ActiveCampaign via API Call Notifications

Prerequisites

To understand this tutorial, you must be able to create API Call Notifications. In addition, you must know how to manage third-party systems and have an ActiveCampaign account where you can find your API key.

• Creating an API Call Notification
• Third-Party Systems

Steps

Integrating ActiveCampaign using API call notifications is a two-step process:

• Step 1: Create an API call notification
• Step 2: Add the API call notification to forms

Step 1: Create an API call notification

Create an API Call Notification:

• Obtain your ActiveCampaign API URL and API Key by following the steps outlined in How to obtain your ActiveCampaign API URL and Key.
• Store your ActiveCampaign API key as a constant, for example . You can set it with . The API call reads it as . Never put the key itself in the file.
• Replace with your account URL.
• Add the payload based on the attributes in your form. The example reads , and . Use the field names from your form.

---
name: active_campaign_new_host
to: <<YOUR_ACCOUNT_URL>>/api/3/contacts
delay: '0'
format: http
request_type: POST
request_headers: >
  {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Api-Token": "{{ context.constants.ACTIVECAMPAIGN_API_KEY }}"
  }
---
{
  "contact": {
    "email": "{{ form.email }}",
    "firstName": "{{ form.first_name }}",
    "lastName": "{{ form.last_name }}"
  }
}

Step 2: Add the API call notification to forms

Add the following to the front matter on your form:

api_call_notifications:
  - active_campaign_new_host