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Alerts & Notifications

Text the contact on new Trello cards via Twilio SMS

Fires when a card lands on a watched Trello list, reads the name, company, phone and budget from the card and texts the named person through Twilio.

What it does

## Send SMS alerts from new Trello cards with Twilio Who's it for Small sales and service teams who triage new work on a Trello board and want the person named on the card texted the moment it lands — without anyone watching the board. How it works A Trello webhook fires when a card appears on the watched list, or you press Run the demo to walk two invented cards through the whole thing. The card is read field by field — name, company, phone, budget, timeline — from any field or label, so a board that keeps the phone number in the description works the same as one that uses a custom field. A card with no phone number is routed to a named STOP node rather than failing the run. The SMS is built from a template in config, then sent through Twilio. Both the accepted and rejected Twilio responses end at their own named node, so a delivery failure is visible rather than silent. How to set up 1. Open config and add TRELLO_KEY, TRELLO_TOKEN, TRELLO_BOARD_ID and TRELLO_LIST_ID, then TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN and TWILIO_FROM_NUMBER. 2. Point your Trello webhook at the production URL of the When a card arrives node. 3. Leave DRY_RUN = true for the first run — it builds the message and shows it to you without sending. Requirements A Trello account with API access and a Twilio account with an SMS-capable number. How to customize The message template and the field mapping are both in config. To text a different person, change which field read the card treats as the phone number.

The steps

  1. When a card arrives
  2. Run the demo
  3. load a demo card
  4. config
  5. read the card
  6. has a phone number?
  7. STOP: no phone number
  8. build the SMS
  9. SMS configured?
  10. STOP: preview — SMS not sent
  11. [cred] Twilio - send SMS
  12. STOP: SMS sent
  13. STOP: SMS rejected
  14. End

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