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Move qualified WhatsApp leads into an ActiveCampaign automation

When a WhatsApp inquiry meets your criteria and includes an email, start the relevant follow-up automation in ActiveCampaign.

Trigger

New Message Received

Triggered in real time when your WhatsApp Business number receives an inbound message from a customer (text, media, location, or contact). Delivered via the Cloud API webhook.

Action

Add Contact to Automation

This tool adds an existing contact to a specific automation in activecampaign. it first looks up the contact by email address to get their id, then adds them to the specified automation using the /api/3/contactautomations endpoint.

Why this helps

Qualified leads can sit in chat while you remember which CRM follow-up should happen next.

  • Start CRM follow-up after a qualifying inquiry
  • Keep your lead qualification instruction in plain language
  • Reduce delay between a conversation and the next step

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect WhatsApp and ActiveCampaign once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in the portal or tell Notis to create one from any channel.
  • 3Describe the outcome: when a new WhatsApp message meets your qualification rule and contains an email, add that existing contact to the named ActiveCampaign automation.
  • 4Pick the WhatsApp New Message Received trigger and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real qualifying message from a contact who exists in ActiveCampaign.

Questions about this workflow

Can this create the ActiveCampaign automation too?

No. This action adds a contact to a specific existing automation. Set up that automation in ActiveCampaign first.

What if the sender is not an existing contact?

The action looks up the contact by email, so the sender needs a matching ActiveCampaign contact record.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Whatsapp to Active campaign. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Whatsapp triggers

Active campaign actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Add contact note

Add a note to a contact in activecampaign. the note will be associated with a contact as a subscriber type. the tool will first find the contact id using the provided email address and then create the note.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Add Contact to Automation

This tool adds an existing contact to a specific automation in activecampaign. it first looks up the contact by email address to get their id, then adds them to the specified automation using the /api/3/contactautomations endpoint.

ActionInstant

Message Status Updated

Triggers when a WhatsApp message status changes. IMPORTANT LIMITATION: WhatsApp Cloud API does not provide a native polling endpoint for message status. Status updates are ONLY delivered via webhooks in real-time. This trigger cannot directly poll the WhatsApp API for status updates. This trigger will return empty results as WhatsApp does not support this operation. To track message status updates, you must: 1. Set up a webhook endpoint to receive status notifications from WhatsApp 2. Store the webhook data in your own database 3. Use a different mechanism to query your stored webhook data For more information, see: - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/cloud-api/webhooks

TriggerPolling

Add Secondary Contact to Deal

This tool adds a secondary contact to an existing deal in activecampaign. if the deal has no primary contact set, this contact will be set as primary if no role is specified. the tool requires the user to have permission to manage deals and expects parameters like contact id (required), deal id (required), and role id (optional).

ActionInstant

New Message Received

Triggered in real time when your WhatsApp Business number receives an inbound message from a customer (text, media, location, or contact). Delivered via the Cloud API webhook.

TriggerInstant

Create Account

This tool creates a new account in activecampaign. it represents a business or organization and allows programmatic account creation. the tool requires the account name and optionally accepts parameters such as account url, owner, and custom fields.

ActionInstant

Interactive Reply Received

Triggered when a customer taps a quick-reply button or selects an option from an interactive list message you sent.

TriggerInstant

Create contact

Creates a new contact in activecampaign with the specified details. this action allows you to create a new contact with basic information like email, name, phone, organization details, and tags. the email address is the only required field, while all other fields are optional.

ActionInstant

Message Template Status Update

Triggered when the review status of a WhatsApp message template changes — for example approved, rejected, or flagged — on your WhatsApp Business Account.

TriggerInstant

Create contact task

Create a task associated with a contact in activecampaign. this action allows you to create a new task that will be associated with a specific contact in your activecampaign account. the task can include details such as due date, title, description, and can be assigned to a specific user.

ActionInstant

Create Deal Pipeline

Creates a new deal pipeline in activecampaign. a deal pipeline is a visual representation of your sales process that helps organize and track deals through different stages. when you create a new pipeline, it automatically comes with three default stages: 'to contact,' 'in contact,' and 'follow up.'

ActionInstant

Create Deal Task Type

This tool creates a new deal task type in activecampaign. deal task types are used to categorize and organize tasks associated with deals, and they are an important feature for maintaining a structured task management system within the deals pipeline. this action complements the existing active campaign create deal task action by enabling the creation of custom task types that can be used when creating deal tasks.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Whatsapp and Active campaign, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

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