Universal Chat Plugin for Mautic

Overview

Universal Chat for Mautic is a plugin to send Campaign Text Messages to contacts via Hybrid Chat.

Download Universal Chat for Mautic.
Extract it to plugins/MauticActivemqTransportBundle.
Navigate to plugins/MauticActivemqTransportBundle/Transport/AvtivemqTransport.php file
Open the ActivemqTransport.php file and replace the HC Machine hostname with your own machine hostname.

Use tcp:// instead of https:// with client hostname
Stomp client is accessible on 61613 port without SSL and accessible on 61615 port with SSL.
Default Activemq Queue for campaign sms is “/queue/sms”, can be replaced as per requirement in AvtivemqTransport.php file.

Delete app/cache/prod files or Run command rm -rf var/cache/* to clear cache.
Go to plugins in Mautic’s admin menu (/s/plugins)
Click on the Install / Upgrade Plugin button to install the plugin or Run php app/console mautic:plugins:install to install the plugin via command line.
Click on the plugin icon to enable the plugin and then click Save & Close button.

Go to Mautic’s Configuration (/s/config/edit), click on the default transport, and select universal-chat-transport from the dropdown.

Once transport is set to universal-chat-transport, we can now run SMS campaigns via Universal Chat Plugin.

After configuring the plugin:

Go to Channels > Text Messages.
Create a text message with any content.
Create some new Contacts having valid email and mobile number fields.
Go to Segments.
Create a new Segment > Add filter having contacts with valid Mobile numbers in it.
Go to Campaigns.
Create a New Campaign > Contact Sources > Campaign Segment.
Choose the Segment you created early.
In the next step, select Action.
In the Select box, Choose to Send Text Messages.
In the box of Send Text Messages, put a name and choose the message - that you created early.
Click on the Publish button and Save your campaign.

Execute the following cronjobs to trigger the campaign:

Notes:

When using the Universal Chat Plugin for Mautic.

Mobile contact field is compulsory to be filled with each contact.
+XXXXXXXXXXXX format for the contact phone number including the '+' sign with Country Code and No Space.
Dynamic Variables can be added in the Text Messages. For example: Hi {contactfield=firstname} To learn more Click Here