--- title: "Connect inMobile - SMS gateway and Slack - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New email event\" fires in inMobile - SMS gateway, your agent runs \"Send Direct Message\" in Slack." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/inmobile-sms-gateway-to-slack" --- # Connect inMobile - SMS gateway and Slack When **New email event** fires in [inMobile - SMS gateway](https://apiant.ai/connections/inmobile-sms-gateway), your agent runs **Send Direct Message** in [Slack](https://apiant.ai/connections/slack), or **New Channel** in Slack to **Create or Update Contact** in inMobile - SMS gateway. 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 Slack **15** triggers Slack **60** 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 Slack 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 and Slack can do together ### From inMobile - SMS gateway to Slack - When **New email event** in inMobile - SMS gateway then **Send Direct Message** in Slack - When **New incoming RCS message** in inMobile - SMS gateway then **Send Message** in Slack ### From Slack to inMobile - SMS gateway - When **New Channel** in Slack then **Create or Update Contact** in inMobile - SMS gateway - When **New Channel Member** in Slack then **Send email** in inMobile - SMS gateway 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 Slack ## Triggers and actions 19 triggers · 75 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. - Trigger **New Channel** Triggers when a new channel is created in the workspace. - Trigger **New Channel (instant)** Triggers when a new channel is created (Slack event channel_created). - Trigger **New Channel Member** Triggers when a member joins a chosen channel (Slack event member_joined_channel). - Trigger **New File (instant)** Triggers when a new file is uploaded to the workspace (Slack event file_created). - Trigger **New Mention (instant)** Triggers when a username or keyword is mentioned in a channel. Events API message events with keyword filter. - Trigger **New Message Posted to Channel** Triggers when a message is posted to a chosen channel (Slack event message.channels). - Trigger **New Message Posted to Private Channel** Triggers when a message is posted to a chosen private channel or group DM (Slack events message.groups, message.mpim). - Trigger **New Pinned Item** Triggers when an item is pinned in a channel. - Trigger **New Public Message Posted Anywhere** Triggers when a message is posted to any public channel (Slack event message.channels). - Trigger **New Reaction Added** Triggers when an emoji reaction is added to a message (Slack event reaction_added). - Trigger **New Saved Message** Triggers when a message or file is saved (starred) (Slack event star_added). - Trigger **New Team Custom Emoji** Triggers when a custom emoji is added to the workspace (Slack event emoji_changed). - Trigger **New Thread Reply** Triggers when a new reply is added to a message thread. - Trigger **New User** Triggers when a new user joins the workspace. Polling; deduped by user id. - Trigger **New User (instant)** Triggers when a new user joins the workspace (Slack event team_join). - Action **Add Bookmark** Add a bookmark to a channel. - Action **Add Reaction** Add an emoji reaction to a message. - Action **Add Star** Save a message or file by starring it. - Action **Archive Channel** Archive a channel. - Action **Complete Reminder** Mark a reminder as complete. - Action **Create Canvas** Create a standalone canvas document. - Action **Create Channel** Create a new public or private channel. - Action **Create Channel Canvas** Create a canvas attached to a channel. - Action **Create Reminder** Create a reminder for a user at a specified time. - Action **Delete Canvas** Delete a canvas. - Action **Delete File** Delete a file from the workspace. - Action **Delete Message** Delete a message from a channel by timestamp. - Action **Delete Reminder** Delete a reminder. - Action **Delete Scheduled Message** Cancel a scheduled message before it is sent. - Action **Edit Bookmark** Edit an existing channel bookmark. - Action **Edit Canvas** Edit the content of a canvas. - Action **Find Channel by Name** List channels filtered to locate a channel by name (client filters the returned list). - Action **Find User by Email** Look up a Slack user by their email address. - Action **Get Channel Messages** Fetch the message history of a channel. - Action **Get File Info** Get information about a file. - Action **Get Message Permalink** Get a permanent link to a specific message. - Action **Get Message Reactions** Get the emoji reactions on a message. - Action **Get Team Info** Get information about the workspace. - Action **Get Thread Replies** Get the replies in a message thread. - Action **Get User Info** Get profile information for a Slack user by ID. - Action **Get User Presence** Get a user's current presence status. - Action **Get User Profile** Get a user's profile fields. - Action **Invite User to Channel** Invite one or more users to a channel (comma-separated user IDs). - Action **Join Channel** Join a public channel. - Action **Leave Channel** Leave a channel. - Action **List Bookmarks** List the bookmarks in a channel. - Action **List Channel Members** List the members of a channel. - Action **List Channels** List channels in the workspace (public and private). - Action **List Custom Emojis** List the workspace's custom emojis. - Action **List Files** List files in the workspace, optionally filtered by channel or user. - Action **List Pinned Items** List the items pinned in a channel. - Action **List Scheduled Messages** List messages scheduled to be sent later. - Action **List User Groups** List the workspace's user groups. - Action **List Users** List all users in the workspace. - Action **List User's Channels** List the channels a user is a member of. - Action **Mark Channel Read** Set the read cursor position in a channel. - Action **Pin Message** Pin a message to a channel. - Action **Remove Bookmark** Remove a bookmark from a channel. - Action **Remove Reaction** Remove an emoji reaction from a message. - Action **Remove Star** Remove a star from a message or file. - Action **Remove User from Channel** Remove a member from a channel. - Action **Rename Channel** Rename a channel. - Action **Schedule Message** Schedule a message to be sent to a channel at a future Unix time. - Action **Search Files** Search files across the workspace. - Action **Search Messages** Search messages across the workspace. - Action **Send Direct Message** Open a DM with a user and post a message to it. - Action **Send Ephemeral Message** Send a message in a channel that is visible only to one user. - Action **Send Message** Post a message to a channel, private group, or DM. - Action **Set Channel Purpose** Set the purpose (description) for a channel. - Action **Set Channel Topic** Set the topic for a channel. - Action **Set User Presence** Set the authenticated user's presence status. - Action **Unarchive Channel** Restore an archived channel. - Action **Unpin Message** Remove a pinned message from a channel. - Action **Update Message** Update an existing message in a channel by timestamp. - Action **Upload File** Upload a file and share it to one or more channels. ## 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) - [ **Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connections/slack) 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 Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/inmobile-sms-gateway-to-mailchimp) - [ **inMobile - SMS gateway to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/inmobile-sms-gateway-to-stripe) - [ **inMobile - SMS gateway to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/inmobile-sms-gateway-to-shopify) - [ **inMobile - SMS gateway to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/inmobile-sms-gateway-to-quickbooks-online) ## More into Slack - [ **Salesforce to Slack** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-slack) - [ **Google Calendar to Slack** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-slack) - [ **Mailchimp to Slack** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-slack) - [ **Stripe to Slack** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/stripe-to-slack) - [ **Shopify to Slack** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shopify-to-slack) - [ **Notion to Slack** A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.](https://apiant.ai/connect/notion-to-slack) Questions ## inMobile - SMS gateway and Slack, answered ### ### What can start an automation from inMobile - SMS gateway? Any of inMobile - SMS gateway's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New email event, New incoming RCS message, New incoming SMS message and New SMS status report. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Slack when something happens in inMobile - SMS gateway? Any of Slack's 60 actions, including Create Canvas, Create Channel, Create Channel Canvas and Create Reminder. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Slack to inMobile - SMS gateway? Yes. When something happens in Slack, your agent can act in inMobile - SMS gateway too. This page covers both directions: Slack's triggers and inMobile - SMS gateway's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for inMobile - SMS gateway or Slack? 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 Slack 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.