Flero User Guide
Welcome to Flero, the visual workflow automation platform for the enterprise.
This guide takes you from your first login to confidently designing, running, and monitoring real automation workflows. No code required.
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Where to start
| If you're… | Read first |
|---|---|
| Brand new to Flero | 01 Getting Started, sign in, take the tour, build your first workflow in five minutes |
| Comfortable with the basics | 14 Recipes, full end-to-end tutorials for common automations |
| Looking up a specific node | 03 Nodes, every node, grouped by category |
| Writing an expression | 04 Expressions, the {{ $node["…"]… }} language |
| Connecting an external service | 06 Credentials & Connectors |
| Debugging a failing workflow | 07 Running & Monitoring |
Full table of contents
01, Getting started
- What is Flero?
- Signing up and logging in
- First-run onboarding
- Tour of the app
- Your first workflow
- Core concepts
02, The workflow editor
- Editor overview
- Adding and connecting nodes
- Configuring nodes
- Testing a node
- Running a workflow
- Canvas controls
- Keyboard shortcuts
- AI builder
- Collaboration
03, Nodes
- Node catalog
- Triggers
- Flow control
- Data transformation
- HTTP & API
- Storage & database
- AI & LLM
- RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)
- Communication
- Utility & debugging
- Sub-workflows
04, Expressions
- Expression language overview
- Syntax basics
- Referencing data
- Operators
- Functions
- Common patterns
- Debugging expressions
05, Triggers
- Trigger overview
- Manual & test runs
- Webhook trigger
- Schedule trigger
- Form trigger
- Chat trigger
- Connector event triggers
06, Credentials & connectors
- Overview
- Managing credentials
- OAuth flow
- API keys & bearer tokens
- Credential scope
- Connector catalog
07, Running & monitoring
- Execution lifecycle
- Execution history
- Log explorer
- Execution detail
- Debugging failures
- Monitoring dashboard
- Retries & error handling
08, Approvals
09, Templates
10, Sandbox mode
11, Workspaces & teams
12, Settings
13, Marketplace & plugins
14, Recipes
- Recipe index
- Slack notification on webhook
- Scheduled data sync
- AI content summarizer
- Approval-routed purchase
- Form submission to CRM
- RAG document Q&A
15, Troubleshooting
Reference
How this guide is written
Every page follows the same shape so you can scan quickly:
- What this covers / When to use it, one short paragraph.
- Walkthrough, numbered steps, with UI labels in bold.
- Reference, tables for fields, options, shortcuts.
- Tips & gotchas, short bulleted notes.
- Related, links to neighbouring pages.
UI elements are shown like this: click Run in the toolbar. File paths and inline code look like this: $node["My Node"]. Multi-line code uses fenced blocks.
Screenshot and gif placeholders appear as blockquote callouts:
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Last updated: May 2026, covers Flero 2.0.
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