Automate Dropbox-to-SMS Alerts in Make
Turn file events into instant, reliable SMS notifications with D7’s robust API—no manual steps, no delays. This Make scenario listens to Dropbox, personalizes messages on the fly, and keeps your team informed in Slack while logging every event to Google Sheets for full traceability.
Core Features:
- Delivery reports (DLR) you can action: Capture D7 delivery receipts via callback to update status, retries, and audit logs within your Make scenario and Google Sheets.
- Personalization at scale: Dynamically merge Dropbox metadata (file name, path, owner, size, timestamps) into SMS templates for clear, context-rich alerts.
- API flexibility: Use D7’s REST endpoints, sender IDs, unicode support, templates, and regional routing options; configure rate limits, error handling, and failover logic as needed.
Automation Flow:
1) Trigger — Dropbox: New Event Triggered
- Activate on file created/updated/moved. Extract metadata (path, name, size, user, time).
2) Prepare Data
- Map metadata to SMS template variables; apply rules (e.g., alert only for specific folders, file types, or sizes).
3) Action — D7 SMS: Send automated SMS message
- Send personalized message to one or multiple recipients. Include a unique reference (message_id) for tracking.
4) Action — Slack: Notify team
- Post a structured message with file details, recipient list, and the D7 message reference for quick cross-checking.
5) Action — Google Sheets: Log entry
- Append a row with timestamp, Dropbox event, recipients, message_id, and initial status (queued/sent).
6) Delivery Report Handling (optional but recommended)
- Configure D7 DLR webhook to Make; on receipt, update the corresponding Google Sheets row and optionally post a Slack thread reply with final status (delivered/failed) and error codes if any.
Who It’s For:
- Developers: Need a clean, API-first SMS layer with reliable delivery receipts and strong mapping/templating in Make.
- Marketers: Want timely, personalized alerts (e.g., asset uploads, content approvals) without engineering bottlenecks.
- Operations teams: Require real-time notifications and auditable logs across SMS, Slack, and Sheets for incident response or content workflows.
