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title: Manychat
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The Manychat modules enable you to monitor new data, send messages, or flows and manage tags, custom fields, or retrieve subscriber's info in your Manychat account.
## Getting Started with Manychat
Prerequisites
- A Manychat Pro account
In order to use Manychat with Make, it is necessary to have a Manychat account. If you do not have one, you can create a Manychat account at [manychat.com](https://manychat.com/signup).
## Connecting Manychat to Make
To connect your Manychat account to Make you need to obtain the API Token.
:::hint{type="info"}
You need to have a ManyChat PRO account to generate the API Token and connect Manychat to Make.
:::
1\. Log in to your Manychat account.
2\. Go to *Settings* > *API.*
3\. Click the *Generate Your Token* button.
4\. Copy the provided token.
5\. Go to Make and open the ManyChat module's Create a connection dialog.
6\. Enter the *API Token* you have copied in step 4 to the respective field and click the *Continue* button to establish the connection.
## Triggers
### Watch Incoming Data
Triggers when a ManyChat action is performed and returns subscriber's details. Add this module as the first module in your Make.
| **Webhook name** | Enter a name for the webhook. |
| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
To trigger the *Watch Incoming Data* module you need to add an **action** to your ManyChat's flow.
1. Log in to your ManyChat account.
2. Go to *Flows* and open the flow where you want to add the action that triggers the *Watch Incoming Data* module.
3. Add the *Button* or *Quick reply*. Click the *+Add* *Button* button and enter the *Button Title*.
4. Scroll down and click the *+Action* button.
5. Select the *Trigger Make* option.
6. Click to the field below the *TriggerMake *action and select the webhook that should be triggered when a user clicks the button.
Now, when a user clicks the button, the *Watch Incoming Data* module in Make is triggered.
## Actions
### Get Subscriber's info
Retrieves a subscriber's details.
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriber ID** | Enter (map) the Subscriber ID. |
### Manage Tags
Enables you to add or remove a tag from the subscriber.
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriber ID** | Enter (map) the Subscriber ID. |
| **Action** | Select whether you want to add or remove a tag. |
| **Tag ID** | Select or map the tag you want to add or remove. |
### Perform an Action
Performs one or more actions for the subscriber.
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriber ID** | Enter (map) the Subscriber ID. |
| **Actions** | Add one or more actions you want to perform.
The *custom field* or *tag* must already exist in your ManyChat account. |
Add one or more actions you want to perform.
### Send a Flow
Sends a flow to the subscriber.
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriber ID** | Enter (map) the subscriber ID to whom you want to send the flow. |
| **Flow ID** | Enter the flow ID of the flow you want to send to the subscriber.
To use the **Send a flow **module, you need to get the unique ID of the flow you would like to send as shown below:
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To get the Flow ID, go to *Flows* in your ManyChat account, select the flow and copy the ID from the page URL as shown below:
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### Send Messages
Enables you to send a batch of messages.
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriber ID** | Enter (map) the Subscriber ID you want to send messages to. |
| **Message Tag** | Select one of the [message tags](https://support.manychat.com/support/solutions/articles/36000195552-message-tags). This is required from January 15th, 2020. |
| **Messages** | Add one or more messages. **Required**. Select the **type** of message to be sent to the subscriber and fill the corresponding fields. |
| **Quick Replies** | Add one or more quick replies. |
### Send a Text
Sends a text message to the subscriber.
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriber ID** | Enter (map) the subscriber ID you want to send a message to. |
| **Message Tag** | Select one of the [message tags](https://support.manychat.com/support/solutions/articles/36000195552-message-tags). This is required from January 15th, 2020. |
| **Text** | Enter the text content of the message. |
| **Buttons** | Add one or more buttons to the message. |
| **Quick Replies** | Add one or more quick replies. |
### Send a Text with a File
Sends a text message with the file to the subscriber.
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriber ID** | Enter (map) the Subscriber ID you want to send the message to. |
| **Message Tag** | Select one of the [message tags](https://support.manychat.com/support/solutions/articles/36000195552-message-tags). This is required from January 15th, 2020. |
| **Text** | Enter the text content of the message. |
| **File URL** | Enter the URL of the file you want to attach to the message. |
| **File Type** | Select the file type of the file attached to the message. |
| **Quick Replies** | Add one or more quick replies. |
### Send a Text with an Image
Sends a text message with the image to the subscriber.
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriber ID** | Enter (map) the Subscriber ID you want to send the message to. |
| **Message Tag** | Select one of the [message tags](https://support.manychat.com/support/solutions/articles/36000195552-message-tags). This is required from January 15th, 2020. |
| **Text** | Enter the text content of the message. |
| **Image URL** | Enter the URL of the image you want to attach to the message. |
| **Buttons** | Add one or more buttons to the message. |
| **Quick Replies** | Add one or more quick replies. |
### Set a Custom Field
Sets the value of the custom field for the subscriber.
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriber ID** | Enter (map) the Subscriber ID you want to set the custom field for. |
| **Field ID** | Select or map the custom field you want to add the value to. |
| **Field Value** | Enter the value for the custom field. |
### Find Subscribers by a Custom Field
Returns subscribers by a custom field.
:::hint{type="info"}
The module works with the *Text* and *Number* custom field types only.
:::
| **Connection** | [Establish a connection to your ManyChat account.](docId\:vRFUXuGj-_MHe-HiS3HRu) |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Field ID** | Select or map the custom field you want to search the subscriber by. |
| **Field Value** | Enter the value for the custom field you want to the subscriber by. |
| **Limit** | Set the maximum number of subscribers Make will return during one execution cycle. |