Notify on new emails with invoices in Slack — n8n Workflow

Medium complexity▶️ Manual6 nodes🏷️ Invoice Processing👁 2,492 viewsby Jonathan

Overview

This workflow checks for new emails in a mailbox and if the email body contains the word "invoice" it will send the attachment to Mindee. It then posts a message to Slack to let the team know a payment needs to be made, If the value of the invoice is over 1000 it will also email the finance manager.

To use this workflow you will need to configure the IMAP node to select the correct mailbox to use then configure the Mindee node to use your credentials.

Once that is done the Send Email node will

Nodes used

Send EmailSlackMindee

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Check for new emails
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If email body contains i…
Extract the total amount
Send new invoice notific…
Send email to finance ma…
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If Amount > 1000
6 nodes6 edges

How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a manual trigger.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 6 nodes, connecting emailreadimap, emailsend, if.

  3. 3

    Output

    The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (6)

SE

Send Email

emailSend

#1
SL

Slack

slack

#2
MI

Mindee

mindee

#3

How to Import This Workflow

  1. 1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
  2. 2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
  3. 3Select the downloaded notify-on-new-emails-with-invoices-in-slack file and click Import.
  4. 4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
  5. 5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Notify on new emails with invoices in Slack", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

emailreadimapemailsendifmindeeslack

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Nodes6
Complexitymedium
Triggermanual
Views2,492

Created by

Jonathan

Jonathan

@jon-n8n

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