Synup MCP — Putting It to Work
Synup MCP — Putting It to Work
You’re connected — now the fun part. This guide is about what you can actually do with Synup MCP and how to ask for it. Not connected yet? Start with Getting Connected.
The best part: there’s nothing to memorize. You talk to Synup MCP in plain English. Tell it what you want, and it figures out the rest. The examples below are just to spark ideas.
In this guide
Want ready-made prompts? Jump to How to ask.
What you can do
Here’s the landscape of what you can hand off to your assistant:
- Locations — look up, filter, and update your business locations
- Reviews — pull in reviews from every platform, draft replies that sound like you, and watch sentiment over time
- Rankings — track how you place across Google Search and Maps
- Local visibility — read the grid-based heat-map of where you show up
- Citations — spot listing inconsistencies and clean them up
- Review campaigns — run email or SMS campaigns to bring in fresh reviews
- Social — write and schedule posts to Google Business Profile and Facebook
- Competitors — see how your rankings, reviews, and posting stack up
- The big picture — compare every location at once and find where to focus
- Reports — turn all of it into a summary or an action plan
How to ask
Copy any of these straight into your AI tool and tweak to taste.
Working with locations
- “List my locations ranked by average review score, worst first.”
- “Find locations with inconsistent business hours across publishers.”
- “Update the phone number for my downtown location.”
Staying on top of reviews
- “Show every review below 3 stars from the last 30 days and draft a reply for each.”
- “What’s the sentiment trend for my top five locations this quarter?”
Watching your rankings
- “Which keywords slipped this month, and which locations did they hit?”
- “Show the grid heat-map for ‘coffee shop’ around my main location.”
Posting and campaigns
- “Draft a Google Business Profile post announcing weekend hours for my downtown spot.”
- “Kick off a review-request SMS campaign for last week’s customers.”
One thing to keep in mind: anything that changes something — creating, updating, deleting — needs a write-enabled connection. If a request like that doesn’t go through, that’s usually why. Here’s how to check: Read access or write access.
Going further
Once you’re comfortable, you can string these requests together into real workflows. A few that teams lean on:
- A review desk that runs itself — watch reviews across Google, Facebook, and Yelp, draft on-brand replies, flag the urgent ones for a human, and track sentiment as it shifts.
- A ranking action plan — read the heat-maps, find the soft spots, add the right keywords to tracking, and schedule posts where visibility is thin.
- Campaigns that trigger themselves — pull in transaction data, group customers, fire off targeted review requests, and report back on what converted.
These go a step beyond a single prompt — they involve wiring Synup MCP to your own tools and approval steps. Think of them as blueprints to build toward, not one-liners.
Loading just what you need
If you’re building your own agent and want to keep things lean, you can tell Synup MCP to surface only the areas you care about. It’s an optional tuning step — most people never need it.
You do it with a couple of headers. Each area carries a tag (locations, listings,
reviews, local_posts, social_posts, rankings, flows, account, insights):
| Header | What it does |
|---|---|
X-tags-include: domain:reviews,domain:locations |
Show only those areas |
X-tags-exclude: domain:local_posts |
Hide those areas |
So a review-only session would look like:
X-MCP-Mode: direct
X-tags-include: domain:reviewsWhen something doesn’t work
You’re getting nothing back. Make sure the location actually exists — ask your assistant to “run get_all_locations” and check it’s there.
You’re only seeing part of the list. You’re looking at the first page. Just say “show me the next page” and it’ll keep going.
You asked for a change and nothing happened. You’re almost certainly in read-only mode. Reconnect with write access — here’s how: Getting Connected.
Things are timing out. With a lot of locations, narrow the ask — a shorter date range or fewer locations at a time keeps it snappy.
Need a hand? Your Synup account team is there to help.