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title: Zap your meeting transcripts into CounselMore (Single Counselor).
description: Automatically receive your meeting transcripts in your CounselMore account.
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# Zap your meeting transcripts into CounselMore (Single Counselor).

## Automatically receive your meeting transcripts in your CounselMore account.

**Audience:** a counselor setting this up for themselves

**Time to set up:** about 10 minutes

**You'll need:** a Zapier account, your CounselMore login, and Zoom on a paid plan with cloud recording

![zapier-zoom-counselmore (2)](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/zapier-zoom-counselmore%20(2).png?width=670&height=104&name=zapier-zoom-counselmore%20(2).png)

**More than one counselor in your practice?** Read [Zoom meeting notes for a practice with more than one counselor](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/using-zapier-to-get-meeting-transcripts-in-to-counselmore-0?hsLang=en) instead. The setup is different, and doing it  
the way described here for several counselors creates duplicate notes.

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### What this does

After each Zoom meeting, Zapier sends the transcript to CounselMore, which saves it as a Meeting Note on the right student. You don't copy or paste anything.

Each note:

- is filed in that student's **Assignments** tab and appears on your dashboard
- is assigned to you, and you get a notification when it arrives
- is named after the meeting and its time — for example *Junior Year Check In meeting - Jan 15, 2026, 2:00 PM*
- is **visible only to counselors**. Students and parents never see it.

If CounselMore can't tell which student the meeting was with, it holds the note on

your dashboard for you to assign. Nothing is lost.

 

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### Before you start

**1. Turn on transcripts in Zoom.**

In Zoom, go to *Settings → Recording* and turn on **Cloud Recording** with \*\*Audio transcript\*\*. Zoom only produces transcripts for cloud recordings, which require a paid Zoom plan. Local recordings never produce one.

**2. Connect Calendly or Acuity to CounselMore.**

This is the single highest-impact step for automatic matching. CounselMore works out who each meeting was with from your bookings — without a connected scheduler, it has very little to go on.

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#### Step 1: Create the Zap and choose the trigger

1. Log in to [zapier.com](https://zapier.com) and click **+ Create → Zaps**.  
   ![Screenshot 2026-10-14 160625](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-10-14%20160625.png?width=670&height=336&name=Screenshot%202026-10-14%20160625.png)
2. For the **Trigger**, search for **Zoom**.  
   ![Screenshot 2026-10-14 160734](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-10-14%20160734.png?width=670&height=351&name=Screenshot%202026-10-14%20160734.png)
3. Choose the trigger event that fires **when a transcript is ready**. \*Don't choose "New Recording" or "New Meeting" — those fire before the transcript exists.\*   
   ![trigger](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/trigger.png?width=670&height=463&name=trigger.png)
4. Connect your Zoom account when prompted, then click **Continue**.  
   ![connectzoom](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/connectzoom.png?width=670&height=313&name=connectzoom.png)
5. Click **Test trigger**. Pick a real recent meeting so you have sample data  
   ![testing](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/testing.png?width=670&height=331&name=testing.png)

 

#### Step 2: Add the CounselMore action

1. Click **+** to add an **Action** and search for **CounselMore**.
2. For **Action event**, choose **Create Meeting Note**, then **Continue**.
3. Sign in with your CounselMore details:

- - **User Name:** the email address you log in to CounselMore with
    - **Password:** your CounselMore password

![configure](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/configure.png?width=670&height=332&name=configure.png)

#### Step 3: Map the fields

| CounselMore field | Required? | Map from Zoom |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Meeting Title** | Required | **Topic** |
| **Meeting Date** | Required | **Start Time** |
| **Meeting Transcript** | Required | The **transcript text** |
| **Zoom Meeting ID** | Recommended | **Meeting ID** — the numeric ID, *not* the UUID |
| **Student Email** | Leave blank | Only to send every note from this Zap to one particular student |
| **Student Name** | Leave blank | Only used if no student matches the email, and must match CounselMore exactly |

 

Two things to get right:

- **Map Zoom Meeting ID.** It's optional, so the Zap works without it — but it's the most reliable way to match a transcript to your booking. Zapier won't fill it in later, so map it now.
- **Meeting Date must be the meeting's** ***start*** **time.** It's used both to name the note and to find the booking. If you map the time the recording *finished*, the time in the note title will look wrong — that's your signal to correct it.

