Claude ActiveCampaign connectorWhat Claude can do in your ActiveCampaign account.
The Claude ActiveCampaign connector exposes 32 tools. 18 read contacts, lists, campaigns and automations, 14 change something in your account. Below: what Claude looks up, what it can tag, file or enroll, what your admins control, and where the list stops.
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What the Claude ActiveCampaign connector changes for a marketer
Most questions about your audience mean clicking through contacts, lists and reports. With the connector, you ask Claude in plain words, and it reads ActiveCampaign itself: a contact's record, the opens and clicks from a campaign, which automation someone is stuck in. It can also act on what it finds, adding a tag, subscribing a contact to a list or starting an automation for them.
Campaign numbers before the stand-up. Claude pulls engagement with list_email_activities and campaign records with list_campaigns, then sums up what the last send did, in two lines.
Clean up after an event. Paste a list of attendees and Claude adds or updates each person with create_or_update_contact, then applies the event tag with add_tag_to_contact.
Unstick a journey. get_contact_automation shows where a contact sits in an automation, and remove_contact_from_automation takes them out if they should not be there.
What it will not do matters as much. The directory sheet lists no tool to design an automation, write an email or delete a contact: Claude can enroll a person in an automation that already exists, not build one. ActiveCampaign's own list of tools goes further, with deals and pipelines, but those names are not on the Claude sheet, so this page leaves them out. Nothing runs by itself either: no tool fires when someone opens an email. That kind of flow belongs to an automation tool, a different job, covered by the ActiveCampaign n8n integration and ActiveCampaign Make integration.
Five words to know before connecting ActiveCampaign
The Claude vocabulary this page relies on, in one minute.
- Connector
- A link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can work in that account while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named action the connector lets Claude take in ActiveCampaign. Claude picks what it needs on its own; the directory sheet lists every name.
- Authorization
- The ActiveCampaign sign-in and approval screen where you grant Claude its access. Given once per person, and withdrawn the same way.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for in the conversation before it goes ahead with something that alters your account.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as ActiveCampaign.
Connect ActiveCampaign to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find ActiveCampaign in the list
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize, then Connectors, and look for ActiveCampaign. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable it for the organization before members can each sign in.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on the ActiveCampaign row. The service then walks you through its own sign-in and approval. If the link breaks later, Disconnect and connect again; access can also be withdrawn from ActiveCampaign itself.
- 03
Read the approval screen
Check the authorization screen before accepting. It belongs to ActiveCampaign, not to Claude, and it sets what the access covers. It may list wider rights than Claude uses day to day; per-action approval stays the default rule.
The 32 ActiveCampaign tools, split by what they do
ActiveCampaign gives Claude 32 tools: 18 that read your account, 14 that change something in it.
Two groups: what Claude reads, and what it changes in your account. Tool names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 18 read
- 14 write
What Claude reads (18)
18 toolsLooking up contacts, lists, fields, campaigns and automations. Nothing moves.
list_contacts
Pulls contacts with filters on segment, form, list or tag, page by page, so Claude can answer "who" questions about your audience without you building a view.
get_contact
Opens the detailed record of one contact by its identifier, with the information ActiveCampaign holds on that person.
list_tags
Finds tags by name with several matching modes, so Claude uses the tag you already have instead of guessing at its spelling and ending up with a twin.
get_tag
Returns the metadata of a single tag, enough for Claude to confirm it is the right one and describe what it is for.
list_lists
Browses and searches the contact lists of your account, the base Claude needs before subscribing anyone or reporting on a list.
get_list
Reads the configuration and tracking options of one list, so Claude can tell you how that list is set up.
list_contact_custom_fields
Lists the definitions of every contact custom field in the account, so Claude knows which extra fields exist before reading or filling them.
get_contact_custom_field
Fetches the details of a single custom field definition: its type and how it is configured.
