Mocean API Zapier integrationAutomate Mocean API with Zapier.
The Mocean API Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger and 2 actions, with 0 searches. Enough to fire text messages from the apps you already use and keep a close eye on your messaging balance, and it all works on the free plan.
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What the Mocean API Zapier integration actually does
The integration links your Mocean account to Zapier, so text messages go out and balance checks happen without you opening Mocean. You build a Zap: an event in one app starts it, and Mocean API does the sending or the reading. Three operations in total, all of them usable on the free plan.
A text message that leaves on its own. Send SMS takes a sender name, one or more phone numbers and the message itself. Put it behind a new form entry or a new spreadsheet row and the text goes out without anyone copying a number by hand.
A warning when your credit moves. Updated Balance starts a Zap when the balance on your Mocean account changes. Pair it with a message to yourself, or a line in a sheet, and the drop in credit stops being a surprise.
A balance figure in the middle of a Zap. Find Balance is an action that reads the current balance while the Zap runs, so the next step can use it. Check at test time which values it hands back before you map them.
What Zapier does not do here. There is no search step for this app, and the only trigger watches the balance: nothing in the list reacts to a message you send or receive. The trigger works by polling, so it is never immediate. If you are weighing other tools for the same job, see our n8n vs Zapier comparison.
Zapier words in one minute
Seven words come back on every Zapier screen. Here they are in plain English, once.
- Zap
- The automation you build: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it and does the rest.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, like a text message.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan's quota is a count of those.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked on a timer for new items. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself the moment it happens.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets your condition, and stops it there otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What it really costs
Mocean API is not a premium app, so it runs on the free plan. What you pay for is tasks.
- Premium appNo, works on the free plan
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- TriggerCosts no task
- Failed actionNot counted
The trigger never costs a task, and Zapier checking for a new balance costs nothing either. Each action that succeeds counts as one task, such as a text sent by Send SMS; an action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and Zaps of two steps only. A Zap that sends a text and then reads the balance has two actions, so it is a multi-step Zap and needs a paid plan, and so does a filter. Updated Balance is a polling trigger: the grid below says how often Zapier looks.
Connect Mocean API to Zapier in 3 steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. You need a Mocean account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.
- 02
Find Mocean API
Type Mocean API in the search box of the dialog, pick it from the results, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the Mocean side for the next step.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Sign in to Mocean in that tab and grant Zapier access to the account. From then on, every Mocean step in every Zap reuses this connection: you link the account once.
Your first Zap: text yourself the credit left when the balance moves
GoalYour Mocean balance changes: the Zap reads the new figure and sends it to your own phone, so you never have to log in to check.
- 01
Create the Zap and pick the trigger
Start a new Zap, choose Mocean API and the Updated Balance event, then select your connection. Test it: Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the account, so you map from a real one.
- 02
Add Find Balance
Add a step, choose Mocean API and Find Balance. It reads the current balance while the Zap runs. A second action makes the Zap multi-step, so this one needs a paid plan.
- 03
Add Send SMS
Add Send SMS. Fill Sender ID with the name you want to see, put your own number with its country code in Receiver Number, and map the balance from the previous step into Content.
- 04
Test each step
Run each step once and read what came back. Check which values Find Balance returns before you rely on them, and note that the Send SMS test sends a real text.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish to switch the Zap on. It only reacts to balance changes that happen after that moment, and Zapier checks for them at the interval of your plan.
Mocean API triggers
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in Mocean API. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
Updated Balance
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when account balance updated.”
Starts a Zap when the balance on your Mocean account changes, so a change in your credit can set off a message, a log line or a check further down the Zap. It is the only trigger this app offers, and it watches the account, not individual messages.
Mocean API actions
Mocean API gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Find Balance
ActionIn Zapier“Find a account balance”
Reads the current balance of your Mocean account while the Zap runs and passes it to the steps that follow. Despite its name it sits among the actions, not the searches.
Send SMS
ActionIn Zapier“Send new SMS to the receiver phone number”
Sends a text message to one phone number or several, from the sender name you choose. Several numbers go in the same field, separated by a space or a comma.
When the Mocean API Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Mocean API, so the risks here are the ones every Zap shares.
These limits come from Zapier itself and apply to every app, Mocean API included. If one of them gets in your way, start with our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
Nothing from before the Zap
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you publish it. Balance changes from before that moment are not picked up; moving that backlog is a separate job.A Zap that sets itself off
As a general rule, a Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches can start itself again and again, and burns through your task count fast.Flood protection on big batches
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import for instance, Zapier's flood protection can hold those items back instead of sending them all.The same item, only once
Zapier keeps track of what it has already seen on a polling trigger, so the same item does not start the Zap twice.
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