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By Andrew Bosworth
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February 9th, 2022
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ActiveCampaign is a popular automation platform that lets you easily standardize your workflows,
boasting dozens of ways it can prove useful to almost any business. From sales follow-ups all the way
to healthcare reminders, ActiveCampaign is used by 150,000+ companies worldwide, helping them
streamline the way they reach out to their customers. In tandem with FileMaker, ActiveCampaign can
be used as a powerful tool to keep in touch with just about anybody with an email address, making sure
all your open loops are successfully getting closed on a regular basis. In this article, we will be covering
how to integrate FileMaker with ActiveCampaign by syncing contacts and adding them to
automations.
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the API. Once you have an account made, go to your settings to get your API URL and API Key. Both of
these pieces of information will be needed to establish a link from FileMaker to ActiveCampaign.
Insert from URL [ Select ; With Dialog: Off ; $result ; $apiURL & "/api/3/contacts/" ; $cURL ;
If we were to create a contact in ActiveCampaign, a standard payload would look like this:
"contact" :
"email" : "name@email.com",
"firstName" : "John",
"lastName" : "Doe",
"phone" : 1234567890
After a successful post through the API when creating a contact, you should get a response like this:
"contact" :
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"cdate" : "2022-02-03T07:51:04-06:00",
"email" : "example@example.com",
"email_empty" : false,
"firstName" : "john",
"hash" : "5f6a0fa30960c233be0bb50602fc91f9",
"id" : "3",
"lastName" : "doe",
"links": {},
"organization" : "",
"orgid" : "",
"orgname" : "",
"phone" : 1234567890,
"udate" : "2022-02-03T07:51:04-06:00"
//the "links" object would include other api calls that could possibly interest you
Conclusion
By integrating ActiveCampaign with your FileMaker system, you can leverage ActiveCampaign's vast
collection of automation tools to perform a wide variety of tasks. Regularly reaching out to clients,
patients, or colleagues can change from a time-consuming chore to a completely automated process
that requires minimal to no input -- while also minimizing the need for double data entry and lowering
human error to boot. If you would like assistance integrating ActiveCampaign with your FileMaker
solution, please contact DB Services and we can help you get started.
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Andrew Bosworth
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Andrew is a certified FileMaker and web developer with a penchant for building things,
particularly custom applications to improve business efficiencies.
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