SMSEdge Make integrationAutomate SMSEdge with Make.
Can a signup in another tool land in an SMSEdge list and get a text right away? The SMSEdge Make integration gives you 10 modules for lists, numbers and messages. This guide connects your account and walks you through a first scenario, no code.
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What can the SMSEdge Make integration do for you?
The SMSEdge Make integration links your SMSEdge account to Make so texts and contact lists move without copy and paste. In Make you build a scenario, which is the automation itself: a chain of modules, each module being one brick that performs a single action or search in one app.
Welcome text for every new lead. A lead form in another app starts the scenario, Add a Number to a List files the phone number in the right SMSEdge list, and Send an SMS greets the person. A gym or an online shop can set this up without writing code.
Clean opt-outs. When a customer asks to stop receiving texts in your helpdesk or CRM, Unsubscribe a Number records the request in SMSEdge, so the stop request is logged in the tool that sends your campaigns.
Check an audience before a campaign. List Numbers by a List returns the numbers of a list, one bundle per number (a bundle is one item passed from module to module), and Get List Information reads the list itself. Send the result to a sheet or a chat so someone reviews it first.
SMSEdge has no trigger in Make, so every scenario starts from another app or from a schedule. The Make documentation for SMSEdge also warns that it is AI-generated and may contain mistakes, so test with a real number you own. Compare both platforms in n8n vs Make, learn the editor in Make training, and fix failed runs with Make troubleshooting.
How do you connect SMSEdge to Make?
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Copy your API key from SMSEdge
Your SMSEdge account needs to be active. Sign in to SMSEdge, open the settings page of your user profile and copy the API key shown on screen. Make asks for it in the next step, so keep the tab open.
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Add an SMSEdge module and create the connection
In your Make scenario, add any SMSEdge module and click Create a connection. A connection is your SMSEdge account linked to Make once, then reused by every SMSEdge module. The Connection name field is optional; a clear name helps when you run several accounts.
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Paste the key and save
Paste the API key you copied from SMSEdge into the connection window, or follow the instructions Make displays, then save. Once it is saved, the module shows your connection and you can fill in its fields.
Build your first scenario with SMSEdge
GoalWhen a new lead reaches another app, Make adds the phone number to an SMSEdge list and sends a welcome text.
- 01
Create the scenario
Open the Scenarios page in Make, create a new scenario and click the big + to place the first module. Pick the app where your leads arrive, such as your form or CRM, since SMSEdge has no trigger.
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Add Add a Number to a List
Click the + on the right of that first module, search for SMSEdge and choose Add a Number to a List. Create the connection, pick the list, and map the phone number coming from the first module.
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Chain Send an SMS
Add one more module with the + and choose Send an SMS. It reuses the same connection. Map the phone number again from the first module and write your welcome message.
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Test with Run once
Click Run once and submit a test lead with your own phone number. Open each module to read the bundles it received, and check that the number and the text arrived as planned.
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Schedule and switch it on
Set the schedule on the first module, which is every 15 minutes by default, then switch the scenario on. Each module run counts as an operation, the unit Make tracks on your plan.
What each SMSEdge module does in Make
SMSEdge gives you 10 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Add a Number to a List
ActionIn the docs onlyThis action puts a phone number into one of your SMSEdge lists, so a new contact joins the right audience without anyone typing it in.
Create a New List
ActionIn the docs onlyYou get a fresh, empty SMSEdge list created from your scenario, ready to receive numbers for a new campaign or a new segment.
Delete a List
ActionIn the docs onlyThis module removes a whole list from your SMSEdge account, which keeps your workspace tidy once a campaign is over.
Delete a Number from a List
ActionIn the docs onlyHere you take one phone number out of a specific list while the list itself stays in place, so the contact stops being part of that audience.
Get List Information
ActionIn the docs onlyWith this module your scenario reads what SMSEdge holds about one list, so later modules can use those details instead of guessing.
Get a Number Info
ActionIn the docs onlyYou look up a single phone number in SMSEdge and receive what the account knows about it, which helps a scenario decide what to do next.
List Numbers by a List
SearchIn the docs onlyThis search returns the numbers stored in one list, one bundle per number, so you can export an audience or act on each contact.
Make an API Call
ActionIn the docs onlyThis module lets you reach any endpoint of the SMSEdge API with the connection you already set up, which covers what the nine other modules leave out.
Send an SMS
ActionIn the docs onlyThis is the module that actually sends a text message through your SMSEdge account, so an event anywhere in your stack can reach a phone.
Unsubscribe a Number
ActionIn the docs onlyUse this action to mark a phone number as unsubscribed in SMSEdge, so the person's request to stop receiving texts is recorded where campaigns are sent.
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