Integration with Attentive from Simon is primarily a self-serve process, with a couple steps managed by your account manager.

# Before you Begin

To get started sending SMS messages with Attentive, you first need

• An active Attentive account. Contact Attentive for more information.

• Your Simon customer profile modified to include fields for `phone_number`. Contact your Simon account manager for help managing Datasets.

• Your Attentive contacts ingested into Simon, via SFTP. Contact your Simon account manager for support ingesting Attentive data.

## Connect Simon to your Attentive Account

Connect Simon and Attentive to close the loop and start sending SMS messages:

1. Contact your Simon Data account manager to enable the Attentive integration.

2. Log in to Simon

3. From the left navigation expand **Admin Center** then click **Integrations**.

4. Find _Attentive_ in your list of available integrations.

5. Click **+add** then **Authorize**. An Attentive window will open for you to complete the connection steps.

6. Log in with your Attentive credentials.

7. Authorize Simon Data’s access to your Attentive account.

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Required Contact Fields

Please work with your Simon Data account manager to ensure the following fields exist on your contacts before attempting to send messages using Attentive.

• **Phone number** - Attentive requires that your contacts have the field `phone_number` available for all contacts who will receive messages.

# Add the Action to a Flow

See [Attentive in the User Guides.](🔗)