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LINK Mobility Zapier integrationAutomate LINK Mobility with Zapier.

LINK Mobility Zapier integration: 0 triggers, 1 action, 0 searches. LINK Mobility sends text messages to mobile phones. On Zapier it does one thing: another app reports an event, and LINK Mobility sends an SMS to one recipient with the content you mapped.

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Overview

What the LINK Mobility Zapier integration does

With the LINK Mobility Zapier integration, a Zap (one automation you build once on Zapier) sends an SMS through your LINK Mobility account. LINK Mobility has no trigger, the event that starts a Zap, so something in another app always comes first. LINK Mobility then acts as the action: the step that does the work once the Zap runs.

Three things you can get out of it. A text sent to each new contact added to a spreadsheet, with Send SMS pulling the number and the message from the row. An alert on your own phone when an email that matters arrives, with a filter in between so only the right ones go through. And a message built from any other app's event, as long as that app can hand over a phone number and some text, in the + and country code format the recipient field expects.

One prerequisite before anything else: LINK Mobility requires an agreement with LINK Mobility itself. Zapier only uses an account that is already set up; it does not open one for you.

What Zapier does not do here: it cannot react to anything in LINK Mobility, since there is no trigger: nothing that happens on the LINK Mobility side can start a Zap. It cannot look anything up either, and each Send SMS goes to a single recipient. If you are still weighing the tool itself, our Zapier review is the place to start.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Eight words from the editor, in ordinary English.

Zap
One automation on Zapier: a trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event in an app that starts a Zap. LINK Mobility has none, so another app always plays that part.
Action
The step that does something once the Zap is running. LINK Mobility's only action sends one SMS to one number.
Task
What Zapier counts on your plan: one action that completes successfully. An action that fails is not counted.
Polling vs instant
Polling: Zapier asks the source app for new items on a timer. Instant: the app tells Zapier the moment something happens.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived matches your condition, and stops it otherwise.
Connection
Your LINK Mobility account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every Send SMS step in any of your Zaps.
Multi-step Zap
Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action is enough to make one, and it needs a paid plan.
Cost

What a LINK Mobility Zap really costs on Zapier

The trigger is free; each SMS that goes through is one Zapier task.

  • Trigger0 tasks
  • Each SMS sent1 task
  • Action that fails0 tasks
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, 2 steps per Zap

Zapier bills tasks, and a task is an action that succeeds. Watching a sheet or an inbox for new items costs nothing, however often Zapier looks. A Send SMS that fails is not counted. LINK Mobility is not reserved to paid plans, so it runs on the free plan: 100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps. The free plan stops at two steps: new row then SMS fits, but a filter in front of the SMS makes the Zap multi-step, and that needs a paid plan. The grid below only concerns a polling trigger in the app that starts the Zap; LINK Mobility has no trigger, and an instant one skips the grid whatever your plan.

Connect

Connect LINK Mobility to Zapier in three steps

  1. 01

    Open Apps and add a connection

    In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. A dialog opens with a search box. Your LINK Mobility account and agreement need to exist first: Zapier only links what is already there.

  2. 02

    Pick LINK Mobility

    Type LINK Mobility in the search box, select it in the results, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the LINK Mobility side, and that is where the actual sign-in happens.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Sign in to LINK Mobility in that tab and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection then shows up in your list, and every Send SMS step of every Zap can reuse it.

First Zap

Your first Zap: text each new contact in your sheet

GoalEach row added to your spreadsheet sends an SMS to the number it holds, and a second row in another sheet logs what went out.

  1. 01

    Build: start from your sheet

    Create a Zap and pick your spreadsheet app as the trigger, with its new-row event. Each row needs at least a phone number in the + and country code format, and the text to send.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger on a real row

    Run the trigger test. Zapier brings back the three most recent rows of the connected sheet, so you map fields from a real contact instead of an empty template.

  3. 03

    Add Send SMS

    Add Send SMS from LINK Mobility. Set Source to your sender, map the phone column into Destination and the message column into User data.

  4. 04

    Log what was sent

    Add a spreadsheet step that writes the number and the message into a separate sheet. This second action makes the Zap multi-step, so it needs a paid plan; drop it to stay free.

  5. 05

    Test each step, then publish

    Test with your own number first and read what came back, then click Publish to switch the Zap on. Only rows added after that moment will send a text.

