What can the ActiveCampaign MCP server do?
It lets ChatGPT or Claude report on your campaigns, look up contacts and start automations, all from a chat window.
The short answer
- The ActiveCampaign MCP server lets ChatGPT and Claude check campaign performance, review automations, see new contacts and read a contact's activity history, as of September 2026.
- The ActiveCampaign MCP server also writes: ActiveCampaign says it can trigger actions, update the CRM and add a contact to a follow-up automation.
- ActiveCampaign connects to Claude through a server URL from Settings, then Developer, and to ChatGPT through a subdomain and login.
- SalesCrew runs an MCP server with 140+ tools across the whole CRM, each with a twin in the app, and every AI send waits in one approval queue.
ActiveCampaign built its server around marketing questions
ActiveCampaign sums up its MCP server as a way to trigger actions, check performance and update your CRM from inside ChatGPT or Claude. In practice, you ask about a campaign and get the numbers back. You ask who signed up this week and get the list. You tell it to put a contact into a follow-up automation, and it does.
That shape fits a marketer's day. Most of the jobs start from a campaign or an automation, then reach into the contact record. If your team lives in email campaigns, you'll use the reporting jobs most.
What ActiveCampaign says its MCP server does
Jobs as ActiveCampaign describes them on its own MCP page.
| Job | Read or write | Example ask |
|---|---|---|
| Review campaign performance | Read | How did last week's newsletter do? |
| Examine automations | Read | Which automations are running for new trials? |
| See newly added contacts | Read | Who joined the list since Monday? |
| Read a contact's activity history | Read | What has this contact opened and clicked? |
| Run a contact follow-up automation | Write | Add this contact to the demo follow-up |
| Update the CRM | Write | Mark this contact as a sales-qualified lead |
Checked on activecampaign.com/platform/ai-mcp, September 2026.
What the SalesCrew MCP server covers
SalesCrew starts from the other end: every action in the CRM is also an MCP tool. That's 140+ tools on the SalesCrew MCP server, and each one does exactly what its button does in the app. Your assistant can search contacts with contact_search, move a deal with deal_update_stage, draft a reply with inbox_draft_reply or enroll a segment in a cadence with cadence_enroll.
Writes that reach the outside world wait in one approval queue. You review the draft, then approve or reject it with approval_approve or approval_reject, from the app or from chat. Each MCP token is scoped by channel, profile and area, and every tool call lands in the audit log with the user, token or agent behind it.
Scope the connection before you share it
Questions
- How do I connect ActiveCampaign to Claude?
- In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, and pick ActiveCampaign. You paste the MCP server URL from Settings, then Developer, in your ActiveCampaign account and approve the connection. That was the documented flow on activecampaign.com in September 2026.
- How do I connect ActiveCampaign to ChatGPT?
- ChatGPT connects from its plugin directory. You choose ActiveCampaign, enter your ActiveHosted subdomain, log in and approve access, per ActiveCampaign's MCP page as checked in September 2026.
- Can the ActiveCampaign MCP server change data, or only read it?
- Both. ActiveCampaign describes read jobs, such as campaign performance and contact activity, and write jobs, such as updating the CRM and adding contacts to an automation, as of September 2026. Treat the connection as write access when you decide who gets it.
- How many tools does the SalesCrew MCP server have?
- SalesCrew's MCP server has 140+ tools, and every one has a twin in the app with the same effect. Contacts, deals, inbox, cadences, segments, suppression, approvals and agent controls are all reachable from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.