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Mobile Text Alerts Zapier integrationAutomate Mobile Text Alerts with Zapier.

The Mobile Text Alerts Zapier integration gives you 3 triggers and 7 actions, with no search step. All three triggers are instant, so a reply, a sent text or a delivery update reaches your other tools without waiting on a plan interval.

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Overview

What the Mobile Text Alerts Zapier integration does for you

The integration links your Mobile Text Alerts account to the rest of your tools through Zapier. Mobile Text Alerts can start an automation (a reply comes in, a text goes out, a delivery status changes) or carry one out for another tool: add a subscriber, file a number into a group, send a text, start a workflow.

Three results you can build with it. A reply log: Message Reply starts the automation and each answer becomes a row in your spreadsheet, so nobody scrolls through the texting inbox to find who said what. A tidy audience: a phone number captured in another tool becomes a contact through Add Subscriber, then joins the right audience with Add Subscriber to Group. A sending trail: Message Sent copies each outgoing text into the tool where your team keeps its notes, and Delivery Status adds where each one stands.

What Zapier does not do here. This app has no search step, so an automation cannot look up an existing subscriber before acting on it. Nothing that happened before you switch the automation on is replayed. And none of the seven actions creates a group or a workflow: Add Subscriber to Group and Trigger Workflow only let you pick one in the step. To weigh the same job on other platforms, open our n8n vs Zapier and Make vs Zapier comparisons.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Eight words come back on every line of this page. Here they are in plain English, once, before the details.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time that event happens.
Trigger
The event in an app that starts the Zap. Here: a reply arrives, a message goes out, or a delivery status changes.
Action
What the Zap does once it has started, such as adding a subscriber to a group or sending a text for you.
Task
The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. The monthly count on your plan is a count of those.
Polling vs instant
Polling: Zapier checks the app on a timer. Instant: the app calls Zapier when the event happens. All three triggers here are instant.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it there otherwise.
Multi-step Zap
Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter turns it into one, and it then needs a paid plan.
Connection
Your Mobile Text Alerts account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step of every Zap that uses the app.
Cost

What a Mobile Text Alerts Zap really costs

Mobile Text Alerts is not a premium app, so it works on the Free plan. The trigger never costs anything: only actions that succeed are billed, one task each.

  • Trigger0 tasks
  • Each successful action1 task
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
  • Premium appNo

A Zap that logs each reply uses one task per reply; add a second action and every run counts two. An action that fails is not counted, and a few actions take more than one task. The Free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap stops at two steps, so a filter or a second action needs a paid plan. The interval grid below is for polling triggers and does not apply to the three instant triggers of this app.

Connect

Connect Mobile Text Alerts to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open Apps and add a connection

    In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. You need an account on Mobile Text Alerts, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.

  2. 02

    Pick Mobile Text Alerts

    Type the app's name in the search box of the dialog, select Mobile Text Alerts, then click Add connection. A new tab opens, and that is where you sign in, on the Mobile Text Alerts side.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Sign in to your Mobile Text Alerts account in that tab, then grant Zapier access to it. The connection is saved once and reused by every step of every Zap that talks to the app.

First Zap

Your first Zap: keep the replies that matter in a spreadsheet

GoalEach time a contact answers one of your texts, let only the replies that meet your rule through, and add them as a row in your spreadsheet.

  1. 01

    Create the Zap and set the trigger

    Create a Zap, choose Mobile Text Alerts as the app that starts it, pick Message Reply as the event, then select the connection you made above.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the trigger test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real reply rather than an empty one.

  3. 03

    Add the filter

    From the plus icon, add a Filter step and fill its three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, the value. A filter makes this a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan.

  4. 04

    Add the spreadsheet action

    Add the action of your spreadsheet tool and map what the trigger test returned into its columns. Which fields come back depends on the app, so check them at the test.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Test each step once and read what came back. When the row looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on. For a guided start, see our Zapier training.

Triggers

Mobile Text Alerts triggers

3 events start a Zap when something happens in Mobile Text Alerts, and 3 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

Delivery Status

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when the delivery status of a message is updated.”

Starts a Zap whenever Mobile Text Alerts updates the delivery status of one of your messages. You get a running record of where each text stands, ready to copy into the tool where you follow your sends.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
your team wants delivery updates to land in a shared tracker, so nobody has to ask whether a send went out.
Watch out
read what the test brings back before you build a filter on this trigger.
2

Message Reply

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new message reply is received.”

Fires when someone answers a text you sent through Mobile Text Alerts, and hands that reply to the next steps of the Zap. Inbound answers stop living only inside the texting tool.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
replies to a reminder need to reach the person who follows up, in the tool that person already opens every day.
Watch out
every reply starts its own run, so a send that gets many answers multiplies the tasks of each action placed after this trigger.
3

Message Sent

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new message is sent.”

Runs the Zap for each new message that goes out from your Mobile Text Alerts account. Your sending history becomes something your other tools can read, sort and keep.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
you want a running log of every outgoing text next to your own notes, without exporting anything by hand.
Watch out
like the other two triggers, it only sees messages sent after the Zap is switched on; earlier ones are not picked up.
Actions

Mobile Text Alerts actions

Mobile Text Alerts gives you 7 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Add Subscriber

Action

In Zapier“Adds a subscriber.”

Creates a new subscriber in your Mobile Text Alerts account from data an earlier step brought in, so a contact captured somewhere else can receive your texts.

When to use it
a form collects a phone number and you want it on your texting list without retyping it.
Watch out
the boxes this action asks for are shown in the editor; fill them at the test and read what comes back.
2

Add Subscriber to Group

Action

In Zapier“Puts a phone number that has been previously added to a group.”

