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SlickText
SlickText is an SMS marketing and text message automation platform. Advanced Form Integration creates contacts in SlickText from WordPress form submissions.
What you’ll need
- An active SlickText account.
- Your SlickText API credentials (see below).
- The Advanced Form Integration plugin installed and activated.
Get your SlickText API credentials
- Sign in to your SlickText account.
- Go to Account → API and generate an API Key and API Secret.
- In WordPress, go to AFI → Settings → SlickText.
- Click Add Account, enter both values, and give the account a name.
- Click Save.
SlickText uses HTTP Basic Auth with the API Key and API Secret.
Create the integration
- Go to AFI → Add New.
- Give the integration a name, for example
Form to SlickText. - Under Trigger, pick the form plugin and the specific form.
- Under Action → Platform, select SlickText.
- In Task, choose Create Contact.
- Pick the saved account.
- Map your form fields onto the fields listed below.
- Optional: open Conditional Logic to limit which submissions are sent.
- Click Save Integration.
Tasks supported
Create Contact
Creates a contact in SlickText via the API.
| Field | Field key | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile Number | mobile_number |
Yes | E.164 format recommended |
| First Name | first_name |
No | |
| Last Name | last_name |
No | |
email |
No |
Pro features
The Pro integration extends the free version with additional capabilities. Pro uses the same SlickText connection.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Create contact | ✅ | ✅ |
| Standard fields | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom fields | No | ✅ |
Conditional logic example
Only send data to SlickText when specific conditions are met. For example, add a condition on a form field to control which submissions are forwarded.
Troubleshooting
Nothing arrives in SlickText
Open AFI → Log and find the most recent entry. AFI stores the request URL, body, and raw response.
API credentials rejected
Verify your credentials in your SlickText account settings. If they were regenerated, update them in AFI → Settings → SlickText.