ClickSend SMS and Zapier connect to automate your messaging. You can trigger actions when new SMS messages arrive and send SMS messages to contacts.
Prerequisites
To use the ClickSend SMS app on Zapier, you must have:
- An active ClickSend account.
Connect ClickSend SMS to Zapier
To create an app connection to ClickSend SMS on Zapier:
- Go to the Apps page.
- Click + Add connection.
- A new dialog box will appear. Search for and select ClickSend SMS.
- Click Add connection.
- A Connect an Account page will open in a browser tab or window.
- Complete the following fields:
- Username: Enter your ClickSend SMS username.
-
API Key: Enter your ClickSend SMS API key.
- Learn more about finding your ClickSend SMS API key.
- Click Yes, Continue to ClickSend SMS.
Your ClickSend SMS account is now successfully connected to Zapier.
About ClickSend SMS's app
Triggers, searches, and actions
Triggers
- New Incoming SMS (Instant) - Triggers when a new incoming sms is received.
Searches
- Search Contact by Email Address - Find a contact in a contact list based on email address.
- Search Contact Lists - Search for a contact list based on name.
- Search Contact by Phone - Find a contact in a contact list based on phone number.
Actions
- Create Contact List - Creates a new contact list.
- Delete Contact List - Delete a specific contact list.
- Send MMS - Send a new MMS.
- Send Postcard - Sends a postcard via the post. The PDF is printed and delivered to any address globally.
- Send SMS - Sends a new SMS.
- Send SMS to Contact List - Sends a new SMS to a list of contacts.
- API Request (Beta) - This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.
- Update Contact - This action updates a contact in ClickSend SMS using the phone number as a unique identifier. It updates all standard fields related to a contact and only performs the update if the contact exists.
- Create Contact - Creates a new contact in a list.
- Delete Contact - Delete specific contact from list based on the contact ID.
- Send Fax - Sends a new fax.
- Send MMS Campaign - Send an MMS Campaign to up to 20,000 contacts.
- Send Letter - Sends an A4 PDF document via the post. The PDF is printed, folded, inserted into an envelope and posted to any address globally.
- Send SMS Campaign - Send an SMS campaign to up to 20,000 contacts at a time.
- Send Voice - Send a Voice Text-to-speech message to a mobile phone or landline.
- Create SMS Campaign - This action creates an SMS Campaign in ClickSend SMS. You need to provide the campaign name, recipient list, message content, sender's phone number, and the schedule for the campaign in UNIX timestamp. The sender's phone number and the schedule are optional.
Limitations
- SMS scheduling is limited to a maximum of 4 months in advance. Messages scheduled beyond this timeframe will not be sent.
- Letter campaigns can only be cancelled within 1 hour after sending.
- Letter campaigns are limited to a maximum of 20,000 recipients per campaign.
- Letter documents must be in .DOCX format only and hosted on publicly accessible links from Google Drive, Google Docs, or Dropbox.
- Rate limiting applies when API limits are exceeded, returning a 429 "TOO_MANY_REQUESTS" error.
- Insufficient credits will result in message failure.
Templates
View all of ClickSend SMS's templates.
Use cases
- 6 ways to automate ClickSend SMS
- Guide to SMS automation
- 4 ways your customers benefit from support and service automation
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