How does Parseur create Trello cards from emails?

Parseur receives your emails at a dedicated mailbox address, its built-in AI extracts the fields you defined, and a Zapier connection creates the Trello card with those fields mapped to the title, description, due date, and labels. You set the mapping up once and every new email follows it.

How is this different from Trello's own email-to-board address?

Trello's email-to-board address creates a card from the subject line and pastes the body into the description. Parseur extracts individual values first, so the card title, due date, labels, and custom fields carry real data rather than a block of raw email.

Do I need to write code to connect Parseur to Trello?

No. Parseur connects to Trello through a ready-made Zapier template. You forward your emails to your Parseur mailbox, pick the fields to extract, and map them to Trello card fields in Zapier. Most setups take a few minutes.

Can Parseur set the due date on a Trello card from the email?

Yes. Parseur extracts dates in whatever format the email uses and passes them as a date field, which Zapier maps to the Trello card due date. The card arrives on the board already scheduled.

Can I send cards to different boards or lists?

Yes. Use a separate Parseur mailbox per board, or add a condition in Zapier that routes on an extracted field so urgent requests land in one list and everything else in another.

Can Parseur create cards from PDF attachments?

Yes. Parseur reads PDF and scanned attachments alongside the email body, so a work order or purchase order sent as a file becomes a card with its reference and dates already extracted.

Can Parseur handle emails from different senders with different layouts?

Yes. Parseur's built-in AI extracts the fields you request from any email layout, so requests from several customers or systems can feed the same board with consistent card fields.

What happens if the same request is emailed twice?

Parseur passes both emails through as separate parsed documents and Zapier decides what happens next. A Zapier search step can look for an existing card by reference and update it instead of creating a duplicate.

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Create Trello Cards From Emails - With the Fields Filled In

Parseur extracts the details from incoming emails and PDF attachments with AI and creates a Trello card through Zapier, with a real title, description, due date and labels.

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Use cases

Turn incoming email into a card someone can act on

Trello shows the work. Parseur decides what the work is. Parseur reads each incoming email, extracts the pieces that matter, and creates the Trello card through Zapier with a proper title, description, due date, and labels. Trello's own email-to-board address pastes the whole message into one card and leaves the rest to you.

Leads and enquiries: Parseur pulls the contact name and request out of enquiry emails, so each card is titled with the customer instead of a subject line nobody can scan.
Support and job requests: Parseur extracts the reference, the site, and the requested date from job request emails and sets them as the card title, due date, and description in one step.
Orders to fulfil: Parseur reads order confirmation emails, including PDF attachments, and creates one card per order with the customer, items, and delivery date already in place.

How it works

How the Trello 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 Trello: Zapier picks up the parsed data and sends it to Trello in real time.

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.

What is Trello?

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

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-driven boards in production

BuildYourBnB, a short-term rental business hosting over 10,000 guests per year, uses Parseur with Zapier to turn booking and review emails into structured records and notifications across its tools automatically. It is the same pattern this Trello integration follows, with a board as the destination.

Guests hosted per year on Parseur-powered workflows: 10,000+
Documents processed by Parseur since 2016: 100M+
Parseur rating on Capterra and GetApp: 5/5

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Create Trello cards with text extracted from emails using Parseur

Trello offers a great virtual board for managing and collaborating on projects. Parseur is a popular email parsing platform that can extract text automatically from any of your mails. Bringing the two together, you can automatically create a custom card in Trello every time you receive a specific email. It'll free you up from the boring copy/paste routine and let you focus on your project activities!

For example, some of our customers want to be able to create a new card in Trello when:

They receive a contact or quote request by email from a form on their website
They made a sale from their Etsy/eBay/Amazon shop, and they now need to fulfill it
They received an email notification from their monitoring systems that they have to investigate

If your email notification volume is low and non-urgent, you can start by manually copying email notifications directly in your Trello board. But why spend time doing boring work when you can have it done automatically? The time you save can be used to grow your business... or to just leave work early 😉

How this Email to Trello integration works

A new email notification is received in your Parseur mailbox
Parseur extracts the relevant information
Parseur sends the data to Zapier
Zapier creates a new card on your Trello board

What you will need

To use this integration you will need:

A Parseur account with a configured mailbox
A Trello account
A Zapier account with a Zap between Parseur and Trello set up

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about creating Trello cards from emails with Parseur.

: Parseur receives your emails at a dedicated mailbox address, its built-in AI extracts the fields you defined, and a Zapier connection creates the Trello card with those fields mapped to the title, description, due date, and labels. You set the mapping up once and every new email follows it.
: No. Parseur connects to Trello through a ready-made Zapier template. You forward your emails to your Parseur mailbox, pick the fields to extract, and map them to Trello card fields in Zapier. Most setups take a few minutes.
: Yes. Use a separate Parseur mailbox per board, or add a condition in Zapier that routes on an extracted field so urgent requests land in one list and everything else in another.
: Yes. Parseur's built-in AI extracts the fields you request from any email layout, so requests from several customers or systems can feed the same board with consistent card fields.
: Trello's email-to-board address creates a card from the subject line and pastes the body into the description. Parseur extracts individual values first, so the card title, due date, labels, and custom fields carry real data rather than a block of raw email.
: Yes. Parseur extracts dates in whatever format the email uses and passes them as a date field, which Zapier maps to the Trello card due date. The card arrives on the board already scheduled.
: Yes. Parseur reads PDF and scanned attachments alongside the email body, so a work order or purchase order sent as a file becomes a card with its reference and dates already extracted.
: Parseur passes both emails through as separate parsed documents and Zapier decides what happens next. A Zapier search step can look for an existing card by reference and update it instead of creating a duplicate.