Skip to the page
BlueBot

Recipes

Facebook Lead Ads recipes

Text every lead from a Facebook or Instagram lead form as soon as they submit it.

Open in Claude Open in ChatGPT .md

Two recipes for Facebook Lead Ads. Each names its trigger and the BlueBot step, lists the fields to map and says how to test it with your own number before anyone else gets a text.

How Facebook Lead Ads connects

  • Zapier: BlueBot’s Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state.
  • Make: BlueBot’s Make app sends texts and starts scenarios when a text comes in or changes state.

Text new leads

PartWhat it is
TriggerFacebook Lead Ads’ New Lead trigger in Zapier
ActionBlueBot’s Send Text action
Connects throughZapier

Steps

  1. Make sure the lead form asks for a phone number.
  2. Start a Zap with Facebook Lead Ads’ New Lead trigger and pick the page and the form.
  3. Add BlueBot’s Send Text action and map the phone number to To.
  4. Write the text with the lead’s first name mapped in.

Map the fields

BlueBot fieldMap it to
ToThe person’s mobile number from Facebook Lead Ads. US numbers can leave off the +1.
TextHi {{first_name}}, it’s Jordan from Harbor Realty. Thanks for your interest. What’s the best time for a quick call?
{{first_name}} in the textFacebook Lead Ads’s first name field.
Metadatasource set to facebook-lead-ads, and record_id set to the record’s id, so the status and reply webhooks for this text can find the record again.
ServiceAuto, the default: iMessage when the person uses it, otherwise SMS through your iPhone.

Test it

Put your own number in To and press Test step. A text arrives on your phone from your own number, and Zapier shows the message BlueBot returned with state: "queued". Then map Facebook Lead Ads’s field back into To and turn the Zap on.

Text yourself each lead

PartWhat it is
TriggerWhen a new lead comes in from a Facebook lead form
ActionBlueBot’s Send Text module
Connects throughMake

Steps

  1. Start a scenario with Facebook Lead Ads’ module that watches new leads.
  2. Add BlueBot’s Send Text module with your own number as the recipient.
  3. Map the lead’s name, phone and form name into the text.

Map the fields

BlueBot fieldMap it to
ToThe person’s mobile number from Facebook Lead Ads. US numbers can leave off the +1.
TextNew lead from {{form_name}}: {{full_name}}, {{phone}}.
{{form_name}} in the textFacebook Lead Ads’s form name field.
{{full_name}} in the textFacebook Lead Ads’s full name field.
{{phone}} in the textFacebook Lead Ads’s phone field.
Metadatasource set to facebook-lead-ads, and record_id set to the record’s id, so the status and reply webhooks for this text can find the record again.
ServiceAuto, the default: iMessage when the person uses it, otherwise SMS through your iPhone.

Test it

Put your own number in To and press Run once. A text arrives on your phone, and the module’s output shows the message with state: "queued". Then map Facebook Lead Ads’s field back into To.

Before you turn it on

  • Text only people who asked to hear from you. Anyone who replies STOP goes on your stop list, and BlueBot cancels texts to them. Stop words
  • A text that can’t go yet waits with a hold rather than failing: quiet hours, your Mac away, a daily limit. Holds
  • Facebook Lead Ads with BlueBot on the integrations page says what else the two do together.