--- title: "Connect Kenect Text Messaging to ServiceTrade - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Lead Push\" fires in Kenect Text Messaging, your agent runs \"Create Contact\" in ServiceTrade." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-servicetrade" --- # Connect Kenect Text Messaging to ServiceTrade When **Lead Push** fires in [Kenect Text Messaging](https://apiant.ai/connections/kenect-text-messaging), your agent runs **Create Contact** in [ServiceTrade](https://apiant.ai/connections/servicetrade). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Kenect Text Messaging **1** trigger Kenect Text Messaging **14** actions ServiceTrade **30** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Kenect Text Messaging and ServiceTrade to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Kenect Text Messaging can start in ServiceTrade - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Create Contact** in ServiceTrade - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Create Invoice** in ServiceTrade 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 Kenect Text Messaging and ServiceTrade ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 44 actions - Trigger **Lead Push** Triggers when a new conversation starts in Kenect, the closest record Kenect's API exposes to an incoming lead. - Action **Add contact** Creates a new contact at a Kenect location with a phone number, name, email and optional contact groups. - Action **Add contacts to contact group** Adds one or more contacts to an existing contact group and returns the per-contact processing status. - Action **Find contact by phone** Finds the contact at a Kenect location that has the given phone number. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single Kenect contact by its contact ID, including its phone numbers and contact groups. - Action **Get conversation** Returns one Kenect conversation with its messages, contact, assignment and read status. - Action **List contact groups** Returns the contact groups in a Kenect location, with each group's name and its contact, opt-in and opt-out counts. - Action **List contacts** Returns the contacts in your Kenect account, optionally narrowed by location, search text or status, and sorted the way you choose. - Action **List conversations** Returns Kenect conversations, optionally filtered by location, team, assigned user, time range, channel, search text, and read, responded or archived status. - Action **List locations** Returns all the Kenect locations available to your account, including each location's name and address. - Action **List reviews** Returns all Google and Facebook reviews for the locations assigned to the connected Kenect user, including their ratings, comments and reply status. - Action **List users** Returns the users on the Kenect account, optionally only those with permissions in a chosen location. - Action **Push Lead** Submits a lead to a Kenect location, which begins a text conversation with the person making the inquiry. Returns the id of the new lead. - Action **Reply to conversation** Sends a reply in an existing Kenect conversation from a chosen location, with optional subject and attachments. - Action **Review Request** Sends a review request to a contact's phone number from a Kenect location and returns the message that was sent. - Action **Add Asset to Location** Creates a new asset (equipment or system) at a ServiceTrade location. - Action **Add Attachment to Job** Uploads a file from a URL and attaches it to a ServiceTrade job. - Action **Add Comment to Job** Adds a comment to a ServiceTrade job, with optional visibility, author and pinning. - Action **Add Comment to Location** Adds a comment to a ServiceTrade location. - Action **Add Tag** Creates a tag, or attaches a new or existing tag to a ServiceTrade record such as a job, location or company. - Action **Create Appointment** Creates a new appointment on a ServiceTrade job, optionally assigning services and technicians. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact in ServiceTrade and optionally assigns it to companies and locations. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates an invoice or vendor bill in ServiceTrade for a customer, optionally linked to a job, with line items. - Action **Create Job** Creates a new job (work order) at a ServiceTrade location. - Action **Create Job Item** Adds a part, labor, service or other item to an existing ServiceTrade job. - Action **Create Location** Creates a new location (a site where work is performed) for a ServiceTrade company. - Action **Create Quote** Creates a new quote in ServiceTrade for work at a location, covering one or more services. - Action **Find Asset by Search** Finds assets whose text fields or properties match a search term, optionally narrowed by location, job, appointment, type, status or dates. - Action **Find Company** Searches ServiceTrade companies by name, with optional filters for type, status, location and tags, and returns the matching companies. - Action **Find Company by External ID** Finds a ServiceTrade company by the ID it carries in an external system, and returns the full company record. - Action **Find Contact** Finds contacts by name, phone number or email address, optionally narrowed by company, location, contact type or dates. - Action **Find Contract by Name** Finds ServiceTrade contracts whose name contains the text you supply, optionally narrowed by customer, vendor, location, tag or dates. - Action **Find Deficiency by Deficiency Number** Finds deficiencies whose reference number exactly matches the one you supply, optionally narrowed by status, severity, location, company and other filters. - Action **Find Job by Job ID** Returns a single ServiceTrade job by its ID, including its customer, location, service requests, appointments and scheduling comments. - Action **Find Job by Job Number** Finds jobs by their job number and returns the first match plus all matching jobs. - Action **Find Location** Finds locations whose name or store number contains the text you give, optionally narrowed by company, status, region, office or tags. - Action **Find Location by External ID** Finds a ServiceTrade location by its ID in an external system and returns the full location record. - Action **Find Quote by Quote Number** Finds a quote by its exact quote number (reference number) and returns the matching quote. - Action **Remove Tag** Removes a tag from a ServiceTrade record (job, location, company, etc.), or deletes the tag from every record when no record is given. - Action **Update Appointment** Updates an existing ServiceTrade appointment's status, time window, assigned technicians, services, or release state. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing ServiceTrade contact's name, phone numbers, email, status, contact types, and company or location assignments. - Action **Update Invoice** Updates an existing ServiceTrade invoice's status, numbering, notes, dates, terms and assignment. - Action **Update Job Item** Updates an existing job item (material, part, labor or service on a job) in ServiceTrade. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Location** Updates an existing ServiceTrade location's name, address, contact details, status, tax and office settings. - Action **Upload File to Bulk Import** Creates a bulk import of the chosen type in ServiceTrade and uploads the CSV file to it, which starts processing the import. ## Each app on its own - [ **Kenect Text Messaging** Kenect is a texting platform that allows companies to send and receive texts, attachments, web leads, and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/kenect-text-messaging) - [ **ServiceTrade** ServiceTrade is a customer service and sales application for commercial service contractors.](https://apiant.ai/connections/servicetrade) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Kenect Text Messaging - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Adyntel** Ad intelligence API that finds which LinkedIn, Google, and Meta ads a target company is running.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-adyntel) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-salesforce) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-slack) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-mailchimp) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-stripe) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-shopify) ## More into ServiceTrade - [ **HubSpot to ServiceTrade** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-servicetrade) - [ **Salesforce to ServiceTrade** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-servicetrade) - [ **Slack to ServiceTrade** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-servicetrade) - [ **Google Sheets to ServiceTrade** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-servicetrade) - [ **Gmail to ServiceTrade** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-servicetrade) - [ **Google Calendar to ServiceTrade** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-servicetrade) Questions ## Kenect Text Messaging and ServiceTrade, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Kenect Text Messaging? Any of Kenect Text Messaging's 1 trigger in the catalog, including Lead Push. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in ServiceTrade when something happens in Kenect Text Messaging? Any of ServiceTrade's 30 actions, including Create Appointment, Create Contact, Create Invoice and Create Job. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from ServiceTrade to Kenect Text Messaging? ServiceTrade has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Kenect Text Messaging. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads ServiceTrade's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Kenect Text Messaging or ServiceTrade? 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 Kenect Text Messaging and ServiceTrade 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.