--- title: "Connect Help Scout and iContact - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Conversation\" fires in Help Scout, your agent runs \"Create Contact\" in iContact." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/help-scout-to-icontact" --- # Connect Help Scout and iContact When **New Conversation** fires in [Help Scout](https://apiant.ai/connections/help-scout), your agent runs **Create Contact** in [iContact](https://apiant.ai/connections/icontact), or **New contact** in iContact to **Add Customer Email** in Help Scout. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Help Scout **4** triggers Help Scout **19** actions iContact **2** triggers iContact **25** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Help Scout and iContact 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 Help Scout and iContact can do together ### From Help Scout to iContact - When **New Conversation** in Help Scout then **Create Contact** in iContact - When **New Customer** in Help Scout then **Create Message** in iContact ### From iContact to Help Scout - When **New contact** in iContact then **Add Customer Email** in Help Scout - When **New list** in iContact then **Create Customer** in Help Scout 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 Help Scout and iContact ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 44 actions - Trigger **New Conversation** Polls for newly created conversations across mailboxes. - Trigger **New Customer** Polls for newly created customers. - Trigger **New Mailbox** Polls for newly created mailboxes. - Trigger **New User** Polls for newly added users (team members). - Action **Add Customer Email** Add an email address to a customer. - Action **Create Customer** Create a new customer record. - Action **Create Note** Add an internal note thread to a conversation. - Action **Create Thread (Reply)** Add a reply thread to an existing conversation. - Action **Delete Conversation** Delete a conversation by ID. - Action **Get Conversation** Retrieve a single conversation by ID. - Action **Get Customer** Retrieve a single customer by ID. - Action **Get Mailbox** Retrieve a single mailbox by ID. - Action **Get User** Retrieve a single user by ID. - Action **List Conversations** List conversations, optionally filtered by mailbox, status, tag, or query. - Action **List Conversation Threads** List all threads on a conversation. - Action **List Customers** List customers, optionally filtered by email, mailbox, or query. - Action **List Mailboxes** List all mailboxes in the account. - Action **List Mailbox Folders** List the folders within a mailbox. - Action **List Tags** List all tags in the account. - Action **List Users** List all users (team members) in the account. - Action **Update Conversation** Update a conversation's subject, status, mailbox, assignee, or owner via JSON Patch. - Action **Update Conversation Tags** Replace the tags on a conversation. - Action **Update Customer** Update a customer's profile fields. - Trigger **New contact** Triggers when a new contact is added to an iContact client folder, optionally only contacts on a chosen list. - Trigger **New list** Triggers when a new subscriber list is created in an iContact client folder. - Action **Add campaign** Creates a new campaign (sending profile with sender name, sender email and CAN-SPAM mailing address) in an iContact client folder. - Action **Add custom field** Creates a new custom field for contacts in an iContact client folder. - Action **Create Contact** Create a new contact in an iContact client folder. - Action **Create List** Create a new contact list in a client folder. - Action **Create Message** Create a new email message in a client folder. - Action **Delete Contact** Delete an iContact contact by contact ID. - Action **Delete list** Deletes a subscriber list from an iContact client folder. - Action **Get Accounts** List iContact accounts accessible to these credentials. - Action **Get campaign** Returns one iContact campaign (its sending profile, from name and email, and mailing address) by its id. - Action **Get Client Folders** List client folders within an iContact account. - Action **Get Contact** Retrieve a single iContact contact by contact ID. - Action **Get list** Returns one subscriber list from an iContact client folder, including its name, public name and description. - Action **Get message** Returns one email message from an iContact client folder, including its subject, HTML and text bodies, and SpamCheck results. - Action **List Campaigns** List sending campaigns (from-name/email profiles) in a client folder. - Action **List Contacts** List contacts in a client folder, optionally filtered by email or status. - Action **List Custom Fields** List custom fields defined in a client folder. - Action **List Lists** Retrieve all contact lists in a client folder. - Action **List Messages** List email messages in a client folder. - Action **List sends** Returns every email send (pending, sending, released and cancelled) in an iContact client folder, including its message, target lists and segments, schedule, recipient count and status. - Action **List Subscriptions** List subscriptions in a client folder, optionally filtered by contact or list. - Action **Send Message to List** Schedule/send an existing message to one or more lists. - Action **Subscribe Contact to List** Subscribe a contact to a list (creates a subscription). - Action **Unsubscribe Contact from List** Remove a subscription, unsubscribing a contact from a list. - Action **Update Contact** Update an existing iContact contact by contact ID. - Action **Update list** Updates an existing iContact subscriber list's name, public name, description or owner-notification setting. Only the values you supply are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **Help Scout** Help Scout is a help desk and shared inbox platform for customer support teams.](https://apiant.ai/connections/help-scout) - [ **iContact** iContact allows your company to create, send, and track your email marketing messages with ease and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/icontact) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Help Scout - [ **Help Scout to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/help-scout-to-hubspot) - [ **Help Scout to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/help-scout-to-stripe) - [ **Help Scout to JIRA** Atlassian JIRA Cloud — issue tracking and project management.](https://apiant.ai/connect/help-scout-to-jira) - [ **Help Scout to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/help-scout-to-zoom) - [ **Help Scout to SendGrid** SendGrid by Twilio — email delivery and marketing platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/help-scout-to-sendgrid) - [ **Help Scout to Klaviyo** Klaviyo is a marketing automation platform for email and SMS.](https://apiant.ai/connect/help-scout-to-klaviyo) ## More into iContact - [ **HubSpot to iContact** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-icontact) - [ **Google Sheets to iContact** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-icontact) - [ **Gmail to iContact** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-icontact) - [ **Google Calendar to iContact** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-icontact) - [ **Google Drive to iContact** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-icontact) - [ **ActiveCampaign to iContact** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-icontact) Questions ## Help Scout and iContact, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Help Scout? Any of Help Scout's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New Conversation, New Customer, New Mailbox and New User. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in iContact when something happens in Help Scout? Any of iContact's 25 actions, including Create Contact, Create List, Create Message and Send Message to List. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from iContact to Help Scout? Yes. When something happens in iContact, your agent can act in Help Scout too. This page covers both directions: iContact's triggers and Help Scout's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Help Scout or iContact? 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. ### ### Can my AI client use Help Scout and iContact 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. ### ### 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. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.