Grow your Circle community at live events.
Workshops, meetups, and talks: people text a keyword or scan a QR code, reply with their email, and they’re added to your Circle community, tagged by event.
14-day free trial. Connects to Circle through Zapier.
At your event
JOIN
Want the slides? What’s your email?
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Added to Circle
Through Zapier · Tag: spring-meetup
Event sign-ups that make it into Circle
A clipboard has to be typed up later, and a web form on a phone loses people before they tap submit. With Textiful, the whole sign-up happens in a text.
From the room to your community
Invite the people who showed up in person to keep the conversation going in Circle.
A keyword or a QR code
Say “text DEMO to 33777” from the front of the room, or put a QR code where people can scan it. Either one starts your capture flow.
Give them a reason to sign up
Send your slides, a guide, or a discount in the same flow with handouts.
Connect it with Zapier
- 1
Start with Textiful
In Zapier, create a Zap. Choose Textiful as the trigger app and New Contact as the trigger, then sign in to Textiful.
- 2
Pick your flow
Choose the capture flow to watch. Finish the flow once from your own phone, then test the trigger so Zapier has a sample.
- 3
Add Circle
Choose Circle and the Create Contact action. Map email and name, and add member tags for the event.
- 4
Turn it on
From then on, everyone who finishes the flow becomes a subscriber in Circle.
See Textiful + Circle on Zapier, or read the Zapier setup guide.
The Circle action to use
Your Zap has two steps: Textiful’s New Contact trigger, then Circle’s Create Contact action. Here’s every field Zapier shows for that action, and what to put in each one.
1. Trigger
Textiful: New Contact
Runs when someone finishes the capture flow you pick.
- Campaign NameRequiredYour capture flow
Always sent
Email, First name, Last name, Mobile number, Keyword (empty for a QR code scan), Number texted, Flow name and ID, Time they finished
Sent when your flow asks
Zip, City, State, Time zone, Company, Birthdate and age, Your custom fields, Poll answers
Each answer arrives as its own field you can map.
2. Action
Circle: Create Contact
Creates a new contact in your community
| Field in Zapier | What to put here |
|---|---|
| EmailRequired | |
| First Name | First name |
| Last Name | Last name |
| Member Tags | Type the event name |
More Circle fields, including any custom fields, appear once you connect your account in Zapier. Field names as listed on Zapier, checked November 2026.
Questions people ask
Yes. Each Zap watches one flow, so give each event its own flow and Zap. Tag each event’s sign-ups so you can invite them to the right space.
Zapier’s Create Contact action has no update option, so Circle decides what happens to a repeat sign-up. Add a find step before it in your Zap if you want to match existing people first.
No. The short codes 33777 and 55444 work in the US only, and QR codes text those same numbers, so Textiful is for audiences in the US.
More email platforms that work with Textiful
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- KitGrow your Kit list from the stage and the mic (built in)
- ActiveCampaignTag event leads and start ActiveCampaign automations (built in)
- Constant ContactGrow your Constant Contact list at live events
- FlodeskGrow your Flodesk list at live events
- MailerLiteGrow your MailerLite list at live events
- All integrations
Grow your Circle list at your next event.
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