Connect ActiveCampaign to HTML Form with LeadsBridge

1. Head over to the left sidebar and click on Bridges
2. You'll be taken to the Bridges section of your account
3. Click on the Add New button
4. You'll be taken to the first step of the bridge creation

1. Choose a name for your bridge (this will only be visible inside LeadsBridge)
2. You may add labels to help you identify your bridge later
3. Choose ActiveCampaign as the source for your bridge
4. Choose HTML Form as the destination
5. Click on the Next button

1. Type in the name you'd like to call your integration
2. Enter API URL and API Key to connect your ActiveCampaign with LeadsBridge
4. 1. Log into your ActiveCampaign account
   2. Click on Settings at the bottom left of the menu
   3. Settings menu will open on the right, click on Developer
   4. Copy the API Access URL and Key, then paste it inside your LeadsBridge integration page
   You can find further information in the following link:( OPEN LINK)
   
5. Select the segment you'd like to use as the source for your leads
6. Click on the Next button

ActiveCampaign now requires to setup a Webhook to send lead's information to LeadsBridge.

Copy the Webhook address that you see in this step and set this endpoint inside your ActiveCampaign settings.

How to setup the webhook on ActiveCampaign

Then follow the steps below:

1. Log into your ActiveCampaign account
2. Click on Settings at the bottom left of the menu
3. Settings menu will open, click on Developer
4. Then click on Manage Webhooks
5. You will be redirected to the webhooks page, click Add to create a webhook.
6. Select which list your webhook will be associated with by selecting it from the drop-down, or select All Lists, then type the name of your webhook in the Name field and paste the Webhook URL you got while creating your LeadsBridge bridge
7. Next, check the boxes next to any action/event that will trigger your webhook
8. Then, check the boxes next to any source that will trigger your webhook
9. After that, click Send Sample Data on the lower left of your screen
10. Go back into your LeadsBridge bridge setup and wait till the sample data arrives
11. Finally, after you've received the sample data on LeadsBridge, go back into ActiveCampaign and click Add on the lower left of your screen

You can find further information in the following link: ( OPEN LINK)

In case some lead data is not being received after you’ve followed the above steps, you should set the Webhook on listening mode and trigger the Webhook with a real event so if, for example, you’ve set the Webhook to be triggered on a Contact Added event you should add a new contact in your Active Campaign account with all the information you’ll like to receive in the Bridge, this way the Webhook should be able to receive all the information you need.

Before proceeding

Please make sure to send a test lead from ActiveCampaign. This will allow us to recognize the data you'd like to pass along and offer them as presets in the next steps of the setup.

1. When the LeadsBridge screen is saying "Waiting for New Lead...", it means that we're ready to receive your test data
2. Go to ActiveCampaign
3. Submit a test lead
4. Head back to LeadsBridge and check if the information has been processed correctly
5. Click on the Next button

1. Type in the integration's name in the dedicated field
2. Enter HTML Form code to connect HTML Form with LeadsBridge
4. If your CRM has the feature called Web-To-Form or HTML form, to embed HTML code inside a web page, you only need to copy and paste the HTML code into LeadsBridge as a new custom HTML Form integration.
   
   An HTML Form code is something that typically starts with <form> and ends with </form>. Pay attention that the attribute "action" should be specified inside the tag form.
   
   Learn more about HTML forms here:( OPEN LINK)
   
5. If you don't have the form code but you have an opt-in form online, you may copy its code by following these steps:
   
   
   
   1. Open your opt-in form page.
   2. Hover the form.
   3. Right-click to open the contextual menu.
   4. Click on "Inspect" the open the dev tool.
   5. Position at the form action line.
   6. Right-click and "Edit as HTML".
   7. Copy the form code.
   
   
6. "Encoding", "Timeout", "Success Patterns" and "Failure Patterns" can be left with their default values, you don't need to set them in most cases. If you'd like to know more, please read the common questions below.
7. Click on the Next button
8. You'll now be able to select the destination segment to send your leads to
9. You may choose to receive an email receipt for each incoming lead.
   • Type the address(es) where you'd like to receive the receipt
   • You may also modify the Subject line of the email
10. Click on the Next button

Here you'll be able to map your source information with your destination fields.

You'll see a field name with the destination integration's logo at the top, this indicates the name of the field on HTML Form.

Underneath there's a box where you may add the information you'd like to send.

• Check each of the HTML Form fields available
• Match the information you wish to pass along from ActiveCampaign
• You may type the information manually and pass them as a static value
• Use the functions to customize information like reformatting dates and times or modifying text, phone numbers and so on
• You may also leave blank the box of a field's information you don't want to send through

Custom Fields

1. If you'd like to add more fields, just look at the bottom of the page
2. Head over the "Don't find a CRM custom field?" box
3. Select the field you'd like to add from the dropdown list
4. Click the Add Custom Field button
6. The field will appear above
7. Add the desired information, as you did with the other ones

Once accomplished your desired outcome, just click Next and head to the last step.

In this final step, you'll be able to send a lead from LeadsBridge to test if the configuration works properly.

1. To create a new test lead, fill in the required information when prompted
2. Click Test Now
3. To test with a real lead, switch the toogle to "Test with existing lead".
4. Click Sync Now along the lead you'd like to send
5. If you did everything right the button will turn green, meaning your lead was synced successfully and the integration is ready
6. Click Finish to save your settings and turn active your bridge