Brevo integration

Overview

Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is a marketing + transactional email platform with strong SMS + CRM features. The Automize Brevo connector covers email campaigns, contacts/lists, transactional sends, SMS, and templates.

• Regions: Brevo is a single global service – api.brevo.com. EU data residency available on Enterprise.
• Plans: Free, Starter, Business, Enterprise – all expose the API. SMS requires top-up credits.

Setting up the connection

Auth type: API Key.

1. Sign in to Brevo → SMTP & API → API Keys → Generate a new key.
2. Copy the key (starts with xkeysib-).
3. In Automize, open Settings → Connectors → Brevo → Add connection. Paste the key.

Find your credentials at https://app.brevo.com/settings/keys/api.

Rate limits

Brevo enforces 400 requests/sec across the account (plus per-endpoint thresholds). Connector retries 429 with backoff.

Data model

Brevo's primitives:

    Account ─┬─ Contacts ─── Lists (folders of contacts)
             ├─ Email Campaigns
             ├─ Templates (transactional + marketing)
             ├─ SMS Campaigns
             └─ Transactional sends (one-off triggered)

Available operations

16 operations available. Click any row to jump to its detail.

Operations

Add contacts to list

Add contacts to a Brevo list by email addresses.

Tips

• list_id + emails (array).

Create campaign

Create a new email campaign in Brevo.

Create contact

Create a new contact in Brevo.

Tips

• email + attributes (custom field dict).
• listIds[] to add to lists immediately.

Errors

• Contact already exist – Use Update Contact instead. Brevo doesn't auto-upsert.

Create list

Create a new contact list in Brevo.

Tips

• name + folderId (use Get Folders or default to root).

Delete contact

Delete a contact from Brevo.

Tips

• Hard-delete. Removes from all lists too.

Get campaign

Get email campaign details by ID from Brevo.

Tips

• Returns campaign + recipients + stats.

Get campaign statistics

Get statistics for a Brevo email campaign.

Get contact

Get contact details by email or ID from Brevo.

Tips

• Identifier: email, id, or sms (with country code).

List campaigns

List all email campaigns in Brevo.

No input parameters.

Tips

• Filter by status (draft, sent, scheduled). type=classic / trigger.

List contacts

List all contacts in Brevo.

No input parameters.

Tips

• Page via limit + offset (max limit=1000).
• filter parameter: modifiedSince to delta-sync.

List contact lists

List all contact lists in Brevo.

No input parameters.

Tips

• Returns lists in folders. Page via limit + offset.

Send campaign now

Send an email campaign immediately in Brevo.

Send transactional email

Send a transactional email via Brevo SMTP.

Tips

• Transactional send (not a campaign). sender + to + subject + htmlContent OR templateId + params.
• params: dict for template variable substitution.

Send SMS

Send a transactional SMS message via Brevo.

Send WhatsApp message

Send a WhatsApp message using a Brevo template.

Update contact

Update an existing contact in Brevo.

Tips

• PATCH on attributes. listIds + unlinkListIds to manage list memberships.

FAQ

Brevo vs Sendinblue – same?

Yes – Brevo is the rebranded Sendinblue (renamed 2023). Same API.

Why does Create Contact fail with 'already exists'?

Brevo doesn't auto-upsert. Use Update Contact (it creates if not exists when called with updateEnabled=true).

How do I track template variables?

Pass params={FNAME: 'Alice', PROMO: 'SUMMER25'} in Send Email. Use {{ params.FNAME }} syntax inside the template content.

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