Actions

LINK Mobility action on Zapier

LINK Mobility gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Send SMS

Action

In Zapier“Send a SMS to a single user”

Sends one text message from your LINK Mobility account to one mobile number, with the sender, the recipient and the message content all mapped from earlier steps.

When to use it
an event in another app should reach someone's phone, not their inbox.
Watch out
Destination has to start with + followed by the country code and the mobile number, which is easy to miss when your sheet stores local numbers.
When it breaks

When a LINK Mobility Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to LINK Mobility, so the traps come from how Zapier itself works.

Four cases come back once an SMS step sits at the end of a Zap. None is specific to LINK Mobility, but with text messages each one means people texted twice, or not at all. If a Zap stops for a reason you cannot place, head to Zapier troubleshooting.

  • Existing contacts get no SMS

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Rows already in your sheet never trigger a text; reaching that backlog is a separate job.

  • The Zap that texts in a loop

    If a later step writes into the same sheet the trigger watches, each write can start the Zap again, sending another SMS and burning another task every time.

  • A bulk import gets held back

    After an import or a migration, the trigger app can return a huge batch at once. Zapier's flood protection can hold it back rather than text the whole list.

  • No double SMS from a timed check

    On a polling trigger, Zapier remembers the items it has already seen, so the same row does not start the Zap, or send the text, a second time.
Need help

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FAQ

LINK Mobility and Zapier: frequent questions

01Is the LINK Mobility Zapier integration free?
On the Zapier side, yes. LINK Mobility is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan, which gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps. The catch is the shape of the Zap: the free plan allows two steps, one trigger and one action. A new row that sends one SMS fits. Add a filter or a second action and it becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. The messages themselves go through your agreement with LINK Mobility, which this page does not cover.
02How many Zapier tasks does each LINK Mobility SMS use?
One per Send SMS that succeeds. The trigger that brings the phone number in costs nothing, and neither do Zapier's checks for new items. A Send SMS that fails is not counted. Every other action in the Zap counts on its own, so sending a text and logging it in a sheet means two tasks per contact. The real danger is a loop: a Zap that writes into the sheet its own trigger watches can send texts and burn tasks again and again.
03Does LINK Mobility send SMS in real time with Zapier?
The SMS step runs as soon as the Zap reaches it, but when the Zap starts depends on the other app, because LINK Mobility has no trigger. If that app has an instant trigger, it tells Zapier the moment something happens, whatever your plan. If it uses a polling trigger, Zapier checks it on a timer whose interval depends on your plan. So the delay before a text goes out comes from your spreadsheet, inbox or calendar trigger, not from LINK Mobility.
04What does it take to connect LINK Mobility to Zapier?
A LINK Mobility account, which in turn requires an agreement with LINK Mobility. In Zapier, open Apps, click + Add connection, search for LINK Mobility, click Add connection, then sign in on the LINK Mobility tab and grant access. The connection is reused by every Send SMS step afterwards, in any Zap. Each SMS then needs three required fields: Source, the sender; Destination, the recipient's number; and User data, the message itself.
05Which sender format does LINK Mobility accept in Source?
Three types, each with its own rule. A name, the alphanumeric type, is limited to 11 characters. A mobile number, the type LINK Mobility calls MSISDN, has to include the country code and start with +. A short number depends on the country and usually has 4 to 6 digits. Source is a required field of Send SMS, so a value that does not fit one of these types is the first thing to check when a test fails.
06What if the LINK Mobility operation you need is missing?
Then this integration cannot do it. On Zapier, LINK Mobility offers one action, Send SMS to a single recipient, and nothing else: no trigger, no search, and one recipient per Send SMS. Anything beyond one outgoing text stays in LINK Mobility. If the gap is on the starting side, such as which event should send the message, look at the app that holds that event: it is the one that supplies the trigger.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for LINK Mobility?
Decide on criteria, not on a ranking. On Zapier, Send SMS is usable from the free plan, with a two-step limit and a bill counted in tasks. The source behind this page says nothing about LINK Mobility on Make or n8n, so first check that each tool offers the app at all. Then weigh how many steps your flow needs, how many texts you send each month, and who maintains it. A filtered alert, or a send-and-log flow, is already multi-step on Zapier.
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