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Customer.io to Slack integrations

When someone enters a segment in Customer.io, IFTTT posts that activity to Slack. Your team sees customer milestones and engagement shifts in real time, without manual updates across tools.
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Create your own Customer.io and Slack workflow

Create custom workflows effortlessly by selecting triggers, queries, and actions. With IFTTT, it's simple: “If this” trigger happens, “then that” action follows. Streamline tasks and save time with automated workflows that work for you.

10 triggers, queries, and actions

Person entered a segment

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This trigger fires when a person becomes a member of a segment you choose in Customer.io.

Look up a person

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a person's attributes and segment memberships from Customer.io.

Add a person to a segment

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will add a person to one of your manual segments in Customer.io.

Create or update a person

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will create a person in Customer.io, or update them if they already exist, setting the attributes you provide.

Post to channel

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will post a message to the channel you choose in Slack.

Remove a person from a segment

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will remove a person from one of your manual segments in Customer.io.

Send a transactional message

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will send a transactional message to a person using a transactional message template you have set up in Customer.io.

Suppress a person

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will suppress a person in Customer.io so they stop receiving messages.

Track an event

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will record a custom event for a person in Customer.io, which can start or advance that person's journeys and campaigns.

Trigger a broadcast

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will trigger an API-triggered broadcast in Customer.io so it sends to its configured audience.

Add a person to a segment

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will add a person to one of your manual segments in Customer.io.

Create or update a person

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will create a person in Customer.io, or update them if they already exist, setting the attributes you provide.

Look up a person

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a person's attributes and segment memberships from Customer.io.

Person entered a segment

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This trigger fires when a person becomes a member of a segment you choose in Customer.io.

Post to channel

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will post a message to the channel you choose in Slack.

Remove a person from a segment

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will remove a person from one of your manual segments in Customer.io.

Send a transactional message

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will send a transactional message to a person using a transactional message template you have set up in Customer.io.

Suppress a person

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will suppress a person in Customer.io so they stop receiving messages.

Track an event

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will record a custom event for a person in Customer.io, which can start or advance that person's journeys and campaigns.

Trigger a broadcast

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will trigger an API-triggered broadcast in Customer.io so it sends to its configured audience.

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Find an Applet using Customer.io and Slack

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