SendFox

· #416 most-used

Grow your email list and stay in touch with your audience

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SendFox is an affordable email marketing tool built for content creators — bloggers, podcasters, and YouTubers who need a clean, lightweight way to grow and communicate with their audience. It offers contact lists, campaigns, Smart Campaigns for auto-sending new content, and a simple REST API. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create contacts, manage lists, sync unsubscribes, and monitor campaigns — keeping your email list in sync with every other tool in your stack without any manual imports or exports.

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Average time saved

7 hours

per person · per month

≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of importing contacts into SendFox, exporting campaign stats into spreadsheets, and running unsubscribe compliance checks by hand.

Schedule

What your SendFox agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs

7Agents at work

24/7Always on

Agents

Tue–Thu

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10a

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12p

Multi-app workflows

SendFox × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows

6Apps spanned

~21 hrsSaved / week

5Personas served

For marketing

Featured4 apps

Import leads from Google Sheets to SendFox and HubSpot simultaneously

When a new row appears in the leads spreadsheet, the agent finds or creates each contact in the target SendFox list, creates or updates the matching HubSpot lead record, and posts the updated subscriber count to Slack — all without any manual copy-paste between tools.

~3 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow

Trigger·When new leads are added to the import spreadsheet in Google Sheets

Trigger

Step 1

Google Sheets

Detect new row in the leads import spreadsheet

read

Step 2

SendFox

Find or Create Contact for each lead email address

read

Step 3

SendFox

Find or Create List for the campaign segment

write

Step 4

HubSpot

Create or update lead record in HubSpot CRM

write

Step 5

Slack

Post new subscriber count to #marketing channel

Result

Create or update lead record in HubSpot CRMPost new subscriber count to #marketing channel

The win

Saved per run

40 min

Runs / week

~5×

Leads land in the email sequence and CRM within about a minute of import

Driven byMarketing Agent

ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

Sales
25 min / week
Manual lead import into SendFox
Reps export a CSV from the CRM, open SendFox, import the file, map the fields, and verify the upload — a multi-step process repeated every time new leads need to be added to a sequence.
Sales Agent
0 min
Agent adds subscribers and syncs leads automatically
When a deal closes or a trial signup arrives, the agent finds or creates the contact in the right SendFox list and syncs the record to HubSpot — the sequence starts within about a minute of the event.
Marketing
30 min / week
Weekly campaign performance compilation
The marketing team manually opens SendFox, navigates to each campaign, copies the stats into a spreadsheet, and formats the summary — a process repeated for every campaign every week.
Marketing Agent
0 min
Agent posts the campaign scorecard automatically
After each campaign sends, the agent retrieves the details and writes open rate, click rate, and list size to the performance sheet — the team has a scorecard before the day's first standup.
Customer Support
20 min / week
Manual suppression of customers with open tickets
Support manually exports open-ticket customer emails from the helpdesk and compares them against the campaign recipient list before each send — a time-consuming check that is often skipped under deadline pressure.
Customer Support Agent
0 min
Agent flags active-issue contacts before every campaign
Before each send, the agent identifies contacts with open support tickets and updates their SendFox record with a suppression flag so they do not receive promotional emails during an active complaint.
Human Resources
15 min / week
Manual new hire email list enrollment
HR manually adds each new hire's email to the SendFox onboarding list, often after the employee has already started, meaning the first onboarding email arrives late or not at all.
Human Resources Agent
0 min
Agent enrolls new hires into the onboarding list automatically
When a new hire is added to the HR roster, the agent creates their contact in the SendFox onboarding list so they receive the welcome sequence before their first day — no manual import needed.
Finance
15 min / week
Manual SendFox plan and cost tracking
Finance manually checks the SendFox billing page for usage counts, logs the numbers in the budget spreadsheet, and calculates cost-per-send manually at month-end — a process that is often skipped or delayed.
Finance Agent
0 min
Agent checks plan limits and logs campaign ROI automatically
The finance agent retrieves subscriber and campaign counts weekly, compares them against plan limits, and logs cost-per-open metrics — all without opening the SendFox dashboard.
Operations
60 min / week
Manual list health monitoring
Operations manually exports subscriber data from SendFox each week, calculates growth rates in a spreadsheet, and cross-references lists for duplicates — a process that takes over an hour and is often deferred.
Operations Agent
0 min
Agent keeps list health metrics current without manual exports
The operations agent retrieves subscriber counts for every list weekly, flags zero-growth and duplicate contacts, and writes the health metrics to the master sheet — the team always has current list data.
Legal
25 min / week
Manual unsubscribe compliance processing
Legal manually reviews unsubscribe reports from SendFox, cross-references them against all active lists, logs each opt-out in the compliance tracker, and checks that no suppressed contact appears in upcoming campaigns.
Legal Agent
0 min
Agent verifies unsubscribes and runs compliance checks automatically
The legal agent processes every unsubscribe event within about a minute, removes the contact from all lists, logs the action in the compliance register, and flags any gaps before the next campaign.

