Parseur integration

Email to Basecamp - Turn Emails and PDFs Into To-dos

Parseur is an AI email parser for Basecamp. It extracts details from your emails and PDF attachments and creates a Basecamp to-do for each one automatically.

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A Basecamp email integration that creates the to-do for you

Basecamp keeps the project on track. Your inbox keeps interrupting it. Parseur is an AI email parser that sends email to Basecamp as ready-made to-dos, with the client name, due date, and amount already filled in. Every email and PDF you forward becomes a task your team can pick up without retyping a thing.

Client requests from your inbox

Parseur pulls the client name, request details, and deadline from incoming request emails and creates a to-do in the right Basecamp project. Forward from Gmail or Outlook once, and every new request lands on the list on its own.

Supplier invoices as PDF attachments

Parseur extracts the vendor, invoice number, total, and due date from PDF invoices attached to emails. Each invoice becomes a Basecamp to-do with the due date set, so approvals stop hiding in email threads.

Web form and booking notifications

Parseur captures name, contact details, and the message from the notification emails your website forms or booking tools send. Each submission becomes an assigned to-do the moment it arrives.

How it works

How the Basecamp integration works

Set it up once. Every new email is parsed and delivered on its own after that.

1. Create your Parseur mailbox

Sign up and get a dedicated email address where your documents land.

2. Forward your emails

Send emails manually or set up auto forwarding so every new one arrives on its own.

3. AI extracts the data

Parseur reads each email and pulls out the fields you need as structured data.

4. Data lands in Basecamp

Zapier picks up the parsed data and sends it to Basecamp in real time.
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What is Parseur?

Parseur is a powerful document processing software to extract text from emails, PDFs and documents and automate your workflow. All Parseur features.

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What is Basecamp?

Basecamp is a project management and collaboration tool to plan projects, and keep track of progress.

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What is Zapier?

Zapier is a cloud automation tool that connects apps together. You can connect two or more apps to automate repetitive tasks without coding or relying on developers to build the integration.

Trusted for email workflows in production

BuildYourBnB, a short-term rental business hosting over 10,000 guests per year, uses Parseur with Zapier to route booking email data into its tools automatically, the same Zapier-based setup this email to Basecamp integration uses. Founder Boris Mordkovich tested Parseur against Zapier's own email parser and found it more accurate on the rich HTML emails that platforms send.

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Basecamp: More than your average project management tool

Basecamp is an organized and easy-to-use platform where you can:

  • Create to-dos
  • Stay on top of your messages
  • Store, share and discuss files
  • Schedule tasks
  • And, so much more!

Basecamp is a combination of Slack, Asana and Google Workspace. You can access Basecamp from everywhere; iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and the Web. The project management software is integrated with hundreds of applications including Parseur.

What are Basecamp's pricing plans?

The PM tool has two plans; one for freelancers/smaller teams and one for larger companies.

The first plan starts at $15/user/month and the other enterprise version is at $299/month.

Why integrate Basecamp with Parseur?

To maximize efficiency, of course! Life's short, and it's better to spend it on some cool beers in Brussels than on manual data entry tasks.

I'm sure you receive many documents in every format or layout on a daily basis. Those documents may be invoices or emails that require you to input them into Basecamp for tracking.

Of course, you can manually input them into the tool or you can be smarter and let Parseur do the boring tasks for you.

Oh! And, if you're new to Parseur, just know that it's one of the best AI parsers on the market right now.

Brewing the magic potion: Parseur + Basecamp

Do you want to learn how to integrate Parseur and Basecamp? It's actually one of the simplest integrations, and it involves our friend Zapier.

What will you need for this integration?

Create a Parseur mailbox

Parseur has a free plan to get you started with all the features . Our AI engine is tailored to different use cases. Depending on what type of document you have, choose the correct mailbox.

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Parseur use cases

Drag and drop one of the documents into your mailbox. You must have noticed that documents get uploaded within seconds. For this integration article, we'll use a PDF invoice.

Trust the AI parser

List the fields that you need to extract (for example, invoice number, invoice date, grand total and customer name). The AI parser will extract those data automatically and it can adapt to any layout.

Connect Parseur with Zapier

Once you have the parsed data ready, it's time to call our friend, Zapier. Parseur has native integration with Zapier which means that Zapier will always be there for us.

Go to export, click on Zapier and search for Basecamp.

Click on the connection
Click on the connection

Once you click on it, you will be redirected to the Zapier dashboard. Choose the correct Parseur mailbox (if you have multiple) so that Zapier can retrieve the parsed data.

Connect Basecamp with Zapier

Tell Zapier what kind of integration you need; for example, here we want to create a to-do from the invoice data

Connect Zapier with Basecamp
Connect Zapier with Basecamp

You'll need to provide Zapier access to Basecamp.

Give Zapier access to Basecamp
Give Zapier access to Basecamp

From there, you'll be able to customize the To-do with data extracted by Parseur.

Customize basecamp with parsed data
Customize basecamp with parsed data

Customize basecamp with parsed data (cont)
Customize basecamp with parsed data (cont)

Send a Zapier test to Basecamp

Send a Zapier test to verify whether the To-do has been created successfully.

Test trigger from Zapier to Basecamp
Test trigger from Zapier to Basecamp

To-do created successfully
To-do created successfully

Note: Those integration steps are done only once. Once the workflow between Parseur and Basecamp is set up, each time Parseur receives a PDF, it will be processed and sent automatically to Basecamp.

Gone are the days of manual document parsing interruptions or scattered project management. With this dynamic duo, it's like having your own digital superhero team, always on standby and ready to boost your workflow.

Until next time, keep integrating, keep innovating, and most importantly, keep having fun while doing it!

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about using Parseur to send email and PDF data to Basecamp.

Forward the email to your Parseur mailbox, let Parseur's AI extract the fields you need, and a Zapier connection creates the to-do in Basecamp. You set the auto-forwarding rule in Gmail or Outlook once, and every matching email after that becomes a Basecamp to-do with no manual step.

Parseur can extract any data visible in the email or PDF, and in Zapier you map each field to the to-do title, notes, due date, assignee, and to-do list. A common setup uses the vendor name and amount in the title, the full details in the notes, and the invoice due date as the to-do due date.

No. Parseur's built-in AI extracts the fields you name from any layout, so emails from different clients and invoices from different vendors go through the same mailbox without setup per sender. You only list the fields you want once.

Zapier is the fastest option, with a ready-made Parseur to Basecamp connection and no code. Make suits workflows with branching logic or several destinations. Parseur also sends parsed data by webhook, so a developer can call the Basecamp API directly for custom deduplication or approval logic.

Basecamp's built-in email forwarding saves an email as a message or file, but it does not read the content or fill in to-do fields. Parseur adds that missing step: it extracts the client name, due date, amount, or any other field from the email, and the Zapier integration turns those fields into a structured to-do.

Yes. Parseur processes PDF attachments as well as the email itself, including scanned PDFs. An invoice, purchase order, or signed brief attached to an email is read the same way, and its fields flow into the Basecamp to-do.

Yes. In the Zapier step you choose the project and to-do list, and you can use Zapier filters or paths to send different senders or request types to different projects. A parsed field such as the client name can drive that routing.

Every processed email stays visible in your Parseur mailbox, where you can review and correct fields before or after they sync. For invoices or high-value requests, many teams create the to-do assigned to a reviewer, so the check happens inside Basecamp as part of the normal workflow.