Three recipes for Slack. Each names its trigger and the BlueBot step, lists the fields to map and says how to test it with your own number before anyone else gets a text.
How Slack connects
Built in: It works inside BlueBot with nothing else to set up.
Zapier: BlueBot’s Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state.
Post new replies to a channel
Part
What it is
Trigger
Someone texts you
Action
BlueBot’s webhook starts it, and Slack takes the text
Create an incoming webhook for the channel in Slack and copy its URL.
Paste the URL into BlueBot’s Slack notifications and turn on alerts for new replies.
Each new reply then shows up in that channel.
Map the fields
From BlueBot
Into Slack
From
The phone number to find the person by in Slack. It’s in E.164 (+15555550123); search by the last 10 digits if Slack stores numbers another way.
Text
The words, for a note, a row or a message. Null when the person sent only a picture.
Received At
When it came in, in UTC.
Files
Pictures and voice memos. Each url works for an hour, so copy a file you want to keep.
Chat ID
Set when the text came in a group chat; null for a one-to-one text.
Test it
Text your BlueBot number from another phone and check that the step ran. BlueBot copies texts from people you’ve texted through it, unless you set Which chats to copy to Everything.
Use the same Slack webhook and turn on the alerts for the Mac going offline and for a paused webhook.
If your Mac stops checking in, the channel hears about it, and texts wait until the Mac is back.
Map the fields
From BlueBot
Into Slack
State
sent, delivered, read, failed or expired, for a field or a filter.
Metadata
The record_id you sent with the text, to find the record it was for.
Failure Reason
Why a failed text didn’t go: not_on_imessage, messages_refused or file_unavailable.
To
Who the text was for.
Test it
Send one text to your own number, then look for the event. To try the step without sending anything, POST /v1/webhooks/{id}/test sends an example of any event type to your webhook.
Text the on-call person from a channel
Part
What it is
Trigger
Slack’s New Message Posted to Channel trigger in Zapier
Start a Zap with Slack’s New Message Posted to Channel trigger on your urgent channel.
Add BlueBot’s Send Text action with the on-call person’s number in To.
Map the message and who posted it into Text.
Map the fields
BlueBot field
Map it to
To
The person’s mobile number from Slack. US numbers can leave off the +1.
Text
Urgent from {{user_name}} in Slack: {{message}}
{{user_name}} in the text
Slack’s user name field.
{{message}} in the text
Slack’s message field.
Metadata
source set to slack, and record_id set to the record’s id, so the status and reply webhooks for this text can find the record again.
Service
Auto, the default: iMessage when the person uses it, otherwise SMS through your iPhone.
Test it
Put your own number in To and press Test step. A text arrives on your phone from your own number, and Zapier shows the message BlueBot returned with state: "queued". Then map Slack’s field back into To and turn the Zap on.
Before you turn it on
Text only people who asked to hear from you. Anyone who replies STOP goes on your stop list, and BlueBot cancels texts to them. Stop words
A text that can’t go yet waits with a hold rather than failing: quiet hours, your Mac away, a daily limit. Holds
Slack with BlueBot on the integrations page says what else the two do together.