list_contact_field_values
Retrieves the values actually stored in custom fields across your contacts, which lets Claude count them, group them or spot the gaps in your data.
get_contact_field_value
Reads one specific data point: the value of a given field for a given contact.
list_email_activities
Retrieves how contacts engaged with your campaigns, opens and clicks, so Claude can report on a mailing or on one person's behavior over time.
list_campaigns
Returns your campaigns with filters on status, type and dates, the map Claude needs before digging into one mailing in detail.
get_campaign
Fetches the full record of a single campaign, so Claude can describe exactly what was sent and how it was set up.
get_campaign_links
Lists every tracked link in a campaign, which helps Claude connect the clicks it sees in engagement data to the right call to action.
list_automations
Returns every automation workflow in the account with its status, so Claude can tell you what is running and what is paused.
list_contact_automations
Shows a contact's progress or enrollment across your automations, in one answer.
get_contact_automation
Gives the details of a contact's path through one specific automation, step by step, so Claude can tell you where things stalled and what came before.
list_groups
Retrieves the user groups of your account, used to decide which teammates can see which lists.
What Claude changes (14)
14 toolsFourteen tools that alter contacts, tags, lists, fields or enrollments. No source spells out their confirmation, so the general rule below applies.
create_or_update_contact
Approval: see the ruleAdds a new contact, or refreshes an existing one, using the email address as the key.
create_contact_tag
Approval: see the ruleRegisters a brand new organizational tag in the account, ready to be applied to contacts.
add_tag_to_contact
Approval: see the ruleApplies a given tag to a contact record.
create_list
Approval: see the ruleSets up a new contact list for email or SMS.
update_list
Approval: see the ruleAlters the settings of an existing list, such as its name, compliance links or reminders.
add_contact_to_list
Approval: see the ruleSets a contact's status on a list: active, unsubscribed or unconfirmed.
create_contact_custom_field
Approval: see the ruleDefines a new contact field of the type you choose: text, date, dropdown and so on.
create_field_options
Approval: see the ruleAdds, in one batch, the choices of a selection field such as a dropdown or a multi-select.
create_contact_field_relationship
Approval: see the ruleAttaches a custom field to specific contact lists, so it shows up where it is relevant.
create_contact_field_value
Approval: see the ruleSets or creates the value of a custom field for one specific contact.
update_contact_field_value
Approval: see the ruleModifies a custom field value that already exists on a contact.
add_contact_to_automation
Approval: see the ruleEnrolls a contact in an existing automation by hand, without waiting for anything else to trigger it.
remove_contact_from_automation
Approval: see the ruleTakes a contact out of an automation that is running for them.
create_list_group_permission
Approval: see the ruleGrants a user group visibility on a specific list.
What Claude checks with you before touching ActiveCampaign
By default, Claude stops and asks before each action it takes on an account for you. The prompt appears in the conversation when it matters.
On Team and Enterprise workspaces, owners decide whether members may let some actions through without being asked each time. They can also narrow what a connector may do across the organization, for instance keeping reading on and changes off, and nobody overrides that from a personal account. Claude works with the rights of the person who connected, and ActiveCampaign's guide adds that on a company Claude account, an administrator must first connect and approve the service for the organization.
Which plans the Claude ActiveCampaign connector is on
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows plan availability. The answer connector by connector is published nowhere: a real hole in the catalog.
The general rule is published. Remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile; desktop extensions install on Claude Desktop. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner opens a connector for the organization before members can each sign in. For the live state of ActiveCampaign, the connector's sheet in the official directory is the place to look.
Where the ActiveCampaign connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you, so nothing starts when a contact opens an email, fills a form or changes stage.
Only ActiveCampaign documents this connector: no Claude help article covers it. The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise, and an administrator can open actions that no public sheet shows. The partner badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic states on every sheet that it neither picks a publisher's tools nor guarantees how they behave. For a connector whose official sources contradict each other, see the Claude gmail connector page.
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