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Moblico Zapier integrationAutomate Moblico with Zapier.

The Moblico Zapier integration gives you 2 triggers, 3 actions and 1 search. Both triggers are instant, the actions create, update or message a contact, and the search can find a contact or create it when it is missing. It runs on the free plan.

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Overview

What the Moblico Zapier integration does for you

It connects Moblico, a mobile marketing platform that reaches people by SMS among other channels, to Zapier, the tool that chains automations between apps. New and changed Moblico contacts can start steps in other tools, and those tools can create, update, find or message Moblico contacts.

A first message for every new contact. New Contact starts the Zap the moment someone joins your Moblico base, and Send Message reaches them. Nobody has to watch the contact list to say hello.

One contact record, never two. An event in another tool runs Find Contact with its find-or-create box ticked: Moblico returns the person if they exist and creates them if not. Update Contact can then write the fresh details on the right record.

Edits that travel. Update Contact, the trigger this time, fires when contact details change in Moblico, so your spreadsheet or CRM can copy the change instead of drifting apart.

What Zapier does not do here: the six operations all revolve around contacts and messages, nothing else from Moblico can start or end a Zap. A search also makes a Zap multi-step, so the find-or-create pattern needs a paid plan. For a wider view of the tool, see our Zapier review and our Make vs Zapier comparison.

Vocabulary

Zapier words in one minute

Eight words come back on every Zapier screen. Here they are in plain terms, before you connect Moblico.

Zap
The automation you build: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for that event and nothing else.
Action
What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something in an app on your behalf.
Task
The unit Zapier bills: one action that your Zap completes successfully. The number on your plan counts these.
Instant trigger
A trigger the app reports itself: it calls Zapier the moment the event happens, so nothing waits for a check.
Polling trigger
A trigger Zapier checks on a timer, asking the app for new items at a fixed interval and keeping only unseen ones.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap continue only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
Search step
A step that looks up something that already exists in an app, so the steps that follow can use what it found.
Cost

What a Moblico Zap really costs

Moblico is not a premium app on Zapier, so you can use it on the free plan. You spend tasks, and only actions spend them.

  • Premium appNo, works on the free plan
  • Tasks on the free plan100 per month
  • Steps per Zap on the free plan2 (one trigger, one action)
  • Search step on the free planNo, it makes the Zap multi-step

New Contact and Update Contact never cost a task. Each Create Contact, Send Message or Update Contact that goes through counts as one; a failed one is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each limited to two steps: one trigger, one action. A filter, a second action or a search step like Find Contact makes it a multi-step Zap, and multi-step Zaps need a paid plan. The interval grid below is for polling triggers: it does not apply to the two instant triggers of this app.

Connect

Connect Moblico to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open your connections

    In Zapier, open the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. A connection is your Moblico account linked once, then reused by every Zap step that works with Moblico.

  2. 02

    Pick Moblico

    Search Moblico by name in the dialog, select it and click Add connection. You need an account on the app, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Moblico opens in a new tab. Sign in, then grant Zapier access to the account. The connection is then offered in the account menu of each step that uses Moblico, in this Zap and the next ones.

First Zap

Your first Zap: welcome selected new contacts

GoalWhen a contact is created in Moblico and meets a condition you set, send that contact a message from Moblico.

  1. 01

    Set the trigger

    Create a Zap, pick Moblico and the New Contact event, then your connection. It is an instant trigger: Moblico reports each new contact itself, so there is no interval to set.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real contact. Check at test which details come back.

  3. 03

    Add the filter

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

  4. 04

    Add Send Message

    Add Moblico again, event Send Message. Fill the fields the step asks for with values from the trigger, then test it and read what came back before going further.

  5. 05

    Publish

    Click Publish to switch the Zap on. Each new contact that passes the filter then costs one task, the message, as long as it goes through.

Triggers

Moblico triggers

2 events start a Zap when something happens in Moblico, and 2 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

New Contact

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new contact is created.”

Starts your Zap each time a contact is created in your Moblico account, and hands that contact to the following steps so they can greet, copy or sort it.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
every person who joins your Moblico base should get a first message or appear in another tool.
Watch out
contacts that were already in Moblico when you published the Zap are never picked up.
2

Update Contact

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when existing contact information is updated.”

Fires when the details of an existing Moblico contact change, so a correction made in the app can reach the tools that hold a copy of the same person.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a spreadsheet or CRM has to stay in step with the edits made in Moblico.
Watch out
a Zap that writes back into Moblico contacts can set itself off again; check at test what the trigger picks up.
Actions

Moblico actions

Moblico gives you 3 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Create Contact

Action

In Zapier“Creates a Contact”

Adds a new contact to Moblico from data an earlier step brought in, without anyone typing it.

When to use it
people show up in another tool and should exist in your Moblico base.
Watch out
if the person may already exist, Find Contact with its find-or-create box avoids a second record.
2

Send Message

Action

In Zapier“Sends a message.”