+ 100s of other SendFox automations

Average time saved

19 hrs / person / month

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size

5 people

Hourly rate

$75 / hr

Hours saved / week

Hours saved / year

450

Annual ROI

$33,750

Based on SendFox's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~1.8 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug SendFox into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect SendFox with your API key. Find it under Settings > Integrations in your SendFox account and paste it into Actionist to give your agents access to contacts, lists, and campaigns.

Find your SendFox API key

Paste the key into Actionist

In Actionist, open the Apps tab, find SendFox, and click Connect. Paste your API key into the field.

Test the connection

Click Test connection. Actionist makes a read-only call to verify access. You are ready.

Credentials you'll need

API key*

SendFox → Settings > Integrations > API Key

Actions

12 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

4 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

FAQs

Questions about SendFox + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to SendFox?

Go to the Apps tab, find SendFox, and click Connect. You will be prompted to enter your SendFox API key — locate it inside SendFox under Settings > Integrations > API Key. Paste the key into the connection field in Actionist and click Test connection. Actionist makes a read-only call to confirm access before any actions run.

What do I need to connect Actionist to SendFox?

You need your SendFox API key, which you can find under Settings > Integrations in your SendFox account. The key grants Actionist access to contacts, lists, campaigns, and unsubscribe events tied to that account. If you manage multiple SendFox accounts, each requires a separate connection with its own API key.

Can I connect SendFox to other apps in the same agent task?

Yes. SendFox is most powerful when combined with CRM, lead capture, and productivity apps. Common combinations: add subscribers automatically when a form is submitted in a website builder or CRM; sync new SendFox contacts to Google Sheets for reporting; trigger a Slack alert when someone unsubscribes; create or find contacts when a deal closes in HubSpot. Any of Actionist's connected apps can exchange data with SendFox in the same agent task.

What are the most common agent tasks with SendFox?

The four patterns that come up most: (1) subscriber sync — adding contacts to the right SendFox list whenever a lead is captured in another app; (2) unsubscribe hygiene — listening for New Unsubscribe events and removing the contact from downstream CRM and ad audiences; (3) campaign monitoring — receiving a Slack notification within about a minute of each new campaign send; (4) list management — creating new lists when a product or cohort launches and finding or creating contacts as the list grows.

How does Actionist handle SendFox unsubscribes automatically?

The New Unsubscribe trigger fires within about a minute when a contact opts out. Actionist can then suppress the contact in your CRM, remove them from ad retargeting audiences, log the event in a Google Sheet, and notify the relevant team member — all without any manual work. This keeps your list compliant and your CRM in sync automatically.

How do I avoid creating duplicate contacts in SendFox?

Use the Find or Create Contact action whenever an upstream event (a purchase, a form submission, a CRM update) might involve a contact that already exists in SendFox. The action checks for an existing contact matching the email address and returns it if found, only creating a new record when one does not exist. This prevents duplicate contacts and keeps click and open history consolidated on a single record.

How does SendFox compare to other email platforms when used with Actionist?

SendFox is designed for individual content creators — bloggers, podcasters, and YouTubers — on a tight budget, and it deliberately omits the complex automation flows found in platforms like Mailchimp or ConvertKit. It has a very clean REST API, which Actionist integrates with directly. For teams that need a lightweight list tool and want their agents to handle the automation logic, SendFox plus Actionist is a practical and affordable combination.

Can Actionist react when I create a new list or launch a campaign in SendFox?

Yes. The New List trigger fires within about a minute when a list is created in SendFox. You can use this to automatically create matching segments in your CRM, provision a Notion workspace for the new cohort, post an announcement in Slack, or start any downstream onboarding sequence in other connected apps. The New Campaign trigger works the same way — a new send in SendFox can kickstart reporting and notification tasks across your whole stack.