**Leave Student Email and Student Name blank.** Zoom doesn't include attendee names or email addresses, so there's nothing to map into them. Anything you put here overrides automatic matching for every meeting.

 

#### Step 4: Test and publish

 Click **Test step**.

![teststep-1](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/teststep-1.png?width=640&height=300&name=teststep-1.png)

- **This creates a real meeting note.** If the sample meeting was with a real student, the note appears on that student. Keep it, or delete it from their Assignments tab.

 Check the result:

- - **SUCCESS** — with a student's name — the note was filed on that student.  
      ![success](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/success.png?width=541&height=437&name=success.png)
    - **QUEUED FOR ASSIGNMENT** — CounselMore couldn't tell who the meeting was with, so it's waiting on your dashboard. Your Zap is working correctly.  
      ![queued](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/queued.png?width=542&height=398&name=queued.png)

 Click **Publish**.

 

Zoom can take longer than the meeting itself to finish a transcript, and Zapier may take up to 15 minutes more to pick it up. A delay of an hour or more after a long meeting is normal.

 

---

#### How CounselMore matches a transcript to a student

 

#### When CounselMore can't tell which student...

The note isn't lost and the transcript isn't thrown away.

It appears in **Today's Priority Summary** on your dashboard, marked **\[Action Required\]**, with an **Assign** button. It's in your notification bell too.

![assign-1](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/assign-1.png?width=670&height=211&name=assign-1.png)

1. Click **Assign**
2. Read the transcript shown in the window to jog your memory
3. Start typing the student's name and pick them from the list
4. Click **Assign**

The note is then filed on that student exactly as if it had matched automatically.

If you dismiss the item with the **✕** instead, the alert goes away but the transcript stays queued — it isn't deleted.

 

---

Auto-matching transcripts to students

Zoom doesn't tell us the name of participants. That surprises people, so it's worth stating plainly: **a Zoom transcript does not contain the names or email addresses of the people in the meeting.** Zoom sends the recording and some details about the meeting itself — when it started, what it was called, who hosted it — and nothing about who attended.

Anyone who joins from a link is a guest, and Zoom leaves guest details blank.

So CounselMore works it out from what it already knows about your calendar and your students. It tries each rule in turn and stops at the first one that gives a single, confident answer.

### 1. A student you named in the Zap

If you mapped a student's email address or full name into the Zap yourself, that wins.   
Nothing else overrides a choice you made deliberately.

\*Most counselors leave these blank — there's nothing in a Zoom transcript to map into them.\*

### 2\. The Zoom meeting ID — when the meeting had its own link

If your booking tool created a **unique Zoom meeting** for that appointment, the meeting ID identifies it exactly. This is the most reliable rule, and it still works if the meeting started late or ran long.

It does **not** work if you use the same personal meeting room for every meeting, because then the ID is identical for all of them and tells us nothing about which one this was. CounselMore detects this and moves on rather than guessing.

### 3. The scheduled meeting time

CounselMore looks for a booking in your CounselMore calendar that starts \*\*within 15 minutes\*\* of when the Zoom meeting started. If exactly one student was booked around then, that's the match.

If two students were booked at almost the same time, or there's no booking at all, it moves on.

### 4. The Zoom meeting title

If **exactly one** of your students' full names appears in the meeting title, that's the match. Titles like *"Jane Doe and Christine"* — which Zoom Scheduler creates automatically — work well here.

 

### 5. The opening of the transcript

If you say who's in the meeting at the very start, CounselMore reads the \*\*first few lines\*\* of the transcript and looks for exactly one of your students' full names.

