MojoTxt Zapier integrationAutomate MojoTxt with Zapier.
The MojoTxt Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 2 actions and 0 searches. That is enough to react to a new donation, grow a subscription list from another tool, or send a text to a whole list without opening MojoTxt at all.
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What the MojoTxt Zapier integration actually does
It links MojoTxt, a texting platform for churches and nonprofits, to the other apps you already use. You build a Zap (an automation with one starting event and one or more steps after it), and Zapier runs it for you every time that event shows up. No copy and paste between tabs.
A record of every gift. New Donation starts the Zap when someone gives through MojoTxt, and the next step can write that gift into another tool, such as a spreadsheet your team already keeps. The donation stops living in one place only.
A list that fills itself. Add Person to Subscription List puts a mobile number on one of your MojoTxt lists. Plug it behind a sign-up form in another app and every new sign-up lands on the right list, with nobody retyping numbers.
A text sent from somewhere else. Send Subscription List Message sends an SMS or MMS to one or more lists. The event that starts it can live in any other app connected to Zapier, so the message leaves when that event happens, not when someone remembers.
What Zapier does not do for MojoTxt. There is no search step, so a Zap cannot look up whether a number is already on a list before adding it. There is no instant trigger either: the donation trigger works by checking at intervals, so a new gift reaches the Zap at the next check. And the editor offers only these three operations, nothing for editing or removing a subscriber.
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Zapier vocabulary in one minute
Eight words come back on every line of this page. Here they are in plain English, once.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: 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. For MojoTxt, that is a new donation.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, like texting a subscription list.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. The number on your plan 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 the moment it happens. MojoTxt only has polling.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes it one, and it then needs a paid plan.
- Connection
- Your MojoTxt account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step that talks to MojoTxt.
What it really costs in tasks
MojoTxt is not a premium app, so it works from the free plan. The bill is counted in tasks, and only completed actions count.
- Premium appNo, available on the free plan
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
- Trigger cost0 tasks
- Each successful action1 task
The trigger never costs a task, however often Zapier checks for new donations. Each action that succeeds counts once, so a Zap that adds a person and then sends a message uses two tasks per run. An action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each Zap stops at two steps: one trigger, one action. Add a filter or a second action and you need a paid plan. The plan also sets how often the donation trigger is checked:
Connect your MojoTxt account
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps and click + Add connection. You need a MojoTxt account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.
- 02
Pick MojoTxt
Type MojoTxt in the search box of the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. A new tab opens on the MojoTxt side so you can sign in with the account that holds your numbers and lists.
- 03
Grant access
Sign in to MojoTxt in that tab and allow Zapier to use the account. The connection is then saved once and reused by every MojoTxt step you add to any Zap later on.
Your first Zap: log selected gifts in a spreadsheet
GoalEach new MojoTxt donation that matches your condition becomes a row in your spreadsheet.
- 01
Build: set the trigger
Create a Zap, pick MojoTxt as the starting app and
New Donationas the event. Choose your connection, then the Phone Number and the Donation Keyword the Zap should watch. - 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent donations of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real one. Check there which fields actually come back.
- 03
Add the filter
Click the plus icon and add Filter. Set the three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, the value. A filter makes this a multi-step Zap, which needs a paid plan.
- 04
Add the spreadsheet action
Add your spreadsheet app and its add-a-row action, then map the donation fields from the test into the columns. Test this step too and read what came back before moving on.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish to switch the Zap on. From then on, every matching donation found at a check turns into a new row, and gifts made before publishing stay where they are.
The MojoTxt trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in MojoTxt. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
New Donation
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new donation is made.”
Starts your Zap each time a person gives through MojoTxt, and hands the donation to the steps that follow. It is the only way for a Zap to start from MojoTxt, so every automation built from this app begins with a gift.
The MojoTxt actions
MojoTxt gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Add Person to Subscription List
ActionIn Zapier“Adds a person to a Subscription List.”
Puts a mobile number on one of your MojoTxt subscription lists, so that person receives what you send to that list.
Send Subscription List Message
ActionIn Zapier“Sends an SMS or MMS message to a MojoTxt Subscription List.”
Sends a text to one or more of your subscription lists, as an SMS or as an MMS, from the MojoTxt number you pick.
When a MojoTxt Zap breaks
Zapier ties no help article to MojoTxt and lists no limit specific to it. What breaks is what breaks on any Zap.
Four cases are worth knowing before you publish. If a Zap acts strangely, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
Past donations are not picked up
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Gifts made before publishing never reach it, and moving that backlog is a separate job.A Zap that sets itself off again
As a general precaution: a Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches can start itself again and again, and burn through your tasks.A sudden huge batch
If the trigger suddenly returns a very large batch, for instance after a bulk import, Zapier's flood protection can hold those items back.The same donation twice
Zapier remembers what it has already seen on a polling trigger, so the same donation does not start the Zap twice.
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