Files a phone number that is already in your account into one of your groups. You map the Phone Number from an earlier step and select the Group Name from a list; both are required.

When to use it
right after Add Subscriber in the same Zap, so a new contact lands in the audience it belongs to.
Watch out
it works on a number added before, so in a brand-new contact flow Add Subscriber comes first.
3

Delete All Scheduled Messages

Action

In Zapier“This will delete all scheduled messages for a number.”

Clears every scheduled message for one phone number in a single step. The Number box is the only required one.

When to use it
a contact cancels in another tool and the texts already queued for that number should not go out.
Watch out
it removes all of them for that number, never just one, so place it after a filter if only some cases call for it.
4

Remove Subscriber From Group

Action

In Zapier“Removes a subscriber from a group.”

Takes a phone number out of a single group in Mobile Text Alerts. You give the number and select the group, and both boxes are required.

When to use it
a change in another tool means a contact should stop receiving the texts aimed at that group.
Watch out
it acts on the group you pick only; check at the test where else the contact still sits.
5

Send Message

Action

In Zapier“Sends a message.”

Sends a text through your Mobile Text Alerts account. Only the Message box is required, and you can fill it with data from earlier steps, such as a name or a date.

When to use it
an event in another tool should produce a text without anyone opening the texting dashboard.
Watch out
Message is the only required box; read the other boxes of the step at the test before you publish.
7

Trigger Workflow

Action

In Zapier“Trigger a workflow to start”

Starts one of your Mobile Text Alerts workflows for a given phone number. The Workflow and the Phone Number are both required.

When to use it
you already built a sequence inside Mobile Text Alerts and want an event in another tool to enroll a number in it.
Watch out
the step lets you pick a workflow, it does not create one, so check at the test that the list offers the one you want.
When it breaks

When a Mobile Text Alerts Zap breaks

Zapier ties no help article to Mobile Text Alerts, and no limit specific to the app is documented. What breaks here are the general limits of any Zap.

Each case below comes from the way Zaps work, not from a fault in your account. Read them before you publish, then again when the first real runs come in. If a Zap still misbehaves, our Zapier troubleshooting page is the next stop.

  • Nothing from before is replayed

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Replies and sends that already exist are not picked up; moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • A Zap that sets itself off

    A Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches can start itself again and again and burn through your tasks. Make sure the action writes elsewhere.

  • A sudden huge batch

    After a bulk import or a migration, a trigger that returns a huge batch at once can be held back by Zapier's flood protection.

  • Two steps on the Free plan

    The Free plan builds Zaps of one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action, as in the Zap above, needs a paid plan before it can run.
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FAQ

Mobile Text Alerts and Zapier: questions

01Is the Mobile Text Alerts Zapier integration free?
Yes. Mobile Text Alerts is not a premium app, so it runs on the Free plan of Zapier. That plan gives you 100 tasks a month and an unlimited number of Zaps, each limited to two steps: one trigger and one action. Logging each reply into a spreadsheet fits that shape. As soon as you add a filter to keep only some replies, or a second action, the Zap becomes multi-step and needs a paid plan. Each app page on Zapier says whether the app is premium, so you can check it there.
02How many tasks does a Mobile Text Alerts Zap use?
One per successful action, on every run. The trigger costs nothing, whether it is a reply, a sent message or a delivery update. If a reply starts a Zap that adds a row and then sends a text, that run counts two tasks. An action that fails is not counted against your plan. A few apps and actions take more than one task when they complete, so read the task count of your first real runs before you plan a large send around the Zap.
03Do Mobile Text Alerts triggers run in real time?
Yes, all three of them. Delivery Status, Message Reply and Message Sent are instant triggers: Mobile Text Alerts tells Zapier the moment the event happens, so the Zap starts straight away whatever your plan. The interval grid of the Zapier plans only concerns polling triggers, and this app has none. In the editor, a Zap built on an instant trigger shows a lightning bolt. The actions then run one after the other once the trigger has fired.
04What does it take to connect a Mobile Text Alerts account?
An account on Mobile Text Alerts, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch. The connection starts from the Apps page of Zapier with + Add connection; you then pick the app, sign in to Mobile Text Alerts in the tab that opens and grant Zapier access. Once saved, that connection is reused by every step of every Zap that uses the app, so you only set it up a single time.
05Can a Zap create the group used by Add Subscriber to Group?
No. None of the seven actions creates a group. Add Subscriber to Group asks you to select the group, and the Group Name box is required. Remove Subscriber From Group works the same way, with the same two required boxes. The Phone Number is required too, and the action works on a number added before, so in a flow that starts from a brand-new contact, put Add Subscriber first in the same multi-step Zap.
06What if the operation you need is not on the list?
Start with the Mobile Text Alerts page on Zapier: it shows the current list of triggers and actions. If the exact operation is missing, try combining the existing ones in a multi-step Zap, for instance Add Subscriber followed by Add Subscriber to Group. Trigger Workflow is the other way out: it hands the rest of the sequence to a workflow you build inside Mobile Text Alerts. Keep in mind there is no search step for this app, so a Zap cannot look up a subscriber before it acts.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Mobile Text Alerts?
It comes down to criteria, not to a winner. On Zapier, the three triggers of this app are instant, so how fast a Zap starts does not depend on your plan, and the Free plan covers two-step Zaps with 100 tasks a month. Weigh where your other tools are already connected, how many steps your flows need beyond one trigger and one action, and how many runs a month your sends will produce, since each successful action is a task. Compare those three points on each platform before choosing.
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