Only the opening is read. Later in a meeting you might mention a sibling, a parent or another student, and those shouldn't become the subject of the note.

 

### 6. If none of the above gives one clear answer

The note is **held for you to assign** — see below. Nothing is lost.

 

---

#### Getting the best results

The first three rules do the heavy lifting and need no change to how you run meetings.

**1. Connect your scheduler.** Rules 2 and 3 both depend on it. Highest impact by a wide margin.

**2. Map the Zoom Meeting ID in your Zap.** See Step 3 above.

**3. Optional: say who's in the room at the start.**

Something like *"This is Christine, here with Jane Doe."* This feeds rule 5 and helps with meetings that were never booked through a scheduler.

##### Two honest caveats:

- Zoom's transcription often mis-spells names, especially less common ones. If the spelling doesn't match the student's name in CounselMore, the rule won't fire.
- Say it **after you start recording**. If you speak before recording begins, the words never reach the transcript.

Treat this as a helpful extra, not something to rely on.

 

---

#### Names: what counts as a match

Rules 4 and 5 look for the student's name **exactly as it's stored in CounselMore**.

- It must be the **full name**, not just a first name
- It must appear as a whole word
- Names shorter than four characters are skipped, because they match too much by accident

If a student goes by a nickname in meetings, add that spelling to their CounselMore record so the rules can find it.

---

#### Troubleshooting

| What you see | What to check |
| --- | --- |
| The Zap never runs | Is cloud recording with audio transcript turned on in Zoom? Did you choose the **transcript** trigger, not "New Recording"? |
| The Zap runs late | Normal. Zoom finishes transcripts well after the meeting ends, and Zapier checks every 1–15 minutes |
| Connecting CounselMore in Zapier fails | Re-check your email and password by logging in at counselmore.com with the same details |
| Every note needs assigning by hand | Connect Calendly or Acuity to CounselMore, and map **Zoom Meeting ID** in the Zap |
| Notes match sometimes, not always | If you use the same personal Zoom room for every meeting, the Meeting ID can't identify it. Matching then relies on the booking time |
| The time in the note title is wrong | **Meeting Date** is mapped to the wrong Zoom field. It should be the meeting's start time. This affects matching too |
| Meetings that run late don't match | They still match if the booking created a unique Zoom link. With a personal meeting room, a late start can fall outside the 15-minute window |
| You said the name but it didn't match | Check the spelling in CounselMore matches what you say, and that you were recording when you said it |
| No note arrived at all | Check the Zap's run history in Zapier — the transcript may not have been sent |
| Your notes suddenly stopped arriving | Did you change your CounselMore password? That disconnects the Zap. Reconnect the CounselMore account in Zapier |
| The same meeting produced two notes | You have two Zaps watching the same Zoom account. Turn one off |
| A note was filed on the wrong student | Check that **Student Email** and **Student Name** are blank, since they override everything. If they are blank, please report it — CounselMore is designed to ask rather than guess |
| Zapier shows an error on the CounselMore step | Open the run in **Zap History** and send the error message to [support@counselmore.com](mailto:support@counselmore.com) |

 

---

#### Quick reference

| Rule | What it uses | Needs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | A student you mapped in the Zap | You set it deliberately |
| 2 | Zoom meeting ID | A unique Zoom link per booking |
| 3 | Meeting start time | A booking in CounselMore within 15 min |
| 4 | Zoom meeting title | One student's full name in the title |
| 5 | Start of the transcript | You say who's present, on the recording |
| 6 | — | Held on your dashboard to assign |

 

---

### Privacy

Meeting notes created by this Zap are visible only to counselors on your account who can see that student. They're never auto-shared with the student or parent. To share them with the student / parent go to Assignments and toggle them on. 

![toggle-2](https://helpdesk.counselmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/toggle-2.png?width=670&height=223&name=toggle-2.png)

 

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