Re: Can Flow send "internal SMS"?

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Can Flow be used to send internal SMS for staff communication?

FurtherRecords
Shopify Partner
37 1 18

I have Flow sending internal emails but sending SMS would be even better for my staff who rarely check their emails.

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PaulNewton
Shopify Partner
7721 678 1620

This is an accepted solution.

Not natively , there a couple flow-integrations that can.

https://customizations.myshopify.com/admin/apps/flow/web/editor/templates?sort=best_match&search=tex... 

With the flow http-send-request action you could call a webhook or connect to an api that provides sms messaging, such as the twilio service. 

 

Some lowcode/nocode services that a store may already be using like ifttt, zapier have sms features as well

https://ifttt.com/sms 

https://zapier.com/apps/sms/integrations 

 

 

A bit more advanced usemechanic app, integrates with flow, has an example of sending an sms via nexmo(vonage) and working with flow

https://tasks.mechanic.dev/send-an-sms-via-nexmo-when-a-product-is-created 

https://tasks.mechanic.dev/?tags=Shopify%20Flow 

 

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PaulNewton
Shopify Partner
7721 678 1620

This is an accepted solution.

Not natively , there a couple flow-integrations that can.

https://customizations.myshopify.com/admin/apps/flow/web/editor/templates?sort=best_match&search=tex... 

With the flow http-send-request action you could call a webhook or connect to an api that provides sms messaging, such as the twilio service. 

 

Some lowcode/nocode services that a store may already be using like ifttt, zapier have sms features as well

https://ifttt.com/sms 

https://zapier.com/apps/sms/integrations 

 

 

A bit more advanced usemechanic app, integrates with flow, has an example of sending an sms via nexmo(vonage) and working with flow

https://tasks.mechanic.dev/send-an-sms-via-nexmo-when-a-product-is-created 

https://tasks.mechanic.dev/?tags=Shopify%20Flow 

 

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FurtherRecords
Shopify Partner
37 1 18

Thanks Paul & Paul. I tried with Twilio and got a bit lost but I was able to make it work with Zapier. I'm happy with that!

paul_n
Shopify Staff
1584 171 365

The shortest path to using SMS with Flow would be to choose one of the existing 3p actions. As @PaulNewton said, you could also use Send HTTP Request with your service of choice (e.g., like Twilio). Flow will likely not support a native SMS action due to the difficulty in policing bad actors. 

Paul_N | Flow Product Manager @ Shopify
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