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title: "Connect Dotdigital to Catalog Machine - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"Contact Created\" fires in Dotdigital, your agent runs \"Import Product CSV \" in Catalog Machine."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-catalog-machine"
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# Connect Dotdigital to Catalog Machine

When **Contact Created** fires in [Dotdigital](https://apiant.ai/connections/dotdigital), your agent runs **Import Product CSV **in [Catalog Machine](https://apiant.ai/connections/catalog-machine). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Dotdigital **5** triggers Dotdigital **9** actions Catalog Machine **7** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Dotdigital and Catalog Machine to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

`claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What Dotdigital can start in Catalog Machine

- When **Contact Created** in Dotdigital then **Import Product CSV **in Catalog Machine
- When **Campaign Activity** in Dotdigital then **Save Product** in Catalog Machine

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Dotdigital and Catalog Machine

## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 16 actions

- Trigger

**Campaign Activity**

Triggers when a contact's activity (opens, clicks, replies, bounces, unsubscribes) on the selected email campaign changes.

- Trigger

**Campaign Opens**

Triggers when a contact opens the selected email campaign.

- Trigger

**Contact Created**

Triggers when a new contact is created in your Dotdigital account.

- Trigger

**Contact Suppressed**

Triggers when a contact is suppressed in your Dotdigital account (unsubscribed, bounced, complained or blocked), with the reason.

- Trigger

**Contact Unsubscribed**

Triggers when a contact unsubscribes from your Dotdigital account.

- Action

**Create a List**

Creates a new contact list (address book) in Dotdigital.

- Action

**Create Contact Data Field**

Creates a new contact data field in your Dotdigital account, such as a birthday or loyalty tier, for storing information about contacts.

- Action

**Create or Update Contact (Deprecated)**

Creates a contact, or updates the existing contact with the same email address, and adds it to the All contacts list. Uses Dotdigital's deprecated contact API; prefer Create or Update Contact for new automations.

- Action

**Refresh Segment**

Starts a refresh of a Dotdigital segment so its membership is recalculated, and returns the refresh status.

- Action

**Resubscribe Contact**

Resubscribes a previously unsubscribed contact to your account, sending them a re-subscription challenge email when Dotdigital requires one.

- Action

**Send Email Campaign**

Sends an email campaign to lists, segments or individual contacts, either immediately or at a scheduled date and time.

- Action

**Send SMS**

Sends a single SMS message to a mobile number, unless that number has opted out of SMS. Long messages over 160 characters are charged as multiple messages.

- Action

**Send Transactional Email**

Sends a transactional email, such as an order confirmation or password reset, with your own HTML or plain-text content. Not for marketing content.

- Action

**Unsubscribe Contact**

Unsubscribes a contact from the whole Dotdigital account by email address, and returns the suppressed contact with the date and reason.

- Action

**Delete product**

Deletes a product from your Catalog Machine account by its product code.

- Action

**Get product**

Returns a single product by its code, including all product fields, variants and collections.

- Action

**Get Product Import Status**

Returns the current status and any errors of the most recent product import job (CSV import or Shopify sync).

- Action

**Import Product CSV**

Imports products into Catalog Machine from a CSV file at a public URL and returns the import job id. Products with formatting errors are skipped.

- Action

**List categories**

Returns all product categories in your Catalog Machine account, including the fields each category defines.

- Action

**Save Product**

Updates an existing product in Catalog Machine by its product code, changing only the fields you fill in.

- Action

**Sync Shopify Products**

Re-imports products that already exist in Catalog Machine from the connected Shopify store, updating their prices, images, variants and other fields. Returns the id of the import job.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Dotdigital** Dotdigital is a customer experience and data platform (CXDP) that empowers marketers to create highly...](https://apiant.ai/connections/dotdigital)
- [ **Catalog Machine** Catalog Machine is a simple solution for creating and sharing Online and PDF Product Catalogs, Price Lists...](https://apiant.ai/connections/catalog-machine)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Dotdigital

- [ **Dotdigital to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-hubspot)
- [ **Dotdigital to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-salesforce)
- [ **Dotdigital to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-slack)
- [ **Dotdigital to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-google-sheets)
- [ **Dotdigital to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-gmail)
- [ **Dotdigital to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/dotdigital-to-google-calendar)

## More into Catalog Machine

- [ **Nozbe to Catalog Machine** Nozbe is an organizational tool for busy professionals and small teams that helps them to get stuff done in...](https://apiant.ai/connect/nozbe-to-catalog-machine)
- [ **HubSpot to Catalog Machine** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-catalog-machine)
- [ **Salesforce to Catalog Machine** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-catalog-machine)
- [ **Slack to Catalog Machine** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-catalog-machine)
- [ **Google Sheets to Catalog Machine** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-catalog-machine)
- [ **Gmail to Catalog Machine** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-catalog-machine)

Questions

## Dotdigital and Catalog Machine, answered

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### What can start an automation from Dotdigital?

Any of Dotdigital's 5 triggers in the catalog, including Contact Created, Campaign Activity, Campaign Opens and Contact Suppressed. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in Catalog Machine when something happens in Dotdigital?

Any of Catalog Machine's 7 actions, including Get product, Get Product Import Status, Import Product CSV and List categories. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from Catalog Machine to Dotdigital?

Catalog Machine has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Dotdigital. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Catalog Machine's API documentation and adds it.

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### Do I have to build a connector for Dotdigital or Catalog Machine?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

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### Can my AI client use Dotdigital and Catalog Machine without building an automation?

Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.

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### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
