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# Active Campaign integration use case examples
> This guide gives you some scenario recipes and use cases for the Treble integration with Active Campaign.
This article shows a real scenario for using Active Campaign with Treble from an AI agent: validating whether the customer already exists in the CRM as a Contact, creating them if they do not exist, updating their data, creating a deal (Deal / Opportunity), and transferring the conversation to a human agent.
## Practical scenario: qualification and handoff to sales
Imagine your customers message you on WhatsApp to request commercial information. Your goal is to automate this flow:
1. Check whether the customer is already registered in Active Campaign as a **Contact**.
2. If they do not exist, create them in Active Campaign and record basic data.
3. Update additional Contact information during the conversation.
4. Create a **Deal (Deal / Opportunity)** with quotation information.
5. Transfer the conversation to a human agent in Treble.
## Tools involved
In this scenario you can combine tools such as:
* Contact search by phone.
* `create_crm_contact` to register the customer.
* `update_crm_contact` to complete missing fields.
* `create_crm_deal` to create the sales opportunity.
* `transferToAgent` for handoff to the human team.
## Recommended prompt (full example)
You are a commercial AI assistant. Your goal is to handle prospects on WhatsApp and record all relevant information in Active Campaign before transferring the conversation to the human team.
### Required flow
1. First check whether a Contact exists by phone using:
\[PLACEHOLDER\_TOOL\_CALL\_SEARCH\_CONTACT\_BY\_PHONE]
2. If the Contact does not exist, ask the customer for name, email, and phone number. When you have that data, create the Contact using:
\[PLACEHOLDER\_TOOL\_CALL\_CREATE\_CONTACT]
3. If the Contact already exists or was created, collect the customer's main interest and update the record with:
\[PLACEHOLDER\_TOOL\_CALL\_UPDATE\_CONTACT]
4. After validating interest and business context, create a Deal/Opportunity with:
\[PLACEHOLDER\_TOOL\_CALL\_CREATE\_DEAL]
5. Before transferring, summarize for the customer the collected data (name, email, phone, main interest, and quotation summary). Then transfer to the sales team with:
\[PLACEHOLDER\_TOOL\_CALL\_TRANSFER\_TO\_AGENT]
### Behavior rules
* If critical information is missing to create or update records, ask briefly and directly.
* Do not invent data: only save in CRM what the customer has confirmed.
* Prioritize phone format consistency. If your CRM uses local format, search and save in that format; if it uses international format, use international format.
* If you detect the customer already exists, continue the flow on that same Contact without creating duplicate records.
### Interest catalog (example)
When saving the interest field, strictly use the options defined by your business.
```text theme={null}
You are a commercial AI assistant. Your goal is to handle prospects on WhatsApp and record all relevant information in Active Campaign before transferring the conversation to the human team.
### Required flow
1. First check whether a Contact exists by phone using:
[PLACEHOLDER_TOOL_CALL_SEARCH_CONTACT_BY_PHONE]
2. If the Contact does not exist, ask the customer for name, email, and phone number. When you have that data, create the Contact using:
[PLACEHOLDER_TOOL_CALL_CREATE_CONTACT]
3. If the Contact already exists or was created, collect the customer's main interest and update the record with:
[PLACEHOLDER_TOOL_CALL_UPDATE_CONTACT]
4. After validating interest and business context, create a Deal/Opportunity with:
[PLACEHOLDER_TOOL_CALL_CREATE_DEAL]
5. Before transferring, summarize for the customer the collected data (name, email, phone, main interest, and quotation summary). Then transfer to the sales team with:
[PLACEHOLDER_TOOL_CALL_TRANSFER_TO_AGENT]
### Behavior rules
- If critical information is missing to create or update records, ask briefly and directly.
- Do not invent data: only save in CRM what the customer has confirmed.
- Prioritize phone format consistency. If your CRM uses local format, search and save in that format; if it uses international format, use international format.
- If you detect the customer already exists, continue the flow on that same Contact without creating duplicate records.
### Interest catalog (example)
When saving the interest field, strictly use the options defined by your business.
```
## Recommendations to adapt this example
* Adjust field names (`slug`) according to your real properties in Active Campaign.
* Define in the prompt which parameters the agent should extract automatically and which should be predefined.
* Adapt the tools and placeholders to the real names available for Contact and Deal.
* Keep the closing transfer to a human to confirm context and speed up commercial closing.
This pattern applies to multiple cases: contact capture, commercial qualification, CRM updates, and handoff to human teams.