--- title: "Connect Omnisend and Slack - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in Omnisend, your agent runs \"Send Direct Message\" in Slack, or \"New Channel\" in Slack to \"Add email template\" in Omnisend." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/omnisend-to-slack" --- # Connect Omnisend and Slack When **New Contact** fires in [Omnisend](https://apiant.ai/connections/omnisend), your agent runs **Send Direct Message** in [Slack](https://apiant.ai/connections/slack), or **New Channel** in Slack to **Add email template** in Omnisend. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Omnisend **2** triggers Omnisend **36** 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 Omnisend and Slack 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 Omnisend and Slack can do together ### From Omnisend to Slack - When **New Contact** in Omnisend then **Send Direct Message** in Slack - When **Updated Contacts** in Omnisend then **Send Ephemeral Message** in Slack ### From Slack to Omnisend - When **New Channel** in Slack then **Add email template** in Omnisend - When **New Channel Member** in Slack then **Add tags to contacts** in Omnisend 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 Omnisend and Slack ## Triggers and actions 17 triggers · 96 actions - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is added to your Omnisend account, optionally limited to a subscription status, segment or tag. - Trigger **Updated Contacts** Triggers when a contact is created or updated in Omnisend, newest changes first. - Action **Add email template** Creates a new email template in Omnisend with a name, general style settings and content sections. - Action **Add product** Creates a product in your Omnisend catalog, with optional variants, images, categories and tags. - Action **Add product category** Creates a new product category in your Omnisend store. - Action **Add segment** Creates a new contact segment in Omnisend from a name and a set of condition rules. - Action **Add tags to contacts** Adds one or more tags to contacts chosen by contact ID, email, phone number or segment. Tagging happens in the background, so tags may take a moment to appear. - Action **Cancel Campaign** Cancels a scheduled or paused campaign (or a started email campaign) in Omnisend and marks it as canceled. - Action **Copy Campaign** Creates a new draft copy of an existing campaign, including its content, audience and settings. The copy is named "Copy of: " followed by the original name. - Action **Create Campaign** Creates a new draft campaign (email or SMS; regular, A/B test or booster) in Omnisend and returns the created campaign. - Action **Create Subscriber** Creates a subscriber (contact) in Omnisend, or updates the existing contact with the same email address. - Action **Delete Campaign** Deletes a campaign from your Omnisend account. - Action **Delete Email Template** Deletes an email template from your Omnisend account by its ID. - Action **Delete Image** Deletes an image from the Omnisend image library by its ID. - Action **Delete product** Deletes a product from the Omnisend product catalog by its ID. - Action **Delete Segment** Permanently deletes a segment in Omnisend. - Action **Find Campaign** Returns a single Omnisend campaign by its ID, including its name, status, channel, audience, content and sending settings. - Action **Find Campaigns** Returns campaigns whose name contains the given text, optionally filtered by status, channel, type and created/updated dates. - Action **Find Email Template** Returns a single email template, including its name, layout sections and general settings, looked up by its ID. - Action **Find Email Templates** Returns email templates whose names contain the given text. - Action **Find Image** Returns a single image from your Omnisend image library by its ID, including its URL, size and dimensions. - Action **Find Images** Returns images in your Omnisend library whose names contain the search text. - Action **Find Segment** Returns an Omnisend segment by its ID, including its name, status and condition rules. - Action **Find Segments** Finds segments whose name contains the given text. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single Omnisend contact by its ID, including profile details, identifiers, tags, segments and custom properties. - Action **Get product** Returns a single product from your Omnisend catalog by its ID, including its variants, images, categories and stock status. - Action **Get Segment Statistics** Returns statistics for a segment, including how many contacts it currently contains. - Action **Import Email Template** Creates a new Omnisend email template by importing raw HTML. Returns the created template. - Action **List contacts** Returns Omnisend contacts, optionally filtered by email, phone, subscription status, segment, tag or last-update time. - Action **Remove tags from contacts** Removes one or more tags from contacts chosen by contact ID, email, phone number or segment. Omnisend processes the removal in the background. - Action **Render Email Template** Renders an email template and returns its full HTML body for preview. - Action **Send Customer Event** Sends a customer event (custom or recommended) to Omnisend for a contact, creating or updating the contact and triggering any automations based on that event. - Action **Update Campaign** Updates a draft campaign's name, language, content, audience, sending settings, booster or A/B test settings. Only campaigns still in draft can be updated. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing Omnisend contact by its ID, changing only the fields you fill in, and returns the updated contact. - Action **Update email template** Fully replaces an existing Omnisend email template's name, sections and general settings, and returns the updated template. - Action **Update product** Replaces an existing product in your Omnisend catalog with the details you provide. Fields left blank are not kept from the previous version. - Action **Update segment** Updates an existing segment's name and rules. The segment can't be updated while it is being built. - Action **Upload Image** Uploads an image to your Omnisend image library from a publicly accessible URL and returns the stored image details. - 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 - [ **Omnisend** Omnisend is a marketing automation platform built for growing ecommerce businesses that have graduated their...](https://apiant.ai/connections/omnisend) - [ **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 Omnisend - [ **Omnisend to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/omnisend-to-salesforce) - [ **Omnisend to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/omnisend-to-stripe) - [ **Omnisend to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/omnisend-to-shopify) - [ **Omnisend to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/omnisend-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Omnisend to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/omnisend-to-pipedrive) - [ **Omnisend to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/omnisend-to-trello) ## 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 ## Omnisend and Slack, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Omnisend? Any of Omnisend's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact and Updated Contacts. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Slack when something happens in Omnisend? 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 Omnisend? Yes. When something happens in Slack, your agent can act in Omnisend too. This page covers both directions: Slack's triggers and Omnisend's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Omnisend 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 Omnisend 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.