Everything else arrives by itself. The call does not.
Copper is chosen because it disappears into Google Workspace. Gmail, Calendar, Contacts and Drive are connected on every plan, the Chrome extension puts the record in the sidebar of the inbox, and nobody has to be persuaded to use a CRM they never open separately. Email and meetings land on the person on their own, which is most of the relationship — right up until someone picks up the phone.
Dialpad is usually already there for the same reason: it works with Google accounts and it transcribes, so calls come with an AI summary attached. But the phone call stays inside the phone system. The result is a timeline with a hole in it: three emails, a meeting, and no sign of the twenty-minute call where the actual decision was made. Connecting the two closes that, and puts the Dialpad summary where a colleague will read it instead of where it was generated.
The part worth doing carefully is who the integration logs in as. Copper’s record visibility settings apply to regular users only — Admins and Account Owners see everything — so an integration running with admin rights writes wherever it likes. That is convenient and it is also how private records stop being private.