Claude + Podium: Connect Your Reviews and Messages to Claude
Podium doesn’t offer a Claude connector, and it hasn’t published an MCP server. It does have an API, behind a developer application that Podium reviews in a few days. Once you’re in, connect it to Carly, add the Carly connector to Claude, and your contacts, conversations, reviews and payments are in the chat.
Where Podium stands with Claude
As of November 5, 2026, there’s no Podium connector in Claude’s directory and no official Podium MCP server. Several third-party companies host Podium MCP servers built on the same API; each one wants your Podium credentials on its own servers, and Podium hasn’t endorsed any of them.
Podium’s API covers the product: contacts, conversations and messages, reviews and review invitations, payments and locations. Access starts with a developer account application at developer.podium.com, which Podium reviews, and then an app you create in the developer portal. You also need a Podium platform user to authorize it.
How to connect Podium to Claude through Carly
- Apply for a developer account. At developer.podium.com, apply and wait for Podium’s review, which takes a few days. Then create an app in the developer portal.
- Connect Podium in Carly. In Carly, go to Integrations → Connect an API and connect Podium with the app’s credentials, signing in as a Podium user.
- Add Carly to Claude. Click Get the Carly connector, then Connect, and sign in.
- Ask Claude about your customers. It answers through the Carly connector with live Podium data.
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What Claude can do with Podium once Carly is in
- “Which conversations have gone unanswered for more than an hour?”
- “Summarize this week’s reviews and pull out anything that mentions wait times.”
- “Who paid a text-to-pay invoice yesterday?”
- “Draft replies to the three-star reviews from last week.”
With your Gmail or Outlook connected in Carly too, Claude can match a Podium contact to their email thread in one step.
Where Claude stops
Claude answers when you ask. Its scheduled tasks run on a clock, and nothing in Podium can start one. A customer message at 7pm, a two-star review that just posted, a job that closed and never got a review request: all of it waits for a chat.
Carly handles those in the cloud, on a schedule you set or when something arrives:
- When a Podium message goes unanswered for 15 minutes, text the owner, or reply by your rules.
- When a job closes in your field software, send the Podium review invitation.
- When a review under four stars posts, email the manager the text and a draft response.
- Every Monday, email the owner last week’s reviews by location and the average rating.
Carly also answers your phone and texts customers from your business number, so the same rules run on calls as on messages. Carly connects to thousands of apps, and you set it up in plain English. Routine steps run as free Zapier-style workflows; work that needs judgment runs as an AI agent. Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month. Get started with Carly.
Claude alone vs Claude with Carly
| Claude alone | Claude + Carly | |
|---|---|---|
| Podium in Claude | No connector | Through the Carly connector |
| Contacts, messages, reviews, payments | No | Yes |
| Setup | Nothing official to install | Developer application, connect in Carly |
| Unanswered-message alerts | No | Yes, within minutes |
| Review invitations after a job | Only when you ask | Yes, automatically |
| Runs with your laptop closed | Scheduled tasks only | Yes, in the cloud |
| Price | Your Claude plan | Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month |
FAQ
Does Claude work with Podium?
Not directly. Podium has no Claude connector and no official MCP server. Apply for Podium developer access, connect it to Carly, add the Carly connector to Claude, and Claude can work with your Podium data.
How do I get Podium API access?
Apply for a developer account at developer.podium.com. Podium reviews applications in a few days, and you then create an app in the developer portal. Authorizing it needs a Podium platform user.
Can Carly reply to Podium messages automatically?
Yes, by the rules you write. Carly can answer common questions, hand anything else to a teammate and text the owner when a message has waited too long.
Can Claude draft review responses?
Through Carly, yes. Ask for replies to last week’s reviews and Claude drafts them from the actual review text; Carly can also email the manager a draft the moment a low review posts.
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