Clickatell is a messaging service that gives companies the ability to quickly communicate with customers through popular social messenger platforms. Clickatell and Facebook integration will allow you to increase your conversion rates and improve your customer retention rates. How to achieve these results will become clear when you find out what the principle of such automation is.

Let's look at the technical side of the connection between Facebook and Clickatell. As a result of the integration of these systems, a lead who submits a completed form on a social network automatically gets into the database of the messaging service and immediately receives a message from there. This is precisely what you need. By automating the workflow in this way, you will significantly save time, making manual data entry into the database a thing of the past forever, and you will increase your own and your team's efficiency as well as the quality of interaction with clients. And now the most important thing – how do I this? Our article will help you set up Facebook and Clickatell integration to automate the transfer of leads from the social network to the database of this service and instantly send them SMS messages.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Result of connecting platforms

How to Set up Facebook-Leads and Clickatell Integration

So, the task before you is to set up and launch automatic data transfers from Facebook to Clickatell. Sound scary? Maybe. But with the SaveMyLeads online connector, you have absolutely nothing to fear. Our efficient no-code tool will help you quickly and easily set up this integration, as well as many others if needed. The SaveMyLeads service provides ready-made solutions for various CRM systems, instant messengers, SMS-services, email-services, and Google-services, task managers and so on.

Action plan:

  1. Create a lead form.
  2. Connect your commercial Facebook account (data source) to SaveMyLeads and set it up.
  3. Connect your Clickatell account (data sink) to SaveMyLeads and make the appropriate settings in the online connector.
  4. Set up auto-update mode.

The result of all these manipulations is the successful launch of an automatic transfer of data from each submitted lead form to a new entry in the Clickatell database, accompanied by sending an SMS message with a pre-compiled text to the potential client. Let's look at the next steps of the Facebook Clickatell integration in more detail.

Setting up the Data Source – Facebook

To set up Clickatell integration with Facebook, create a new connection. Click on the green button.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Create a new connection


Select the data source system. In this case, select Facebook.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Select Facebook


Select the system where you are going to transfer your new leads from Facebook. In this case, choose Clickatell.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Choose Clickatell


Connect your Facebook account to SaveMyLeads. Click on the blue button.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Connect your account to SaveMyLeads


Specify the login and password of your Facebook personal account. Click “Log in”.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Specify the login and password


Click “Edit access”.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Click “Edit access”


Leave all access checkboxes enabled.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Leave all access checkboxes enabled


Click “Continue as…”.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Click “Continue as…”


When the connected account appears in the list, select it.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Select the connected account


Select the advertising page and form where your new Facebook leads will come from. Click “Continue”.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Select the advertising page and form

Setting up the Data Receiver – Clickatell

To set up Facebook integration with Clickatell, connect your Clickatell account to SaveMyLeads. Click on the blue button.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Connect your account to SaveMyLeads


Specify the API key.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Specify the API key


To get it, go to your Clickatell personal account. Select the "My Workspace" section.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Select the "My Workspace" section


In the "Channels" section, select SMS. 

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Select SMS


Select "My SMS setups", and click "Test API". 

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Click "Test API"


Click “View”, and copy the API key.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Copy the API key


Paste it into the appropriate field in SaveMyLeads. When you fill out the field, click "Continue".

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Paste the API key into the appropriate field


When the connected account appears in the list, select it.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Select the connected account


You see Clickatell fields for sending SMS messages.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | The fields for sending SMS messages


In the recipient field, assign a variable from Facebook that contains the phone number. Click in the field and select a variable from the drop-down list.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Select a variable from the drop-down list


In the message field, enter the text that will be sent to each lead from Facebook. Use not only variables from the drop-down list but also enter data manually. When you have filled out all the fields, click "Continue".

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Enter the text that will be sent to each lead


You see an example of the data that will be sent to each lead from Facebook via SMS through the Clickatell service. If you want to correct something, click “Back”, and you will go back a step. To see the result, click "Send test data to Clickatell".

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Click “Back” or "Send test data to Clickatell"


After successful sending, go to the "Analytics & Reports" section in Clickatell to check the result.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Go to the "Analytics & Reports" section in Clickatell


Go to the "Report" section and select a date.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Go to the "Report" section and select a date


Click “Generate report”.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Click “Generate report”


If everything is OK, return to SaveMyLeads and finish setting up.

Setting up Auto-update

In order for each new lead from Facebook to instantly receive an SMS message via the Clickatell, you have to enable auto-update. To achieve this, click “Finish setup”.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Click “Finish setup”


If you want to change the connection name, you can do this in its settings. For this, click on the gear icon.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Click on the gear icon


Change the connection name and add your connection to the group. After that, click “Continue”.

Facebook and Clickatell integration | Change the connection name and add it to the group


That's all. Clickatell Facebook integration was completed.

Result of Facebook Lead Ads and Clickatell Integration

If you had followed all the steps in our instructions one by one, you should have succeeded. You've probably already seen that every form a lead submits from Facebook turns into a new contact in your Clickatell database, who immediately receives an SMS message. Such automation will definitely increase the speed of interaction with potential clients and significantly simplify the work of you and your colleagues.

Connect applications without developers in 5 minutes!

One of the significant advantages of the SaveMyLeads service that you used to set up data transfer and send messages is that you do not need special programming skills to do it. The developers of this online connector have already taken care of everything. Thanks to the intuitive interface, system communication can be configured in just a few minutes, even by a completely inexperienced user. Finally, we wish you to collect as many leads as possible through Facebook Lead Ads, and SaveMyLeads, which tracks them around the clock, will help you speed up your work with them.

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Would you like your employees to receive real-time data on new Facebook leads, and automatically send a welcome email or SMS to users who have responded to your social media ad? All this and more can be implemented using the SaveMyLeads system. Connect the necessary services to your Facebook advertising account and automate data transfer and routine work. Let your employees focus on what really matters, rather than wasting time manually transferring data or sending out template emails.