How do I connect our website "contact page"?

[CVPTowson]

I'd like to connect my "contact page" from website so the emails collected from this page can sync to CC.  Below is the link to our website page.  Please advise on how to sync the page.

https://www.cvptowson.com/ContactUs

Thank you!

[Courtney_E · Accepted solution]

Hello JenniferC8130,

Thank you for reaching out to Constant Contact API Developer Support. My team is here to assist outside software developers with questions about building into Constant Contact's API.

It looks like your site was created via Ordereze and that the form you currently have installed was either created through their service or through a 3rd party, but I wasn’t able to tell based solely on the form code. Looking at the Ordereze website, I don’t see any documentation regarding connecting the existing form with Constant Contact, but you could definitely contact Ordereze’s support team to see if that’s an option they offer:

Ordereze Support

https://www.ordereze.com/Support

If the form is 3rd party, feel free to let us know the name of the plugin that you are using. While the support we can provide for 3rd party integrations is limited, we’re happy to take a look and see if we can provide you with any additional insight.

If you developed the form yourself, you can program it to connect with our API and sync contacts over automatically by using our Sign-Up Form Endpoint, which allows you to add contacts to an account without having to make a separate API call to check if the email address already exists for a contact in the user account.

Getting Started with V3 API

https://v3.developer.constantcontact.com/api_guide/index.html

Create or Update a Contact Using a Single Method

https://v3.developer.constantcontact.com/api_guide/contacts_create_or_update.html

Sign-Up Form Endpoint

https://v3.developer.constantcontact.com/api_reference/index.html#!/Contacts/createOrUpdateContact

Lastly, Constant Contact offers a variety of pre-built sign-up forms that are easy to create and install that will allow you to add website-signups directly from your website into your Constant Contact account:

Create a pop-up contact sign-up form for your website

https://knowledgebase.constantcontact.com/articles/KnowledgeBase/21407-Create-a-Pop-up-Sign-Up-Form

Create an inline contact sign-up form to embed on a website

https://knowledgebase.constantcontact.com/articles/KnowledgeBase/18265-Create-a-Sign-Up-Form-with-th...

Activate and install an inline or pop-up contact sign-up form on a website

https://knowledgebase.constantcontact.com/articles/KnowledgeBase/18053-activating-and-installing-you...

Create a Lead Generation Landing Page for capturing new sign-ups

https://knowledgebase.constantcontact.com/articles/KnowledgeBase/32012-Create-a-Lead-Generation-Land...

For help with settings or forms within the UI, please reach out to our Support Team at 866-289-2101. For further assistance regarding Constant Contact’s API, please feel free to respond directly to this post, or you can email us directly at webservices@constantcontact.com

[CVPTowson]

I need to connect our online orders from our website to CC.  We use Toast to power our website and for online ordering capabilities.  Can you help me connect our online orders with CC?  Thank you.

[Courtney_E]

Hello JenniferC8130 ,

Thank you for reaching out to Constant Contact API Developer Support. My team is here to assist outside software developers with questions about building into Constant Contact's API.

After taking a look online, I wasn’t able to find any pre-built third party integrations between Toast and Constant Contact. You may want to also check with Toast to see if they have any feature like this, in case it exists but is not listed in a public facing resource. 

If you are unable to find a 3rd party integration that meets your needs, Constant Contact provides developers with free access to our API endpoints so that you can build your own application for integration. However, it looks like, while Toast does offer API access, the documentation is not public facing, and their API access is only available to those with active accounts and partner status approval. (links below)

Toast Partner Program

https://pos.toasttab.com/partners#partnership-options

Constant Contact V3 API Documentation

https://v3.developer.constantcontact.com/api_guide/getting_started.html

When programming/building your own integration, you’d set it up to call the data of your choosing in Toast using their API, have your program sort out which variables you need, and then use Constant Contact’s API to send that data through to the desired list (or vice versa).

Please have a look and let us know if you have any other questions!