Sends a message through your Moblico account from inside the Zap, with content mapped from earlier steps.

When to use it
an event, in Moblico or elsewhere, should end with a message to someone.
Watch out
each message that goes through counts as one task, so a busy trigger adds up fast on the free plan.
3

Update Contact

Action

In Zapier“Updates an existing Contact.”

Changes the details of a contact that already exists in Moblico, with values mapped from earlier steps.

When to use it
a correction made elsewhere has to reach Moblico too.
Watch out
put Find Contact before it so the step knows which contact to change, and check the match at test.
Searches

Moblico searches

1 search step looks for data that already exists in Moblico, so a later step can use it.

A search step looks up a Moblico contact that already exists and hands it to the next steps. It sits at the bottom of the action-event list, under its own SEARCH heading, and any Zap that holds one is multi-step, so it needs a paid plan. Three settings decide what happens when the result is not a clean single match.

1

Find Contact

SearchFind or create

In Zapier“Finds a Contact”

Looks up an existing contact in Moblico and passes it on, so a later Update Contact or Send Message works on the right person.

When to use it
an event elsewhere concerns someone who may already be in Moblico.
Watch out
the editor also lists Find or Create a Contact. It is not a separate operation, just this search with Create X if it doesn't exist yet? ticked.

The three settings every search exposes

  1. Successful if no search results are found?
    Left on its default, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap there and skips the steps that needed it. Switched on, the Zap carries on empty-handed.
  2. Create X if it doesn't exist yet?
    Ticking this box turns the search into a find-or-create: the setting above disappears and the step asks for the fields needed to create the missing item.
  3. If multiple search results are found?
    Three ways out when several items match: keep the first one, which is the default, stop the Zap, or hand all of them on at once.
When it breaks

When a Moblico Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to Moblico, and no rate limit is published for it. What breaks is what breaks on any Zap, plus the default behaviour of the search step.

Four cases cover most of the surprises on this app. If a Zap still misbehaves after them, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.

  • Existing contacts are never picked up

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Your current base stays where it is; moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • The Zap stops at Find Contact

    By default, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap and skips the steps that depended on it. Switch on the empty-result setting, or tick find-or-create.

  • The Zap keeps restarting itself

    A Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches can set itself off again and again, and burns through the task count fast.

  • A big import gets held back

    When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold those runs back.
Need help

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FAQ

Moblico Zapier integration: FAQ

01Is the Moblico Zapier integration free?
Yes, it works on the free plan, since Zapier does not class Moblico as a premium app. That plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each capped at two steps: one trigger and one action. New Contact followed by Send Message fits. The moment you add Find Contact, a filter or a second action, the Zap becomes multi-step, and multi-step Zaps need a paid plan. Plan around the shape of the Zap, then.
02How many tasks does a Moblico Zap use?
One per action that succeeds, and none for the trigger. A Zap that sends a message to each new contact costs one task per contact. If it also updates a row in a spreadsheet, that is two. An action that fails is not counted against the plan. Zapier does not bill for waiting on the trigger either, so a quiet week costs nothing. On the free plan, all of this runs against 100 tasks a month.
03Does Moblico trigger Zaps in real time?
Yes. New Contact and Update Contact are both instant triggers: Moblico tells Zapier when a contact is created or edited, and the Zap starts right away, on the free plan as on the paid ones. The interval grid of the plans only governs polling triggers, the ones Zapier checks on a timer, and Moblico has none. In the editor, a Zap built on an instant trigger shows a lightning bolt.
04What do you need to connect a Moblico account?
An account on the app, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch. You connect once, from the Apps page of your Zapier account with + Add connection: search Moblico, sign in in the tab that opens, then grant Zapier access. Every later step that uses Moblico, trigger, action or search, picks that same connection from its account menu. You set it up once for all your Zaps.
05Why does a Moblico Zap stop at Find Contact?
Because of the default setting of the search. When Successful if no search results are found? is left as is, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap at that step, and the steps that relied on it are skipped. Two ways out: switch that setting on so the Zap carries on empty-handed, or tick Create X if it doesn't exist yet? to turn the step into Find or Create a Contact. Check both paths at test.
06What if the Moblico operation you want is not there?
Check the Moblico page on Zapier: it shows the current list of triggers, actions and searches, and the editor offers nothing beyond it. Today that is two contact triggers, three actions and one search, Find Contact, whose find-or-create variant is the same search with a box ticked. If what you need is not on that page, no Zap setting will add it; work with these six or look at another automation tool.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Moblico?
Decide on criteria, not on a ranking. First, check that the other tool connects to Moblico at all, since that settles the question if it does not. On Zapier, both triggers are instant, so plan intervals do not apply to this app, but the find-or-create pattern needs a search step and therefore a paid plan. Then count the steps each run needs, the runs you expect per month, and who will maintain it.
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