS-TMS-AI connectors in a single tool.
