Hilos Events

generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://hilos.io/docs/en/user/using-hilos/integrations/Zapier.md
spec_type: none
asyncapi_published: false
first_party_webhooks: false
summary: >-
  Hilos ships NO first-party webhook subscription API and NO AsyncAPI document. There is no
  /webhook, /webhooks or subscription endpoint in the OpenAPI, no webhook page in the developer
  documentation, and an MCP search across the whole Hilos docs corpus for "webhook" returns only a
  page explaining how to paste a Zapier "Catch Hook" URL into a Hilos flow Action step. The provider
  does have a real, documented event catalog — but it is only reachable through the Zapier partner
  integration, where Zapier owns the delivery contract, the payload schema and the subscription
  lifecycle. Captured here so the events are not silently dropped; deliberately NOT wired as
  `type: Webhooks` or `type: AsyncAPI`, because Hilos publishes neither.
events:
- name: Contact Completed a Flow
  direction: outbound
  transport: zapier-trigger
  description: >-
    Fires when a contact finishes any flow, inbound or outbound. Supplies the completed flow details
    and the contact's information.
- name: Contact Joined Inbound Flow
  direction: outbound
  transport: zapier-trigger
  description: Fires on a contact's entry into an inbound flow, with the flow and contact data.
- name: New Contact
  direction: outbound
  transport: zapier-trigger
  description: Fires each time a new contact is added to Hilos, returning the new contact's details.
- name: Updated Contact
  direction: outbound
  transport: zapier-trigger
  description: >-
    Fires when a contact's details change, either manually by a team member or automatically through a
    flow step; returns the updated contact.
- name: Deleted a Contact
  direction: outbound
  transport: zapier-trigger
  description: Fires when a contact is deleted, with information about the deleted contact.
actions:
- name: Create or Update Contact
  transport: zapier-action
  rest_equivalent: Create or Update Contact
  note: Upsert keyed on phone number; mirrors POST /api/contact.
- name: Send a WhatsApp Message
  transport: zapier-action
  rest_equivalent: Send a WhatsApp Template Message
  note: Requires an E.164 phone number and an approved template.
- name: Start a Flow for a Phone Number
  transport: zapier-action
  rest_equivalent: Create a Flow Execution
  note: Outbound flows only; also upserts the contact from the supplied fields.
- name: Search for a WhatsApp Template
  transport: zapier-action
  rest_equivalent: List WhatsApp Templates
  note: Lookup by template name.
outbound_http:
  mechanism: flow Action step ("Connect API")
  docs: https://hilos.io/docs/en/user/using-hilos/flows/steps/action-step
  description: >-
    A flow can call any external HTTP endpoint (GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE, custom headers, query params,
    JSON/form/multipart/XML/YAML/plain bodies) and branches on success vs non-2xx. This is how Hilos
    users emit events to their own systems — including to a Zapier Catch Hook — but the destination and
    payload are configured per flow by the customer, so there is no publishable event contract.
pointer_policy:
  asyncapi_pointer_emitted: false
  webhooks_pointer_emitted: false
  reason: >-
    `Webhooks` would assert that Hilos advertises a webhook surface developers can subscribe to. It does
    not. The event catalog is real but Zapier-mediated, so it is wired as `type: Events` instead.
evidence:
- {url: 'https://hilos.io/docs/en/user/using-hilos/integrations/Zapier.md', status: 200}
- {url: 'https://hilos.io/docs/en/user/using-hilos/flows/steps/action-step.md', status: 200}
- {url: 'https://hilos-40.mintlify.app/llms.txt', status: 200, note: 'no webhook page in the developer docs index'}