Integrations / Marketing Automation
Manage Lob links from WhatsApp
Flann connects Lob to the WhatsApp chat you already run your business from. You ask, and Flann picks the right Lob action. Your audience may speak more than one language, and Lob can reach all of them. Flann drafts each version as a native speaker would, keeps your offer and links intact, and hands every draft back to you before it is scheduled.
13 actions in Lob. 7 only look things up, and 6 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Lob
Type it or say it in a voice note. Flann works out which Lob action you mean.
“Look up the link in Lob.”
“Look up the domain in Lob.”
“Show me my shortened links in Lob.”
“Create a link in Lob.”
“Create a domain in Lob.”
“Delete the upload in Lob.”
What Flann can work with in Lob
Lob gives Flann 13 actions across 5 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Links | createdeletelook upupdate | 4 |
| Domains | createdeletelook up | 4 |
| Uploads | deletelook up | 2 |
Here is what changes when Lob goes through Flann instead of its own screens.
| Compare | In Lob yourselfYou click through each job | Flann on LobYou ask, Flann does the clicking |
|---|---|---|
| Asking for something | Log in and click through the screens | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up about links | By hand, screen by screen | 7 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | 6 changes, made from a message |
| Lob records | All of them, one screen at a time | 5 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Your Lob API key, once |
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Step by step: Lob jobs you can hand to Flann
What happens between your message and the result in Lob.
Create a link from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create a link in Lob with these details.”
- Flann runs
Get Linkin Lob and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Create Linkin Lob. - Flann creates it in Lob and confirms in the chat.
Clean up domains you no longer need
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Which domains in Lob are out of date? Remove the ones I confirm.”
- Flann runs
List Domainsin Lob and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Delete Domainin Lob. - Each removal is confirmed in the chat.
Get answers about your uploads
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our uploads in Lob?”
- Flann runs
List Uploadsin Lob and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Lob is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
The Lob jobs you can stop doing yourself
You stay in charge of what goes out. Flann does the reading, the drafting and the chasing.
One offer, several languages
Today
Your customers read in more than one language, but the campaign in Lob goes out in one. Translating it properly means another tool, another copy and another check.
With Flann
“Translate the Ramadan offer email in Lob into Arabic and French.”
Writing each version as a native speaker would, Flann keeps your offer, links and layout intact and prepares a separate draft in Lob for each language list. Different language, same promise.
What you stop doing: Customers who read in another language finally get the same offer.
Gaps in the marketing calendar
Today
On Monday you rarely know what is already scheduled in Lob and what has quietly run out. Gaps appear right before the busy dates.
With Flann
“Anything scheduled in Lob for the next fortnight? Where are the gaps?”
Instantly, because it is only a look-up, Flann lists every scheduled email and post in Lob by date and points out the empty stretches before the dates that matter to you. It can suggest something for each gap.
What you stop doing: Quiet weeks stop catching you by surprise.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Lob
- Search for Lob in Flann’s Connectors.
- Paste your Lob API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Lob account settings.
- From then on, message Flann on WhatsApp. It works in Lob whenever a request needs it.
Reading from Lob is instant. Lob stays connected until you remove it in Connectors.
Ways to use Lob with Flann
Launch from your phone
Describe the offer in a message. Flann drafts the campaign in Lob and shows it to you before anything is scheduled.
Keep lists clean
Tell Flann a customer asked to stop hearing from you. It prepares the change in Lob so they are not contacted again.
Grow the audience you already have
Ask Flann to add this month’s new customers to a list in Lob.
Everything Flann can do in Lob
All 13 Lob actions, as Flann sees them.
Looks up 7
- Get Domain
- Get Link
- List Domains
- List Shortened Links
- Validate Identity
- List QR Code Analytics
- List Uploads
Changes 6
- Create Domain
- Create Link
- Delete Domain
- Delete Link
- Delete Upload
- Update Link
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What can Flann do with links in Lob?
Flann can create, delete, look up and update links in Lob, using 4 actions (Create Link, Delete Link, Get Link, Update Link). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change links in Lob.
What can Flann do with domains in Lob?
Flann can create, delete and look up domains in Lob, using 4 actions (Create Domain, Delete Domain, Get Domain, List Domains). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change domains in Lob.
How does Flann connect to Lob?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Lob and paste your Lob API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Lob account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 13 actions in Lob.
How do I ask Flann to do something in Lob?
Message Flann on WhatsApp the way you would message a colleague, or send a voice note. Flann picks the Lob action that fits and asks if anything is missing.
Is Lob included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Lob included.