Plays well with your entire stack
Short links are universal by design. Here's how teams wire GoTo.now into the tools they already use.
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Popular ways to connect
REST API
Create and manage links from any language or platform via our REST API v3.
SMS platforms
Drop short links into Twilio, MessageBird or any SMS tool - They're just text.
Email marketing
Use clean links in Mailchimp, Brevo, Klaviyo and friends; referrer data attributes email clicks.
Social schedulers
Buffer, Hootsuite, Later - Shorten once, schedule everywhere, compare platforms.
Google Analytics
Shorten UTM-tagged URLs from our UTM builder so GA4 receives full campaign data.
QR on anything
Download PNG/SVG codes for menus, packaging, posters, slides and badges.
Spreadsheets
Batch-create links for catalogs and mail-merges via the API's idempotent creation.
Zapier-style automation
Any tool that can make an HTTP request can mint a GoTo.now link in one step.
Three recipes teams use every week
GA4 + UTM + short link. Build the tagged URL in the UTM builder, shorten it, ship the clean link. GA4 receives every parameter after the redirect; the link's own click count gives you a real-time sanity check hours before GA batches. One recipe, complete attribution.
Per-order tracking texts. Your order system POSTs each shipment's tracking URL to the API and texts the returned goto.now link. One line of SMS, one segment billed, and a per-order engagement trail your support team can see.
Measurable print runs. Tag each placement's destination (utm_medium=qr, per-site source), shorten, and drop the SVG code from the generator into the artwork. Every poster site becomes a row of real click data - And if the campaign page moves, you re-point the links instead of reprinting.
No connector? No problem
Anything that can send an HTTP request - Zapier, Make, n8n, a GitHub Action, a cron job - Can mint and manage links with one POST. That's the practical meaning of "800 integrations": we didn't build 800 plugins, we built one clean REST API that everything else already speaks.
Pick your path by team
| You are | Start with | Time to first link |
|---|---|---|
| A marketer | UTM builder → shorten → paste into your scheduler | 2 minutes |
| A support lead | One stable link per macro, edited as backends move | 5 minutes |
| An engineer | POST /rest/v3/short-urls from your stack | 10 minutes |
| An ops/no-code person | Zapier/Make/n8n HTTP module + your API key | 15 minutes |
| A designer | SVG from the QR generator into artwork | 2 minutes |
Email platforms, step by step
Mailchimp, Brevo, Klaviyo and friends all track their own opens - What they don't give you is a clean, editable link your readers trust. The flow: build the tagged destination, shorten it, paste the goto.now link into your template. You keep the platform's open tracking, gain real-time click counts per campaign, and if the landing page changes after the send (it happens), you re-point the link instead of watching a dead campaign.
Spreadsheet bulk creation
For catalogs and mail-merges: one column of destinations, one optional column of custom slugs, and a tiny script (Apps Script, Python, anything) POSTing each row with findIfExists: true. Because creation is idempotent, running the sheet twice never duplicates - Teams keep the sheet as the source of truth and re-run it after edits. A hundred product links become a five-minute job.
No-code automation, concretely
In Zapier/Make/n8n, add an HTTP request step: method POST, URL https://goto.now/rest/v3/short-urls, header X-Api-Key, JSON body with the longUrl from the previous step. Map the response's shortUrl into whatever comes next - The SMS, the CRM field, the QR generation URL. That single module pattern covers "new Shopify order → tracking text", "new YouTube video → refreshed bio link" and every variation between.