EasyWebinar Integration

Integrating with EasyWebinar via Zapier.com allows you to send out automated text reminders and follow-up messages for your webinars.

This can help drive greater attendance to your webinars and increase sales afterwards!

Here's how to do it.

(Note: The EasyWebinar integration currently is only supported for live webinars.)

Step 1: Setting Up on Zapier

To get started with integrating, first you'll need to have a paid account with Zapier.com. This is a site that allows for integrations between different kinds of software.

In Zapier, you'll set up a "zap" to create your integration for each webinar. (More information on Zapier and zaps can be found here.) Set EasyWebinar as the "trigger app" and select Webhooks by Zapier as the "action app."

Set up your zap so that when there's a new registrant for your webinar, it triggers the integration. Then for the Webhooks by Zapier step, you'll select the POST option, and on the "template" window input https://mobile-text-alerts.com/3.0/system/webinar_hook.php?easywebinar=1 into the URL field (see the screenshot below).

Per the screenshot above, you'll also add the following data points under the "data" section:

• phone_number
• first_name
• last_name
• account_id
• join_link
• datetime
• email

Click the icon with the plus sign for each data point in order to select the appropriate field to pull from your webinar, except for "account_id" - for this data point, type in the ID of your Mobile Text Alerts account (which can be provided to you if you contact us).

Once you have this set up on Zapier's end for your webinar, you're ready to get set up in your Mobile Text Alerts account.

Step 2: Setting Up on Mobile Text Alerts

Make sure your "industry" is set to "Webinar Sales" in your Mobile Text Alerts Settings.

You can then refresh your page and the "Webinars" tab will appear. 

Once you're in the Webinars page, select the "Other" option under the "Connect Platform" section and choose "EasyWebinar" as your provider.

Once you connect to EasyWebinar, you'll be able to select whether you'd like to set up messages just for particular events, or for all events.

You can then set up a flow of messages you'd like people to receive when they register for your webinars.

You can include an automated Welcome Message people receive immediately upon registering, and you can include as many reminder or follow up messages as you'd like to be sent before and after your event.

When editing or adding messages in the workflow, you'll be able to select how long of a timeframe before or after the event that you'd like the messages to go out.

The selection box on the right side of the screen allows you to insert some variables into your message, such as first name and the unique join link for your registrants.

The bar on the bottom left side will let you know how many messaging credits your message will use up. (Once you hit 160 characters in your message, it will count as 2 or more credits.)

The "Send Test" button will allow you to send the message to your own phone so you can see how it might look to your recipients.

Click "Save" to save any changes you make.

Managing Your Event Alerts

Once you're done setting up your message workflow, you can edit and manage it from your "Webinars" tab:

• Default Template
  • Select Event - Select whether you'd like your message workflow to be scheduled for a particular webinar, or whether you'd like the message flow to be the default for future events as well
  • Send Welcome Message Upon Registration - Toggle this on or off according to whether or not you'd like your registrants to receive a "welcome message" immediately upon registering
    • Edit the content you'd like to include in your "welcome message" within this box
  • Send Reminders/Follow-ups - Toggle this on or off according to whether or not you'd like your registrants to automatically receive the reminder/follow-up flow of messages that you've set up
    • Click the "pencil" edit icon on any message to edit the content for that message
    • Click the red "delete" icon to remove a message from the flow
    • Click "Add More" to create a new message and add it to the flow
• Account Settings
  • Webinar Alerts - Toggle this on or off according to whether or not you'd like your webinar registrants to receive any messages in your flow (including the welcome message and reminder/follow-up messages)
  • Connected - From here you can connect and disconnect your EasyWebinar integration
  • Auto-Import New Events - Toggle this on or off according to whether or not you'd like your message flow to be automatically sent for any new scheduled webinars you add to EasyWebinar
• Message Settings
  • Upgrade Your Plan - Click here if you'd like to upgrade to a plan that allows more messages to be sent
  • Auto Top-Up - Toggle this on or off according to whether or not you'd like to have additional message credits automatically purchased and added to your balance whenever you run out of messages
    • If toggled on, you'll also be able to select how many messages you'd like the system to automatically purchase whenever you run out
  • International Texts - Toggle this on or off according to whether or not you'd like to have international credits automatically purchased whenever a number outside of the US/Canada is added to your message flow
    • International texts are billed separately from the credits allotted to your regular subscription
    • If toggled on, you'll also be able to select the dollar amount of international credits you'd like the system to automatically purchase whenever you run out