Postscript + Amped
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Written by Maggie Buchanan
Updated over a week ago

πŸ—Ί Overview of connecting Postscript to Amped

  1. Generate a new API Key and copy the API Key Secret that is generated

  2. Enable the Postscript Amped Integration by entering in your Postscript API Key Secret to Amped

  3. Once connected you can pick a default "Keyword" which is essentially a list. This default list is where Amped will add new SMS subscribers.

  4. You can also send to separate Keywords per Campaign with Amped if need be.

πŸ”‘ Generating a new Postscript API Key

  1. Sign into Postscript and from the Postscript Dashboard, head to your Account Settings by clicking on the menu item with the βš™οΈ Gear icon
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  2. Under settings go to API, and then click on "Create Security Key Pair" - Note, you do no want to use the Legacy API Key
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3. Copy the Private Key, and that's all you need from Postscript. Next you'll go back to your Amped account to activate Postscript.
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Copy only the Private API Key

βœ… Connecting Postscript to Amped

Once you have your API Key Secret Key from Postscript. Go back in Amped to activate the Postscript Integation.
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To activate Postscript in Amped:
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1) Navigate to Integrations -> and then click on Connect Postscript
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2) Once you're in the Postscript integration page, paste in your Postscript Private Key into the text field.
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​3) After you paste in a valid Postscript Private Key, Amped will then ask which Keyword you would like to use as a default. Select a default keyword. Pick the keyword that will trigger your main welcome messages or which ever you think you will use most ofern with Amped.
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4) Click on "Connect Postscript to Amped" and then you're all set! All new phone numbers captured will go into this Default Keyword.

πŸŽ‰ You connected Postscript to Amped!

For existing Campaign and new Campaigns in Amped, any phone numbers captured will automatically be sent to Postscript. You can also adjust how subscribers are sent to Postscript on the Campaign level which is described in more detail below.
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If you would like to send new subscribers to different keywords depending on the Campaign, keep reading:


🏷 Sending new subscribers to different Keywords for different Campaigns

If for a particular campaign, you would like to send new subscribers to a specific list, you can set this on the Campaign's button action for the phone number input step, under the button actions for the "Capture data" action.
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If you would like to change the keyword from the default keyword you picked when you connected Postscript to Amped, you can customize that by going to the button on the phone number step that captures the data.
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Using a different Keyword on a specific Campaign - Click Customize


And then you can specify a custom keyword for this particular campaign:
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Using a different Keyword on a specific Campaign - Setting a Keyword


βš™οΈ Custom Properties in Postscript from Amped

Any inputs that are not normal properties in Postscript will be sent from Amped in to Postscript as Custom Properties.
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Additionally, if you are using a Campaign that sets "User Properties" through a button or any other method, those user properties set, will flow through to Postscript as well. For example, if you use a button to ask a question and then continue the flow, those Button Actions can "Set User Property" and then when the phone number is captured and sent to Postscript, the User Properties will flow through as Custom Properties
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Setting User Properties in Amped from Button clicked that sync to Custom Properties in Postscript


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♻️ Handling Already Subscribed Visitors and Messaging Subscribers already attached to a Keyword

If the subscriber is already known, Amped will re-add them to the Keyword even if they are already associated to that Keyword so that you can send them the Reply step on the Keyword again.

If you would like messaging to still go out to an already subscribed phone number and if they are already added to the Keyword - Make sure that on the Reply step on the Keyword that the checkboxes for Only send once per subscriber and Only send to new subscribers are unchecked.
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Then on when you are in the settings of the Reply Step, you can adjust

  • Only send once per subscriber

  • Only send to new subscribers

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