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Integrations are Awesome!

Written by Keenan Jones | February 05, 2016

API integrations enable your Credit Repair Cloud to share data or trigger events in your other cloud based software. This is one of the greatest features of cloud computing, but before jumping in, it’s important to know what is possible and how it works.

Our API can be used to:

  • Create custom web lead forms
  • Trigger emails from other software*
  • Start email marketing drip campaigns*
  • Send a sms text message to a new client*
  • Bill your clients
  • Sync a 3rd party CRM to your Credit Repair Cloud
  • and more…
*Credit Repair Cloud cannot be used for outbound marketing. These 
integrations enable you to use your other software companies for your 
outbound marketing. Remember that there are anti-spam and privacy laws 
that you must follow. Never send unwanted texts or emails to anyone who 
has not given permission and "opted in" to receive them. Never buy lists 
of leads and be extremely cautious before doing any outbound marketing. 
For questions about best practices and the law, consult your other 
software provider and your attorney.

If you’re just starting up your business

Start slow, and learn our basic software first and don’t get side tracked on integrations. You will not need most of these tools today or during a free trial. However, if you’re building a large-scale operation with call center, support staff, fulfillment department and more, integrations will help you to grow and scale much faster, without spending money on building custom software.

Credit Repair Cloud has 3 types of integrations

Pre-built integrations, Zapier integrations and Direct integrations. Here’s what each of these mean:

1) Pre-Built Integrations

Our pre-guilt integrations are: Chargebee, Mailchimp and Mandrill. These are easy to use because we have already done the hard part of building them. To learn about these integrations, visit these pages within your CRC account for step-by- step instructions and videos:

2) Zapier Integrations

Zapier is one of the greatest tools on the internet. It’s like a match.com for web apps. Use Zapier to integrate Credit Repair Cloud with over 500 popular cloud apps apps with no programming necessary. Zapier makes new integrations as easy as snapping together legos. This opens up endless possibilities of automations with Credit Repair Cloud. It’s one of the most exciting reasons we build software in the cloud.

1 minute overview of Zapier:

 

 

With Zapier you can integrate Credit Repair Cloud with apps for:

  • Billing, Accounting, & Invoicing
  • Bookmarking
  • Charting
  • CMS
  • CRM
  • Customer Support
  • Developer Tools
  • Ecommerce
  • Electronic Signatures
  • Email Marketing
  • Event Management
  • File Management
  • Forms
  • Games
  • Help Desk
  • Instant Messaging
  • Lead Generation
  • Marketing
  • Payment Processing
  • Phone/SMS Texting
  • Project Management
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Server Monitoring
  • Social
  • Surveys
  • Time Tracking
  • Video
  • and more.

Here are a few examples of some awesome Zapier integrations we’ve seen:

Want some other automation? Check out this awesome guide to the hundred of ways to use Zapier.

Remember, an Zapier integration is Do-it-Yourself.  

We won’t be able to actually set up your integrations for you. After all, we can’t see into your Zapier account or the 500 apps that Zapier is integrated with (and those other companies have their own support). But if you’re having trouble with a Zapier integration, just reach out, tell us what you’re trying to do, what’s going wrong, what app you’re working with and what error you’re seeing.  We may ask you for your Zapier login details so we can take a look and offer some advice. Just ask!  You’ll also contact the support team at the other software you’re trying to integrate with, since you’re coordinating between a few different companies (and probably a developer, too), so understand that this will all take time and patience.

Most common Zapier support issue: 

Wanting an integration to do something it’s not intended to do. Remember, even though no programming is necessary for Zapier, there still will be “some” technical details to understand. Read the instructions in Zapier to understand exactly what triggers and actions (“zaps”) are actually available.

3) Direct Integrations

Direct integrations require that you to hire your own developer. Show your developer our Credit Repair Cloud API Overview so they can see what API calls are available.

Got a developer?  Send them these links:

if your developer has questions,  just reach out from the master email on your account, tell us what you’re trying to do and what app you’re working withshow us your XML code and we can definitely offer advice.  Just ask!

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