--- title: "Connect inMobile - SMS gateway to ShipEngine - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New email event\" fires in inMobile - SMS gateway, your agent runs \"Add batch\" in ShipEngine." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/inmobile-sms-gateway-to-shipengine" --- # Connect inMobile - SMS gateway to ShipEngine When **New email event** fires in [inMobile - SMS gateway](https://apiant.ai/connections/inmobile-sms-gateway), your agent runs **Add batch** in [ShipEngine](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipengine). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. inMobile - SMS gateway **4** triggers inMobile - SMS gateway **15** actions ShipEngine **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want inMobile - SMS gateway and ShipEngine to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What inMobile - SMS gateway can start in ShipEngine - When **New email event** in inMobile - SMS gateway then **Add batch** in ShipEngine - When **New incoming RCS message** in inMobile - SMS gateway then **Add label** in ShipEngine 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 inMobile - SMS gateway and ShipEngine ## Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 29 actions - Trigger **New email event** Triggers when a new email event occurs on a message you sent, such as delivered, opened, clicked, bounced or unsubscribed. - Trigger **New incoming RCS message** Triggers when a new RCS message is received by one of your inMobile RCS agents, including text, file, location and suggestion responses. - Trigger **New incoming SMS message** Triggers when a new SMS message is received on one of your inMobile numbers. - Trigger **New SMS status report** Triggers when a delivery status report arrives for a sent SMS message. inMobile hands out each report only once, so a report collected by this trigger can't be retrieved again through the API. - Action **Add list** Creates a new recipient list in your inMobile account and returns its id, name and creation time. - Action **Add Mobile Number to Blacklist** Adds a mobile number to the inMobile blacklist so it no longer receives messages, and returns the created blacklist entry. - Action **Add recipient** Creates a recipient with a phone number and optional contact details on an inMobile SMS list, and returns the new recipient. - Action **Cancel SMS message** Cancels scheduled SMS messages that have not been sent yet and returns a result for each message. - Action **Create or Update Contact** Creates a recipient on an inMobile list, or updates the existing recipient on that list with the same phone number. - Action **Delete Contact** Deletes a contact (recipient) from an inMobile list. - Action **Find recipient by number** Returns the recipient on an inMobile list that has the specified phone number, and reports whether one was found. - Action **List lists** Returns all recipient lists in the inMobile account, with each list's id, name and creation time. - Action **List recipients** Returns all recipients in an inMobile list, including their phone numbers and fields. - Action **Parse phone numbers** Checks a list of phone numbers and returns, for each one, whether it is valid along with its cleaned number, country code and local number. - Action **Remove Mobile Number From Blacklist** Removes a mobile number from your inMobile blacklist, so it can receive messages again. - Action **Send email** Sends an email with a subject and HTML body to up to 100 recipients through inMobile, optionally scheduled for later, and returns the message id and accepted recipients. - Action **Send RCS text message** Sends a text-only RCS message from one of your RCS agents to a mobile number, with optional suggested replies and actions. Returns the message id and the parsed recipient number. - Action **Send SMS Message** Sends one SMS text message to a mobile number, immediately or at a scheduled time, and returns the message ID and how many SMS parts it uses. - Action **Update recipient** Updates an existing recipient on an inMobile list. Only the details you fill in are changed; anything left blank keeps its current value. - Action **Add batch** Creates a new label batch in ShipEngine, optionally seeded with shipments or rates, so their labels can later be processed together. - Action **Add label** Purchases a shipping label from your chosen carrier and service for a shipment, returning the label's tracking number, cost and download links. - Action **Add shipment** Creates a shipment from a ship-to address, a ship-from address or warehouse, and its packages, returning the new shipment id for rating, labels and batches. - Action **Add warehouse** Creates a new warehouse location in ShipEngine with a ship-from address and an optional return address. - Action **Calculate rates** Returns shipping rate quotes from your connected carriers for a shipment, either from full shipment details or an existing shipment. - Action **Get batch** Returns a label batch by its id, including its status, shipment and error counts, and links to download the batch's labels and forms. - Action **Get label** Returns a shipping label by its id, including its status, tracking number, cost and links to download the label. - Action **Get manifest** Returns the details of an end-of-day manifest, including its ship date, the labels it covers and a link to download the manifest form. - Action **Get shipment** Returns a shipment by its id, including its status, carrier and service, addresses, packages and tags. - Action **List carriers** Returns all carrier accounts connected to your ShipEngine account, with each carrier's id, services, package types and options. - Action **List shipments** Returns the shipments in your ShipEngine account, optionally filtered by status, tag, batch or created/modified date range. - Action **List warehouses** Returns every warehouse in your ShipEngine account, with each warehouse's id, name, origin address and return address. - Action **Update shipment** Updates an existing shipment's addresses, packages, carrier service and other details before it is shipped, and returns the updated shipment. - Action **Validate an Address** Checks a postal address against carrier and postal databases and returns its validation status, the corrected (matched) address, and any messages explaining problems found. ## Each app on its own - [ **inMobile - SMS gateway** inMobile is a powerful SMS gateway. inMobile makes it easy for you to send personalized SMS messages, manage...](https://apiant.ai/connections/inmobile-sms-gateway) - [ **ShipEngine** ShipEngine APIs empower ecommerce brands and platforms to shop rates, validate global addresses, print...](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipengine) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from inMobile - SMS gateway - [ **inMobile - SMS gateway to Mailercloud** Mailercloud is a cloud-based email marketing platform that allows businesses to launch email marketing...](https://apiant.ai/connect/inmobile-sms-gateway-to-mailercloud) - [ **inMobile - SMS gateway to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/inmobile-sms-gateway-to-salesforce) - [ **inMobile - SMS gateway to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in ShipEngine when something happens in inMobile - SMS gateway? Any of ShipEngine's 14 actions, including Update shipment, Add batch, Add label and Add shipment. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from ShipEngine to inMobile - SMS gateway? ShipEngine has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in inMobile - SMS gateway. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads ShipEngine's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for inMobile - SMS gateway or ShipEngine? 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 inMobile - SMS gateway and ShipEngine 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.